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Show Name: Travelers Season/Episode: S01 Date Aired:  Dec 23, 2016 Where Aired: Netflix linktr.ee/ladiesattheroundtable Twitter @LadiesAtRt_Pod Patreon.com/LadiesAtTheRoundTable Instagram @ladiesattheroundtable Plot Summary in a sentence Shoshie- A group of Agents from the future arrive in the bodies of people from our time just at the time of their death in order to carry out missions from the Director.  Maxx - People from the future take over people’s bodies right before they are about to die and some machine is telling them what to do. Joey - I don’t know what happened to the Grandfather Paradox, but apparently that’s called protocol 4 in the future, everyone takes directions from a super computer and that isn’t even the half of it.  Maya - People following a bunch of basic protocols from a destitute future come back in time by taking over people’s lives right before their time of death and pretend poorly to be them while also doing whatever they are told by the director/ai from the future. What’s your word? Shoshie- innovative  Maxx - control Joey - Nostalgia Maya - unnerving Favorite character this episode? Maxx - the farmer dude? They all were kinda sketch Joey - David  is my favorite non traveler. Phillip is my favorite traveler.  Maya - David also, although it was annoying how put together he was. Just a bit too nice and good and clean. I liked Grace/27 a bit too. Technical Talking Points (music, lighting, editing): Maxx : The music was nice and kinda eerie…? Joey - I liked the use of lighting during “Room 101”  Maya - the camera angles were so odd. Sometimes super close only showing one eye and sometimes all the way across the room from a strange angle with furniture in the way.  2-3 favorite moments in the show: Maxx: Found it interesting how they had these bonds with the people in their host bodies The first episode or so was fun I think they should have kept the fbi guy hunting them longer The last bit finding out how the stuff they have been doing is affecting the future but it wasn’t for good? What they know as truth isn’t accurate and they are getting a taste of what it might feel like to be the people around them not knowing what is happening? Joey - I had a great friggin time. The first episode was hard to watch for me, I didn’t understand what was going on, which honestly was completely on purpose and I’m cool with it now, but I found it irksome, but also there was an overdose right kind of at the get go and that was really hard for me to see. I think it made me love the Phillip character though.  I loved some of the kickbacks to things like David reminding Marcy that she’s naked. It was clearly a recurring thing in their relationship and it was just the same old thing for them. I felt like David was so real in those moments. I also liked seeing the dynamics of the group grow. They knew each other through training before they went into the past, but clearly didn’t really know one another. I just loved seeing those relationships blossom.   Other thoughts: This show was just too much but also not enough? The idea that they took other peoples bodies and then continued to live their lives was odd and really uncomfortable… couldn’t they have made it so they were thought to be dead or something and then move across the country or something and just start a new?  how did the fbi guy even start getting on their trail?  If the director is a machine then someone must have coded it and there would be human mistakes and biases in it too…?  The one guy kissed the turtle!!!! Ugh salmonella  Feels like some cult vibes with the director and everything I don’t really want to watch anymore episodes.  They covered some topics but just kinda lightly not really delving into things  -Joey LOVES dystopian movies/novels and if she had known that’s what this was she would have been more jazzed about it and probably more interested in seeing it in the first place. She doesn’t know what she thought this was about but was pretty pleased with it.  -This show is super strong, and has so many triggers with things, I’m definitely a fan but I can see why maybe I didn’t hear much about it before. This also may be why it wound up cancelled. So much of it makes for fewer fans overall.  -This really was nostalgic for me in so many ways. It very much reminded me of some shows I used to love, and had SO SO many actors/actresses/directors that I’ve loved. Every familiar face showing up was like a little hello to me and it’s just been so fun to see them.  -My biggest things kind of were that it was nice to see these people grow from who the bodies used to be, but that it was so weird to think that all these people, besides David didn’t notice the complete shift in personalities. Are we really all so self absorbed that we don’t notice when someone we’re close to has such a major shift? I’d like to think that if I suddenly acted wholly different that someone would check on me a little better than the Travelers were checked on.  -I definitely see why this show was ‘edgy’ but I think I liked it much more than I disliked it. I did download season 2 from netflix and will keep watching, but I definitely am one to want to ‘finish’ a show/story despite if I like it or not. I’m pretty sure I do… but at the same time, I didn’t download it and slam it down like I usually do for shows. It feels a bit like Breaking Bad to me. I watched it and thought the whole time “I think I hate this” and then it ended and I realized that yes, I did in fact hate it. I don’t feel so strongly of dislike here though. I think maybe I just feel confused and torn. I love these characters, and I want better for them, but I hate the premise.  -When has a character coming from the future ever been a good thing? This whole “change small things to save the future” definitely made me think of Quantum Leap, with just the single leap. I also didn’t realize that the Director was a computer until way late in the game and once the character had already built the place for the Director to come to in the barn and it reminded me of power rangers, Then the Director was Zordon from Power Rangers while simultaneously Agent Smith from Matrix and I couldn’t really take that episode totally seriously anymore.  -Last thing was that I felt it was unrealistic the way that the travelers grew to care about their counterparts in the world. Not that they cared for them, but that they also apparently didn’t. I can’t imagine learning to care for someone so much, but then lying like that the way that they do. How could these apparently moral soldiers of this mega computer that are questioning (rightly) their choices not question the decision to lie to the people that have been supporting them so much. Marcy is really the only one that doesn’t seem to be on board (pre-reboot) and lets David know a little too much probably, even though she still lies. I feel like it's unreasonable here. But then again, this judgement is being passed on a dystopian show based on body snatching time travelers trying to move major planetary events around so I’m probably the one being unrealistic.  Maya - I am still not at all a fan of body snatcher shows. I can’t deal with the eww factor of it. Not just the body they are in having to go through all that pain at the end, but the people around them think they are still the person they knew/loved/hated.  Many big topics here Marci- developmentally challenged, Phillip - addiction, Carly- abusive ex, Mac - addiction to freaking job, Trevor- not sure what message they were trying to convey? Bully, parents relationship?  I really hated how Mac equated Trevors issues with his parents to Carly’s with her ex husband. Telling her to deal with it, Trevor doesn’t bother Mac about his issues. Uh, pretty similar to what most women in abusive relationships get treated, but um, SHE ISN’T ACTUALLY IN THAT RELATIONSHIP. I get that she cares about the baby, but it isn’t her baby. I just don’t know what to think to be honest.  Liked Phillips story line I think. It was a great message that addiction is more than something that can just be walked away from.  The trust in the director is annoying especially when we find out it is an ai. Like I guess I know which faction I’d be in lol. The whole show I kept questioning their trust in these decisions.  I was intrigued by the numbers. I liked knowing 14 and 27 and that Trevor was 115. I feel interested in their story.  My transcribed notes (aka scribbles): So much pain for the end of the lives. Screaming head pain! I quit watching the first time because I didn’t like the body snatches. They might have killed the guy who was going to kill the agent, but then the agent wasn’t dead but they brought the new guy into his head anyway? Kind of like killing him. Marci-disabled, mom-abused, kid-fought?, long hair-addict. If people keep coming back and they stop all these deaths wont the population be an issue? SO MANY RULES! Who is in charge? Why do the travelers trust them so much. Interested to learn more. Addiction is serious shit. Why didn’t another traveler use the friend who OD’d body? (*now I realize it is because they know that addiction is bad for a host body). Messengers being kids! They took that girl into danger biking. Protocol 3- we cant interfere. Protocol 6 don’t talk to other travelers. Protocol 5 resume your hosts life. Protocol?-dont save a life don't take a life. Philip is questioning the “rules”. Classic- teenager girlfriend is a bitch. Why is the baby daddy investigating the Marci thing? Trevor had something in his ear? Is he lying about the messenger. Glad someone is questioning even if it is the heroin addict. Protocol 2 - leave the future in the past. Older than all of them together but grounded. Protocol 1 - dedicated to the mission. The tough guy is dumb. One way information is annoying (and dangerous). Maybe job was to reel in the ego maniac? “Protocol 5 till then.” Misfires. Fun seeing Trevor’s wisdom in action in the cells. I like David but first few episodes a bit weird, like is anyone that put together? 5th cage, they were expecting all five. The Death in Dignity woman’s transition was INTENSE! 117 is over 100 years old “the engineer” kind of a boss lady. “Swan song” What’s the big deal with protocol 3 and not killing when they are all about to blow up? Why isn’t the gas working on the soldiers that show up? Why not start by taking over the main soldier guy? Is the director just messing with them? Memories. Darcy David spinal tap and the crazy KNife out of the Chest! Sex scene with mac and wife EWWWW of course she thinks/knows he’s cheating - sex is very personal. Meh episode. Regular life goes on. Marci buys off David’s boss. Two jobs for a few of them. Has Marci even gone back to the library she still says she works there. Camera shots are so odd. Super close or far at odd angels, see only one eye lots. David drinking his coffee alone in clean apartment makes me a bit jealous. Weird that people in the future live so long in a world without clean air etc. Carly didn’t go to turn him in because he said they think they know he’s a good family man. Stasis field like Doctor Who’s Break Out Ball. How did the EMT get there so fast? Maybe another traveler cell? Senator replacement high up. Now I’m just super mad. If the whole Helios plan didn’t work than maybe time to stop!? Convenient that Kat forgets the visit from the coop too. I would totally not believe I drank that much and didn’t realize it. All that technology and Trevor couldn’t get a pain killer for the yucky organ growing leech pain? Security guard acting like a cop. Memories of original McClaren when is sergers. No seat belt in keep with broken arm? I think they are going to travel to another time. Death scene/memories are boring- I liked Kat until this episode. When a re you from will definitely be back. The director is up to something. If they have all these computer skills and science skills why can’t the get an excused absence for Trevor or a job for Carly? Carly has anger issues. Not sure what to think a bout th baby. She should find a grandparent or something. Mac to Marci “there’s more to us then just our memories” um, isn’t that what gets transferred? 14 and 27 are low numbers. 27 looked like she got a message from the future on her bracelet? “Bad” faction. From where all our travelers are from, so it’s their family and friends. Computer vs. Human. Carly: I am unsure how I feel. I hate how she is treated by everyone and she has so little support, but it’s not actually her son. Reboot Marci is “less fragile”. Mac feels more connected to wife after near death experiences. This episode was kind of stupid with the ending everyone is so confused and the the FBI comes in. A bit too much maybe? It  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.