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As another one of those 5, I pretty much feel the same way, but Abrams was not involved with this one, so that gives me hope.

I always saw it that the Hydra data-mining program looked at everything someone did to predict future threats (like the valedictorian in Iowa). They knew Strange would do something that would threaten Hydra, but it couldn't predict exactly what.

Not one of their better episodes. I wonder if it was in production with the earlier episodes and aired later, because it could fit in with earlier eps pretty easily. Flynn saving his half-brother was interesting, although it did endanger his whole existence. Screwing with the moon landing was one thing, but making it look like a Communist plot (which was more the fault of Our Heroes than Flynn) could easily have started WWIII. Again, Rufus and Lucy are the most important parts of the ep and Wyatt is kind of useless. Between his slovenly FBI agent, and the sliding card readers, this show still misses the small details. I do give them points for them using the unread moon speech, but then again, would Nixon and the government be that quick to announce to the world that the moon mission failed? And you can't say that the Soviets gave up after Apollo 11. They still sent robotic probes to the Moon, Mars, Venus and had the first space station. And I think that Korolev's death had more of a devastating impact on the Soviet space program than Apollo 11 did.

Especially since it appears that 88% of the lost jobs went to robots instead of China.

So we also know that Lucy was accepted into the project not because of her historical knowledge, but due to her bloodline. I'm also a few years older than Rufus and Watergate and Vietnam were considered recent history and so they weren't really covered in history class. Since the History curriculum is set by the local school districts, and what is taught varies anyway. Growing up in southeastern Pennsylvania, we learned a lot more about Robert Fulton (took a field trip to his house) and James Buchanan (another field trip) than most other kids from elsewhere. And without Wyatt they were actually able to score a few points against not only Flynn, but Rittenhouse as well.

I thought this was their best ep yet. We finally get some answers. Spot on about Rittenhouse being the Illuminati. Nice to get some insight in to Flynn too, so he's not the villain everyone thought he was. With Rufus and Lucy out working together and Wyatt tied up, it showed that the show would be fine with just Lucy and Rufus.

Lucifer: My sandwich is Hitler?

I liked it. I did not know Dr. Strange too well, but always liked it when he showed up to help out the X-men in the comics. I loved the visuals. Tilda Swinton was good (like we expect anything less) despite the whitewashing. Part of me still wonders what it would have been like to see Amitabh Bachchan in the role. Strange is not the Sorcerer Supreme, I wonder how long he was in the time loop with Dormammu and what he learned while he was there. it was clearly long enough to hone a few skills. And I agree with everyone else that I loved that he defeated the villain by annoying him into giving up. I will admit Rachel McAddams was was underused, but she was good in the scenes she had. I did like that the story started after their romance and they actually became friends at the end after he realized how bad he was to her. I'm guessing they went with Christine Palmer rather than Linda Carter because the latter shares the name with the actress who played Wonder Woman.

At the very least she should have realized what she did right afterwards and cursed herself. I think that's a problem with this show, they miss the little details like that. Although they did have Flynn speaking with a Castilian accent, which was cool. More tragic backstory for Wyatt. I don't really care. I feel like the show keeps telling me how great he is and always makes the right choice, but honestly it seems like he always wants to go in with guns blazing against Flynn regardless of the circumstances. Flynn's plan (and Flynn himself) was dropped halfway through the episode when Santa Anna raised the red flag. I think it would have been more interesting if he was able to negotiate a peaceful surrender of the Alamo, probably after killing Santa Anna. Without the martyrs would the revolution have continued? He does seem to be trying to weaken the US, maybe curbing US imperialism. I'm assuming that Rittenhouse is either connected to or possibly controlling the US government, so weakening one would weaken the other.

This is not looking good. We're getting Akiva Goldsman of Batman and Robin fame? And these guys are expecting us to sign on to a subscription service to see this? At least Fuller will still be an executive producer.

This one was pretty good, even though I don't really know much about Ian Fleming. Wyatt is still the weak point for me, although we did get some insight into him this time. Seriously, I know they're Nazis (but not all of them wanted to be there, a lot of those guys were drafted) but just shooting them out of the time machine could play hell with the future. It would have been interesting if von Braun had gone to the Soviets instead of the Americans, but I'm not sure how much of a change it would bring since it wasn't just von Braun. Operation Paperclip brought a whole lot of Nazi scientists over to the US after the war. Yeah. It's one thing when she's in the corset and hoop skirt to go to 1865, but pretty much any time after 1910, it's kind of weird and unnecessary. My grandfather was born on May 27. But don't screw anything up there because I generally like existing.

Mac: Did two fireusers just fall into a fireworks store? Coulson: C'mon, you had to see that coming.

Another awesome episode, and I did not see Eleanor confessing, although I wonder if Michael may try to cover it up as it would be his screw-up for letting her in. Janet, pre- and post-murder, stole the episode. I would be curious to see what other neighborhoods the train goes to. About Chidi speaking English, I assume his native language is French, (from his remark to Tahani an episode back about not liking France due to the fact they conquered his country), but he speaks English fluently. In the Good Place, he probably speaks his native language and it translates. I also liked how when boots-guy tells Chidi his 3600 page manuscript was very dry, that Chidi took it as a compliment.

Wyatt does not seem to work as a character. He's only there for the gunfights with Flynn, which he can't actually win, because well... no show. And who is in charge, Wyatt or Lucy? They can't seem to agree on that. IMO Wyatt would have worked batter as a veteran of the time travel project rather than a soldier. He's been to enough eras he's justified being in charge and he knows enough people in various eras. He could be a legend that people know about, or the temporal equivalent of that guy who if you ever need something he's got you covered. If it weren't for her knowledge of the Hindenburg in the pilot, we could say that Lucy was a presidential historian, since the past two weeks she interacted with Lincoln and less directly with Kennedy. I also wonder how many languages they speak because if they go back before 1600 they will have trouble communicating at best (and even in the 1600s they would stand out even in an English-speaking area)

My sister and I still throw that line at each other randomly.

Cool soundtrack. I like the harpsichord.

The explanation was he never was her father, which is why she still exists at all. It seems to be a painful fact for her mother since she did not want to talk about it. Lucy would never known if it weren't for the fact that she continues to exist in the new timeline.

King Corn, very low key, about two guys trying to grow an acre of corn, but frightening about how much corn effects what we eat. If you didn't avoid high fructose corn syrup before, you will now.

I watched Men in Black III last week and I kept expecting Lucy and the team to ask for chocolate milk. Also, does anyone remember on the Ben Stiller Show in the 90's the sketch with Janeane Garofalo "B Minus Time Traveler?"

I'm liking Lucy and Rufus and still warming up to Wyatt, he doesn't seem to have anything to do except be the soldier-type. Their mission could have been stretched out over two episodes. I agree with whoever said the show seems rather unambitious with regards to its premise. I have to say the team needs to be better prepared, since they seem to go back and make up things on the fly. Although the higher-ups seem to have an odd "Ehh, good enough" attitude toward time travel and changing history. I'm still not sure if they're really the good guys. My crazy speculation: our crappy present is a creation of Rittenhouse and Flynn is trying to set it back to something better.

The guest star rule gave away who did it pretty much right away, but I still liked this one. Chloe having to tell Lucifer not to touch the burned crotch (twice!). I like Elle. I remember years ago I knew a paramedic with a sense of humor like that, being able to laugh at charred corpses. I also love Dr. Linda and Maze hanging out. Is this the first episode where Dr. Linda had no scenes in her office? Don't trust Mom, she's definitely up to something but Tricia Helfer is playing the hell out of it, like the "when I rub against other humans, I get a strange feeling down here..." moment. Curious to see how she deals with her 'sentence' and what powers she might actually have. I love the details on this show, like how the angel Amenadiel has a dirt devil.

I completely agree, but I think it's mainly due to the fact that audiences want a familiar face. Someday, someone should do an anthology series like this where characters are played by different actors every week due to changes in the timeline.

I would agree that the show hasn't established the rules yet. There are a few questions that they need to answer, like: Is time self-healing or is the butterfly effect unmitigated? The fact that the Hindenburg exploded anyway and the reporter died in both timelines may indicate that time will self-correct, but the fact that the mother is cured of her disease and the sister does not exist seems to indicate that there is some level of butterfly effect. It may work out that there are fixed points in time that happen no matter what with other more mutable events around them. I've wondered about this. My crazy theory is if there is more than one dimension of time, then going through various time dimensions could make sense, like in the movies where the villain travels around the country seemingly at random while enacting his plan.

I liked it, but time travel has to be really bad for me not to. For all the comparison to Ministerio del Tiempo, there's definitely a similarity in the basic concept (2 guy-one woman team consisting of a soldier, scholar and someone in a more modern profession and one of the men is mourning a dead wife) but not any of the specific stories. I actually liked how they ended up changing history. I would be curious if it's an ongoing thing, where they keep changing history so that by the end of the season, Prince Abraham Lincoln III flies in on his airship to the secret time lab to see what's happening or something. I would give them points for creativity if this did this or even reveal that our history is a "wrong" timeline that Flynn is trying to fix.

The 2010 Russell Crowe Robin Hood was forgettable (he only did one Robin Hood-esque deed in the whole movie) but Alan Doyle as Alan A'Dayle was pretty awesome (and single-handedly introduced my sister to the music of Great Big Sea)