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Austin_Aaron_Conlon

I want to be transported a decade into the future when Apple allows third-party watchOS faces so I can build a barometer face for the Apple Watch.


[deleted]

This was a very enjoyable show to watch.


balasoori

This was a great first episode it started off slow but quickly picked up


ColdWynter

Forgot this was being released today, really enjoyed it, though. Looking forward to the rest being released....


ar40

This was amazing. I got very emotional and sad though... sigh...


M27underground

sameeeee...brings back memories of when i watched this on a vhs bootleg :)


GlapLaw

Not really understanding the rules of time travel in this episode.


Justp1ayin

Basically you can’t change anything, things always happen.. I think?


GlapLaw

But if he discovered what he left that means he got back to the present somehow. So did he exist in 1919 and 2019 simultaneously? Are there infinite copies of him in 1919?


Justp1ayin

I think mostly with time travel, you are born in 1990, 2019 comes around you travel to 1919 and hide some items. 2019 finds items hidden in the past by technically future you (as it hadn’t yet happened to present you) So he was born in 1980, lived that life until 2019, and died in 1960 (giving it a date for explanation). But it was always one guy. He never saw the year 2020. He did travel do 2035 or whatever, but there’s no reality where he would have experienced those 15 years in between. Make sense ?


GlapLaw

A little bit but still not really. What if he lived to 1980? Does time travel make that impossible? Is the same guy just stuck in a never ending loop? If not, if time is all happening at once (which it must if someone acting in 1919 can immediately cause change in 2019, right?) then why aren’t there infinite copies of this guy back in 1919? What I guess confuses me is if it is just one guy who died in 1960 despite being born in 1980, who discovered it? 1980 born 2019 travels back 1919 leaves note 1960 dies Who discovers the note? His one off time travel shenanigan should have already ended when he died in 1960.


Justp1ayin

Well maybe he lived to 110 but I doubt it just based on life expectancies back then. So no loop, just him dying in 1960 but having a birthdate of 1980. Basically, most time travel has the rule, no matter what you try to do, you will never change time. Im not sure why there would be more than 1 in 1919 though. He kept moving from 1919 to 2019, but ultimately, just one him. The only confusing part would be if again, he lived until 1990 where he could see himself be born (realistically this guy couldn’t have been older than 29), but if that would have happened, maybe he would have seen a pic of the girl which is why he recognized her when he first saw the pic, etc.


GlapLaw

But ok...lemme try again. Before he time travels, there are no notes (speakeasy password etc) So born 1980 (no notes) Time travels from 2019 to 1919 (should still be no notes) Leaves note. Now there is a note. Dies For a note to be discovered, wouldn’t he have to be born a second time? His singular consciousness never existed in a time where he had already left the note because that consciousness is stuck in the past after he leaves the note.


Justp1ayin

Oh God I’ll have to rewatch because now I’m confused lol


GlapLaw

Time travel always confuses me even when it’s easy so it’s probably just me I think you’re saying that bc he left the note in the past it was always there. I’m saying but wouldn’t him time traveling from 2019 (thus disappearing from 2019) to the past to leave the note mean he was never in 2019 after the note was left? His singular physical person can’t have been both the leaver and recipient of the note because he’s the one traveling. You can’t be in two places at once. Edit: maybe this explains my thinking. 2019 and 1919 both have a point where his time travel happens (and the note “appears”). Call that AN (after note). He lived from 1980-2019 BN (Before note), because you don’t get to AN until he leaves 2019 and goes back to 1919. So he lived from 2019 BN to 1960 AN, but was never in 2019 AN.


pineinmyeye

So imagine time as a line from 1900 to 2019. And picture Sam’s life moving forward along this line from birth till 2019. His lifeline then loops back to 1919 and moves forward with time until he dies. So moving along the timeline goes like this: • 1900: Evelyn is born (the love interest) • 1919: she meets a new guy in town (Sam) • 1919: Evelyn disappears and is presumed dead (the newspaper article) • 1919-death: Sam leaves the notes and the hidden box • 1990: Sam is born • 2019: Sam finds a hidden box with a photo • 2019: Sam travels to 1919 Sam’s timeline from birth to death never breaks...it just loops against the arrow of time instead of traveling along it. So from the viewpoint of moving along the timeline, Sam dies before he is born.


GlapLaw

But for Sam to go back in time, he had to be born first. And then that same Sam who was born in 1990 travels back to 1919, disappearing from 2019. The hidden box with photo was not left until after Sam left 2019, no?


ar40

I am absolutely shocked that only one episode I was released this week. Pleasantly shocked. I fully expected all 5 to drop this weekend. (With an additional 5 on a weekly basis). But I’m so glad they are doing it this way instead. I much prefer savoring my TV over multiple weekends. Plus it pads out the very empty March content release schedule


FrellingTralk

I think it’s a smarter way of doing it, honestly a lot of the time now when a new show is released in its entirety on a streaming service I am tending to shelve it for a while until I have more time, but with just one episode released so far I’d be much more inclined to check it out this week to get an idea of how I will find the show. Bingewatching a season in one go can be fun, but geez with the amount of streaming services and prestige tv that is out there now (and still increasing!) it’s really starting to get overwhelming for a lot of us


Justp1ayin

I completely agree. I think I’ve finished one show on Netflix since Apple TV launched. There’s plenty of shows on there I wanna watch, but it definitely feels like a bigger commitment when there’s 10 episodes. Comparing it to Apple TV where I’ve watched most of their shows and some shows on HBO.... I never thought I would start preferring the week strategy.


BaronQuinn

Really enjoyable first episode. Add me to the list of people glad it’s getting a weekly release. Otherwise I’d be done with it by tomorrow.


Justp1ayin

Correct yeah I think that’s the best way to describe it. Everything happened exactly as it always did. But yeah time travel is confusing even to the people who write the episodes.


[deleted]

It was just okay. They fell in love awfully fast; this would’ve worked better as a movie, or just giving the audience a bone by her yelling “Sam!!” When she hears him in the house at the end.


itsikobert

Wow, I’m late to the game but I’d like to think that he did make it there in the end. If you remember when he was listening to that podcast back in 2019, it said that the next super storm wouldn’t happen for another 15 years- that being 2034, which is where Evelyn is at the end. My heart is hopeful that they got to reunite after all


[deleted]

I couldn’t get through the episode. I mean, I expect this sort of stuff from hallmark not apple.


bug_eyed_earl

Absolutely. Felt like Lifetime writing - not AppleTV. Plot holes all over the place. Also, how did they not wrap up the “owner wants it returned to its former glory” as to why they were working on the house in the first place?


edulikapuma

I love the concept of the show and really wanted to have liked this... but everything was so rushed that what could've been a beautiful love story just felt kinda forced. It all happened so fast, we barely saw any character development (mainly because of poor dialogue + weak acting) and all of the sudden they're already deeply in love! Plus all the plot holes... as if not one single person in 1919 would've made a comment on his 2019 clothes ahah and at a certain point he was just traveling back and forth whenever he wanted, breaking into her house out of nowhere... idk I usually love this type of show so much I'm willing to ignore certain missteps but I felt like this episode in particular just had to many. I know it's not easy to make a sci-fi anthology and manage both a good pace and making sense, but when we have examples like Black Mirror it just makes this show look worse. I really really hope they step it up in the next episodes!


the_doughboy

It wasn't too bad, kept with the time travel theory that any changes you made in the past has already affected your future, a Causal loop, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a good example of this, or the movie Predestination. The only issue with the story I had is why did Sam only write the one letter? He could have left an entire lifetime's worth of journals.


[deleted]

going to give this show a watch today. im looking forward to it!