Does anyone else think that Rittenhouse was some founded by or because of time travellers and the whole thing will turn out to be a causal loop?
Good point. So far it seems like the changes have been rather minor (outside of personal issues like siblings never having been born). As opposed to them coming back from a mission and finding that the US lost the Cold War and the President take’s his marching orders from Moscow.
Can they actually pick the Lifeboat’s destination? For some reason I thought they can only send it to approximately the same time/space location as the Mothership.
Thought it was pretty funny when in the 1970s Lucy had to wait outside the Black Panther hangout trying to look inconspicuous.
Flynn has to have traveled to the future at some point; he has a diary that Lucy’s yet to write. Then again he could’ve gotten if from someone who traveled from his future to his present.
I see the march toward Lucy and Wyatt pairing off has begun. I suppose it could work, but right now it comes off as somewhat obligatory, like the writers were checking off a box. (Rufus and Jiya seem much more genuine together.) My guess is that Lucy and Wyatt will grow closer and closer … right up until some change they make to the timeline causes Wyatt’s dead wife to be spared whatever fate originally befell her. Then she’s either going to turn out to be evil – possibly a Rittenhouse plant – or her death will turn out to be crucial to the timeline and the team will have to make sure she bites it all over again, putting Wyatt and Lucy back on track.
This latest episodes dilemma/mcguffin is easy to solve - for the first time, our team has a piece of information that Flynn’s team does not - the origin of the key that was around Bonnie;s neck.
Now - if our team was smart - they would simply jump to an earlier slot and take the key -before- Clyde steals it for Bonnie.
I think at some point Lucy’s going to lose the book in the past and Flynn will have come across it when he was tracking down info on Rittenhouse. Finding the book may be what actually tipped him off about the time machine and inspired him to steal it in the first place.
Yeah it’d be nice to see them take the initiative rather than always just doing stuff in response to the moves Flynn makes.
I would’ve liked to have seen Wyatt just shoot Bonnie and Clyde and take the key. What the heck, they’re going to be killed in the next few hours anyway, so what difference does it make to the timeline?
I’m not sure what the deal was the key however. Henry Ford announced a $50,000 reward to get it back. So presumably he needed it to access the scroll inside the clock. Couldn’t he have just busted the clock open? For that matter, couldn’t Flynn?
Then what stops the bad guys from going back even further? Remember, changes made by one ship doesn’t affect anybody in the other - otherwise, the first episode makes no sense, as once the Hindenburg history changed, everybody would have immediately forgotten about what originally happened.
The people “back home” did forget. It was only the lady historian who remembered the “original” version. Their job isn’t so much to “fix” history as it is to patch it up so that it goes on “pretty much” as before. Full-up fixes are impossible.
Not to mention David Rittwnhiuse. Now who’s going to establish the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, or head the US Mint? Or, apparently, create a shadow government.
The guy at the head of the conspiracy was QUARK? Reminds me of a trilogy I once read where the main villain turned out to be a guy who seemed to be based on Steve (remember him) Forbes.
I will admit, I had no idea that there was a historical figure named Rittenhouse being referred to. I just assumed the writers of the show had picked something that sounded kind of interesting when they were naming the conspiracy group. I am learning while I am also being entertained!
Somehow my knowledge of the time period never included David Rittenhouse. I thought it was going to have something to do with Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia which I now realize is named after David Rittenhouse.
Here is an article with some mild spoilers from the creators about the second half of the season. It talks about the general direction of the show but not too many specifics.
It’s funny how they chose to be very accurate with somethings and then totally make up others. David Rittenhouse did not have a son. Or one that lived past childbirth anyway.
It really bugged me when they were arguing over whether or not to kill the Rittenhouse kid. Guys, you can remove him from the equation without killing him- just take him back to the future with you.
I really liked how Quark/Rittenshouse was portrayed. His leering and grabbing Lucy and suggestive questioning made everyone too shocked to see his real intentions, which was to confirm his suspicions and spring a trap.
Guy was a lecherous bastard, but he was a smart and cunning lecherous bastard.
