It was a great episode. In the end, they even made me nervous that the military would ruin everything. And the special forces of pensioners are an original solution.
A scene with soldiers and pensioners from and to nonsense nonsense. What's the point of sending someone, the same old men, for example, if you can "inhabit" anyone in real time?
@SunGato: I bet that on that day and in that city, a group of pensioners were not the only ones who had to die. Perhaps they decided to save time in this way, which otherwise should have been spent on gathering a group (like "our" travelers), and then op! and everyone is already together, but wouldn't a group of young "bodies" be more suitable for members of a firing group? Although, if we take into account that these were only tasked with detaining, and not destroying, the military, then the pensioners also got away. Cannon fodder, so to speak.
@SunGato: Well, when the soldiers came there, count the corpses, what prevented them from moving in? Why all the fuss about shooting and tourists on the bus :)
@br1ella: The military might not come. By sending each new person into the past, you lose them. Apparently, the future is not ruled by Stalinist cotton wool, and for them human life is valuable.
@vauxhall_cross: Firstly, it is not a fact that you found such a number, and somewhere nearby, and secondly, they should not have killed anyone, but only to restrain if there was a danger, because those military men should not have come there at all, and in the future try not to bring extra victims and change nothing if possible, you never know, you will kill someone, and in the future the Director will not be born:)
We've finally returned to antimatter, otherwise I thought we'd forgotten about the main arch. Getting into soldiers just so that the colonel spends all the bullets is pointless. It was enough to just immediately move into the colonel and calmly turn the key. No one could have bothered him. Subordination and all that.
@SunGato: I agree, the situation with the major (he's a major, not a colonel) is pretty bad, just like with the retired special forces. I think the Director is quite an entertainer. :)
@zehoha: They inhabit (at least for the moment) only those who must die. It was only after the major decided to shoot his soldiers and tried to commit suicide that he became a candidate for "relocation." Rather, the question is why they possessed the soldiers...
@dslava: because they were all supposed to die from the explosion anyway. And the major, too. It wasn't necessary to wait for his attempt to kill himself.
@SunGato: Yes, the same thought was that it was necessary to start with the main thing... I think it was all done purely for the sake of effect, for the audience (stupid, to be honest).
For the first half of the series, I wondered exactly how bodies are selected for travelers. If I'm not mistaken, they used to say that they should fit, although they haven't explained exactly how to fit. Because I also didn't understand why an elderly woman who already has vision problems was chosen as a sniper, and not someone younger? Then it became clear that they shouldn't have done anything special except detain the military for a few minutes. At the end of the episode, I just profiled several times how many people I had to kill (and risk missing the right time) in order to "move in" with the major! If that was supposed to create tension, it didn't work out. It was only after the murder of the engineer, and then the purest "wtf?". As well as why the military couldn't be killed before they entered the premises in order to reduce the risk that everything would go down the drain? It would be fine if they were valuable to history and all, but they should have died from the explosion anyway.
And why was such a responsible mission assigned to such newcomers as McLaren and co.? They've been poked in the face several times that they're inexperienced and green, and here they're practically overseeing the stopping of the meteorite that started all the disasters...
Those soldiers died anyway... They would have been killed by the explosion.. They would have been killed by that asteroid! Why did they kill so many pennies to keep the soldiers alive, so that they could kill them all later??? Would they have been killed right away if the Engineer had calmly turned the key? I really like this series, but this series is completely illogical((((
@Pthah: The pensioners were some kind of sect and were going to commit suicide collectively anyway. so no one killed them, that is, theoretically, without the help of travelers, they were already considered dead. the very scene of the Van Heusen shootout is, of course, a terrible disgrace. but I really like this series too. ))) and what is the director like, what did he do with the soldiers!
@delete-delete: Well, those travelers who inhabited the dead pensioners could have been saved for other missions. And so, it turns out, how much they lost their own in vain. If they know everything in the future, they should have already known that soldiers would arrive and break through, and they would have to send more travelers to these soldiers. It would be easier to immediately order to shoot to kill.
Considering that the zone was supposedly filled with poisonous gas, from which everyone injected themselves with an antidote, it becomes clear that the authors are willing to sacrifice the logic of the narrative purely for the sake of a beautiful scene. And the scene in which the soldier gradually realizes what a deep ass he is in is great.
If you have thousands of people running around in the past anyway, then replace the government and military command immediately. And do absolutely whatever you want. You're going to radically change the future anyway, so why be shy?
I was the only one who found it strange that all of our guys had an antidote for nerve gas, and the military didn't give a shit about that gas?! Anyway, there are more questions than answers about the series :)
It's funny that Grant is talking about how a meteorite fell into the Atlantic, the east coast was washed away by a wave - and that means that the end of the world has come... it's like the world is a little bigger than the American East coast, but they don't know - typical Americans)))
@Keyser_Soze: well, they said that travelers spent a year collecting them in the present, i.e. from the future, the technologies themselves and the knowledge of how to collect them.
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33Perhaps they decided to save time in this way, which otherwise should have been spent on gathering a group (like "our" travelers), and then op! and everyone is already together, but wouldn't a group of young "bodies" be more suitable for members of a firing group?
Although, if we take into account that these were only tasked with detaining, and not destroying, the military, then the pensioners also got away. Cannon fodder, so to speak.
Getting into soldiers just so that the colonel spends all the bullets is pointless. It was enough to just immediately move into the colonel and calmly turn the key. No one could have bothered him. Subordination and all that.
At the end of the episode, I just profiled several times how many people I had to kill (and risk missing the right time) in order to "move in" with the major! If that was supposed to create tension, it didn't work out. It was only after the murder of the engineer, and then the purest "wtf?". As well as why the military couldn't be killed before they entered the premises in order to reduce the risk that everything would go down the drain? It would be fine if they were valuable to history and all, but they should have died from the explosion anyway.
And why was such a responsible mission assigned to such newcomers as McLaren and co.? They've been poked in the face several times that they're inexperienced and green, and here they're practically overseeing the stopping of the meteorite that started all the disasters...
I really like this series, but this series is completely illogical((((
If they know everything in the future, they should have already known that soldiers would arrive and break through, and they would have to send more travelers to these soldiers. It would be easier to immediately order to shoot to kill.
You're going to radically change the future anyway, so why be shy?