It's Terminator with humans.
It's not about aliens coming to take over our planet, it's about Humans from some dystopian future coming back to...uh...stop the Professor that helped to create them and I guess cure themselves of too much inbreeding?
The first season was fun, dark and showed promise but so many plot holes ripped open wide once they introduced the time travel / the aliens are future humans from Earth elements into the mix in season 2.
Note: The problem with almost ALL time travel stories is the TTP (Time Travel Paradox) -> If you travel in time to fix something in history when that new timeline reaches the point you left from, you won't need to travel in time to fix the problem and thus not have the reason to travel back. And if you say it spawns a parallel universe - then you're not really fixing the problem now are you?
This is a problem that has plagued time travel stories and in this series there are no new story offerings to solve that (at all) - but this story adds a few more flawed layers. Like what was the origin of the space ships with killer robots and the time machine? When Bill travels back time to fix the alien invasion problem what happened to the Bill of past timeline. (Did he quantum Leap?) What about the 'aliens' that somehow traveled back with him, how do they still exist even if their future creation was terminated? And why are people 'dreaming' about future events that will not happen?
They sort of left it open a little for a season 3 BUT I really hope they don't do one.
This time sink hole needs to end now. STOP and consider watching something else.
I gave this two stars because the visual effects (at times) were good and the first season could have just ended on the last episode.
It's not about aliens coming to take over our planet, it's about Humans from some dystopian future coming back to...uh...stop the Professor that helped to create them and I guess cure themselves of too much inbreeding?
The first season was fun, dark and showed promise but so many plot holes ripped open wide once they introduced the time travel / the aliens are future humans from Earth elements into the mix in season 2.
Note: The problem with almost ALL time travel stories is the TTP (Time Travel Paradox) -> If you travel in time to fix something in history when that new timeline reaches the point you left from, you won't need to travel in time to fix the problem and thus not have the reason to travel back. And if you say it spawns a parallel universe - then you're not really fixing the problem now are you?
This is a problem that has plagued time travel stories and in this series there are no new story offerings to solve that (at all) - but this story adds a few more flawed layers. Like what was the origin of the space ships with killer robots and the time machine? When Bill travels back time to fix the alien invasion problem what happened to the Bill of past timeline. (Did he quantum Leap?) What about the 'aliens' that somehow traveled back with him, how do they still exist even if their future creation was terminated? And why are people 'dreaming' about future events that will not happen?
They sort of left it open a little for a season 3 BUT I really hope they don't do one.
This time sink hole needs to end now. STOP and consider watching something else.
I gave this two stars because the visual effects (at times) were good and the first season could have just ended on the last episode.