Spoilers Timeless Season 2 - SPOILERS

[JD]

I just found out that the second season of Timeless starts Sunday, so I thought I'd go ahead and start the thread now.
I'm curious if they can fix any of the issues the show had last season, it really does have a lot of potential, but sadly Season 1 just wasn't able to live up to it.
IGN has an interview with the cast up that gives some info on the premiere.

Spoiler: Premiere story details

It will be starting right where we left off, and will give us one of our biggest changes within the first five minutes. They are going to be destroying Mason Industries, and we'll jump ahead six weeks and now the team is operating in secret from an abandoned missile silo from the 1960s. Lucy will be a prisoner of Rittenhouse, and she'll end up going on a mission with someone they call Carol, who I'm thinking must be her mother, and Emma. They'll also continue to deal with Jiya's visions, and we'll start off with Flynn in jail, but it sounds like that probably won't last long.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Looking forward to the show coming back. I also hope that they fix the issues from season 1. The show does indeed have a lot of promise.

 

[Romulan_spy]

Here is a sneak peak:

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[Greg Cox]

Love this show. Can't wait for Sunday.

 

[Valenti]

Now if they only had a time travel show with no actual time travel in it. How long have I been saying that? Oh yea, since I wrote it.

 

[theblitz]

Wonder how long until it lands on Netflix.

 

[Caretaker]

TV Guide has an interview with Eric Kripke about season two (very minor spoilers of the "where we might be heading" direction).

 

[John Clark]

Well, I've got the tivo set, but I've got to wait til it drops in the UK (or netflix).

Looking forward to it though.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just a reminder that TIMELESS returns tonight on NBC.

10 pm seems like an odd time-slot, but it beats cancellation I guess.

 

[Christopher]

10 pm seems like an odd time-slot, but it beats cancellation I guess.

Yes, very odd, considering all the reports over the summer of how they were adjusting it to be more family-friendly. Given its brief to reveal unexplored facets of (non-white-male) history, a time slot accessible to younger viewers would make more sense.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

I guess they expect that the viewers will be able to time shift their viewing.

 

[Christopher]

Okay, we can safely say that "family-friendly" is off the table. It's a pretty dark situation now, with the team in dire straits and Lucy crossing a line by killing that soldier. I think I might've preferred a lighter tone.

The new premise doesn't make any sense. If Rittenhouse already had sleeper agents in place hundreds of years ago, why haven't they already taken over the world? For that matter, the first season's premise was that they pretty much already had, that they were already secretly behind everything. So why do they need to take over the world more? Ugh, I hate conspiracy stories.

 

[Timewalker]

You think 10 pm is bad? It's 11 pm here.

It was nice to see the show again, but I'm still no more impressed than I was before.

Lucy's mother is a horrible person.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Thanks for the reminder. I had forgotten the premiere was so close.

 

[Kirk Prime]

This is not a 10pm show though. I see no reason it can't air at 9pm or even 8pm.

I've seen more violent and darker shows airing at those hours. I wish this show aired Sundays at 9pm. That would be better for it.

The nearly one year absence is going to hurt, but I really do like this show.

SPOILERS...

Spoiler: spoiler material

So last night was a strong premiere, and I realize that Lucy's sister really isn't a necessary McGuffin anymore. I think there is enough going on with Rittenhouse that all of them have a motivation to continue and work to stop them.

I would actually bring Lucy's sister back, and have it written in a way so that her mother does not get cancer. In fact, if I were Rittenhouse, that would actually be my strategy. If Lucy is a threat, and I have a time machine, give her what she wants so she will go away. Maybe if Lucy's sister exists, they can manipulate the timeline so that Lucy is actually on her side.

Or the sister is.

Likewise, if I were a Batman villain that could travel back in time, I would kill Batman by saving Bruce's parents.

If I did that, would Bruce want to stop me?

 

[Greg Cox]

Lucy's mother is a horrible person.

Well, when you cast the Borg Queen . . ..

 

[Christopher]

A thought: It might help explain why Rittenhouse's sleeper agents in history haven't already conquered the world if we discover that there's another secret group of good guys that's been working against them.

 

[Dick Whitman]

A thought: It might help explain why Rittenhouse's sleeper agents in history haven't already conquered the world if we discover that there's another secret group of good guys that's been working against them.

Maybe started by Future Lucy, who's diary Flynn had last season.
I have not rewatched any episodes. So my memories are a little fuzzy on the details since watching last season.

It's odd that NBC uncancelled the show because the producers pitched this season as "family friendly" yet I saw no real change at all. Not just from first episode but from the linked interview of what is to come.

I was hoping this being geared toward families would mean it would be more about real history. So parents can discuss with their kids real issues. Not fictional conspiracies.

I like the cast and the high budget production values of the time periods. Timeless visit to WWI makes DC's Legends episodes from last year of the war look amateur hour. Yet I still have very little interest in this Rittenhouse plot at all.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

You think 10 pm is bad? It's 11 pm here.

You were supposed to spring forward.

 

[Christopher]

I was hoping this being geared toward families would mean it would be more about real history. So parents can discuss with their kids real issues. Not fictional conspiracies.

Well, presumably the conspiracy is the plot device to bring the characters into contact with real historical figures and situations, like the Curies and their wartime work, which was portrayed more or less accurately. http://theinstitute.ieee.org/tech-h...ed-save-a-million-soldiers-during-world-war-i