Time After Time Season 1 Episodes 1 & 2 Review

Hey guys, welcome back to the channel, and today we will review Time After Time Season 1, the pilot episode, and episode 2, I Will Catch You. So guys, um, you saw my trailer review on this new series, uh, you pretty much got the plot and what the show is all about, um, Wells, uh, uh, regard as the father of science fiction. Uh, pretty much a lot of science fiction shows we see today as we know them, as they're produced, uh, he kind of created the structure for, um, how our science fiction shows are produced. So if you're a sci-fi geek, uh, You know, basically, uh, you probably, uh, know who H.G. Wells is, and you probably have seen or read some of his books and novels and things like that. Um, this, um, particular story, um, that they've created about him is actually, uh, based on a 1979 movie called Time After Time starring Malcolm McDowell. And it's basically about H.G. Wells creating a time machine, having Jack the Ripper as his colleague, and, you know, basically finding out that Jack the Ripper is, you know, killing all these people. He runs, he uses his time machine, escapes, and H.G. Wells is basically chasing him across time trying to bring him back so he can answer for the crimes he's done back in Victorian England. So, um, I like, I like the plot of this show. Um, a lot of people thought it was kind of weird. Uh, also this, I guess you can kind of say it's sort of like a prequel because this takes place before H.G. Wells writes the novel The Time Machine, and some years ago, back in the early 2000s, we had a blockbuster called The Time Machine starring Guy Pearce. He plays H.G. Wells, and he basically is going through, moving through time and things like that, and So, you know, with this show, these time travel shows, as I had been saying earlier, I've had some difficulty with certain networks that done them, like ABC and NBC. This I thought was fair. I thought this was a fair production of time travel in general. When they do the time travel scenes, we didn't get all these over-the-top special effects. That didn't bother me because, um, I can, I can accept that in time travel shows, um, you know, you don't always have to have all that over, over-the-top stuff. Fading in and out of existence can work just as good. Problem with that in this show, they didn't do a lot of that, and that was— I was fine with that. Where I did have a problem with this show in doing time travel thing was that they never really explained, uh, a lot of the rules and important details to time travel. I don't mind just fading in. If you're gonna low budget the special effects in time travel shows, have a well-organized idea about how it works and what you can and what you cannot do, you know, with it. We basically got Ishii Wells, and he really doesn't know what it will or what it won't do, but he's built it. They don't know what the consequences of it will be if he uses it a certain way. And, uh, you know, so, uh, I didn't like that part. I thought they should have gave us a lot of techno babble, you know, dealing with the time machine, and then just, you know, dialed it back on the special effects like they did. I would have been fine with that. Um, also the actor that plays H.G. Wells, uh, I believe his name is Freddie Stroma. I discussed some, some details about him in the trailer review, but, um, I didn't so much have an issue with him playing H.G. Wells. Uh, I kind of was— I, I could accept that H.G. Wells, uh, coming from Victorian England would, you know, very much be, uh, awkward, uh, the type of work he did. I could see pretty, uh, uh, introverted and withdrawn and things like that, and very, you know, nerdy and geeky and things like that, being the father of science fiction. That, that didn't bother me. And then him trying to fit in, but, uh, so that didn't so much bother me, um, but I, you know, I, although I love this storyline and the premise of the show The— these actors, you know, at some points I just felt they were miscast. I don't, I don't, I don't know if they belong in these roles. But as I was saying, with H.G.— uh, with Freddie Stroma playing H.G. Wells, I can kind of accept that he's this kind of, uh, Victorian, uh, English Victorian age, uh, gentleman. And everything will look kind of awkward and weird to us from our present, you know, point in history to his, or being in modern times. But, uh, his lead play— who played Jane Walker, um, you know, she just, uh, it just didn't work for me. Like, their chemistry, the scenes, and how she took all the information in, it just, you know, at some points kind of seemed ridiculous to me. You know, I kind of expected him to come off a bit ridiculous But when her reaction with him to me, I didn't like that. I just don't know about that, you know, about the acting. And I don't know if I blame the actors for that. I think I pretty much, you know, look at the director and go, hey, you know, you can direct these. Because I believe they can deliver a certain feel to this show where it doesn't just seem kind of, you know, off, you know, at some point, certain point. But, um, yeah, but, uh, Jack the Ripper, um, the gentleman who played him, uh, from the Revenant series, I believe his name is like Josh Bowman or something like that. Uh, I thought he did a good job as Jack the Ripper. You know, there were I thought they had the opportunity to make him, uh, a lot more clear in a conflictive position with him being Jack the Ripper, why he did some of the things he did, and try to make it a more complex, you know, because it would have been a great opportunity. Because another thing, we don't know anything about Jack the Ripper, you know, other than he killed these people. So they're kind of doing this fill in the blank. It's a lot of opportunity to do this fill in the blank thing with Jack the Ripper. Which I felt they could have done and they didn't do it. So, um, you know, uh, but him being a dark character, him being a more believable character in a sense, and him how he fit in to, uh, 2017, how he felt more normal in this period of time with the violence and being able to buy a gun and where, uh, the world has gone You know, as opposed to how things were back in Victorian England, he was considered just a straight-up freak. They had never seen murderers like that, uh, serial killers like that, as opposed to now where, you know, we get a few every decade, you know, have decent ones. Uh, so he felt, you know, very much at home. And, and his character, to me, his acting of, you know, all the main characters was obviously the most believable, and I could hold to it a little bit more. But then I didn't like that he was just so straight up evil. There was no complex nature to him other than, I'm just a straight up evil dude. And we got H.G. Wells, who's the Victorian Englishman, and that he's a very fantastical character. And, um, uh, I, I, I got a chance to look at some of the, uh, H.G. Wells biographies, and H.G. Wells, the man, was a lot more complicated than this. He was a, you know, he was a, um, he had a string of affairs, you know, with women, uh, he was a, a divorcee, you know, and then he had a lot of— as they kind of do show on this show, but I know it's an ABC network, so they toned it down a lot. But, you know, dealing with a character like Jack the Ripper all mixed up into this, um, you know, I just thought they could have, you know, done some, done some different things. Uh, we also get the character of Vanessa Anders, and she pops up on the scene and she's explaining that she's his great-granddaughter, and she has like these, uh, massive resources. She owns a biotech company. So she's proven to be very helpful in this show to A.G. Wells and being related to him. And the thing about it though is even though she's, at first glance I'm thinking that ultimately in her mind her goal is to be as helpful as possible But the, the route she wants to take to achieve that, to me, seems, um, going to be in conflict with what G. Wells wants to do. As we've seen in some of the— throughout the episode, some of the things that she was doing, information she wasn't telling him. So I kind of think she's going to do one of these things where she's withholding information, where she may know more than what she's allowing him to know, and that might be due in her mind to his benefit. So I don't think she's a bad character or anything like that, but I do think she knows some things maybe that he doesn't know that we'll probably find out later about, you know, as the series, you know, goes on and continues and, uh, things like that. Um, she also had a, um, a spouse, I believe, or a boyfriend, and his name in the show is Griffin Monroe. And he just has these suspicious looks, uh, all throughout the show. And you know what I'm guessing about this particular character, Griffin Monroe, is that, uh, well, two things came to mind. One was that maybe, you know, it was kind of like a normal reaction. You know, if you got a wife and she's inviting, um, you know, people, um, famous, uh, famous people to your out because he's, you know, uh, the, the ideas— he's supposed to be H.G. Wells, you know, great-great-grandson or some relative, um, you know, of H.G. Wells, some descendant. And so, uh, you know, he would— you know, he's being suspicious because like, why wouldn't you tell me about that if I'm your husband or your boyfriend or something like that? And then you got him living in the house, but you wouldn't— you know, you didn't think that was before to let me know. So it would be some— I think it would be some natural suspicion around that, like, who is this guy and why didn't you tell me? You know, maybe I just came home and caught you with a lover in the house, I don't know. Um, but so his suspicion at first, to me, it was like, okay, well, he's just trying to, you know, he's just somebody moving in and out, trying to figure out who the guy was. But then, you know, we kind of get these focused scenes on him where now I'm starting to think that Gryffindor perhaps knows, you know, um, more about H.G. Wells than, you know, the show's let on, you know, thus far. Uh, you know, so the show just goes on, you know, basically with, uh, H.G. Wells trying to catch, uh, Jack the Ripper. And Jack the Ripper is just, you know, he's doing what he would be doing back in Victorian England, and that's murdering people, you know. And, uh, you know, he wants the key You know, because as we understood in the show, the key is what keeps the time machine from going back to its original starting point in time. So without that key, it's going to always go back, and Jack the Ripper is not going to be able to, you know, uh, uh, you know, you know, keep either— get the key to keep them— him from being taken back to the time, or use it for whatever he wants to use it for. But anyway, it's just this, uh, all through the episode, it's just this, um this, uh, race to, to, uh, get the key. And of course Jack the Ripper's using leverage by killing people to try to get this key that controls the time machine. So, you know, guys, I, I— it was— it held my attention, you know, the show held my attention. We, you know, start to get this mysterious, mysterious guy, uh, who's, um, he's following H.G. Wells. He doesn't let on he's following H.G. Wells. Um, but you know, you know, we know that's what's going on. And then we get him in this room where he's going through all these details about H.G. Wells. And I, I'm gonna have some theories about what that might be about, you know, how they introduced him to the show and, uh, things like that. And, uh, we also had H.G. Wells writing himself this letter, uh, supposedly from Vanessa Anders, uh conversation with him. And that letter had to do with— it was a letter for him to believe what Vanessa Andrews was doing, but there was also this coded, um, uh, symbol of some sort. And, um, it basically, um, you know, it means something that he doesn't even know what it means. So why he would write something to himself, uh, to his past self from the future, and he— and not understand it, uh, is covered, but I'm, I'm gonna, you know, you know, do a couple of theories on that and, and, um, just get my overall view of the show. So, um, the thing is too, um, I, I think that, I think that it's looking like to me that, and this does make a lot of sense to me, that time travel it would be more people having access to time travel than H.G. Wells because the technology would be out there now, you know. So he dies, he passes away, uh, it's very likely somebody else or some other group or something that has time travel and they're time traveling around just as, um, H.G. Wells is, um Another thing I was thinking was that with this show, um, it's based on this movie, but, uh, Time After Time, 1979. But I was thinking like, that was just one movie. Like, how are they gonna make this basically a, you know, weekly TV show? It's like, that's gonna be kind of, you know, crazy to do. I was trying to figure out how they were going to do that, but now I kind of see how they're going to do it. And I've also heard heard some online information about, um, H.G. Wells, um, basically some of the other novels he's written in the books, that they're going to kind of touch on that with some of the other episodes. Because remember, again, this is kind of like a prequel to The Time Machine. He, in this version, he hasn't wrote it yet. And there's actually this scene where he's looking at books he's written, he's thinking about reading them, but if he reads them, he can mess up the timeline, right? So he doesn't read them But some of the information I'm getting online is that he is going to be— the show is going to go in the direction of some of those other shows, things. So instead of it just being based on this movie about him chasing Jack the Ripper through time, it's going to be other things going on. And I think Jack's going to be kind of a character that he's trying to catch, or he may catch him at some point, get him back to Victorian England. But then there's going to be another storyline going on. And some of my theories and speculations is that that guy that's walking around, he's part of some type of time travel division that's monitoring time travel, or he may be a descendant of someone who's trying to either stop H.G. Wells or work alongside with him. I think Griffin Monroe, he's going to actually have information on that as well about this time travel thing and I think he may even be involved with it to some degree. Um, and, uh, um, yeah, I mean, that's pretty much what I, you know, what I thought. My overall view of the show is that, uh, it's a, it's a fair show, it's an entertaining show. Um, you know, I wish they'd work on the acting a little bit. I, I feel these characters are miscast. Uh, I think Freddie, Freddie Stroma With a little bit of tweaking, he could do a better job as H.G. Wells because I was looking for him to be awkward anyway, you know, a Victorian Englishman, you know. I look for him to be kind of bumbling around, but I didn't like the museum curator, Jane Walker. I didn't like her, you know, how they bounce off each other. It's kind of weird to me. I don't, you know, I don't know if I like that storyline. And You know, basically, I don't know, that was pretty much my thoughts, guys. Uh, you know, like I said before, uh, these time travel shows, anytime ABC and NBC do them, um, like the other one Timeless, uh, I don't know, I just don't, uh, I don't, I don't, you know, I don't like how they do these shows. And the kind of shows they are good at that might help this show out, they're kind of good at, you know, doing these shows where every week, you know, you got to catch the bad guy, like these pop type shows and these, uh, Catch Me If You Can type shows. And we got a lot of that going on, you know, with this show. And so I think they're gonna do well. But in science fiction shows, to me, they just really don't do a good job. It's holding my attention so far. I don't think it's a great show. I will be interested in seeing him get more information about who he, you know, um, about what that, what that symbol is he's written about. And like I said, I already kind of feel like it's, it's going to be something to do with another division of time travelers and things like that. But, um, anyway guys, be sure to post your comments. Let me know how you like the show, um, and how do you think the upcoming episodes are going to be, uh, if you're going to be on board and to watch them more. And if you like content like this, don't forget to like and subscribe. And until next time, guys, take care.