The Umbrella Academy
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My wife and I really liked it- looking forward to seeing the next season.
Quite agree- there were a number of times thins went horribly wrong because he did not reveal what he knew until it was too late.
I am really impressed by Ellen Page/Vanya. At first I thought she was just an actress having trouble displaying emotion and then that turned out to be a significant plot point. When she was no longer medicated you saw her overwhelmed by the emotions she had no experience controlling. That I think went far to causing the white violin incident
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Has it been confirmed we are getting a second season?
I was talking to a friend who just finished it, and we were debating back and forth about stuff and I thought up this question
We saw five travel forward into time
But can he travel backwards? We see him try to return home when he appears in 2019, but he can’t
Can he not travel back because he went too far into the future? Or because he can’t travel back at all?
And that’s why he needed to become a agent and wait until he had the right time gap (Kennedy assassination) to jump forward again, bringing him to the present time with the hero’s?
I was talking to a friend who just finished it, and we were debating back and forth about stuff and I thought up this question
We saw five travel forward into time
But can he travel backwards? We see him try to return home when he appears in 2019, but he can’t
Can he not travel back because he went too far into the future? Or because he can’t travel back at all?
And that’s why he needed to become a agent and wait until he had the right time gap (Kennedy assassination) to jump forward again, bringing him to the present time with the hero’s?
I haven't heard anything about a season 2 but fingers crossed.
It looked like 5 was going further into the future or maybe the past too when he figured out he had the power to do it. It looked like it was at least longer than a year during the montage.
His calculations aren't really explained so maybe he had to wait until the right moment in time to do it. I dunno?
It looked like 5 was going further into the future or maybe the past too when he figured out he had the power to do it. It looked like it was at least longer than a year during the montage.
His calculations aren't really explained so maybe he had to wait until the right moment in time to do it. I dunno?
Strikerkc
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Saw it. I liked everything but the plot of the "season" (general world and story SET up, was enjoyable though).
Came off as more predictable than i cared for, and it got on a number of my pet preves in tv and movies. For those that aren't bothered by the same things as me, I'm sure it will cement itself as a benchmark of entertainment in the nerd world we all live in.
Came off as more predictable than i cared for, and it got on a number of my pet preves in tv and movies. For those that aren't bothered by the same things as me, I'm sure it will cement itself as a benchmark of entertainment in the nerd world we all live in.
When old five was going to take out Kennedy I didn’t see the time machine suitcase anywhere around. I wonder if he was the only agent that didn’t need the time machine
Then again if he didn’t and could jump all over time why didn’t he do that when he was stuck in the future
I was wondering all this because at the end when he’s with the gang they are going to go back in time and it looks like he’s struggling
Is he struggling because it’s a large group he’s bringing back (I know he said he’s never transported people with him) or is he struggling because he’s never attempted to go back in time successfully
Either way I’m wicked hooked on this show
The fact they regressed into children before the time jump is interesting
I wouldn’t mind if it had the opposite effect on five. And give was back to his 60yr old grumpy self
Strikerkc
Sr Member
I'm pretty sure the regressing was shown before the jump just to get across to anyone watching that they're going back to their kids bodies after the jump, and not going back as adults to work along side themselves as kids. more of a clear statement to the audience, than any kind of actual comment on how time travel works in their world. Honestly, I don't expect they'll ever explain the "equation", the idea to me is that it's very very complicated, Five is incredibly smart (smarter than any audience member could be), and is able to, via the equations and careful planning, accomplish certain things, at certain moments. Honestly, it's more of a macguffin to keep Five from coming and going to when and where he pleases at any time he wishes, or else he'd simply be capable of doing anything.
harrisonp
Sr Member
I kind of assumed the calculations were so he jumps not only to the correct time but to the correct space in time. He basically has to calculate where exactly the Earth would be at any given moment before he attempts a jump lest he end up stuck inside a wall or off by a degree and finds himself floating in space. I’m sure it’s all more timey wimey than that though
That is one problem most Time Travel stories never touch on- unless you somehow lock to a specific point in space as well as time even shifting a day will have you sucking vacuum
cboath
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I thought they said when he returned in the beginning that he was a kid because he didn't get the calculations quite right.
I also took the showing them as kids at the end as less of a 'they'll be kids when they reappear' and more along the lines of the flashbacks but not a 'flashback'...a 'it all goes back to when they were kids' type of thing. Haven't read the novels, but, if they have to go back as kids, the inference would be most of a next season would be them trying to help Vanya get straightened out and they'd have to do that primarily as kids then and the kids aren't the stars of the show....
What if they loop back and are there as both children and messed up adults ?
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