The writing on the wall was already in the first episode. "You shouldn't be here", says a random man who seemingly recognises Jake as an anachronistic individual.
There is a common trope amongst the vast majority of stories which involve time travel along a linear timeline. Mess with the past and it'll mess with you; basically, the butterfly effect. I was hoping for this show to break away from this trope, but as the show went on and the literal "signs" appearing in front of Jake, I knew I wasn't going to see any sort of unique take. It was also extremely disappointing that Lee also ended up being the lone, crazed shooter. So other historical events could be changed by Jake, but the historical shooter remained the same...? Why?
And putting that aside, there were so many unexplained mysteries. Who exactly was the yellow card man? What was he even rambling about? Jake sees visions and signs because he's a time traveller, but why did Sadie also experience the same phenomena? How and why did secret service come to the rescue of Jake when local PD and the FBI saw Jake as the shooter? The FBI knew Jake was living under a false identity and had no history before 1960, but everyone just let it slide? What about all the pictures taken of Jake by the press? You're telling me they never discovered who he was?
I am actually amazed people enjoyed this predictable soapy ending, because it felt like a complete mess to me.
There is a common trope amongst the vast majority of stories which involve time travel along a linear timeline. Mess with the past and it'll mess with you; basically, the butterfly effect. I was hoping for this show to break away from this trope, but as the show went on and the literal "signs" appearing in front of Jake, I knew I wasn't going to see any sort of unique take. It was also extremely disappointing that Lee also ended up being the lone, crazed shooter. So other historical events could be changed by Jake, but the historical shooter remained the same...? Why?
And putting that aside, there were so many unexplained mysteries. Who exactly was the yellow card man? What was he even rambling about? Jake sees visions and signs because he's a time traveller, but why did Sadie also experience the same phenomena? How and why did secret service come to the rescue of Jake when local PD and the FBI saw Jake as the shooter? The FBI knew Jake was living under a false identity and had no history before 1960, but everyone just let it slide? What about all the pictures taken of Jake by the press? You're telling me they never discovered who he was?
I am actually amazed people enjoyed this predictable soapy ending, because it felt like a complete mess to me.