'Timeless' Recap: 'The War to End All Wars'

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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Perhaps the best part of writing for the web, is that we here at Nerds That Geek get to interact with passionate fans who love to geek out about their favorite shows and movies and sometimes, those interactions end up paying off in spades for us because we are introduced to wonderful new stories that we haven’t had the chance to check out just yet. Case in point, the NBC series Timeless, which is one that didn’t make it to the top of our radar until this week when a fan (Thank you @affablewarrior on Twitter!) said we simply had to check it out.
 
Granted, this did of course pose quite the conundrum on my end since this show just kicked off its second season a couple of weeks ago. Which meant I either had to start from scratch and binge until my eyes hurt, or just dive right into season two and hope to hell that I didn’t find myself confused since I was likely jumping into the middle of an established storyline and since I enjoy a challenge, I chose the latter option and I’m so glad that I did. Because the season two premiere, ‘The War to End All Wars’, was a magnificent way for me to begin my Timeless experience because this was just a wonderful episode through and through.
 
If anything, this premiere reinforced the fact that a great story will find a way to captivate you regardless of where you begin and what initially pulled me in, is the rich world this series has put together. Because I am a huge science fiction fan, and I love a good time travel story, so to discover that this world is populated with both of those elements was a joy to begin with and the fact that there is a rival faction trying to use time travel to take over the world is a fresh twist to say the least and well, the hardcore geek in me loved the entire journey to World War I and it was equally as amazing to meet Marie Curie and her daughter, and while this alone would have sold me on the series, what truly reinforced the fact that I need to be watching this show, are the characters.
 
Because every single one of them are wonderfully complete characters on the screen and really, what impressed me the most about them is the sheer fact that our heroes are genuinely good people through and through. They are all about protecting the timeline and doing the right thing, and I was thoroughly impressed with just how far they are willing to go to make that happen and that instantly put me in their corner and I also thoroughly enjoyed the complexities that were present in our villains since Rittenhouse isn’t full of mustache twirling baddies, they truly believe in their cause and there are grey areas to be found in what they do, as is evidenced by Lucy’s mother and the conflict swirling within her.
 
So really, when all is said and done, I’m one hundred percent sold on this series. There’s simply no way I can go wrong by settling in to watch a show about a group of down to earth heroes looking to save the timeline from misguided human beings and I love the fact that season two is raising the stakes by revealing that Rittenhouse has planted agents in the timeline because you know these people will be making some serious and dangerous changes to our history as the season rolls on. Which means that I simply have to know how this story is going to end, and I’ll be tuning in from here on out and geeking out here at NTG with the rest of you as we watch Lucy, Wyatt and Rufus work to save our past, present and future. Until next time. 

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