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The U.S.S. Enterprise crew comes face-to-face with their demons – and scary monsters too – when their landing party is stranded on a barren planet with a ravenous enemy.
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April 14, 1865
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Pike on 2018-04-15
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GREAT STORY
I found this episode much better than the previous one, simply because the story was more interesting. Once again, I got to learn many great things about this particular event in History - the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
PRODUCTION
I was quite surprised with the very high production quality of this episode. I found that the explosion of the Hindenburg could have been perfected. In this episode, I found everything perfect. The streets in Washington DC, the costumes, the old theater, everything.
FUTURE
I really wonder how the series is going to be able to continue telling famous stories while having the main team never being able to actually "set right what once went wrong", as would Sam Beckett say in Quantum Leap.
FUN
Overall, it's a very fun show and I tend to overanalyze things. I think that this series is a treat that needs to be enjoyed as is, nothing more, but nothing less as well. For instance, the ending with the female character discovering that she is engaged was quite fun.
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A great episode. I give it 5 out of 10.
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More interesting than others
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I found this story more interesting than the one in the first episode.
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Not Just An Average Trip To The Theatre
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Hey, I’m Sam, I live in England, am a dog person, horsey girl, history nerd & nerd in general & I’m a total Timeless fangirl
Welcome to more of my fangirling about Timeless, I promise to be more objective going forward but I have to be honest, as much as I felt the pilot was really strong, this is the episode that made me in to a proud clockblocker.
We open the episode in a bar, April the 14th 1865, the day Abraham Lincoln was killed, John Wilkes Booth is there & again the show portrays what really happened before the time travel hi-jinks ensues. A patron & the barman are discussing Lincoln & you learn some trivia about the man in an entertaining way, nice touch that writers! Also that his bodyguard was not with him, I didn’t know that either.
I mentioned previously that I’m a huge West Wing fan & this event in history got talked about so I knew the salient details, but Timeless taught me a lot this episode.
Back in the present; the story picks up right where the pilot ended, Lucy is frantic that her Sister, Amy never existed in this timeline & as we saw last time, she’s been called back to Mason on another mission.
Lucy asks Rufus & Wyatt if anything has changed for them since their last jump, Rufus quips about his date with Jiya being a misfire, so no, poor Rufus, Wyatt says the same.
Agent Christopher tells Lucy that her records state no Sister, huh? She shows them all the locket that she wears with a photo of her inside, Connor Mason is immediately fascinated by the quantum mechanics of taking something from one timeline & bringing it to another. You get to see he really is a scientist at heart & how this whole idea germinated.
Agent Christopher seems cold & uninterested (bit mean actually) Flynn has jumped, the team is playing catch-up & she wants them gone yesterday. Wyatt steps in, defends Lucy, he understands loss & makes me swoon just a little bit.
Lucy however understands the huge significance of this particular jump, rallies & goes to get ready, her & Jiya have a nice moment wherein the the latter offers to help find out what happened to Lucy’s Sister, aw! I love Jiya. Lucy seems surprised which again brings me back to my deduction from the pilot that she doesn’t have many friends.
Connor & Rufus are in cahoots again, much to Rufus’ chagrin, Connor doesn’t care, he emotionally blackmails Rufus to carry out his double agent duties, told you there was more to those two. Connor says the name Rittenhouse should not be used out loud, much like Voldemort, oops!
In the Lifeboat the team mentally prepares for the mission, Lucy is visibly reeling, Wyatt helps her with her restraints & empathises with her about Amy, that spark from the previous episode is starting to burn a little brighter.
In the pilot, we saw that when the time machine leaves, it causes things to blow everwhere. One of my all time favourite Timeless lines ever! Is Connor this episode remarking that perhaps they should get some paperweights, which is such dry, British humour & Paterson delivers it so well.
We arrive in Washington, 1865, fireworks are illuminating the sky above & eventhough Lucy is concerned about Amy, she still looks in awe to witness history firsthand, informing her boys that the celebrations are because the Civil War just ended.
This is the episode Flynn comes out of the shadows a bit more, literally & figuratively, he finds Booth, grabs him & offers assistance with his plan.
Elsewhere, our Time Team are in town, looking for Flynn (they do a lot of that)
Rufus notices that some soldiers who are men of colour seem happy, Lucy explains that Lincoln has promised to abolish slavery, that they think they’re about to start a whole new life.
Wyatt, ever focused on the mission questions Lucy about her thoughts on Flynn’s plan, says she doesn’t know but says she knows how it all goes down & gives us some insight into the motive behind the assassination, more things I didn’t know! She also throws in a humble brag about having written a book on Lincoln herself!
Rufus gets approached by some soldiers from the coloured regiment, the humorous aliases come up again when he refers to himself as “Denzel Washingtonâ€. This bit of comedy is nice as what follows is definitely not funny, the soldier asks Rufus to write down a notice for the newspaper so he can relocate his family who were sold as slaves. As a white woman, I can only imagine what those times must’ve been liked, it’s heartbreaking.
Lucy & Wyatt are searching the theatre when Lucy runs into Robert Lincoln, the Presidents’ Son, her heart overrules her head when she tries to convince him that he should relay that the play isn’t very good & skip it. Lucy is curious about Robert Lincoln & how he feels about his Father, as Rufus will state later on in the series “the job does have it’s perks.â€
Whilst with Robert, Booth walks in & we learn a little bit more about the events to come, we learn that Booth’s Brother is seen as a hero, personally, I think sour grapes is a ridiculously flimsy motive.
Lucy rendezvous with her team & a discussion is had about the mission, Wyatt & Rufus both want to save Lincoln, Lucy is reticent, eventhough, unbeknownst to the other two, she attempted the same thing right before.
They find Flynn who has found the “let’s kill Lincoln†squad but he sees the team & shots break out, Wyatt gets hit which raises the stakes & shows that our heroes aren’t infallible.
Rufus is tasked with removing the bullet, Lucy is scatty & blabbering about history in the background, even in a tense scene, you’re still learning. Lucy leaves to formulate a plan & as Rufus begins his unenviable task, Wyatt even messes with him, he is REALLY tough & has clearly been shot before.
Lucy goes down to the train station & once again runs into Robert Lincoln, he asks her to the play that night & asks if she believes in fate? as Timeless has gone on, I’m starting to see that question as a metaphor for the whole premise.
Flynn always seems to be about & this is no exception, he confronts Lucy, defends his actions & informs her that one day, they will work together, Lucy lashes out, blames Garcia Flynn for the loss of Amy, he equates her Sister to collateral damage.
Lucy returns to the others, Rufus has completed the “worst game of Operation ever†& Wyatt is ok, she says she saw Flynn but not that they spoke, in short, she lies. Rufus again pleads with Lucy to try & save the President, Lucy exclaims that she’s idolised him her whole life & that this isn’t easy.
Wyatt also tries to convince her, he challenges her ethics by equating that the loss of her Sister is like what she’s about to let happen to Lincoln for Robert, low blow Wyatt but you were shot so I’ll give you a pass.
Back with the assassination crew, Flynn has decided both the President & the Vice President should be taken out & tries to convince Booth to use a modern gun, he declines, he’s been planning this for years, a theatrical sort, he likes his knife.
Back at The National, Lucy has changed into the dress she acquired, no words are spoken but you can see that Wyatt thinks she looks pretty, aw!
In Ford’s Theatre Lucy is sat with Robert Lincoln & is understandably on edge, the play gets interrupted for “Hail To The Chief†to play when Abraham Lincoln enters, the man clearly knows how to make an entrance.
Back with Rufus & Wyatt, the former is second guessing himself when Wyatt does my favourite thing about this character, he gives him a pep talk, you can really see in these moments that though the show says Lucy’s the leader, I think it’s Wyatt. He always knows what to say, to not only comfort his team mates but give them the coaxing they need to get things done. You will notice as these goes on, I HEART you Wyatt!
Meanwhile Flynn, having grown exasperated with John Wilkes Booth decides to take matters into his own hands, finds him & once again tries to convince him. But he wont play ball, sees this as his destiny, Flynn knocks him out & makes a meta quip about “actors!†which gave me a giggle.
Rufus is looking for the Vice President when he runs into Nicholas who outed him as pretending to be a soldier earlier on, Rufus helps save Seward & Johnson, the day & earns his respect, Wyatt was right, he didn’t freeze.
Flynn arrives at President Lincoln’s box & Lucy calls out, trying to save him, she’s unsuccessful & now Garcia Flynn is the person who history thinks assassinated Abraham Lincoln, Lucy is questioned by the authorities & once again, is now a part of this historical event too.
The Time Team return to the Lifeboat, Lucy gives a lovely speech about how it’s easy to be objective about historical characters but when you meet them & you have the power to change things, your ethics & reality shifts. Poor Lucy has Lincoln’s blood on her, putting her right there at the assassination was a good move by the writers, you really feel the complexity of her emotions in that moment. Lucy apologises to Rufus, after all this affects his lineage most of all, she’s crying & Wyatt being an absolute sweetheart takes her hand & offers comfort.
Back to the present & history has changed, Lucy is appalled, presumably her book is now worthless eh? *wink* Agent Christopher is like meh! It pretty much went the same, I’m cool with it, wow! obviously not a history nerd that one. What happened to the case she made to Lucy about “trying to save history?â€
Jiya, good to her word has been digging whilst the team were gone & has uncovered who Lucy thinks is her Father, in fact isn’t, so who is, hmmm?
Wyatt seeks medical attention & I gotta say, I think it’s pretty uncool for no one to hang around & offer him a ride home, especially since we find out, he doesn’t have anyone, aw!
Lucy goes to her Mums’ house to find a party going on, a man we’ve never met, never even seen before kisses her & the episode ends there, I think this a vey solid episode & considering this is an American show, I’m surprised they didn’t use this historical event for the pilot, it occurs to me that this would have had universal appeal.
Timeless airs on NBC on Sunday nights at10pm & you can catch up with season one on Hulu.
If you’re in the UK, like me, it’s on Netflix & airs Wednesday nights, 9pm on E4.
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