When it started, I honestly started guessing shit left and right. Like, the amount of stuff I hit on pretty early felt like I was going to be disappointed. Knew Hillinghead was gay and that it'd f*** him right away, knew that the Mannix kid was going to be that Commander almost as soon as I saw him the Commander even though they don't really resemble each other, guessed almost immediately when presented that the same guy was going to be the 1890's lookalike. In any other show, if these things are all this predictable, it would likely turn out to be shit.
With this one however, it all just made really satisfying sense. Like, there were a lot that I also didn't guess or wasn't really thinking about and one or two that I got dead wrong (I was kind of hoping that the leader of the resistance in 2050-whatever was going to be an older Maplewood, not Hasan, but I like what they did better) just because I was embracing the ride, and the things that I guessed all made sense. They weren't tropes, they were right, accurate, logical progressions for the story.
I want to say about halfway through, maybe a little later, I thought to myself "if this has a good end there's going to be a point where it all kicks off" and for me, I think around episode 6 they'd closed almost all of the obvious loops. The things that make sense and are predictably going to happen sort of all resolve themselves if you're paying attention, but with two episodes left it's got to end somehow. That was maybe what I liked most about it, it lets you put pieces together and then once you're done with all the pieces you still realize there's a third of the puzzle to go, and you have no idea what it looks like.
Solved itself in a pretty clever way, managed to involve all 4 characters in almost equal parts playing their roles in changing history, literally, and managed to do a great job staying consistent and working with time travel in a way that wasn't complete nonsense.
Really good show
