The last sentence I wrote for my post on episode 204 was "We will see if Travelers can continue to keep me hooked."
After these two episodes, I'd say that's a pretty resounding "hell yes." With the previously mentioned caveat that I don't really remember the first season, I'm declaring that these were the two best episodes of the series so far.
I'm writing about them together because (1) it's kind of one long episode anyway and (2) we watched both in one night. Which is somewhat unusual per our normal viewing habits and reflective of (1) how good the first episode was and (2) the kids going to bed early.
Long story short, there is a mutated flu virus that the team is trying to stop. The twist is that it was actually caused by the travelers in the first place!! The gist is that at the end of last season it turned out that there was this kind of civil war happening in the future, with a group called the Faction trying to wrest control from the Director. Well it turns out they did and since then all new travelers have been members of the Faction and not true "good guy" travelers sent by the Director. Which explains why there haven't been any real missions and the team doesn't seem like they're really doing anything.
These two episodes really made me appreciate the first part of this season more, as it made me rethink everything that the team had done.
Also, it was pretty thrilling from a "wow it seems like a lot of people are actually going to die" point of view.
My favorite piece of dialog was from David (who, along with Trevor is probably my favorite character). After a long day working in a homeless shelter helping out his clients he was taking a break and talking to another worker. The other guy mentioned that it was getting bad and that people had started looting. David says something like "I don't understand that. 'Oh, I'm really sick and everyone's dying so I'm going to go steal this t.v.' I mean, t.v.'s don't even really cost that much anymore. I don't get it."
It was a perfectly rational response delivered in a time of a global pandemic in a world where time travelers exist and his kind-of/once girlfriend "recovered" from down syndrome.
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