I don't know why I'm watching all these movies and TV series about time travel !
They all full of stupidity, logic flaws... and yet, I'm still watching.
TIMELESS people set some rules and as I read somewhere they wanted to make it simple but they made waaaay more complicated.
Rule #1 "you can never travel back to a period that you've already been"
Rule #2 "there is only one time line, no alternates"
Rule #3 "you can't go back to a time again and again to fix something"
When there is only one time line, and you can't go back where you have already been, in other words rule 1 and 2 combined, creates the rule #3
However, Lucy comes back today after the first episode with the memory of her sister Amy and her mother has no memory of Amy, because she never existed. Lucy has no memory of her new life but everybody else has a memory of Lucy !!! She's even engaged in this new changed time line.
Starting with the first episode, producers, writers... whoever is in this, messed up big time.
Who comes up with these ideas, I wonder, and of course, there are other people in the equation, who approve the idea and/or say nothing and also how much money he/she is getting paid to write these crap ?
There is no easy fix for Amy, having these stupid rules and I bet at some point they will come up some nonsense story or another rule, or they will use the Amy story till the show cancelled, to keep Lucy in story.
Wyatt's problem is much better comparing to Lucy's; because of the stupid rules, he can't go back and fix his wife's death simply, so last night, he had to go back further and tried to prevent the killer's parents to have sex on a particular day ! Wow... that's a freaking long shot !
First of all, how can you be sure not having sex on a particular day solves the problem ?
They may do it on the next day, or the next. Unless, you eliminate one of them and make it certain which Wyatt did, unintentionally, and as we all expect couldn't prevent his girl friend from dying anyways. So, it was all for nothing ! He didn't learn in the 13 stories, changing time has consequences and it's not that easy to fix something.
If this is one case, it would be fine but every freaking movie or story, our hero guy is soooo smart, skilled and at the same time soooo idiot ! Why ?
But, of course, all these time travel stories have a bunch of things in common like, you can't show yourself to your younger self, which will cause a "paradox". And there is this; you can't go back to the same time again and again. Why the hell ?
As a matter of fact, I'm certain that you can't go back in time, period !
It seems possible to go to the future, but there is not much fun in that, so the stories usually about going back, which is more exciting and interesting.
We all know the problem of "what if you go back in time and kill your father or grandfather, you will never exist". In some movies, such as "Back To The Future", there is a picture, or a piece of newspaper, proves that time changed or not, depending on whatever they are doing in the past. Or even, the person starts to fade like Marty McFly, while playing guitar.
This is the biggest BS part of all stories; nothing can disappear like Marty or nothing can change like a picture from the future. Or like Lucy, she has a completely different memory of her life then everybody else in her life. It doesn't make any sense at all.
Anyway, it's a nice fantasy and can be funny, interesting... since writers are out of new ideas, I think we have to live with the similar stories and lots of nonsense.
There are millions of questions can be asked and can't be answered.
I will watch without questioning, for the sake of fun but please write something smarter, make characters smarter...
K.A.
