Timeless - Review
Jan. 13th, 2019 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowkatWatched the Timeless two hour movie finale and was reminded why I gave up on Timeless. It's slow. The plot doesn't work at all, holes a plenty, which is the problem I have with time travel series. Unless you are a really organized writer and willing to play by your own rules, and plot every single variable ahead of time -- with an outline for all the seasons, the story will fall apart sooner or later. It always does.
Why? Because if you pull a thread in the time-line or change one thing -- you change a million things, many of which you don't even know about. And if you keep doing it, you will either create a Butterfly-Effect of sorts or collapse the time line completely and/or - far more likely -- set up an alternate parallel time line.
That said, I realize television writers know less about physics than I do, and what I know I could fit into a thimble, so I can handwave a lot. But...this plot is a mess and the pacing couldn't be slower. [Probably doesn't help that the hook for me -- was potentially bringing Lucy's sister Amy back, I didn't care about the others. Spoiler? That doesn't happen.]
It's a very frustrating and somewhat slow show to watch. The time-travels aren't that interesting except the final one. There's a lot of talking about previous episodes and meandering over romantic relationships.
I think the writers wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't figure out a way out -- which again, always happens with time travel series. Sci-Fi is dicey when you don't know anything about physics.
So as a result, a lot of contrived things happen to wrap everything up neatly. But I found it rather boring.
Not one of the better series finales. Shame, the series had potential to start, but then it got overly convoluted with the whole conspiracy story-thread. Manifest is falling into the same hole -- the All Power Evil Organization that is manipulating everyone...gets old. I wish television writers would stop relying on this trope. It's been overdone and it's lazy writing.
Why? Because if you pull a thread in the time-line or change one thing -- you change a million things, many of which you don't even know about. And if you keep doing it, you will either create a Butterfly-Effect of sorts or collapse the time line completely and/or - far more likely -- set up an alternate parallel time line.
That said, I realize television writers know less about physics than I do, and what I know I could fit into a thimble, so I can handwave a lot. But...this plot is a mess and the pacing couldn't be slower. [Probably doesn't help that the hook for me -- was potentially bringing Lucy's sister Amy back, I didn't care about the others. Spoiler? That doesn't happen.]
It's a very frustrating and somewhat slow show to watch. The time-travels aren't that interesting except the final one. There's a lot of talking about previous episodes and meandering over romantic relationships.
I think the writers wrote themselves into a corner and couldn't figure out a way out -- which again, always happens with time travel series. Sci-Fi is dicey when you don't know anything about physics.
So as a result, a lot of contrived things happen to wrap everything up neatly. But I found it rather boring.
Not one of the better series finales. Shame, the series had potential to start, but then it got overly convoluted with the whole conspiracy story-thread. Manifest is falling into the same hole -- the All Power Evil Organization that is manipulating everyone...gets old. I wish television writers would stop relying on this trope. It's been overdone and it's lazy writing.
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