Any vestige of reason or logic will need to be suspended to get into this story. The fact that countless people have given it 10/10 illustrates that many are willing and able to do this, but since I'm extremely picky about what TV I watch, I can't justify doing that.
On top of the various plot holes picked up by other reviewers before me, I found the low quality acting to be an issue. Rufus is continually bug eyed, and the female lead whose name I can't seem to recall, looks perpetually stunned. The only character with a big of range is the soldier that's looking after him, but his script has him doing such silly things that it's difficult to get into his performance, either.
for some reason, I also find myself irritated by the habit that the female lead has of being chatted up and called 'beautiful' by every historical male she encounters. Why not 'perceptive' or 'clever' or any of a hundred other adjectives that would apply to her better than 'beautiful'? She's hardly a model but she is an action heroine with an apparently limitless memory for historical facts. Get with the times, Timeless! It's 2020. Women can be interesting in more ways than one.
I'm nearly finished Season 1 but it already feels like a lot of the scripted action is mere filler to hide the existence of massive plot holes; the characters are willing to risk their lives to cross time to fulfil an objective yet *every single time* they choke and stall, agonising over "Should I really kill this bad guy or save this good guy, or will it (gasp) change the future again??"
Seemingly to make the plot last longer, upon coming across the founders of the organisation that has set all these events in motion, they stall - again - and refuse to kill his son, leading to a present that is virtually unchanged. Can someone please explain to me how saving someone's life in episode 1 leads to a litany of differences in modern times, but killing a pivotal character in episode 7 or whatever has zero effect on the present whatsoever? Like, not even the paintjob is different in someone's house? These lazy, self serving oversights on the part of the producers lead to a story that is so inconsistent, it ruins all the fun.
A word of advice to the writers: if you create a different world with different rules, stick to those rules. don't change them every time it suits you or you're too tired to do a rewrite, it lowers the tone for the whole sci fi genre.
All the above makes me happy it was cancelled, because I feel like this is the kind of show that would leave me unsatisfied no matter how it concluded.
On top of the various plot holes picked up by other reviewers before me, I found the low quality acting to be an issue. Rufus is continually bug eyed, and the female lead whose name I can't seem to recall, looks perpetually stunned. The only character with a big of range is the soldier that's looking after him, but his script has him doing such silly things that it's difficult to get into his performance, either.
for some reason, I also find myself irritated by the habit that the female lead has of being chatted up and called 'beautiful' by every historical male she encounters. Why not 'perceptive' or 'clever' or any of a hundred other adjectives that would apply to her better than 'beautiful'? She's hardly a model but she is an action heroine with an apparently limitless memory for historical facts. Get with the times, Timeless! It's 2020. Women can be interesting in more ways than one.
I'm nearly finished Season 1 but it already feels like a lot of the scripted action is mere filler to hide the existence of massive plot holes; the characters are willing to risk their lives to cross time to fulfil an objective yet *every single time* they choke and stall, agonising over "Should I really kill this bad guy or save this good guy, or will it (gasp) change the future again??"
Seemingly to make the plot last longer, upon coming across the founders of the organisation that has set all these events in motion, they stall - again - and refuse to kill his son, leading to a present that is virtually unchanged. Can someone please explain to me how saving someone's life in episode 1 leads to a litany of differences in modern times, but killing a pivotal character in episode 7 or whatever has zero effect on the present whatsoever? Like, not even the paintjob is different in someone's house? These lazy, self serving oversights on the part of the producers lead to a story that is so inconsistent, it ruins all the fun.
A word of advice to the writers: if you create a different world with different rules, stick to those rules. don't change them every time it suits you or you're too tired to do a rewrite, it lowers the tone for the whole sci fi genre.
All the above makes me happy it was cancelled, because I feel like this is the kind of show that would leave me unsatisfied no matter how it concluded.