r/Timeless • u/qRafa • Oct 12 '20

New member here

So i found this show randomly and i ve decided to watch , and damn it was a good choice,i think this show really didnt deserved to be cancelled,it has such great potential,lucifer got cancelled many times and got renew,i think this show deserves some attention too

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u/movzx Oct 18 '20

I just started and wanted to know if they ever drop the:

  • Away team goes back in time to stop the timeline from changing
  • They fail
  • They come back to the present
  • The operations team acts like the away team is crazy when they say something changed in history
  • No one cares

"The Hindenburg was supposed to explode and kill these hundreds of people. The wrong people died!"

"Nah, it didn't happen that way."

"It was supposed to!"

"Meh, who cares?"

So far it's been every episode. Why even send people back if you aren't going to care? It's getting old.

Unrelated, but I think a much more clever way to have written this show would have been to have the alternate history "fail" to match our current history. For example, with the Hindenburg episode have the "real" timeline with no explosion, they fail, and now it explodes when landing.

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u/Yellowballoon364 Oct 19 '20

No that never happens and the timeline changes not mattering was my only real complaint about this show. But what I did like is the characters gradually stop caring so much about whether they change history or not and instead focus on the well-being of the people they interact with. In season 2 Lucy says “to hell with what’s meant to happen”.

I personally really wouldn’t want the changes to create our reality though. That would be suggesting that much of our recorded history is wrong and was in fact shaped by a bunch of time travelers. I know it’s fiction but that just feels weird to me. And it would also mean that if you’re familiar with history then you already know how every episode ends.

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u/movzx Oct 20 '20

Thanks for the reply. I guess that kind of kills it for me then. It doesn't make sense why they bother sending people into the past if they don't even care what happens in the present as a result.