Save Abe
(This
review contains minor spoilers!)
After a good but shaky start last
week, this week’s episode of Timeless improved in almost every way, adding more
humour, action, and mystery to the already good plot.
We pick up directly where we left off
last week, with the Hindenburg surviving an extra day causing Lucy’s sister to
be erased from the timeline and her mother’s lung cancer to be cured. Before
she has time to comprehend this, she’s called back to the base to travel back
to the date Abe Lincoln was killed on to track down and stop the time terrorist
once and for all.
The best part of this episode is that
the team dynamic between our 3 leads is much, much better over what it was in
the pilot. Despite this only being their second mission, they play off each
other much better than they did before. Lucy’s still the best character (for specific
reasons I’ll get into later), but it’s nice that the other two don’t feel
superfluous anymore.
It’s also great that the show is
playing up the humour more after the mostly sterile premiere. The comment about
needing to get paperweights for the office got a big laugh out of everyone in
the room, and I also really liked some of the smaller quips littered throughout
the episode. It was by all means better than the pilot’s feeble attempts at
getting a laugh.
The one thing that does still bother me though is how
everyone is so relaxed about changing the past. Last week it could be forgiven
because of how our cool dude soldier guy was drunk the whole time and is still
getting over the loss of his wife, but this time nearly everyone except Lucy is
just like “eh, so you changed a few things, big deal”. It’s already been made
clear that the tiniest of changes could have disastrous consequences for the
timeline! It seems extremely out of character for this top secret government
project to be so lax about these things.
We also got a few extra layers to the
ongoing mystery of who this time terrorist is and what exactly he wants.
Through a second encounter with Lucy, it seems he’s trying to save America from
some top secret organization who seem to be in cahoots with the guy who came up
with the idea for the time machine, and Lucy supposedly will help him at some
point. I like that they’re doing a lot of world building ahead of time, and it
really begs the question: just when is this guy from? If Lucy helps him, it’s
entirely possible he’s from another point in time entirely and he uses her time
machine to go back and steal the one he’s currently using. Maybe I’m looking
into it too much, but I’m really looking forward to seeing where this goes.
All in all, a real step up from the premiere, aside from the
slightly unbelievable response to the timeline changing. Timeless continued to
plant seeds of intrigue and world building, and I hope the payoff is just as
good.
FINAL SCORE
8/10
Great
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