The Spy Who Shoved Me
(This review contains
spoilers!)
So I assumed last week’s episode only
existed to set up the plot this one. Well, I was sort of right, but ultimately
the whole “A-bomb” plot only really existed to add tension. In the end, the
villains only seem to be using it to power the time machine, which is a little
disappointing.
The episode itself, while better than
last week’s by a longshot, was still not exactly up to the standards as set by
the first two episodes. Lucy, Wyatt, and Rufus go back to Nazi Germany, and run
into future James Bond author Ian Fleming. Together they try to stop the Nazis
from installing the A-bomb in one of their rockets, giving them the firepower
to win the war.
So there’s a few problems I feel like
I must address right off the bat. First off, a lot of the cinematography in
this episode is laughably bad. There are not one, but two scenes of nothing but Lucy looking at herself in the mirror,
while the cameraman has a field day. Zoom in, zoom out, go out of focus, back
into focus, cut to a crying shot, cut back to a normal shot, super close zoom
in, rinse and repeat. Thankfully the rest of the episode isn’t shot like this,
but it’s incredibly distracting when it pops up.
Secondly, I think the show has
completely given up on the whole “your actions in the past have consequences in
the future” thing that was so prevalent in the pilot. Remember how even the
slightest change to the Hindenburg ended up changing Lucy’s life dramatically?
Here they’re killing people left and right with reckless abandon, and nobody
bats an eye. What if one of those people, after the Nazis fell, ended up being
extremely significant to history?
But I digress. The rest of the episode
was decent, while still not reaching the heights of the Abe Lincoln episode. I
liked the espionage element used as they spy around the Nazi launch pad, and how
it tied back to Rufus’s current dilemma. Speaking of that, we haven’t had much
context for exactly what he’s doing yet, have we? We know he’s recording stuff
on their adventures for the secret organization that the villains are trying to
destroy, but why? I’m guessing all the pieces will come together in time for
the season finale, but I wish they focused a little more on this plot point.
I think that the writers are currently
trying to figure out what kind of show they want Timeless to be. It’s not
taking itself seriously at all, but yet at the same time it’s trying to be big
and dramatic with the characters and set pieces. You really need to decide on
one or the other. Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D takes itself seriously, but has a lot
of lighthearted moments to keep things from getting too dark. Why can’t
Timeless be like that? I can only hope that as the show continues, the
showrunners get a better understanding of what Timeless is.
FINAL SCORE
5/10
Average
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