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Has anyone actually seen the Spanish show?


Everyone seems to be harping on how this is a rip-off of that Spanish show on which this was plagiarized. But I honestly never heard of the show at all and I doubt most people have seen it either so why is it such a big deal to keep obsessing over a show no-one has really watched in the first place?

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I've seen it. And it's a complete rip-off. And yeah my name is Carlos but I'm from Ireland-Portugal and don't even speak Spanish so that's not why I've seen it.

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The only thing that seems to match so far is the three people team and that's it. Spanish show was a typical episodic time travel show where nothing was really changed in the timeline and each episode ended neatly with the team solving the problem. This seems to have some overarching mystery to it and it will probably involve them changing the past quite a bit.

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The time-cops-protect-history-from-being-changed trope has been part of science fiction for decades. What's original about the Spanish show?

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Voyagers with Jon-Erik Hexum did it back in the early eighties. And that was a kid's show.

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I watched some episodes of the Spanish show since I'm from Spain and it is a popular show, even though it doesn't have strong ratings but a big fanbase.

Timeless seem to have some ideas inspired by the Spanish show as well as many other timetravel shows. I wouldn't say it's a rip-off, but there are some things in common.

Besides the team of three people (2 men and 1 woman) and some bad guys trying to change the past, the storyline about Wyatt's wife is similar to Julian's wife. I can't think of anything else in common right now.

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The lawsuit is for breach of contract.

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No. (That was the Spanish "No", not the English "No")

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What show?

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"Seven Days"
"Time Cop", (and its film)
"Time Trex"

All before the Spanish series and 'Timeless' ever were conceived into existence.

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