There will be no fourth season for Travelers. Netflix has cancelled the sci-fi series after three seasons. Star Eric McCormack revealed the news Friday via social media.
I'm actually relieved. Travelers is a show that starts a bit clumsy, and
weird, but it picks up the pace and really peaks at season 2. Season 3 was a great build up to what it was, in my opinion, one of the greatest season finales in these kind of sci-fi shows,
BEWARE: Spoilers ahead
We're so spoiled these days with so many shows, with
"happy endings" and hollywood clean and fan service writing that whenever
we're left on a cliffhanger that does not fulfill just that it becomes a _controversy_. The "Screw this, guys, I'm outta here" middle finger that the Director throws through one of the best characters of the show (before
letting him die in such a painful way), leaving everyone to drift as they please, Marcy just shattered and ready to give up anything (which she ends up doing) to be with David again, at the same time we see Philip just going bananas with all the time lines overlapping right before his eyes. And we're left with the task of having to process how screwed up this time line ended
(or maybe not, we don't really know) but that there're other time lines that ended up just fine, while others failed in such an epic way.
Man, what a ride.
I don't want to get that feeling of disturbed closure taken away from me by a potential bad 4th season. Let's face it, the only possible story path for
that *has* to be a completely different team on a completely different time line. Anything that comes close to the original story is just going through
a "just kidding, guys, it was all a dream" kind of cliche. This is just
very thin ice to walk on. I'd prefer the creators to go after a different project, and I'll definitely watch that.
Time traveling shows / movies are a very complex thing to create (the best example being Dr. Who, of course), and Netflix has a fame of just keep
beating the dead horse, even if it's not spitting money anymore, so they
would just not really care about creating a good 4th season.
Not saying that Travelers was a dead horse, but for me, it concluded its life cycle in a very enjoyable and quite different way, and we
should move on.
But of course, this is just my opinion, I'm one of the guys who thinks Lost should've ended by the end of season 3 ("Not Penny's boat!"), I prefer to
leave while winning :)
Anyway, I'll wrap it up now :D
Lord Crow
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