Eternity - Episode 1x03 - Tear in Time

This was seemed like an episode that was meant to give the audience a few answers... and it definitely did. When the episode opened with a funeral and a group of people that we didn’t even know, I was really interested as to what direction this episode would be going. While this episode was not the best, it was still very well written and didn’t disappoint.

The fact that Charley was in a mental ward for 3 months just goes to show that repeating the day, the Gentleman, and losing his wife got to him. I find it very ironic that on the day that he finally puts things behind him and accepts the fact that the Gentleman isn’t real… the day starts repeating again. I can’t help but think that we won’t be seeing any more large gaps in time between him repeating the day, as then there’d be too much information to get caught up on.

The big part of this episode was the realization that Charley is simply repairing different rifts in time, almost as if it is his job to do so. Now, that answers our questions about what exactly is happening to him (to an extent), but what I’m now wondering is… why him? Why is Charley the one that has to repair the tears in time? Why not somebody else? But knowing you Angelo, I’m sure we’ll get an answer to this before the series ends.

I’m very happy that Lana and Simo finally have a story. Despite Simo getting shot, I felt like their characters were just added in there to take up some time. However, now that Lana is pregnant, I’m interested to see if their characters will become more central and how her pregnancy will affect the story and the life of Charley.

I was also happy to see that Charley and Joanne talked. Joanne seems to not want to see him all that much, which is perfectly understandable, but I hold out hope that she’ll wise up and be more willing, at least to just talk to the guy.

While this episode wasn’t quite as good as the first two, I feel like this episode should really push things forward for the rest of the series. I look forward to reading on and hopefully getting some answers to the mysteries that we’ve already been introduced to.

Jimbo’s Next Theory
Lana’s pregnancy is going to have something to do with how Charley handles another day repeating in the future.