Timeless - NBC's "Hard SF" & "Historical" TT Series

Dave said:
It seems like Sony TV just made a sweeter deal to NBC. I liked the Tweet from Eric Kripke though, "The #TimeTeam went back 3 days, and changed history."
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Much respect for Sony. They not only made the deal sweeter but they see it as a potential long standing franchise. It feels like firefly potential but it can maybe even grow to star trek potential here.
 
Cli-Fi said:
Much respect for Sony. They not only made the deal sweeter but they see it as a potential long standing franchise. It feels like firefly potential but it can maybe even grow to star trek potential here.
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While I do enjoy the show, I foresee problems ahead if they continue the rule of not returning to the same period time again. There can be no fun Back to the Future 2 type moments, but more importantly, they cannot change those crucial and pivotal moments we have already seen happen. That would be quite restricting to the scriptwriters of any time travel show, but in addition, since the story is all about Rittenhouse and US history the restriction is even more pronounced. You cannot stop Rittenhouse either by going to the first colonisation of Mars, nor by meeting the Roman Emperor Nero, and they have already covered quite a few important US historical events. So, the possibility of a "long standing franchise?"
 
Dave said:
While I do enjoy the show, I foresee problems ahead if they continue the rule of not returning to the same period time again. There can be no fun Back to the Future 2 type moments, but more importantly, they cannot change those crucial and pivotal moments we have already seen happen. That would be quite restricting to the scriptwriters of any time travel show, but in addition, since the story is all about Rittenhouse and US history the restriction is even more pronounced. You cannot stop Rittenhouse either by going to the first colonisation of Mars, nor by meeting the Roman Emperor Nero, and they have already covered quite a few important US historical events. So, the possibility of a "long standing franchise?"
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I think throughout it's 12 season run, I said the same thing about Supernatural 2 or 3 times. The timeless guys joked on twitter that they broke the rule you can't go back to a time where you're alive and it's not like there is rigid ideology to this anyway. Jiya is already having visions of the or a possible future. All I know is Eric could do the same thing he did with Supernatural. It got to be a much bigger show in season four in terms of mythology and scope once they started talking about the biblical apocalypse for the first time. That introduced a bunch of new players. Rittenhouse could easily be using technology from said future. Take it from William Shatner who is a big fan of the show, he pointed out that Star Trek originally got cancelled by NBC! Even though most people today know Star Trek from CBS.
 
Oh, man. Glad to see it was uncancelled! I hope the writers and producers can make the show good enough to get further seasons. If not, it might be a good show for SyFy to pick up and run with.
 
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