![]() ![]() He’s giving up a lot too, he’s giving up Jessica, and he doesn’t know necessarily if the one he’s sacrificing – though we do have confirmation – was always Rittenhouse. Wyatt, however, is coming at this from a different place, one that nonetheless requires sacrifice as well. Because he’s done so much, and he’s willing to do anything for this cause that was Lucy’s at some point, but that he’s taken for himself: the one of saving the world. He’s just here to watch the world – or Rittenhouse – burn. But that’s hard too, and it takes pieces of you, so Flynn accepts the loss of his family, and despite wearing them as a shield, using them as reasoning, the Flynn we’ve known has always, always operated under the assumption that he isn’t getting a happy ending. The future isn’t fixed, and perhaps there’s a timeline where he could have gotten his family back, despite what Lucy tells him in the end. His true mission was ending Rittenhouse for good.Ĭould he have kept trying? Maybe. ![]() And though we thought Flynn’s mission was revenge, deep down, his true mission was a selfless one. ![]() Flynn has to basically lay down his life – not for Rufus, per se, but because after spending some time in the bunker he’s drank the kool aid and become convinced that without Rufus, they can’t save the world. Saving Rufus is not as simple as getting on the time machine and stopping Emma from shooting. Let’s not underestimate what has to happen for Rufus to come back. Lucy and Wyatt might love each other, Jiya and Lucy might have started to develop a close friendship, and Wyatt clearly sees Agent Christopher as some sort of mother figure, but the one thing they all have in common, the one person they all love, the one they would all make sacrifices for, is Rufus. Everyone’s important, like Lucy said, and the heart of this show has always, always been Rufus Carlin. The answer this show has given us from the beginning has always been yes. And on that timeline, five years had passed and they were still chasing Rittenhouse, all because they’d lost Rufus, which, had led them to losing hope, and possibly losing each other.Ĭan one person be important enough that their absence would change the world, you ask? The answer is yes. So let’s get into “The Miracle of Christmas Part 1 and 2” as we discuss the closed time loop, fate versus destiny, the character growth and, of course, the happy and not so happy “endings.” THE DARKEST TIMELINE SourceĪs we always expected, Tomb Raider Lucy and Hot Youth Pastor Wyatt came from the darkest timeline, one without Rufus. ![]() And I believe this world we live in deserves more Timeless, needs more Timeless, and I believe one way or another, we’ll find a way to get that.īut I am, however, celebrating the end of an era, celebrating the characters that we fell in love with, the ones that surprised us, and the journeys they went through, as well as celebrating a writing team that didn’t do everything perfectly throughout two seasons, but that gave us real people trying to navigate impossible situations the best way they knew how, and gave us a Christmas movie I’ll be re-watching for years to come, that’s how jolly it made me. Because if this show has taught me anything, it’s that we should never lose hope, not just in things, but in each other. So, even though these two hours of TV filled my heart to the brim, even though they made me laugh and they made me cry, even though this show has changed me, and introduced me to wonderful people I likely would have never met otherwise, and even though this is as close to perfection as it gets …I will never think it is enough. Good TV never leaves you satisfied, as I said in my advance review it always leaves you wanting more. The answer to that question is of course, more of the same. And yet, isn’t this the perfect ending, in a way? What else more could we ask for? But then again, it was always going to be. Writing these words is a little bittersweet for me I’m not going to lie. ![]()
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