But once Rufus avoided getting stabbed in the gut by the Rittenhouse goon as Jiya had long predicted, how did it not occur to me that something just as fatal would befall him a minute later? This has happened before! It’s exactly what happened to that dude in “ The Salem Witch Hunt”! Like I said, the Timeless ethos is to convince you the bad thing is bound to transpire before showing you there is, in fact, a way out. And man, I was so mad at myself - how did I not see his murder coming?! Of course I knew Jiya’s vision of Rufus’s death wouldn’t actually play out as she was convinced it would. ![]() I was squeezing hot, hard tears out of my eyeballs for at least a solid ten minutes after Emma shot him. Good-hearted, sweet, vulnerable, defensive, wise-cracking, pop-culture-nerd-king Rufus. (It’s totes obvs that all hope is lost for this guy.) And definitely because, looking back, that scene feels like a metaphorical stand-in for the death of Rufus and the future of Timeless.įolks, I cannot remember the last time I bawled so pitifully over the death of a fictional character as I did for Rufus. Possibly because the acting in that scene was so good, or because happening upon a man bleeding out for his freedom is just an automatic punch to the feels. 1? Probably because his death, unlike many on Timeless, wasn’t handled silently or in one shot or off-camera entirely it was its own moment. So why was I so shook by the passing of Unnamed Union Soldier No. (Shoutout to Anthony from season one, possibly the only deceased Timeless character I still think about!) People do get killed, but, you know, mostly Rittenhouse goons and figures we never really got to share a moment with, like suffragist Alice Paul. Everyone’s tucked back into their bunker by the end of the hour everyone may not be happy, but everyone is safe. Nothing really bad ever happens on Timeless, although its stealth ability to repeatedly convince you something really bad really is right about to happen is a major reason I’m so hooked on the show. ![]() It’s one of those classic, all-hope-seems-lost moments that happen every week on Timeless, except this one looks and feels different. The line I keep coming back to is, “Please help me die easy.” It’s what one of the black Union soldiers tells the Time Team in “The General” after the Confederate ambush, after the soldier’s been shot in the torso, as he looks at Lucy and Rufus with eyes wide with fear but mouth set in steely acceptance of his fate.
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