Watching: Timeless
Sep. 6th, 2019 10:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shadowscastI've been watching season 2 of Timeless on Netflix (having watched season 1 sometime last year). I'm really enjoying it! I'm halfway through. Comments behind cut.
In fact, although I did enjoy season 1, I'm enjoying season 2 a lot more. Here are some things I'm really digging:
1) The team-up with Flynn. I mean, first of all, villain-turned-ally is one of my all-time favourite tropes. (Hello, Spike! Looking at you!) Plus, starting fairly early in season 1 we started to get these subtle clues that maybe Flynn actually had something of a point ... and it's great to see that get followed up on. But also, he just brings a wonderful, fun, I-don't-give-a-fuck-anymore energy to their missions.
2) The team, period. To start with in season 1, we basically just had Wyatt, Rufus and Lucy. And they were great. But now we have them and Agent Christopher, Jiya, Connor Mason, Flynn, and Wyatt's suddenly-not-dead-anymore wife Jessica, and they're all wonderful! And the villain team-up of Lucy's mom + badass redheaded assassin woman (whose name escapes me at the moment, and I guess I could look it up but whatever) is great too. I love having women in charge on both sides! Well, okay, at this point in the season Lucy's mom seems to have turned over the reins to her asshole young time-travelling grandfather, and that was clearly a mistake, and I'm waiting to see how that plays out. But hey, I'm only halfway through the season.
3) The writers are doubling down on the time-travel hi-jinks, and keeping fairly careful track of their in-universe rules for how time travel works. They're keeping track of who remembers which version of which timeline. And they're changing history in some fairly serious ways! Time travel has consequences.
#3 does leave me to wonder: at what point will Lucy no longer be useful as a historian? She's been immune to nearly all of the timeline changes, having been in the time machine for nearly every one of them. So the actively-real timeline is diverging more and more from the timeline she's familiar with.
As for the characters' romantic entanglements: Rufus and Jiya are sweet, and I wish them all the best. As for Wyatt/Jessica/Lucy, I have to say that if your dead spouse gets reincarnated due to evil time-travel interference just as you're finally falling for someone else, that's a circumstance when polyamory is seriously worth considering. But since none of the three of them seems to have thought of that possibility, I'd like Wyatt and Jessica to really try to make it work now that they have a second chance—it would be super sad if they didn't. (And I love that Lucy said so too, really directly.) Meanwhile, I'm starting to ship Lucy and Flynn!
In fact, although I did enjoy season 1, I'm enjoying season 2 a lot more. Here are some things I'm really digging:
1) The team-up with Flynn. I mean, first of all, villain-turned-ally is one of my all-time favourite tropes. (Hello, Spike! Looking at you!) Plus, starting fairly early in season 1 we started to get these subtle clues that maybe Flynn actually had something of a point ... and it's great to see that get followed up on. But also, he just brings a wonderful, fun, I-don't-give-a-fuck-anymore energy to their missions.
2) The team, period. To start with in season 1, we basically just had Wyatt, Rufus and Lucy. And they were great. But now we have them and Agent Christopher, Jiya, Connor Mason, Flynn, and Wyatt's suddenly-not-dead-anymore wife Jessica, and they're all wonderful! And the villain team-up of Lucy's mom + badass redheaded assassin woman (whose name escapes me at the moment, and I guess I could look it up but whatever) is great too. I love having women in charge on both sides! Well, okay, at this point in the season Lucy's mom seems to have turned over the reins to her asshole young time-travelling grandfather, and that was clearly a mistake, and I'm waiting to see how that plays out. But hey, I'm only halfway through the season.
3) The writers are doubling down on the time-travel hi-jinks, and keeping fairly careful track of their in-universe rules for how time travel works. They're keeping track of who remembers which version of which timeline. And they're changing history in some fairly serious ways! Time travel has consequences.
#3 does leave me to wonder: at what point will Lucy no longer be useful as a historian? She's been immune to nearly all of the timeline changes, having been in the time machine for nearly every one of them. So the actively-real timeline is diverging more and more from the timeline she's familiar with.
As for the characters' romantic entanglements: Rufus and Jiya are sweet, and I wish them all the best. As for Wyatt/Jessica/Lucy, I have to say that if your dead spouse gets reincarnated due to evil time-travel interference just as you're finally falling for someone else, that's a circumstance when polyamory is seriously worth considering. But since none of the three of them seems to have thought of that possibility, I'd like Wyatt and Jessica to really try to make it work now that they have a second chance—it would be super sad if they didn't. (And I love that Lucy said so too, really directly.) Meanwhile, I'm starting to ship Lucy and Flynn!
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Date: 2019-09-07 08:11 pm (UTC)I find it's one for me as well. I also found it interesting how Timeless had this standard casting that we've had for decades (see the Mod Squad) finally get made more diverse. I suspect the network had something to do with that.
Lucy and Flynn seemed so much more interesting to me than Lucy and Wyatt who, to me, was the real drag on the series.
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Date: 2019-09-08 02:22 pm (UTC)I'd never heard of the Mod Squad! Having now read its Wikipedia entry, I am intrigued.
Lucy and Flynn seemed so much more interesting to me than Lucy and Wyatt who, to me, was the real drag on the series.
Hah, yeah. So, I binge-watched yesterday and finished the series; a lot happened in the last six episodes, character-wise! I might do another post about it (but for now, I have errands to run!).