Hmmm why does this sound like the TV version of Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" ? Time warping shenanigans to save the world from itself and it's some more or less evil overlords.
The Series started out very well, with an interesting premise, but the second you get more information things begin to rapidly unravel at a logical level. Well such is the peril of time-travel plots aversus scriptwriters trying to keep stuff interesting
The acting pretty decent all around though some characters one meets in the first two episodes totally fade into the background, along with consistency and logic If at least two people on the team are "random mutants" remembering the "timeline" resetsand acting on that weird foreknowledge (out of a British population of say 70 million), .... that makes how many people world wide exactly at least 150 ? ? O rmore if we disocunt people getting locked up for being mad.... ... and no one wonders or talks about it ? Also it seems to work in very different ways (looking at the summer of 2018 episode )
There so many logical loopholes that this starts to look like a collander and how they managed some of the really early stuff (say the 1963 resets or the stuff in the 1970ies and 80ies) , but luckily enough the physics and guiding principles are more alluded to. The less you ask, the happier your will be
I also have strong logical doubts about some random "genius physicist" being able to rig up a decoder and detonator for a foreign-county nuclear device (without ANY information about it's type, provenance or mechanism of deployment ) etc. And being able to reverse engineer the physics (I doubt you will have the basics easy to google on the web ) and how to implement them as shown in the final two episode. Nevermind the alleged physics of the process. Lucky they never tell us how they came to discover the process, one might have died from laughter. After all this is the CCTV riddled UK post 2012, so losing a key scientist with TRULY problematic knowledge from a known starting point. Nawh lets ignore it...
on the positive side, though it is entertaining , the acting , the mood some of the more or less comedic moments are well executed the performance of , esp Burke's Rebrov. Monhindra's Archie.and the lead Paapa Essiedu's is top notch, but overall this suffers from being a TV production that neither manages to establishes a believeable background (even with much suspension of disbelief )
Let's repeat : this features an . Oh yes an ultra secret agency with not even a dozen staff members, no political oversight at all ( makes you wonder how they fund themselves...probably playing the stock market in their spare time ) , no research staff, no analysis of possible outcomes most of them utter geniuses with massive physical skills - basically Bonds with brains (it gets explained a bit for ONE character out of the cast ) , nor does it have have the budget for a larger more leisurely start, or out bombast-effect the audience into oblivion.... Just consider if the "unnamed agency" with say 12 personel has to parallel deal with two unrelated threats ??? Perhaps in out of the way timezones... these guys have ONE IT "guy" (I suspect they mean analyst ). Hope he does not take vacations or falls ill. Or if something started just a few days ahead of a reset point which will only come to fruition afterwards......
Instead we get to focus on self obsessed, nerdy and pacifist protagonist George developing superlative powers and skills, being able to outwit, out-perform, out-skill and out-everything and everyone within mere days after taking the job. Or his more or less ex-colleagues being able to eliminate readied and fully aware SWAT teams.... Oh and they are not even vetted, physically, psychologically or their lives fine-combed because this is the ultimate hush hush stuff. Or given serious psychological support because lots of this stuff they live through is deeply traumatic.... Like being shot in the head (no spoilers, really ). Torture is mentioned, PTSD alluded to but well... pls just take a few days off^^
Would have loved to give this a higher score than 6/10, especially since the first episode is by far the best, ..... but the closer you look , you more you see, the less you like it. It also leaves ethics at the door
On the other hand - compared to Christopher Nolan's tenet : the far superior time-correction spin.
The Series started out very well, with an interesting premise, but the second you get more information things begin to rapidly unravel at a logical level. Well such is the peril of time-travel plots aversus scriptwriters trying to keep stuff interesting
The acting pretty decent all around though some characters one meets in the first two episodes totally fade into the background, along with consistency and logic If at least two people on the team are "random mutants" remembering the "timeline" resetsand acting on that weird foreknowledge (out of a British population of say 70 million), .... that makes how many people world wide exactly at least 150 ? ? O rmore if we disocunt people getting locked up for being mad.... ... and no one wonders or talks about it ? Also it seems to work in very different ways (looking at the summer of 2018 episode )
There so many logical loopholes that this starts to look like a collander and how they managed some of the really early stuff (say the 1963 resets or the stuff in the 1970ies and 80ies) , but luckily enough the physics and guiding principles are more alluded to. The less you ask, the happier your will be
I also have strong logical doubts about some random "genius physicist" being able to rig up a decoder and detonator for a foreign-county nuclear device (without ANY information about it's type, provenance or mechanism of deployment ) etc. And being able to reverse engineer the physics (I doubt you will have the basics easy to google on the web ) and how to implement them as shown in the final two episode. Nevermind the alleged physics of the process. Lucky they never tell us how they came to discover the process, one might have died from laughter. After all this is the CCTV riddled UK post 2012, so losing a key scientist with TRULY problematic knowledge from a known starting point. Nawh lets ignore it...
on the positive side, though it is entertaining , the acting , the mood some of the more or less comedic moments are well executed the performance of , esp Burke's Rebrov. Monhindra's Archie.and the lead Paapa Essiedu's is top notch, but overall this suffers from being a TV production that neither manages to establishes a believeable background (even with much suspension of disbelief )
Let's repeat : this features an . Oh yes an ultra secret agency with not even a dozen staff members, no political oversight at all ( makes you wonder how they fund themselves...probably playing the stock market in their spare time ) , no research staff, no analysis of possible outcomes most of them utter geniuses with massive physical skills - basically Bonds with brains (it gets explained a bit for ONE character out of the cast ) , nor does it have have the budget for a larger more leisurely start, or out bombast-effect the audience into oblivion.... Just consider if the "unnamed agency" with say 12 personel has to parallel deal with two unrelated threats ??? Perhaps in out of the way timezones... these guys have ONE IT "guy" (I suspect they mean analyst ). Hope he does not take vacations or falls ill. Or if something started just a few days ahead of a reset point which will only come to fruition afterwards......
Instead we get to focus on self obsessed, nerdy and pacifist protagonist George developing superlative powers and skills, being able to outwit, out-perform, out-skill and out-everything and everyone within mere days after taking the job. Or his more or less ex-colleagues being able to eliminate readied and fully aware SWAT teams.... Oh and they are not even vetted, physically, psychologically or their lives fine-combed because this is the ultimate hush hush stuff. Or given serious psychological support because lots of this stuff they live through is deeply traumatic.... Like being shot in the head (no spoilers, really ). Torture is mentioned, PTSD alluded to but well... pls just take a few days off^^
Would have loved to give this a higher score than 6/10, especially since the first episode is by far the best, ..... but the closer you look , you more you see, the less you like it. It also leaves ethics at the door
On the other hand - compared to Christopher Nolan's tenet : the far superior time-correction spin.
