Is anyone else watching this? People time travel from the future and instead of just directly traveling, they take over bodies of people in the present. The people they inhabit die, by the way. Neat premise.
A team of future people…is trying to do something. Save the world of the future for some reason.
What my wife and I can not get is this. Part of the show is that the 5 time travellers from the future…continue to live the lives of the people they take over. Why do they do that? It’s driving us nuts. Main dude still lives with his “wife”, whom he has never met. Drug guy visits the funeral of a friend…who he has never actually met.
It’s weird. Anyone else watching? Anyone else bothered they continue to live the lives of the people they replaced?
Wife and I watched it. Time travel shows and movies bother me usually, but I didn’t mind this one that much. Biggest problem I had with is was buying Eric McCormack as anyone but Will.
It’s because they want to remain incognito. If the person they jumped into suddenly wasn’t themselves anymore, that would kind of make it difficult to complete their mission, no?
Eric McCormack’s character is also an FBI agent, so he needs to stay in that role since it provides them with information/cover.
Also, the guy who went to the funeral was shown to have guilt issues about not saving the other guy (since it was not part of their directive) and gets into trouble later for saving people they weren’t supposed to. He’s got some issues.
I watched it and enjoyed it for the most part but yeah, the handling of the original lives is annoying. The teen should just become a runaway - his cover identity offers no benefit to the team and numerous hindrances.
The 2nd in command/gf’s fight to keep custody of a baby that isn’t hers and that she honestly can’t care for properly while doing missions - also dumb. Yeah, abusive cop dad might not be the best parent, but 1) not necessarily, 2) he’s done better than HER, and 3) what’s a kid she doesn’t know against saving the planet?
The medic - once her case-worker established she was now competent, she should have gone home. Almost all the hassles with the character came from a poorly explained decision to not return to her own apartment, which would have kept the caseworker out of danger, avoided him losing his job, etc.
It was entertaining and interesting as far as the time travel stuff, but the rest was needlessly annoying.