At the end of the first season of Travelers no-one knew what was going to happen next because the mission to change the future had been successful.
So we start season 2 with the team in the dark. Historian Philip starts to notice small differences from the future he learned. They still seem to be getting missions still. Their private lives need a lot of fixing...
The first few episodes feel quite slow; but I think they have to be to reflect the doubts the team have over their ongoing purpose. And then we get the bombshell about The Faction. Cool... bad guys (maybe, maybe not) who didn't even exist in the future when the team left it.
I really liked the way the whole Faction vs Director thing played out with our team stuck in the middle. The skydiving episode came at just the right time to emphasise the problem (which may have been stated before, but I missed it) that The Director can't just send a traveler back further in time to fix something that didn't go right.
That is a nice take on the time travel set-up. Knowing that the present we have seen is now somehow fixed gives me comfort that we wont suffer a Bobby Ewing moment where a whole season or two gets trashed by a future past event.
For a long time I wondered why it mattered that Traveler #1 was still alive. I'm still not sure if he will turn out to just be a nuisance or to be the founder of The Faction. My image of him was heavily coloured by that fact that the same actor (Enrico Colantoni) played Elias, one of my favourite characters in Person Of Interest.
The ending of season 2 really is terrific. Everyone is involved, the sequence of events is not quite clear, and we are left with just enough information to feel satisfied... but still have lots of questions.
Don't make me wait toooooo long for season 3, please.
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