I liked the actors, I like the script, and found it very watchable. I will tune in next week.
Jack the Ripper (John Stevens) is not so crazy as in the movie.
My only complaint: How do you end up in modern day NYC and not run into a gay person? I think the writers might not have figured out how Wells would react to that. However, I think Stevens would do a Happy Dance at his whole new victim base!
I enjoyed it very much. It would have been fun to see the three principals from the movie in some cameos, but was pleased with the pilot. I hope it doesn’t devolve into another Timeless, though.
I started to lose patience when she gave her gun to Wells instead of keeping it herself, even while Wells was expressing his opposition to violence.
I lost interest completely during the rooftop encounter when Wells predictably failed to use the gun to wound/kill Jack.
It wasn’t bad, but I wish the male leads had been played by older actors who weren’t so pretty. In the movie, Malcolm McDowell and David Warner were interesting-looking, but they were definitely not male model types. TV series these days are so full of young hotties that there’s not much room for character actors anymore, even when a role requires one.
I liked it enough to keep watching, too.
Once I recognized Josh Bowman (Jack the Ripper) from *Revenge *(where he played Daniel Grayson) it was hard to see him in another role for a minute, but the different accent helped.
The clean-shaven Freddie Stroma (Wells), though, reminded me so much of Jonathan Groff that I found it distracting. Even with the accent.
Well, Jane Walker’s museum assistant seemed to be gay (“The first guy was hotter”), but are you wondering how Wells and the Ripper never ran into someone who was obviously gay?
I can’t help but think he’d make an excellent dread pirate roberts.
As someone who loved the original & saw it in it’s theatrical release when I was in high school (btw, I had not seen Malcolm in anything at that time, I’d only heard of A Clockwork Orange), I thought this was pretty good. I was amused by Dr. John’s delight that “Jack the Ripper” was famous, only to be crushed that no one knew about him nor his reputation as an esteemed surgeon.
So when he went in enraged to, we were led to think, kill the hostage, did he just slice up the bed, or did he actually kill her & then a slip in the time loop reverse her death?
I actually expected the remake to end with foiling the Ripper as in the original & then each episode would be a new time adventure, but 15 min from the end, it was obvious they were going to be continuing the chase for the Ripper.
Right. No same sex couples kissing, talking marriage, or even holding hands. I hope Wells’s and John’s reactions to this are shown in a future episode.
H.G. Wells: “Everybody knows my name. But nobody knows who Jack the Ripper is.” Funniest line in the movie.
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Right. No same sex couples kissing, talking marriage, or even holding hands. I hope Wells’s and John’s reactions to this are shown in a future episode.
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I think they dealt with that early on indirectly, when HG says that cultural rules can no longer be assumed.
I thought it was well done, he is a late Victorian Gentleman after all, they were used to reading about cultures were Things Were Done Differently.