![]() Made me chuckle anyway.Īs we get towards the end, Shiv goes to see George. Yes it's a bit on the nose, but I enjoyed "maybe, just maybe, a woman can have some meaning in her life that doesn't revolve around who she's in a relationship with". For me, George was as close to a bad-guy as we get I think, which is good that the protagonist isn't someone you automatically root for.Īs has already been mentioned: "Oooh George, I hope you're already running" was sublime.Īfter George got dumped (shouldn't mess with time George!) and he's moping in the pub, I particularly liked Archie's speech. It stretched credulity a bit that they would all believe him when he framed Shiv, even though he was the one with the motive to go back to the checkpoint. But I did get a bit annoyed with how easily he was able to dispatch the 'token baddies' with the bomb and even more so how he could take out the entire security team of the Russian Ambassador. His arc in the middle was the only point I thought sagged, not so much in what he was doing, because I guess I could understand his frustration and sense of loss. His whole arc is driven by selfishness, even though he's had it spelt out clearly why he can't do the things he does. ![]() George I'm not so enamoured by, in fact I agree with Shiv that he is a F**king Dickhead. Shiv was by far and away my favourite character in this. You can also see that this man who has lived a couple of lifetimes worth of resets by this point is haunted by it and I took him to be absolutely devoted to the task. Trying to fix it by stopping the fire still ends up with an unintended consequence, hence why he is so clear with Archie later on that it's the earliest and smallest change you can make that makes the real difference. Also seems to be a nice way of telling the audience that everything has consequences, so doing something selfish (ie betting on the horses) ends up with his uncle's family dying (good call buying a SNES though). Nice use of his notes and deductions to work out what's going on, and making it clear that he has to remember everything as nothing survives the reset. Shiv's story in Episode 4 isn't as grim as Janet's, but it seems to me to be a good way of explaining why he's like he is. For some reason I love Tom Burke's accent in this, it's nice to have a British series where they aren't all plummy Rada types (even though they could be in real life for all I know). The moment we realised that Janet was going to have to keep giving birth to her daughter again and again was horrifying, and from that point on I stopped seeing Rebrov as the bad guy and understood why he wants to tear it all down. Her through-line with Ross serves as a good primer for how it works, but at that point you haven't really understood the fallout from continually trying and failing.Īnd then Episode 3 comes along, which is simultaneously one of the most gripping and grim pieces of drama I've seen in a very long time. It really sets up what's going to happen when they explore the consequences.Īrchie is great, I'm very much enjoying her no-shits-given acerbic nature throughout this. Yes there's a bit of hand-wavy "if you're not a Quantum physicist there's no point explaining it" but that's excusable. The setup is brilliant, I don't think I've seen something so simple for a while. ![]() It just seems that the pair of them want Lazarus gone more than they want their daughter to live, and I'm not sure I totally buy that. but then why is his ex-partner so keen to help build a detonator in the present day? If the bomb goes off then they'll just wind time back a few months again, and she doesn't seem to have enjoyed that process much in the past. But shouldn't that mean he now has a vested interest in keeping his daughter alive, and should in theory want to keep the project going? Alternatively, I get that he could have been so traumatized by the loss of his son and the '2018 experience' that he might have gone a bit crazy. ![]() The 'bad' guy (Rebrov) goes completely off the rails at the point he seems to have a reason to keep the Lazarus Project going, doesn't he? Īs in, he went rogue at the point the Irish guy died in Russia and fixed the 2018 problem, meaning his daughter made it past the next checkpoint. I might have missed something, but I'm not sure the character's motives are making sense.
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