Miche Marche

As a history buff, give me a show or movie using a time machine to go back to the past any day. After all, Timeline is one of my favourite movies (um hello, Gerard Butler! but the book was meh). Add conspiracy theories to the mix and I’m down. But I’m not done yet. The cast is pretty solid too. Goran Visnjic and Abigail Spencer have pretty spectacular resumes (or rather IMDB profiles), and Matt Lanter is working his way up since 90210 concluded. All that to say I was excited to watch the pilot.

The first 15-20 minutes were excruciating. It was far too rushed. Not enough, if any, background information. Next to no character development. But after those first few minutes, I temporarily forgot my disappointment. The rest of the episode was just fantastic. By the end I was excited to know more about the terrorist, the rest of the characters, and their next destinations.

Considering I would love more character development, plot development, history on the time they are visiting, and an additional challenge to overcome, I could see this as a movie. This 45-minute TV show could actually be stretched into a 90 to 120-minute movie. Not a great movie but a decent one and we all know I would watch it.

I’m going to continue to watch it for now, another two episodes at least. I hope we can get more out of the main characters. It’s hard to get invested when you are not connected to a character.