User Reviews

Great ending that serves as both a good way to lead into a possible season 4, or a satisfying conclusion to the series (though let's hope it doesn't come to that)!

There's SO MUCH potential with stories for a season 4 & beyond that it would be a real shame if Netflix cancelled this series. And with them losing all the Marvel shows, plus all future Disney content in three near future, they should be hanging on tightly to any and all content this good.

On top of that, there's not a lot of good serious sci-fi out there at the moment (outside of a handful of shows like The Expanse, 12 Monkeys, Humans, Star Trek Discovery, The Man in the High Castle and The Orville), and Netflix would be wise to support one as unique and well written as Travelers.

It fills its own niche, and does it well, and the best part is the storytelling potential is limitless. ***Spoiler Incoming***

"Protocol Omega" is spoken by David as his last dying words, prompting the team to come to terms about what their lives will now become, and why the Director has abandoned this timeline. The reason? Traveler 001 basically wins, torturing info out of Grace, abducting Marcy in hopes of getting dormant info in her head to access a backdoor into the Director to hack his way to victory. Marcy kills herself to prevent this, but ultimately he prevails anyway, setting into motion a series of events (overwriting world leaders, firing nukes, etc.) that lead to the future the Travelers have been trying to prevent.

However, they realize the Director left all the tools right in front of them to be able to at least live & fight another day. They can send 1 person's consciousness back to before 001 arrives in 2001 & send a message to the future to warn the Director of what is to come. Grant volunteers, as he's the only one who knows the exact time & coordinates of a host (where he first meets his wife), and he quickly goes straight to the World Trade Center building to email the Director.

He's successful, but instead of waiting there for the plane to hit, we see him realize something & depart. Then we segue to Marcy meeting David on the bus for the first time, presumably pre-traveler takeover of Marcy (though before anything made her mentally inept). They talk, flirt, and begin planting the seeds of their relationship all over again (that was nice to see... their relationship is one of the highlights of an already fantastic show).

Lastly, we cut away to a black computer screen with the message "TRAV PROGRAM VER ONE" & "Status: FAIL" on it. Then it types out "RESET, LOAD SEQ: TRAV PROGRAM: VER TWO..... BEGIN," suggesting that everything we've seen through the first 3 seasons can be done over in a different way.

The great thing about that is they can either attempt everything again in a similar way, only now without Faction members or other rogue elements stopping the team, or they can go an entirely different route all together, tackling a whole new set of obstacles, as the future may very well have already been changed fully by Grant's email.

Ideally we'll still get the same characters as Travelers, as their chemistry is too damn good to mess with, but there is so much new territory to explore with this revelation. Lastly, the acting was top notch all around, which it always has been. It's rare that I sincerely forget I'm watching actors, but everyone is so committed and delivers everything so naturally that I can't help but feel I'm watching actual people live their lives!

Hopefully, Netflix will do everyone a favor and announce a season 4, and I hope my overly long gushing over the excellence of this show hasn't put anyone to sleep!

10/10 - BRING ON SEASON 4!

The use of time travel is very clever and at some points genius. The whole cast are great actors and play their parts beautifully. My main issue with the show is many of the side plots involving the characters past and present home life are uncompelling and really drag the show down for me. They are far too long and drag the show down. The best character in the show is Marcy. Her past and present story line is amazing. She has the only compelling love story that is genuinely beautiful. I am honestly so grateful their story is given somewhat of a happy ending in the shows final moments. The built up of Marcy and David's love story is damn near perfect. So the last two episodes is so heartbreaking I actually cry just thinking of how it ends before Grant goes back and changes the timeline. I don't think Marcy would have killed herself if David hadn't just died. Thank god Grant went back to change the future and we get to see Marcy and David meet each other for the first time on a bus because they had a horrific ending at first. With the show being cancelled I'm okay with how it ends because their meeting for the first time on the bus hints at an even better future for Marcy and David. The only characters I genuinely cared about.

I did love this entire series and was very glad to see the final episode show us the "restart" that Grant performed. I actually cheered when I saw Marcy and David meet on the bus! Yay! But then I started thinking about the others and realized that none of them would still be alive :o( Phillip ODs, Trevor gets punched out in the ring, Carley gets killed by drunk Jeff (who ruins the baby's life!), and Grant ends up at the bottom of the elevator shaft. Woe is me!! I hope there is a season 4 (fingers crossed!) and if there is that somehow they are saved again for some reason :o)