This series about Jack the Ripper escaping with H.G. Wells' time machine to 2017 is ABC's, ahem, stab at a time travel show. It's clearly aimed to compete with Legends of Tomorrow and Timeless.
Sadly, the pilot I just watched was awful. The dialog was horrible and wooden. The plot frequently flew off the rails into strangely placed romantic exchanges between the two leads. Logic in the writing was lacking. H.G. Wells' time machine had been sitting around in a museum in the modern era. It had also gone through extensive technical restorations, and nobody noticed it worked? The time travel rules were also somewhat murky. Why did the machine disappear in the past, only to reappear and yet still remain fixed in the future? I thought the writers were trying to setup the machine as a door that connects two time periods, but if it disappeared due to time travel in the past, that still doesn't make sense.
Moving on, then there was the standard question that shows like this have to work around: why not just call the cops? Answer: they'll never believe us. Ugh. I think I'm giving up on the rest of the episodes unless something drastically changes to make the show watchable.
Sadly, the pilot I just watched was awful. The dialog was horrible and wooden. The plot frequently flew off the rails into strangely placed romantic exchanges between the two leads. Logic in the writing was lacking. H.G. Wells' time machine had been sitting around in a museum in the modern era. It had also gone through extensive technical restorations, and nobody noticed it worked? The time travel rules were also somewhat murky. Why did the machine disappear in the past, only to reappear and yet still remain fixed in the future? I thought the writers were trying to setup the machine as a door that connects two time periods, but if it disappeared due to time travel in the past, that still doesn't make sense.
Moving on, then there was the standard question that shows like this have to work around: why not just call the cops? Answer: they'll never believe us. Ugh. I think I'm giving up on the rest of the episodes unless something drastically changes to make the show watchable.