"If time travel is possible, where are all the time travellers?" Answer: in the back alley, in period costume, murdering each other. :-P
Haha!
Sorry about how it all turned out for you!) Anyway ... ew, Wyatt. Ew, ew, ew. Please stop getting your toxic masculinity cooties all over this beautiful, otherwise quite progressive show.
Yeah, unfortunately the show was developed around Wyatt. Some comments I made on the show some months back, partly to do with how Kripke recycled issues from SPN:
"I knew from osmosis that there's a strong fandom for the het ship in Timeless. Unfortunately after four episodes I found the lead character only ok. I could not BELIEVE that he was raised with an abusive alcoholic father and his dead wife is named Jess and that her mysterious death kicks things off for him. Really Kripke? And the point at which I realized I wasn't going to continue was when Jess returns from the dead for the sole purpose of breaking up the lead characters who have finally slept together. The presumed dead wife who inconveniently returns is an extremely tiresome cliche. Only in the case of Outlander where she's the lead character and the story is about her time traveling do the writers get a pass.
I was only mildly interested in the whole Rittehnhouse angle, though kudos to having mother-daughter issues central in the storyline rather than another daddy angle. The character I liked best was Rufus but it was rather cringey to see him having to navigate one historical scenario after another. I did like the episode where he masquerades (temporarily) as Langston Hughes and makes friends with Hedy Lamarr. But I've already recognized that I can't keep watching shows for just one character."
I watched most of S2 I think and the finale but I don't think I saw any of S1. And about the finale:
"It was pretty much by the numbers. What I mean is that plot points that were meant to extend the show but proved inconvenient to the ending were conveniently dismissed, such as Jessica's pregnancy, Flynn's storyline with Lucy, Lucy writing off her sister as a lost cause, etc. Even the way things wrapped up with Emma seemed blah. It also just seemed so rote – let's have 5 minutes of activity and then a scene where two characters talk about character development issues.
Flynn definitely seemed to get the Snape treatment to me (especially since the requisite two kids had one named after him). I've never been in the fandom but I'm guessing that early on there was a push for Flynn/Lucy since he's a way more interesting character than Wyatt. In the end it seemed that Rufus and Jiya had a more satisfying storyline in this because they'd never had prominent storylines anyway and they had a less traditional one.
That said, I imagine fans of the show were pleased to get an ending that tied things up while leaving the possibility open for future developments. The 2 hour ending to Sense8 was also imperfect, rushed, and exceedingly convenient in how things turned out for everyone. So to some extent I guess it's the nature of the beast – you're not out to do your best work ever but to satisfy longtime fans who want to see loose ends tied up and happy endings dispensed."
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Date: 2019-09-09 05:48 pm (UTC)Haha!
Sorry about how it all turned out for you!) Anyway ... ew, Wyatt. Ew, ew, ew. Please stop getting your toxic masculinity cooties all over this beautiful, otherwise quite progressive show.
Yeah, unfortunately the show was developed around Wyatt. Some comments I made on the show some months back, partly to do with how Kripke recycled issues from SPN:
"I knew from osmosis that there's a strong fandom for the het ship in Timeless. Unfortunately after four episodes I found the lead character only ok. I could not BELIEVE that he was raised with an abusive alcoholic father and his dead wife is named Jess and that her mysterious death kicks things off for him. Really Kripke? And the point at which I realized I wasn't going to continue was when Jess returns from the dead for the sole purpose of breaking up the lead characters who have finally slept together. The presumed dead wife who inconveniently returns is an extremely tiresome cliche. Only in the case of Outlander where she's the lead character and the story is about her time traveling do the writers get a pass.
I was only mildly interested in the whole Rittehnhouse angle, though kudos to having mother-daughter issues central in the storyline rather than another daddy angle. The character I liked best was Rufus but it was rather cringey to see him having to navigate one historical scenario after another. I did like the episode where he masquerades (temporarily) as Langston Hughes and makes friends with Hedy Lamarr. But I've already recognized that I can't keep watching shows for just one character."
I watched most of S2 I think and the finale but I don't think I saw any of S1. And about the finale:
"It was pretty much by the numbers. What I mean is that plot points that were meant to extend the show but proved inconvenient to the ending were conveniently dismissed, such as Jessica's pregnancy, Flynn's storyline with Lucy, Lucy writing off her sister as a lost cause, etc. Even the way things wrapped up with Emma seemed blah. It also just seemed so rote – let's have 5 minutes of activity and then a scene where two characters talk about character development issues.
Flynn definitely seemed to get the Snape treatment to me (especially since the requisite two kids had one named after him). I've never been in the fandom but I'm guessing that early on there was a push for Flynn/Lucy since he's a way more interesting character than Wyatt. In the end it seemed that Rufus and Jiya had a more satisfying storyline in this because they'd never had prominent storylines anyway and they had a less traditional one.
That said, I imagine fans of the show were pleased to get an ending that tied things up while leaving the possibility open for future developments. The 2 hour ending to Sense8 was also imperfect, rushed, and exceedingly convenient in how things turned out for everyone. So to some extent I guess it's the nature of the beast – you're not out to do your best work ever but to satisfy longtime fans who want to see loose ends tied up and happy endings dispensed."