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I like the history part of this show. I think the acting is not so great. They also haven’t done that great of a job making me care that the main characters have lost their family members. I am not sure what they can do to make me care about that more. I think that the show is slightly to episodic right now, but i am not really sure.
[adrotate group="5"]This is the only other TV show I watch besides OUAT and they seem to keep it just barely good enough to keep me watching. It reminds me a lot of the old Time Tunnel show. I liked the fact that they did an episode about Apollo 11 and it was good to see them focus on Katherine Johnson but I was annoyed by some of the needless errors in the episode.Why were we supposed to think that messing with the computers would somehow affect the radios? That made no sense at all. Besides, Buzz Aldrin was known as “Dr. Rendezvous” because he had worked out pre-computed rendezvous calculations on a set of “cheat sheets” which they could have used to link up with the command module even without communication from Earth. The spacecraft also had a sextant for navigation so they could have navigated back to Earth without radios, although they obviously preferred the much safer option of getting more precise data radioed from Earth.
Why did they show film footage (which wasn’t developed until they got back to Earth) of the descent to the Moon on the screen in Mission Control, making it look like a TV transmission, when there was no TV transmission of the descent? (The TV camera wasn’t unpacked until Armstrong began to climb down the ladder.) It would have been easier to just leave out that footage but instead they went to a fair amount of trouble to splice in the film footage and intentionally make the show wrong!
Also, at one point they showed an old film of John Glenn’s flight which was supposed to be a TV transmission of Neil Armstrong. Things like that really distract from the story.
I do not care if they have inaccuracies I am enjoying the show … something my DH and I can watch together….. ALTHOUGH my hubby says Wyatt is a terrible soldier always missing when he shoots his gun.
I originally assumed the name “Rittenhouse” was just a coincidence but after the final scene of the Bonnie and Clyde episode, I think it must refer to David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), one of the first and most prominent American astronomers. He was famous for being the first American to build orreries and precise clocks – just like the clock we saw Flynn access in the final scene! Rittenhouse built orreries for the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania.) Here is a photo of the Rittenhouse orrery at UPenn:
Orrery built by David Rittenhouse
Rittenhouse was deeply involved in early American history. His friend Thomas Jefferson wrote in Notes on the State of Virginia, “We have supposed Mr. Rittenhouse second to no astronomer living: that in genius he must be the first, because he is self-taught.”
Working with astronomer Andrew Ellicott, Rittenhouse completed the survey of the Mason-Dixon line and organized American efforts to observe the transit of Venus in 1769. He served as the second president of the American Philosophical Society, sandwiching his term between those of his two close friends, Benjamin Franklin, who preceded him, and Thomas Jefferson, who succeeded him. He was deeply committed to supporting the American Revolution and served on the revolutionary Committee of Safety in 1778 and as Treasurer of Pennsylvania from 1779 to 1787. Jefferson told him that he should leave such duties to lesser men because, “nobody can conceive that nature ever intended to throw away a Newton upon the occupations of a crown.” Rittenhouse would in fact follow the example of Newton (who was director of the British Mint in his later years) when George Washington appointed him to be the first director of the US Mint.
Obviously, there are plenty of possibilities for connecting him with history and with the measurement of time.
ALTHOUGH my hubby says Wyatt is a terrible soldier always missing when he shoots his gun.
That is funny because that is exactly what my husband says also. Wow how can he continually miss his shots and at close range, he must be a terrible shot.
I do enjoy the show but wish they would play with the domino effect more, I mean changing a piece of history should change multiple other things. Like if Flynn saves his brother that should effect Flynn’s life maybe even his birth, they don’t explore any of that they just give us oh this minor thing in history changed and that is all.
ALTHOUGH my hubby says Wyatt is a terrible soldier always missing when he shoots his gun.
That is funny because that is exactly what my husband says also. Wow how can he continually miss his shots and at close range, he must be a terrible shot.
I do enjoy the show but wish they would play with the domino effect more, I mean changing a piece of history should change multiple other things. Like if Flynn saves his brother that should effect Flynn’s life maybe even his birth, they don’t explore any of that they just give us oh this minor thing in history changed and that is all.
TOTALLY AGREE, I would like to see more changes in the families .. i.e. Lucy’s sister being there and then not being there as she hops around TIME. RUFUS’S family should be impacted. And Wyatt should run up against his wife again but be torn between wife and LUCY.
MORE changes in history … domino effect you mentioned be shown….Sometimes I think the show is not daring enough.
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,10 p.m. Timeless (NBC) 1.0/4 4.81
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/daily-ratings/monday-final-ratings-dec-12-2016/
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I think the numbers for TIMELESS was better than ONCE’s.This show has not gotten better for me. I still don’t really care about the character’s loss. I don’t feel like they are really in danger. They seem sort of dumb, like if you want to talk without the recorder hearing just leave it in a room and have a conversation in another room. I don’t feel like the bad guy or the secret society are really all that dangerous to the main characters.
I don’t like that they are changing the timeline and pretending it wouldn’t have catastrophic effects. It just doesn’t really make sense as a premise and nothing is happening. They are having repetitive conversations, a lot.
I originally assumed the name “Rittenhouse” was just a coincidence but after the final scene of the Bonnie and Clyde episode, I think it must refer to David Rittenhouse (1732-1796), one of the first and most prominent American astronomers. He was famous for being the first American to build orreries and precise clocks – just like the clock we saw Flynn access in the final scene! Rittenhouse built orreries for the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) and the College of Philadelphia (now the University of Pennsylvania.) Here is a photo of the Rittenhouse orrery at UPenn:
Great call, I always think it is fun when someone is exactly right.
don’t like that they are changing the timeline and pretending it wouldn’t have catastrophic effects. It just doesn’t really make sense as a premise and nothing is happening
This is what is most frustrating to me also. Sorry but if you change one little thing it should change a slew of other things.
I think the show wants us to care about the romance between Wyatt and Lucy while I don’t care. I care more about Flynn who is doing all this to get his wife and child back. He is by far the most complex character and therefore the most interesting. It would be even better if we got some flashbacks about these characters’ lives with their loved ones so we could feel invested in their lives. At this point I am just hoping that Flynn’s wife is actually Lucy and he somehow changed history enough to get her back alive but not enough for her to remember their lives together or their daughter. I know this has huge plot problems but other than that I am not really invested in any of the character’s past lives so I am just watching because I enjoy the history part of it.
I’m really torn about this show. On the one hand I like the costumes and the general plot of a timey wimey historical romp with a large overreaching mythology. The problem is sort of two fold in that the mythology isn’t going anywhere at a good pace (the finale did some leg work in this regard but it’s all still so clouded) and secondly, like some others have said, I don’t think they’re doing a bang up job with characters. I agree that Flynn is the most interesting but they are also keeping us on the dark.
I’m really starting to believe that Lucy was Flynn’s wife but through all the drama Lucy will end up with Wyatt instead–abd wouldn’t that change the entire plot of the show? If Flynn never loses Lucy and their daughter…then it all never happens? But that’s a double edge sword cause if Flynn never looses his family he never steals the mother ship and then Lucy and Wyatt are never recruited? Time travel, man. But that’s another problem with Timeless, they haven’t set out their own world rules except “what we want to happen, happens.”
I’ll still be watching come January and I hope for a second season because its not great but it’s fun at sometimes that counts for a lot.
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