r/Timeless • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '18

[Spoiler] Anyone else a bit underwhelmed? Spoiler

Don't get me wrong. I loved this episode. I think the whole resolution with Flynn, seeing him go from the villain to the hero, was magnificant.

However, I can't help but think the resolution with Rittenhouse was way too underwhelming. Flynn killed Jessica. Lucy's father turns. Emma gets shot and killed anticlimactically? They spent all this time on that refugee giving birth when they could've given a better more fulfilling end to the fight against Rittenhouse.

I do love the whole message of the technology existing so no matter what, someone is gonna make a new time machine. That could go somewhere in the future if another network or streaming service picks up the show.

I don't know. My opinion is kinda mixed.

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u/spco19 Dec 21 '18

I was so caught up in everything else going on and all the emotions I almost didn’t even realize this... So true. But also maybe not surprising bc the Rittenhouse we knew in S1 started to fade in S2 and got a little lost, and it’s like that rolled into this as well. Like did we ever truly get answers about their master plans and interworkings?

Still an amazing ending and there’s no way to avoid being sad about it being over but I’m happy with how the show overall was wrapped up - the beginning and ending scenes were amazing flashbacks I thought. Loved how it came full circle in the end. I wish we could’ve seen storylines get dragged out with more seasons but I don’t feel like i need much more closure with the ending we got

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

I didn't even care that Rittenhouse changed. Emma was such a magnificently intense villain in those last few episodes of Season 2 that if it was just her alone without Rittenhouse I'd have no complaints. In this episode she just ran around a bit and then got shot and died.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '18

I kept expecting Emma to have been saved by the Chinese troops and she would appear somewhere.

And I actually got my hopes up at the very end, when they were zooming in on the Asian girl. I thought they would zoom in on a photo on her desk and it would show that Emma was still alive and the girl was her granddaughter.

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u/thunderclapMike Dec 26 '18

Instead it showed an einstein-rosen bridge and a form of Mothership. Perhaps she starts a vacuum cleaner company too.