We endorse our Presidential candidate! Also, catch up on a lot… travel, TV, movies. It’s a pretty fun time all around. Enjoy!
QUESTIONS:
If Freaky Friday happened to you who’s body would you want to swap with for a week? –Anonymous
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Afraid of being inside other’s people’s heads?
Too late!! We’re already there!
Mirror Neurons, baby,…..mwhahahahaha!
I was in sync with Tony this week:
I, too, only had one wisdom tooth. I think this makes us not “less wise,” but more evolved.
Had the same reaction to the John Oliver bit on 3rd party candidates.
Also got sniffly watching Project Runway.
Tony, do you remember what the name of the wine was that you had?
Also, keep forgetting to mention this, but am consistently having a bit of trouble hearing William.
I’ve seen the first two episodes of Timeless and have not watched much (any?) other time travel media. Although Tony makes a good point that if you mess up the past or unsuccessfully “save” it that you could simply send another team until you got it right, I’ll put that aside under the auspices that these are indeed the only team of three that could possibly perform time travel.
My chief complaint thus far is that the premise of the show is at whatever changed in the past as a result of their traveling has impacted the future such that members of their family were never born, HOWEVER, whatever was changed in 1936 or 1865 should then revise many (all?) historic events that have come since, so to maintain continuity within the show and have it even somewhat reflect the real life history we know, then each successive episode would need to go further back in time. The episodes shouldn’t be able to jump around through history, it should only be able to go from present day and back in time to a date prior to the previous episode. I was so “bought in” on their explanation of the premise in the pilot that I was surprised that they chose to jump all the way back to the Civil War with episode 2, leaving the fertile ground of reconstruction, the Guilded Age, Victorians, Edwardians, Titanic, WWI, the roaring 20s, the stock market crash and Great Depression as untouched plot possibilities. Now, as I see in the promos for episode 3, they go back to the 1950s/60s and seem to meet up with Ian Fleming and/or Jack Kennedy, neither of whom were effected in anyway by someone else having assassinated Lincoln or the Hindenburg not exploiting- so apparently the show doesn’t need to follow its own rules.
As for the character the producer was disappointed they made up in the pilot, I can agree that doesn’t make sense. For such characters in future episodes, they must be a result of the alternative history created by our characters’ disruptions, not simply as a result of lazy history and storytelling.
Yay! Beth is still (mostly) caught up! And still listens! 🙂