Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 21:11     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've started to loose interest. For a show based on history, they're starting to pull things out of their asses.

Last episode the main character was talking about how Catholicism was outlawed in that part of Germany during the middle ages so they escape by the priest hole. I don't think Catholicism was ever outlawed in Germany until the Nazis in any case. Priest holes were common in British castles not German ones.

I don't think this show is going to last one season.


Germany was riven by the Catholic-Protestant religious wars of the 1500s as well, and you can just Google to find pictures of so-called priest holes in Germany.


I'm sure they exist in Germany; just that they were much more common in England b/c Catholicism was actually outlawed there at one time and it wasn't in Germany. Conflicts existed, but not actually outlawed.


find one b/c they all show up in the UK...

Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 21:08     Subject: Timeless
I like it and DH likes it too. It's fun, lots of period details, raises interesting observations about being black in other eras (sometimes with humor).

Yes, there was racism and segregation in the North / NJ in the 30s.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 20:52     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I've started to loose interest. For a show based on history, they're starting to pull things out of their asses.

Last episode the main character was talking about how Catholicism was outlawed in that part of Germany during the middle ages so they escape by the priest hole. I don't think Catholicism was ever outlawed in Germany until the Nazis in any case. Priest holes were common in British castles not German ones.

I don't think this show is going to last one season.


Germany was riven by the Catholic-Protestant religious wars of the 1500s as well, and you can just Google to find pictures of so-called priest holes in Germany.


I'm sure they exist in Germany; just that they were much more common in England b/c Catholicism was actually outlawed there at one time and it wasn't in Germany. Conflicts existed, but not actually outlawed.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 20:47     Subject: Timeless
I didn't even make it through the first episode. Too contrived, too lightweight. Yawn.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 20:41     Subject: Timeless
I love this show. I revert to my seventh grade self when watching this show because it reminds me of Quantum Leap.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 16:44     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:I've started to loose interest. For a show based on history, they're starting to pull things out of their asses.

Last episode the main character was talking about how Catholicism was outlawed in that part of Germany during the middle ages so they escape by the priest hole. I don't think Catholicism was ever outlawed in Germany until the Nazis in any case. Priest holes were common in British castles not German ones.

I don't think this show is going to last one season.


I hope you're wrong - I am really enjoying it.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 16:44     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. I had a problem with some of the "facts" in the first episode. I know there was racism in NJ in the 1930s, but I don't think the busses were segregated like they were in the South. Were they?


NJ schools segregated and continue to be so:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/05/15/the-most-segregated-schools-may-not-be-in-the-states-youd-expect-2/



I wasn't asking about schools, just busses. The show didn't make any representations about busses.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 16:44     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. I had a problem with some of the "facts" in the first episode. I know there was racism in NJ in the 1930s, but I don't think the busses were segregated like they were in the South. Were they?



They weren't (I think the stories are that if you were on a long-distance bus, you would have to move to the back of the bus when you went south or risk retribution) but I think the character was just playing to what he knew - there was nothing in the episode that I recalled that seemed to indicate that he would have to sit in the back of the bus, just that he felt that was the safer alternative, given the timeline.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 16:39     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:I've started to loose interest. For a show based on history, they're starting to pull things out of their asses.

Last episode the main character was talking about how Catholicism was outlawed in that part of Germany during the middle ages so they escape by the priest hole. I don't think Catholicism was ever outlawed in Germany until the Nazis in any case. Priest holes were common in British castles not German ones.

I don't think this show is going to last one season.


Germany was riven by the Catholic-Protestant religious wars of the 1500s as well, and you can just Google to find pictures of so-called priest holes in Germany.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 16:07     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. I had a problem with some of the "facts" in the first episode. I know there was racism in NJ in the 1930s, but I don't think the busses were segregated like they were in the South. Were they?


NJ schools segregated and continue to be so:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/05/15/the-most-segregated-schools-may-not-be-in-the-states-youd-expect-2/

Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:24     Subject: Re:Timeless
Anonymous wrote:I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. I had a problem with some of the "facts" in the first episode. I know there was racism in NJ in the 1930s, but I don't think the busses were segregated like they were in the South. Were they?


yes, and in the 1980s of all decades, you could go into a doctor's waiting room in Georgia (small towns, not cities like Atlanta or Athens) and find a room of white folks and a room of black folks, each waiting for their doctors, but separately.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:22     Subject: Re:Timeless
I haven't watched it in a couple of weeks. I had a problem with some of the "facts" in the first episode. I know there was racism in NJ in the 1930s, but I don't think the busses were segregated like they were in the South. Were they?
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 12:05     Subject: Re:Timeless
I've started to loose interest. For a show based on history, they're starting to pull things out of their asses.

Last episode the main character was talking about how Catholicism was outlawed in that part of Germany during the middle ages so they escape by the priest hole. I don't think Catholicism was ever outlawed in Germany until the Nazis in any case. Priest holes were common in British castles not German ones.

I don't think this show is going to last one season.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 08:11     Subject: Timeless
I watched the first few episodes last weekend. The story was bad and didn't resolve paradoxes well, but it was fun.
Anonymous
Post 10/26/2016 08:07     Subject: Timeless
anyone else watching this show?

It has Goran Visnijic as a bad / maybe good guy in it. I can't stop staring at his new facelift.

otherwise its okay.