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I've been watching it. So far it's been ok. I liked last week's episode with the Spoilerfailed time travelers, and what appeared to be one of the first time traveler's remains, what ever part of him did go back, being hinted (and then disproved) as the source of the virus. Quite the self fulfilling prophecy there. They already played with that concept earlier, where Cole going back in time to stop the raiders on the compound was actually the reason why they knew where the compound was and why they were raiding it.

Seems to be heavily on the "everything you are doing right now, you already did." You can't change ****. Which if I recall the movie correctly was also hinted there. When Cole gets shot at the end and dies, in front of what was himself as a little kid, right?

I don't want to watch it for the completely irrational reason that I was satisfied with the movie and don't need, nor want, any more plot and/or story added to it. Kind of like how The Matrix would have been better as a stand-alone movie instead of a trilogy.

I watched two episodes and decided to drop it. Nothing out of the ordinary wrong with it, but I guess I felt that was somewhat of the problem.

My limited understanding (again based on the first two episodes) is that it is a prequel/sequel, and not a retelling (though there is likely to be some alternate/divergent timeline bs going around to give the writers more creative freedom). The television show's past is after the movie's past, but the television show's future is before the movie's future. All the events in the past in the film have occurred in the modern day setting of the television series. None of the character have learned any of the information they learned in the future in the movie yet.