Without a doubt, one of the most anticipated series of this season was the time travel adventure “Timeless”, brought to us NBC, which obviously have put a lot of thought into its premise. Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan, the show’s script writers and producers, were especially focused on exposing the differences between today’s society and societies of different eras. Malcolm Barrett, Matt Lanter and Abigail Spencer play the time travelers trio trying to keep history straight, and stop Goran Visnjic, the criminal mastermind from destroying America and changing its glorious history. The nail-biting pilot episode of Timeless had its premiere on Monday, October 3, and will air every Monday at 10:00 p.m., one of the most intriguing timeslots for which battled all of the major networks.
The plot revolves around a time-traveling criminal mastermind, Goran Visnjic, who steals a time machine in order to change the course of American history as we know it. A special team of experts assigned by the government is send to travel back in time with a shabby, basic prototype of the stolen hi-tech machine, and eliminate the criminal before doing any harm to the entire nation. In the series first episode, the characters were immediately introduced, and surprisingly they were all layered, including the mastermind criminal, Garcia Flynn, played by Visnjic, who isn’t your typical villain as he is more complicated than the usual bad guy. The back-story of this character is complicated, interesting, and to some extent even sympathetic. Unfortunately there wasn’t enough time in the pilot episode to peel off some those layers and discover more details.
In fact, Goran Visnjic does such a good job bringing live to this character that over time the viewers will get to see different sides of him, and hopefully even feel torn occasionally, and root to save Flynn at some point. There is nothing black and white about this character, and once could even say he that he really lives in the gray, which makes him a really interesting antagonist. This has a lot to do with the way that Goran Visnjic carries himself as Garcia, giving him a more human feel, and a reason for viewers to relate to his motives and what drives his actions.
