![]() (Most righteous ‘Bill & Ted’ joke there, writers!) The third person will have to be a historian to help them navigate the era and blend in with the appropriate customs so as not to call attention to themselves. One will be an engineer from the lab named Rufus Carlin. One will be the soldier for obvious reasons. Inconveniently, the second time machine will only fit three people. Homeland Security wants to send a team back in time to find and stop Flynn from messing with history. Lucy recognizes the date: May 6th, 1937 – the day the Hindenburg crashed. Even better, its computer is conveniently linked to the mothership and can tell exactly when it has gone to (though not where). That can’t be good.įortunately, the billionaire owner of the lab has a backup time machine. She tells them that dashingly handsome international criminal Garcia Flynn (Goran Visnjic) has stolen a time machine… Yes, a time machine. The two are quickly brought up to speed by the head agent. She’s dropped in a waiting room with hunky Delta Force master sergeant Wyatt Logan (Matt Lanter, who voiced Anakin in the ‘Star Wars: The Clone Wars’ cartoon). Lucy has no idea what’s going on or why they want her. Homeland Security agents come knocking at Lucy’s door, insist that she come with them immediately, and whisk her off to the lab. Gee, I wonder what that lab could have been working on… Next, armed gunmen break into a science lab called Mason Industries, hop into a weird eyeball-shaped machine, and vanish into thin air. The bullet-point facts you need to know about her are that she’s rather pissed about being denied tenure at her university, her mother is dying of an unspecified illness, and she has a sister named Amy. We immediately cut to the present day and are introduced to college history professor Lucy Preston (Abigail Spencer from ‘Suits’ and ‘Rectify’). The CGI visual effects for this recreation of a famous historical disaster are a little cartoony, but the scene moves so quickly that it barely gives you time to complain. ![]() In short order, we witness the chain of events that leads the blimp to explode in the air, crashing to the ground and killing dozens. On May 6th, 1937, the German airship Hindenburg arrives in New Jersey prepared to dock at its intended landing site. The opening scene sets the stage for both the episode’s plot and its tone. The pilot episode is directed by Neil Marshall, who has episodes of ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Black Sails’ and ‘Constantine’ under his belt and knows his way around fantasy TV. Of course, both men have also produced some duds, such as ‘Revolution’ and ‘Last Resort’ respectively, so that isn’t a guarantee of anything. The show has some notable talent behind-the-scenes, including creators Eric Kripke (‘Supernatural’) and Shawn Ryan (‘The Shield’). Do these two things have to be mutually exclusive? From the incessant ads for it, NBC’s new time travel adventure ‘Timeless’ looked like it would be either one of the most promising new TV series of the fall or one of the cheesiest.
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