Pilot
- Episode aired Oct 3, 2016
- Not Rated
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.7/10
2.5K
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An unlikely team must travel through time and stop a criminal mastermind from destroying the past.An unlikely team must travel through time and stop a criminal mastermind from destroying the past.An unlikely team must travel through time and stop a criminal mastermind from destroying the past.
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Did you know
- TriviaThe character of Kate Drummond is fictional. Only one person was killed on the ground during the Hindenburg crash - a linesman named Allen Hagaman.
- GoofsDuring the crash of the Hindenburg, a piano is seen sliding across the lounge. In reality, the piano was removed from the Hindenburg before the 1937 season, and therefore was not present during the crash in New Jersey.
- Quotes
Connor Mason: You need to go with them.
Rufus Carlin: I can't. I am a coder. Okay? That is what I'm good at. All right? I don't like to leave my desk, let alone go in there or back then. Also, I don't know how it works across the pond, but I am black. There is literally no place in American history that'll be awesome for me.
- ConnectionsReferences Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (1934)
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A criminal steals a time machine, and three people are sent to stop him from changing history.
TIMELESS (2016-Present) Is a new sci-fi drama with the pilot episode plot focusing around an experimental time machine which is stolen by a criminal named Garcia Flynn (Goran Vinjić), a trio consisting of history professor/anthropologist Lucy Preston( Abigail Spencer), Master Sergeant Wyatt Logan (Matt Lanter), and engineer and time travelling pilot Rufus Carlin (Malcolm Barrett) are sent back in time using a prototype machine to capture him. However, they soon realize that Flynn and his associates are attempting to rewrite American history.
I actually really liked the pilot episode. Carlin is reluctant to travel back because he's black, and he shares some major secret with the time machine's creator, Connor Mason (Paterson Joseph). Logan might military, but he acts more out of impulse and emotion, and Preston shares a yet to be revealed secret with Flynn. The main cast is rounded out with Agent Denise Christopher (Sakina Jaffrey), because until the time machine was stolen, the government didn't know it existed, let alone that it isn't even the first one built.
Of course time travel always come with a price. This isn't like DOCTOR WHO where there are fixed points in time that can't be changed no matter what happens. If something in the past is changed, there's consequences
The episode does have some personal tidbits, but there's only so much that you can cover in an hour. Enough seeds were planted to raise interest. I'm hoping that some of these "secrets" are revealed sooner rather than later.
All in all, the plot is solid and the acting is good. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
I actually really liked the pilot episode. Carlin is reluctant to travel back because he's black, and he shares some major secret with the time machine's creator, Connor Mason (Paterson Joseph). Logan might military, but he acts more out of impulse and emotion, and Preston shares a yet to be revealed secret with Flynn. The main cast is rounded out with Agent Denise Christopher (Sakina Jaffrey), because until the time machine was stolen, the government didn't know it existed, let alone that it isn't even the first one built.
Of course time travel always come with a price. This isn't like DOCTOR WHO where there are fixed points in time that can't be changed no matter what happens. If something in the past is changed, there's consequences
The episode does have some personal tidbits, but there's only so much that you can cover in an hour. Enough seeds were planted to raise interest. I'm hoping that some of these "secrets" are revealed sooner rather than later.
All in all, the plot is solid and the acting is good. I'm looking forward to the next episode.
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- Oct 9, 2016
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- Port Mann Power Station - 11698 140 Street, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada(Mason Industries exterior)
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