
Churchill: 'All of history is happening at once.'
You
have to admire the ambition of tonight's episode—for fifteen minutes I
just stared at the screen, both amazed and befuddled. The visuals were
at times breathtaking: from the car carrying balloons, to steam trains
exiting the Gherkin, to the vaguely impressive pterodactyls. (Less
impressive after
Terra Nova's, sadly.) I even liked the weird meld of the
Tudor/Roman/post-war eras. True, we ended up with more questions than
we got answers to, but this was a remarkable ending to what's been a
wholly remarkable season.