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Timeless
2016 · TV series · 43 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by Shawn Ryan, Eric Kripke
DramaActionAdventureScience FictionFantasy
A mysterious criminal steals a secret state-of-the-art time machine, intent on destroying America as we know it by changing the past. Our only hope is an unexpected team: a scientist, a soldier and a history professor, who must use the machine's prototype to travel back in time to critical events. While they must make every effort not to affect the past themselves, they must also stay one step ahead of this dangerous fugitive. But can this handpicked team uncover the mystery behind it all and end his destruction before it's too late?
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I watch a lot of both American-made movies and TV shows as well as a lot of Japanese anime.
One thing I find curious is how different the models for time travel usually are.
In American media, it seems more often than not, time travel is modelled as if the past and the future are simultaneously existing parallel worlds, where the future is affected by the past in "real-time", e.g. Back to the Future's Marty gradually fading as the chances of his birth diminish, or Timeless's people in the future "watching" people arrive in the past and making sure their own team leaves "in time" to catch them.
These models don't really offer a solution to the grandfather paradox.
In anime however, time travel is near universally modelled with timelines, where time travel essentially creates a new parallel world each time. If you travel back in time and kill your grandfather, you simply create a timeline in which you were not born, but can continue to exist, because you are from a timeline where you were born.
I'm by no means suggesting that either model is unique to America/Japan (Rick and Morty for example uses the branching timeline model), I just find it interesting how they differ.
underrated (timeless) documentary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04
And Timeless: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5511582/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The most recent episode of Timeless took place at this World's Fair. It was a bit educational on the time period. Along with some random trivia that was mentioned, these historical people were portrayed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes - Serial killer - Also mentioned in the 2nd episode of Sherlock this season
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_Hayden - First female architect graduate from MIT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini - Needs no intro?
I wish more history could be worked into regular television shows.