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Did anyone else hate this show?


I couldn't get past the pilot, the premise was so stupid. This show had so many things wrong with it from the get-go. I mean, they change history in order to preserve it in a different way than what really happened, and the show focuses almost entirely on Abigail while mostly ignoring her co-stars, who both have all the personality of common bricks. It makes sense they'd go after the bad guy to keep him from screwing up history, but there were a lot of problems with how they did it. First off, if you're gonna go time-traveling, particularly in the US before the 1970s, do not take a black man with you! It's not a matter of not wanting him there, it's that he'd run into all sorts of problems trying to do his job because of how black people were treated in the time periods they ran off to. Heck, even Abigail would have problems being female and trying to get stuff done in the past. And when you're taking a huge, eyeball-shaped machine to other places in history, hide the damned thing! They just leave it sitting around, expecting nobody to notice it or steal it. Damn these writers are stupid!

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Made you watch.

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wow why watch now show cancelled if you have a better idea for time travel give it up

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I was considering watching that "Agents of Tomorrow" show my brother was watching a while back. It looked much more entertaining by comparison. My dad and brother also watched the tv series' version of "12 Monkeys," and the story for that seemed much better written than the '97 film.

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you mean Legends Of Tomorrow? and no Timeless is 1000 times better than that.

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Agreed! I tried to get into Legends of Tomorrow and couldn't get past the first episode.

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The show had a lot of problems including the writers/producers/etc. didn't really care about time travel, paradoxes, and/or consequences. It was just an action show with a vague time travel concept.

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You get it! :) It would have been much more creative for the story to take place in an "alternate" timeline, where things in famous events happened differently, and when our time-travelers "fixed" them to make sure they still happened, the events would play out as we know them in history.

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NEVER SAW IT...THE POSTS ABOUT IT MAKE ME THINK I DIDNT MISS MUCH THOUGH.🙂

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You missed plenty. Summarized in two words:

Abigail Spencer.

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I CHECKED...ONLY THING I KNOW HER FROM IS COWBOYS & ALIENS.

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And she has a famous video "out" also, one that can only be described as "self-pleasuring". It teaches a lesson why we don't share "personal" videos with boyfriends/girlfriends that can become exes.

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Indeed!

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Yup, there are more of us.

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