Second Netflix show in a row that I actually loved. It was brilliant. The casting, the setting, pacing.. Everything was executed excellently. I binge-watched entire series in two days and have absolutely no regrets.
The only thing that was bothering me a bit, were the plot holes. It's very difficult to write a good time travel book\scenario without any of those, but here in this case, they were glaring. That's the only reason I gave the show 9/10.
From this point on - spoilers and assumptions.
Many more additional loopholes remain. Never the less I loved it!
The only thing that was bothering me a bit, were the plot holes. It's very difficult to write a good time travel book\scenario without any of those, but here in this case, they were glaring. That's the only reason I gave the show 9/10.
From this point on - spoilers and assumptions.
- The show never explains the beginning of the time loop. It's a chicken and an egg type of thing. It had to be created somehow in the first place.
- To get to the absolutely same outcome, the people from the future could have gone to the exact same time through the throat and simply kill the young Mannix. As he had never existed in the first place, it would bring to the exact same place. After the blast, During car ride or anywhere else. Just kill him and it's all over and everything is exactly where it ended. If I'm not mistaken, even the physicist could have sent them anytime without too much limitations. Mannix arrived a year before the the body in the 1889. Defoe moved 4 days into the future. The possibilities are endless.
- The technology could not travel through time (though through theory, all matter could have done it. Perhaps so, but how could Mannix know all commercial secrets from 1890 (the knowledge that is largely lost even now)? How to build Atom bomb? How to enrich Uranium (which was before the initial development in the labs of Nazi Germany in Europe and US)? He couldn't have have any physical memory card with him and he definitely couldn't remember all that. Where on earth did he get a cell phone to be added as the second trigger, decades before it was invented. The vault under the bank was sealed, and the phone somehow survived all this time?
Many more additional loopholes remain. Never the less I loved it!