Is it written the same way? Because reporters don't write headlines, so that would be the same.

Plus Hondo Ohnaka, right? I haven't seen anything from The Clone Wars featuring him yet, but I'm given to understand he shows up in both.

I, too, want to see more from Simon who is from Somerset.

Mugging!

Yeah, it's a bit awkward. Of course, the field is open for them to come back one time and suddenly there's a new member of the base team, who's "always been there".

It, uh, may have been me!

I tend to agree with you.

By inference, time must have some kind of elasticity in Timeless, where it takes a fairly large-scale change in the past to effect a change in the present. Otherwise, you would imagine the butterfly effect of even minor changes would end up with fairly large-scale effects in the future.

I liked Lucy's "Look for a Bess . . . or an Annie, or a Frances, or a Bess . . ."

With the doppelganger conceit, the story is also starting to remind me of Frederik Pohl's novel The Coming of the Quantum Cats; weird title, good book.

One detail I appreciated: when they give the population figure for Savannah, it's less than half its historical 1960 population (which was the most populous census year in its history). No prizes for guessing who's missing.

They played into that deliberately, giving the DHS guy the usual setup where the unsuspecting criminal arrives at the station "to tie up loose ends," ready to be ambushed by the reveal that they've Figured It All Out. They gave Gregson the exact same kind of dialogue they always use in those scenes - "I promise you,…

Bahaha, Hawaii Five-O and character development? Sure, if you count hokey-as-shit thriller plotlines about boyfriends from evil crime families and covering up your relatives' crimes and mothers turning out to be superspies, yeah.

Texas being in the neutral zone makes sense to me because some of the "patriots" in Texas despise any part of the USA that isn't Texas, on some level. Without the New Deal improving the country's fortunes, and if there's some sort of relatively cushy arrangement propping up local leaders who sell oil to the Reich, I…

I also appreciate the perhaps accidental facts of casting, like Kido being played by Joel de la Fuente, an American of largely Filipino ancestry - casting him as a ruthless Japanese patriot certainly adds another layer, considering Japan's actions in the Philippines.

It is definitely speculative fiction but not science fiction, because there's no, for lack of a better word, "STEM" premise driving what's different about its history.

Police don't have to read you your rights at the time of an arrest, only prior to any questioning.

12 Monkeys doesn't really make sense, anyway. I'm never impressed with "time travel damages the fabric of the universe" stories unless they're amazing, and it's not that good; I still really like it, but I like it despite the whole "red skies"/"place of no time" thing.

Mate, I'm not re-arguing this three years later with every prick who's only managed to get around to watching the show because now it's a Netflix thing.

I'm certain you're right. There are shots of Shaolin Fantastic, at the very least, on rooftops in "archive" footage, and of course all of the "newsreel" stuff with Ed Koch is the actor they hired, not the real guy who both looks different and is dead.