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Season 3 Episode 6.... holy buckets! Twice in a Lifetime.

posted 2 years ago by wrecche (631)
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THAT was a real journey. I am impressed by Seth's work in this one. Even seeing Isaac in human form, yet still act and talk as usual was great.

Reminded me of Stargate Continuum, where they were told time had changed, but they refused to set it back, because the reality they had was all they'd known.... and to lose everything - they said no. And sent SG1 into different areas, telling them no communication...

Except here, it was not an option. Really felt for Gordon... To lose so much, yet never know he ever had it.

Damn.... Great episode in my opinion. I can almost do without the humour with episodes like this, but I am a sucker for Time Travel stories...

[–] TylerAArse (2660) 2 years ago

I agree. This was a great episode. Actually, the last 3 episodes have been phenomenal.

Malloy agreeing with with Ed and Kelly's point of view was something I didn't see coming. I thought he'd be pissed that they took his family away, but since they went back and nabbed him before he found Laura, what is there to really miss.

[–] Zinger (2166) 2 years ago

One of the best Star Trek episodes I've seen in a long time. A real ethical dilemma. Similar to Tuvix.

Part of me wondered if they might cop out and give the audience a happy ending by suggesting the other reality with Gordon's sons still existed... but they didn't.

If only Star Trek could make episodes like this. Instead it's just horseshit.

It was excellent.

[–] UncleRuckis (2552) 2 years ago

Well they accidentally left it open story wise. Originally, Malloy sent the message after 6 months of being stranded, but they picked him up after he was there for 1 month, which means they created a paradox. I'm hoping that other timeline still exist.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5983) 2 years ago

Very interesting point.

[–] Alex (1478) 2 years ago

When Malloy was hit by the temporal wave it looked like he splintered into several versions, which could explain some alternate timelines?

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

I'm hoping there will be an episode set 3 months from this episode and the sandwich appears.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

And I got my wish.

I was way happier than I should have been I think, you could say I marked out, over a sandwich yes a sandwich.

[–] [deleted] 2 years ago

"If only Star Trek could make episodes like this. Instead it's just horseshit."

If only Kurtzman Star Trek could make episodes like this. Instead it's just horseshit.

There, fixed it for you.

[–] bond998 (1206) 2 years ago

You really going bring up the Episode where Janeway Straight up Murder someone and ignores there Human Rights because his existence was inconvenient to her personally. This is reason Picard was the Better Captain. Mercer could have resolve the situations without making himself look like a complete dick.

[–] Satan2016 (23462) 2 years ago

Jim, Edith Keeler must die.

[–] Jes' Sayin' (5983) 2 years ago

Indeed.

I think rather than start a new thread for each episode it's now better to work in the same thread. The site only supports one page full of threads now, so starting new ones throws away earlier ones.

[–] TandyMan (10393) 2 years ago

The lighting and cinematography was especially gorgeous in this ep. They got a great crew working on this show.

[–] Kazak (2007) 2 years ago

Guessing we haven’t seen the last of Gordon and family…

[–] muppolle (5) 2 years ago

Unfortunatenly, this episode suffered from not addressing the ridiculuously big plot hole. How on Earth did Gordon end up on Earth? So we are to believe, for no reason and not even mentioned in the episode, that when the time travel event happened, he was also safely teleported to Earth instead of ending up in empty space. It was enough make-believe to have time travel logic that made him go to a place in time he was thinking of recently or whatever lame excuse they had, but to also teleport him?

[–] wrecche (631) 2 years ago

They did mention it, in the episode. He was fixated on a point in space/time. Where the lady he later married was. An unconscious quirk, in how time travel worked, as it had done so before. Did you watch and notice the episode??

[–] muppolle (5) 2 years ago

Listen to your to words: "How time travel worked." Teleporting is not time travel, it's teleporting. Yeah, it was said once without explanation. So we are to believe that, based on some photo on a phone, he could think of an exact location in the space-time continuum, to make him teleport to a safe location landing on his feet instead of ending somewhere in space or 100 meters above or below ground. It's ridiculously unrealistic. Worst MacGuffin I've seen.

[–] Meushell (13) 2 years ago

The Earth orbits the sun which orbits the Milky Way. The Milky Way and Andromeda orbit each other.

Basically, every time travel plot anywhere involves teleportation. Otherwise, people would indeed end up im the middle of space.

The end of season 2 also involved multiple time travels with the same method, so what happened to Gordon has already been established.

[–] muppolle (5) 2 years ago

But it's one thing if you time travel with a machine that calculates the point in space-time to make the person end up in the "same" location. That requires the exact space coordinates of the location you are travelling from, and then a computer can pretty easily calculate what coordinates that would be in the time you are traveling to. In this case, Gordon didn't want to travel from the coordinates he was currently at (out in space). And he also didn't know the exact coordinates of the place he wanted to travel to, neither in his time or the past time. All he had was a photo. How did the time travel event "know" which space coordinates to send him to?

So no, that excuse doesn't fly. I don't remember exactly how the time travel worked in the season 2 ending, but if it worked the same way it was also wrong.

[–] Marty1968 (296) 2 years ago

There was much hypocrisy in this time travel episode with Mercer and Grayson seeing as the last episode of season2 was also a time travel episode and it was changed to favor them and The Union (even if they din’t remember it)
Like many have said hopefully we will se Family Malloy again