Timeless
The end of the first episode was a bit sad. Fuck around with history, and history will fuck around with you.
I can’t help feeling like everything on TV now has already been done. Ray Bradbury explored the concept of unintended consequences by going back in time to change things in “A Sound of Thunder” which was the motivation behind the series of movies called “The Butterfly Effect.”
I am also watching “West World” - the movie scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Yule Brynner never played a part where he wasn’t creepy as hell, right down to those anti-smoking commercials he did as he was dying from lung cancer.
But now it is a series. It is a weird combination of Jurassic Park meets Groundhog Day. Told a lot from the point of view of the “hosts” - the robots that populate West World. They don’t know they are robots because of the owners desire to continuously make them more human.
Rachel Even Wood plays one of the “hosts.” Every day the hosts are reset, so this scene shows up in the transitions:
The scene is alternately sexy and sad, because every day starts the same and she obviously has no concept of what has happened in the previous scene.
The problem is the “hosts” are becoming sentient. Where have we heard that before?
It is not unusual the show reminds me of Jurassic Park. Michael Crichton wrote both. An amusement park that gets out of control because the genius creator messed with things he shouldn’t have.
Sad Crichton passed away so young - just 66. He was a genius himself. From the Andromeda Strain, the Terminal Man, Eaters of the Dead, Congo, Sphere, Jurassic Park, Rising Sun. Prey. Airframe was a particularly scary read. All of his fiction was so intelligent you could fall into that world.
Funny how I start talking about Timeless and end up talking about Michael Crichton.
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