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As The Wormhole Turns – La Brea The Road Home Part Two Ends An Era?
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As our article title and the third season La Brea poster header indicated all season long, is this an end of an era in scripted science fiction series on major network television channels like NBC?

Do such science fiction series, subsequent to lower ratings as compared to police, fire, and hospital scripted programs (which are flourishing), spell the end of the science fiction genre on major network channels in the United States?

Unfortunately, this would appear to be the case for new science fiction series that could be broadcast on the United States television networks ABC, CBS or NBC.

There is good news however. Beloved science fiction television genre series is well underway via movement to streaming platforms such as Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Crackle TV, Disney Plus, Hulu, MGM Plus, Netflix, Paramount Plus, and Peacock TV.

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What this means is that although science fiction on major United States based network channels may be at the End Of Life (EOL) for now, the science fiction television genre will live on to be loved by tens of millions of viewers as evidenced by recent science fiction series successes such as Fallout, Foundation, For All Mankind, Outer Range, Halo, The Mandalorian and other new content being created for and by streaming television services!

The Forty Year Back Story:

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ABC Network (now part of Disney) was a player in the modern science fiction broadcast world subsequent to their highly successful Lost series from 2004 to 2010 with 121 episodes. After a notable original V mini-series success on NBC in 1983, V The Final Battle in 1984 and a shortened nineteen episode weekly series on NBC that left science fiction fans with huge cliffhanger, ABC picked up the franchise. ABC subsequently left the science fiction genre after a two season run of a reboot of V Series from 2009 to 2011 that also disappointed fans who had hoped the story arc would be completed in a third season.

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CBS Network had never been a significant science fiction content producer until it picked up the Star Trek franchise now broadcast on the Paramount Plus streaming service.

Likewise, the CW Network (originally UPN – The United Paramount Network until 2006), like SYFY, is actually a cable channel that produced significant science fiction related content including The Secret Circle (2011), The Vampire Diaries (2009), Arrow (2012), iZombie (2015), Legends of Tomorrow (2016), Riverdale (2017) and the popular Superman & Lois (2021) entering its fourth and final season soon.

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With very few exceptions, notably the SYFY Channel in the United States (a cable channel that is owned by NBC), there are few relatively new science fiction scripted series on network television remaining.

These include as The Ark headed for a second season and comedic science fiction series Resident Alien (hopefully pending renewal for a fourth season).

Now in 2024, virtually all of the other recent science fiction series are now exclusively only on streaming platforms.

Streaming Roots and How We Arrived Here:

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The roots of successful streaming programs can be said to have arguably begun in earnest in May 2007 with the Sanctuary web series first broadcast on the Internet. The Sanctuary web based series was so successful it actually crashed the Internet servers on launch day. I was peripherally involved in a support role for fans to interact with the series star Amanda Tapping while running a popular website dedicated to supporting the Stargate franchise prior to the launch of WormholeRiders News Agency in 2008. Sanctuary, produced in conjunction with Space Channel of Canada (now known as CTV SciFi), was such a success that the web series was picked up by SYFY (then the SciFi channel) that ran four seasons from 2009 to 2001.

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SciFi began broadcasting in September 1992 with the hit movie Star Wars Episode IV (The New Hope) as its first broadcast.

SciFi had much early success over their early years which can be attributed to broadcasting re-runs of iconic science fiction programs such as the early episodes of Dr. Who, The Prisoner, The Invaders, Star Trek the Original Series (TOS) and many various fan favorite science fiction movies.

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SYFY’s first original hit series was the short lived one season dystopian space opera Mission Genesis in 1997. Then came First Wave co-produced with the Space Channel broadcast from 1998 to 2001.

This was followed by the now classic Farscape series that was broadcast from 1999 to 2003. Farscape was co-produced with Nine Network.

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SciFi then invested heavily in additional science fiction scripted series beginning when it acquired the rights in 2001 to broadcast Stargate SG-1 owned by MGM Studios (Now known as Amazon MGM Studios).

Stargate SG-1 was originally on Showtime from 1997 to 2001, then continued to be broadcast on SYFY until 2007 for a combined total of ten episode years totaling 214 episodes. SYFY then added the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica in 2004, and Stargate Atlantis in 2005. MGM released two follow on direct to DVD Stargate SG-1 movies in 2008 that SYFY also broadcast. Stargate Universe began in 2009 and in 2010 SYFY created Caprica, a popular Battlestar prequel series that sadly only lasted one season.

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SYFY also became well known for their weekly wild and often wacky science fiction movies for which it became famous in their own right.

The wildly successful weekly movie series generated huge followings of millions of viewers every week that culminated in the success of the Sharknado movies (1 to 6) series that concluded in 2018.

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Close competitors in the with superb science fiction content in the twenty-first century were the Turner Network Television (TNT) Network and its fabulous Falling Skies series with five seasons broadcast from 2011 to 2015.

TNT’s also broadcast their subsequently successful program called The Last Ship, a dystopian action science fiction drama series that ran for five seasons from 2014 to 2018.

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The Fox Network was a strong contributor with their original The X-Files series from 1993 to 2002, Sliders in 1998, Firefly in 2002, and the iconic fabled Fringe series produced at Warner Brothers Television that ran for five years and 100 episodes from 2008 to 2013. Fox and the fascinating time travel mystery series Alcatraz was not renewed after one season in 2011 despite strong ratings when the network decided to renew Fringe for a fifth season instead. Fox left the genre after NexT rogue AI series in 2020 which ran for only one season. Fox Network television was subsequently acquired by Disney which has its hands full with Marvel and Star Wars streaming series.

The Beginning of The End:

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The decline of science fiction series like La Brea on network television channels can be traced back to its roots on December 03, 2009 when telecommunications giant Comcast announced its intent to acquire mass media company NBC Universal from General Electric corporation amid concerns at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of potential negative effects within the vertical entertainment industry since Comcast was also heavily involved in cable television and internet services in many United States media markets.

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On March 19, 2013 General Electric divested itself from NBC giving Comcast sole ownership and a free hand to reduce employees located within duplicate internal divisions. Through this acquisition, Comcast gained ownership of the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), the film studio Universal Pictures, cable channels such as SYFY, Universal Parks & Resorts. Among other assets owned by NBC Universal was the USA Network and the E! Channel who often ran large entertainment convention events at San Diego Comic-Con, WonderCon in San Francisco and Anaheim as well as at New York ComicCon at the Javits Center.

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SYFY reigned supreme for many years via their continued strong interest in scripted science fiction series (many were acquired and developed with Canadian UK network partners) subsequent to beginnings of the merger mania in 2009.

These fabulous programs included Sanctuary, Warehouse 13, Eureka, Helix, Haven, Alphas, Lost Girl, Merlin, Defiance, Continuum, 12 Monkeys, Dark Matter, Killjoys and The Expanse. Their last major five year successes concluded with the supernatural science fiction thrillers Van Helsing, Wynonna Earp, and The Magicians.

The cracks in the formula became apparent when SYFY, out of nowhere, stunned viewers when it dumped The Expanse despite rave reviews and being the highest rated science fiction program in 2018.

Fortunately The Expanse was picked up by Amazon Studios, running on Amazon Prime for three more seasons on the streaming service with success and high praise.

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In 2018, the pressure on broadcast networks became evident when a fabulous science fiction series on the NBC’s USA Network named Colony became a casualty. The NBC and Comcast merger “Reductions In Force” (RIF) became known as “the night of the long knives” which impacted the majority of staffers, employees and publicists whose careers ended abruptly with what many believe were unanticipated layoffs. Another great NBC series, Manifest, was not renewed but was saved by streaming service Netflix.

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Great SYFY series such as Primeval New World, Ghost Wars, Incorporated, and Day of The Dead were subsequently not renewed after single seasons, likely a result of terminating publicist marketing employee teams in “the night of the long knives” that were needed for continued series success. Krypton, based on the DC Comics Superman franchise, made it to two years to 2019 but effectively ended cable channel SYFY’s dominance as undisputed king of science fiction series as an NBC network affiliate. SYFY original programming suffered as a result. Alien Nation and horror based Chucky remain as the only multi-season survivors.

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However, all these events actually jump started the streaming services movement which can be traced in large part to huge success in 2015 with a The Man In the High Castle broadcast on Amazon Prime Video for four seasons concluding in 2019.

This factor was repeated with the Warner Brothers Discovery merger last year that cancelled a completed season four production of Snowpiercer ready to be broadcast on TNT (the fourth season now will broadcast by AMC in 2025), and Westworld which had been renewed for a fifth season on HBO but will not be produced after the merger that produced the Warner Discovery conglomerate. With talk of further consolidation in the entertainment industry looming in the future, all this could mean the end of ABC, CBS, or NBC network channel science fiction series in the United States.

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Since that time a few months ago, new science fiction series broadcast on major network television channels ABC, CBS and NBC are few and far between. After NBC chose not to renew a superb series named Debris with good ratings created by J.H. Wyman of Fringe after broadcasting only thirteen episodes in season one ending in late May 2021, the beloved La Brea time travel science fiction series on NBC may be the last major network television effort in that regard, at least for the time being.

The Future of Science Fiction Television is Streaming:

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Streaming services accelerated during the transition subsequent to the entire Star Wars and Star Trek franchises moving to streaming platforms when Disney purchased Lucas Film.

CBS, broadcast owner of Star Trek franchise launched Paramount Plus, the renamed CBS All Access streaming service.

Star Wars series such as The Mandalorian, Obi Wan Kenobi, The Book of Bobba Fett, and Andor have been a success on Disney Plus. Star Trek series including Discovery, Picard, and Strange New Worlds have been huge successes on the Paramount Plus streaming service.

All of this begs the question:

Will ever be another science fiction series to be launched on a major network channel in the United States?

Or is the science fiction genre to only find life only on streaming services in the future? We shall see.

In the meantime, enjoy the wildest moments of La Brea courtesy of NBC included below.
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The Road Home Part 2:

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We here at Team WHR believed that there is much more to this superb La Brea story remaining to be told. Unfortunately, “The Road Home, Part 2” is the finale for this terrific time travel science fiction adventure series. Although we had been hoping for at least five full seasons of the La Brea series, as the old adage often applied to television programming saying goes; “Don’t Cry and Be Sorry it’s Over, Be Happy Because It Happened”, and we are because the series ended without cliffhangers!

On that note, we waited to post this analysis hoping that series creator David Appelbaum would be able to place La Brea with one of the major streaming services. As of this post, that does not seem to be happening at this time, but will remain hopeful that may occur in the future after we publish this feature article.

“The Road Home, Part 2” finale aired subsequent “The Road Home, Part 1” after a remaining character named Helena (Emily Wiseman) surfaced in the episode “Fire Storm” where we learned that Helena is Gavin Harris’s (Eoin Macken) half sister. We also learned that Time Travel was invented by their father who finished setting up the technology in 1965 using modern 2020’s computer technology to create jet aircraft that in the end help save our heroes.

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The good news of La Brea is that the series producers and creator ensured the series would conclude on a happy note creating an enjoyable ending for their fans. Eve (Natalie Zea) and her family of Gavin, Josh (Jack Martin), and Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), in fact all the main characters including Sam Velez (Jon Seda) and his daughter Riley (Veronica St. Clair), Scott Israni (Rohan Mirchananey), Veronica Castillo (Lily Santiago), Lucas Hayes (Josh McKenzie), Judah (Damien Fotiou), and even Petra (Asmara Feik) daughter of deceased villain Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware), all safely make it back safely to 2021 either using the prototype Time Travel jet aircraft or utilized a wormhole portal to return home to their own time, most likely closing once and for all after everyone returned to 2021.

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In the end, Ty Coleman (Chiké Okonkwo) decided to stay in 10,000 BC with his wife Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo) to live out their lives. Levi Delgado (Nicholas Gonzales) sadly passed away sacrificing himself to save the others.

We never learned the fate of Silas (Mark Lee) and other characters in 10,000 BC. Likewise, Leyla (Edyll Ismail) daughter of Ruth (Chantelle Jamieson) never consummated her relationship with Izzy due to the shortened third season.

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Lastly, the La Brea series finale reminded me of the famous two part Stargate SG-1 episode “Moebius part 2” where the main characters went back in time to fix the future. The end result was that Stargate SG-1 main characters lived as themselves in ancient Egypt as a method to ensure that the future characters never had to go back in time in the first place so they could fish at Jack’s pond that had no fish before Moebius but did have fish when the future characters ended the eighth season knowing they had changed the future.

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Therefore, speaking of endings, there are a La Brea few items that were not addressed in the finale: Did Gavin destroy the trouble making Time Travel computer chip in the jet aircraft?
Did everyone get back to the correct time at the end (pun intended)? Did the original wormhole ever occur in the pilot episode if Gavin destroyed the time chip technology after returning to 2021? Did the finale cleanly avoid all time paradoxes of having two of several main characters that existed at the same time (again pun intended)?

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In closing our analysis of La Brea, one of our favorite science fiction series by the way, we wonder If Gavin did not destroy the time chip after they all returned after the wormhole occurred in 2021, since the items above were never really addressed, what could happen in the future?

Although unlikely, It remains a long shot possibility that a La Brea series could return in the future, perhaps on a streaming service, so everyone can learn more about Gavin’s father in 1965, and the fate of humankind in the future.

We certainly hope that to be the case!

We will be back in the near future with more of your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments!

We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kenn of #TeamWHR
April 25, 2024
La Brea Review The Road Home Part One Sadness But Lots of Mind Blowing Fun!
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“The Road Home, Part 1” sets up the series finale “The Road Home, Part 2” airing next week on NBC after the awesome excitement of “Fire Storm”, we move to the fabulous fifth episode of La Brea, the first of a two part series finale named “The Road Home, Part 1” after the final remaining unrevealed character named Helena (Emily Wiseman) who surfaced in the previous episode “Fire Storm”. We learned that Helena is Gavin’s (Eoin Macken) half sister in 2021 after she took him to a bank safety deposit box to retrieve the prototype Time Travel Computer Chip. We also learned that Time Travel was invented by their father who finished setting up the technology in 1965.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of La Brea are the plot twists that the writers develop on who the ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters are. As an example, Gavin and Helena knew each other for decades before they stole the Time Travel Computer Chip technology from Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware) in 2021 to put an end to her abuse of time travel that originally resulted in a wormhole sinkhole opening in late September 2021 and the creation of dual colored aurora time travel wormhole portals that have resulted in our heroes and their acquaintances being sent to 10,000 BC. The outcome was that Maya erased Gavin’s memories of the work that he did to create time travel jet aircraft that have caused ripples in the Space Time Continuum actions.

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Helena, against her wishes, is forced to let Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) return to 10,000 BC with the prototype Time Travel Computer Chip in an effort to save Eve (Natalie Zea) who we have learned was taken to 1965 by Maya. In “Fire Storm”, Maya also took Scott (Rohan Mirchananey) prisoner for her nefarious purposes of taking control of the Time Travel Facilities created by Gavin and Helena’s father.

Before beginning our review and analysis of “The Road Home, Part 1” we will share that one major character will sadly perish in this episode. Additionally, what we suspected last episode is that since Helena apparently knew where the wormhole portals would manifest themselves, she would follow Ty back to 10,000 BC to stop Maya and help Gavin’s family and friends determine a way to restore them to their timeline, find Eve, Levi (Nicholas Gonzales), Riley (Veronica St. Clair), and Josh (Jack Martin). Based on this episodes story arc, other supporting characters including Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo), Silas (Mark Lee) and Maya’s daughter Petra (Asmara Feik) may be written out of the series entirely. We shall see.
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The Road Home – Part 1:

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The fifth episode of season three, written by Jerome Schwartz and directed by Nick Gomez, opens in 10,000 BC with Gavin walking in the forest while he thinks about saving Eve. This is the morning after Gavin Sam (Jon Seda) met with Ty has returned from 2021 with the Time Travel Computer Chip.

Subsequent to chatting with Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), Ty joins Gavin to discuss their viable options to create a plan to not only rescue Eve, Paara, Riley, Josh and Levi, but perhaps use the aurora wormholes to return home to their own time in 2021.

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Both agree that they cannot trust whoever has been sending the messages via the potato powered computer they obtained at the Time Travel Facility before it was destroyed last season. Gavin and Ty ascertain that whoever is communicating with them is part of the Time Travel conspiracy that created this fiasco in the first place.

Ty shares that Paara and Silas are missing and “should have returned days ago” reinforcing that we may not see these characters again before the series completes it run next week as mentioned above. However, both express hope they will get their families back.

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Meanwhile in the safety of the village fort in 10,000 BC we are with Izzy, Ruth (Chantelle Jamieson), Veronica (Lily Santiago), Leyla (Edyll Ismail) and Lucas (Josh McKenzie). Izzy confides to Veronica that she likes Leyla who has asked Veronica to go on an overnight “stargazing” camp out. Veronica shares that she and Lucas “figure it out one day at a time”, encouraging Izzy to do the same. With the series ending next week, it is a shame that these two romantic relationships will not be explored further in a fourth season.

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With Maya watching their every move, there is now no doubt that she is an evil influence with an agenda that cannot be trusted. This is once again proven accurate when Maya once again shows up immediately after a message appears on the potato powered computer asking “Did you find the microchip?” referring to the Time Travel Computer Chip prototype she needs to complete her corrupt conspiracy to control history utilizing time travel.

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Sam is with Lucas who is visiting his mother’s grave when they discuss the kidnapping of Scott during the “Fire Storm” episode wondering how anyone could have figured it out during the emergency. Lucas is certain “someone is feeding them information” providing viewers with further proof that Maya is the likely culprit. Gavin is ordered via the computer to take the chip to “Cahuega Peak before sunset and you will get Eve”. Gavin suspects that it is a trap setup by Maya. Leading her into a sense of overconfidence when he says he needs to think about it. Maya follows Gavin who threatens him at gunpoint. Sam and Ty show up to save Gavin.

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Back at the village fort Veronica is setting the table for a scheduled council meeting when she discovers a military grade waterproof box containing radio equipment stamped with “Ladera Air Base”.

Veronica immediately seeks out Lucas to inform him of her discovery of the suspicious equipment found under a rug in the council chambers.

Veronica determines that Maya was never allowed in the council chambers sharing this detail with Lucas. This confirmation proves that this clue leading Veronica and Lucas to suspect that someone on the village council must be in league with Maya.

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We move to the enigmatic Ladera Air Base where we find Scott and Levi being held captive. Scott reveals to Levi that Maya lied to everyone and was responsible for kidnapping him as well to obtain archeological knowledge documented in a white paper Scott wrote called “Universal Flora – A Study of What We Leave Behind” that is somehow linked to whatever Maya is up to.

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Speaking of Maya, we segue to Ty, Sam and Gavin who have tied her up demanding that she reveal where Eve is. Unfortunately, Maya is wearing a tracking device that looks like a wristwatch which spells trouble for Gavin, Sam and Ty.

Our heroes are captured by Maya’s soldiers from the Ladera Air Base. Maya quickly takes possession of the Time Travel Computer Chip prototype.

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We then learn that Helena did indeed follow Ty back from 2021 when she ambushes the soldiers holding Sam Gavin and Ty at gunpoint killing several of them. Maya is not hit by weapons fire, escaping in a military jeep to leverage her knowledge about the Time Travel Computer Chip and complete her nefarious plan to control time. At this juncture, we can only hope that our heroes will still manage to help save Eve? We shall see.

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Helena shares with the group “you have no idea what that woman (Maya) is capable of” revealing that Maya is the head of a private corporate contracting group that built the time travel aircraft Gavin flew before his memory was erased by Maya. Once Maya stumbled on the time travel technology as a contractor, she kept it secret, hijacking it to solidify their corporate dominance not only in 2021, but across all time forever! Gavin, Ty, Sam and Helena head to the Ladera Air Base to take back the Time Travel Computer Chip before Maya can execute her plan to sell the technology to the highest bidder. At this point the viewers should consider this to be a plot hole since selling the technology could lead others to be able to change history in their favor over Maya’s wishes.

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At the council meeting Veronica reveals the military radio she discovered to Ruth and her henchman telling the group they must take a break to consider Veronica’s serious accusation.

Instead Ruth flees the village indicating that she is a prime suspect cooperating with Maya’s plans.

The question viewers asked is why? Ruth always appeared dedicated to the people in the village fort. Veronica and Lucas follow Ruth to get to the answer of what the heck is going on.

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In a series of stunning story arc reveals, Levi had been taken from his cell for more what viewers believed was more interrogation. Levi actually meets up with Maya claiming he is in process of extracting information from Scott for her plan. In fact, Levi is a spy against Maya.

Disabling the security camera in Scott’s cell, Levi tells Scott they must work together to stop Maya from completing her plan and help save his one time lover Eve. Levi details that he was sent on his spy mission to investigate “Maya who has operations throughout time, including 10,000 BC”. Levi turns the security camera back on, punching Scott in the gut twice to fool Maya. Levi tells Maya he must move Scott to the “long term detention center” which she agrees to. Scott and Levi then make good their escape from Ladera Air Base in 10,000 BC.

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As the episode winds down to the end viewers enjoy another fun scene when a prehistoric alligator attacks Ty, Sam, Helena and Gavin who are traveling to Ladera Air base on a raft to rescue Eve.

Naturally they dispatch the giant beast using automatic weapons fire and proceed on foot to the base. However, they are all being monitored by another security camera mounted in a tree!

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When confronted by Izzy, Veronica and Lucas, Ruth finally admits her guilt regarding the radio equipment that Veronica discovered in the council chambers.

In fact, Ruth was covering up for her daughter Leyla and Maya so that her daughter could escape with Izzy Back To The Future. Of course, Maya was lying to all of them.

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Sadly Levi is killed when he moves to save Helena, Gavin, Ty and Sam. Izzy, following Levi, almost saves him by shooting an arrow at the last soldier tracking them down. Unfortunately, the soldier gets off a round shooting Levi is the gut. Gavin, Izzy, Sam and Levi share a last few moments together. Levi and Gavin share “they are brothers to the end”.

Gavin, Izzy and Sam learn from Levi that Eve is in “long term detention” before he passes away in 10,000 BC. This was perhaps one of the saddest scenes in the series because everyone liked Levi who acted like a father during the time that Gavin was suffering from alcoholism during his periods of memory loss induced hallucinations.

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The final sequence finds us at the coordinates of where Eve, Josh and Riley are supposed to be held in detention. Instead we see a double aurora wormhole portal open in the clearing. Checking the coordinates on a handheld device that Levi had, we learn via a notation pointing to the red side of the aurora, confirmed by Helena, that the long term detention facilities are in 1965. Gavin, Izzy, Sam and Helena enter the wormhole portal to not only save their family members, but to destroy Maya’s insidious infrastructure once and for all time!

Join us on the next week on X (Twitter) to enjoy a fun live tweet for the final episode of La Brea when we will find out the remaining secrets of season three and hopefully find “The Road Home” for all the survivors. See you next week for the series finale!

We will be back in the near future with our last analysis of the La Brea season three finale as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments!

We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kenn of #TeamWHR
February 6, 2024
La Brea Review Fire Storm is Certainly Not the Norm!
Welcome Back La Brea and Wormhole Time Travel Science Fiction Lovers!

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The episodic excitement builds to a crescendo in the fabulous fourth episode of La Brea after the remaining unrevealed character, named Helena (Emily Wiseman) surfaced packing a pistol at the end of the third episode “Maya” while she was tracking Gavin (Eoin Macken) with plans to kidnap him!

Seemingly a threat to Gavin, we will learn in “Fire Storm” that Helena is none other than Gavin’s sister who had been working with him to stop the nefarious forces who have been in control of the secret Time Travel Facilities for over five decades. Although Gavin’s memory was erased by an evil entity, we will learn the how and the why Gavin and Helena knew each other for over half a century dating back to 1965 where Helena was in possession of the Time Travel Computer Chip that they both stole. Subsequent to the theft the result was that Gavin’s memory was erased by Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware) who claims she had misgivings about her orders to do so. We we mention in our analysis of the previous episode, Maya is our suspect for the root cause of all the problems our heroes have encountered.

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In fact Maya, code named “Sierra“, unknown to the others, will expose herself as the principal villain when she attacks Scott (Rohan Mirchananey) and takes him prisoner because of an archeological secret she needs for her own evil purposes.

With all of these various story arc factors now in place, La Brea is superbly setup for the two part series finale “The Road Home” beginning next week on NBC!
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Fire Storm:

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The fourth episode of season three, written by Onalee Hunter Hughes and directed by Cherie Nowlan, opens in 2021 with the 10,000 BC version of Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) and Sam (Jon Seda) waiting in a vehicle.

They are waiting for Gavin to link up with a contact in a restaurant to gain access to a place near La Brea called the “Ladera Air Force Base” where the Time Travel Computer Chip is suspected to be located. We will soon learn that Gavin and Helena stashed it somewhere else safe.

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Instead Helena shows up ordering Gavin to follow her out the backdoor of the restaurant at gunpoint.

Ty and Sam become suspicious upon entering the restaurant. With no sign of Helena or Gavin, they head out the back door of the eatery.

Unfortunately for Gavin, he is being kidnapped by Helena. Both escape but almost run over Ty and Sam in the process!

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Back in 10,000 BC Gavin and Sam are communicating with whomever has Eve (Natalie Zea) using the computer salvaged from the Time Travel Facility before it was destroyed last season.

Whoever the person on the other end of the computer chat discussion orders Gavin to find the Time Travel Computer Chip stating that Eve’s life depends on it.

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Suddenly, Maya appears outside asking Gavin if he remembers more about his erased memories, to which he replies “yes”. This is the first inkling viewers receive that Maya is the one behind everything that has been happening because she is obviously obsessed with the Time Travel Computer Chip. Gavin learns from Maya that it is the only existing functional prototype. Gavin goes on to share that he has remembered that the Chip is not in 10,000 BC and must be in 2021 but they have no way to retrieve it. This revelation appears to upset Maya.

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However, Sam says they can get a message to Gavin, Sam and 10,000 BC Ty in the future using the tar pits where Scott works in 2021. This perks up Maya’s interest. The group uses the entertainment industry ‘message in a bottle’ trope, sending Scott the details of the help they need.

The other aspect of the episode is the title “Fire Storm” when Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), interrupting their discussion, points out the huge wild fire which forces a mandatory evacuation of the village fort. Scott, Izzy, Gavin and Maya head to the famous La Brea tar pit number nine which is where Scott is working in 2021. They drop the message in a bottle despite Scott’s concern that his future self may not be be willing to help. Viewers know that Scott was a ‘pot head’ who kicked the habit only after he arrived in 10,000 BC

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In 2021, Sam of the future and Ty of the past are left at the restaurant parking lot trying to figure out a way to find Gavin. After nearly being run over, they are with no prospects or luck whatsoever.

Thinking that all hope may be lost, Gavin’s cell phone suddenly goes off with a signal fort them. Low and behold, it’s Scott who is trying to reach Gavin by cell phone with the ‘message in a bottle’ all the way from 10,000 BC!

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They proceed to Scott’s apartment where Ty and Sam explain to him what has been happening and that Gavin has been kidnapped. Scott believes them wanting to know if it’s time travel according to “The Terminator” or “Back To The Future” rules? This is an interesting aspect of the episode that only time travel story lovers will understand and appreciate.

Scott says he will only give the message to Gavin because he’s “seen every time travel movie ever made” and without Gavin, only his cell phone as proof, Ty seems like the villain to have stolen it because Scott comments on his British accent, referring the classic 1960 film “The Time Machine“. One of my favorite films with English characters based on the work of H.G. Wells.
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Segue to 10,000 BC where the smoke from the wild fire is thickening during the evacuation from the village fort. Even constant complainer Judah (Damien Fotiou) is being cooperative! With the winds shifting, it appears the village fort will be burnt to the ground unless a group led by Ruth (Chantelle Jamieson), Veronica (Lily Santiago), Leyla (Edyll Ismail) and Lucas (Josh McKenzie) who can act on their plan to release the water from their dam on the river to create a fire break and save their village fort home!

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Gavin, Izzy, Scott and Maya out together to locate a dual colored wormhole portal aurora. Gavin, still suffering from the memory elixir made from Psilocybin mushrooms Maya gave him in the last episode, stops with Izzy and has a flashback of memories that include Maya and her interest in Scott’s archeological knowledge documented in a white paper in the hands of the government contractors called “Universal Flora – A Study of What We Leave Behind”, the Time Travel Computer Chip, a person’s arm with three scars on it, and a dual colored wormhole portal aurora. Scott shares with Gavin and Izzy that his archeological paper was never published wondering why the government would be interested in it?

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Scott tells Izzy and Gavin to head back while he continues on to get Maya who is near the river. During the ensuing separation from Gavin and Izzy, Maya makes her move and kidnaps Scott taking him to the military base.

Showing her true self to the viewers, we are now certain that Maya is only trying to obtain the Time Travel Computer Chip from Gavin in the future and Scott’s research knowledge for her own evil purposes.

We then learn in some detail that Scott archeological knowledge is somehow critical to Maya’s plan which he discovered when he observed three scars on her arm precisely as Gavin had described. Maya returns to Izzy and Gavin without Scott stating he was captured but she escaped after trying to fight them off. A bloody wound on Maya’s forehead convinces Gavin and Izzy.

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In 2021, Helena explains to Gavin that he was a willing participant in the terrible things that happened, including production of military fighter jets as time machines that Gavin flew into other time periods.

As things unraveled for the military with Gavin changing his mind about participating, Maya erased Gavin’s memory and ultimately came to Helena, his sister for help. Together Gavin and Helena stole the prototype Time Travel Computer Chip from Maya. Helena proves this by taking Gavin to a bank safety deposit box that requires both their thumbprints. Once opened, inside they find the prototype Time Travel Computer Chip! Driving to a lake near Los Angeles, Helena shares the rest of the story with Gavin; that it was their father who invented time travel, what was required to do so, including the only prototype which they stole to stop the misuse of their fathers time travel technology in 1965, the main Time Travel Facility.

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Now desperately sought by Maya, who not only hijacked the program but the process of setting up Time Travel Facilities in multiple eras as well that became the root cause of the original Wormhole Sinkhole, everything that has transpired and the deaths of untold numbers of innocent people.

Instead, in 2021 Sam and Ty show up and convince Gavin the Time Travel Chip must be taken to 10,000 BC in order to save Eve per the ‘message in the bottle’. Helena says this is a mistake, however, Ty also wants to return to his wife Paara and volunteers to take the Chip back to 10,000 BC. Little do they all know that this is exactly what Maya wants then to do.

As the episode winds down to the end Veronica has saved day by exploding a hand made bomb and firing at it with a pistol all of which was her idea. Veronica damages the dam, releasing it’s water to extinguish the fire!

Lucas, who is mighty proud of Veronica because Veronica saved their home in 10,000 BC. The cinematography of the shot with the water escaping from the dam is another great image in the series that I enjoyed!

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We then find ourselves with Sam and Lucas as Ty arrives back at the village fort with the Time Travel Computer Chip. The final sequence features Maya looking at them knowing that Ty has the Chip!

Therefore, exploring the secret Time Travel Facility base in 10,000 BC and learning the fate of our heroes , viewers will have to wait until next weeks episode called “The Road Home Part 1” to find out. See you next week!!

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Lastly, viewers are eager for details as we approach the series finale since they have not seen main characters Eve, Levi (Nicholas Gonzales), Riley (Veronica St. Clair), Josh (Jack Martin) or supporting characters Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo), Silas (Mark Lee) or Maya’s daughter Petra (Asmara Feik) for some time. A question to consider is if viewers will we see them again, or will the series ‘write around’ their characters since it is known from several David Appelbaum interviews that some actors were unavailable due to scheduling change delays after the pandemic.

Join us the next two weeks on X (Twitter) to enjoy a fun live tweet for the final season of La Brea when we will find out the secrets of season three in 10,000 BC in order to finally find “The Road Home” Back To The Future for our heroes trapped in time!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea season three as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments!

We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

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Kenn of #TeamWHR
January 30, 2024
La Brea Review Maya Mysterious Maven Means Map Manifestations!
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Maya is the third episode of season three of La Brea. The episode makes an important pivot in the story arc for viewers to learn more about an individual named Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware) and how this development impacts the series final episodes. Maya is the person responsible for Gavin’s (Eoin Macken) memory loss because he became aware of a time travel military operation to 10,000 BC during the time he and Levi (Nicholas Gonzales) were in the Air Force together in their past lives in the future of the twenty first century.

As we will discover, Maya, military code named “Sierra“, apparently has misgivings about the orders she received to erase portions of Gavin’s memory that caused him to suffer visions and hallucinations that led to his bouts with alcohol abuse and estrangement from his friends and family.

A real question viewers should contemplate is whether Gavin should trust Maya at all?

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In this episode Maya apparently seeks out Gavin in 10,000 BC to correct the wrongdoings she imposed on his life as well as planning to infiltrate the military base where it is suspected that Levi, Petra (Asmara Feik) and perhaps Eve (Natalie Zea) are being held hostage in an unknown time period.

On a parallel time track in 2021, viewers will recall that Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) was sucked into a wormhole portal aurora that sent him to early September 2021 where he links up with Sam (Jon Seda) and Gavin prior to the wormhole sinkhole as originally depicted in the pilot episode. Their mission is to locate and infiltrate the secret military Time Travel Facility base in 2021 that may be at the center of all the time disturbances.

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Major outstanding questions exist in the time periods encompassing the third season. First is whether Eve, Levi and Petra are prisoner in 10,000 BC or has the military used a wormhole portal at their Time Travel Facility to take them, and perhaps others Back To The Future? Second is will Ty, Gavin and Sam in 2021 be able to rescue their family and friends without adversely affecting realities across time?

Much like the famous Back To The Future film trilogy where changes made in the past changed the future, an important consideration is will our heroes make changes in the past that will cause irrevocable changes rippling through time affecting the future forever?

Or is it that whatever happens is what was supposed to occur, therefore not disrupting the future timelines. Could it be that changes made in the future of 2021 (prior to the events in the pilot episode) result in the wormhole time portal sinkholes never happening in the first place? Whatever direction creator David Appelbaum will ultimately choose will be revealed over the course of the remaining episodes of La Brea!
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The third episode of season three was written by Rob Wright and directed by Cherie Nowlan opening with 2021 pre wormhole Sam and Gavin at a coffee shop restaurant with Ty from 10,000 BC where the three are discussing how to infiltrate the secret time travel military base to obtain answers on how they can save their family and friends trapped in 10,000 BC.

2021 Gavin, still suffering from gaps in his memory, says he doesn’t remember any secret program he was involved with about quantum physics (time travel) or anything else for that matter, although Gavin says he has been on the base “1,000 times”.

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Ty assures Gavin that his 10,000 BC self was recalling details about the base and they must proceed there to find the connection to the wormhole portal auroras that have caused this disaster stating “the lives of the people you love depend on this”.

Gavin says he needs use the restroom and excuses himself. Actually Gavin is suffering from alcohol withdrawals and escapes to go find some booze. Ty and Sam end up having to track Gavin down. Naturally, they find Gavin in a local bar drinking.

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Back in 10,000 BC, Gavin is drawing a map from the village fort to the military air base for Sam and Scott (Rohan Mirchananey). Telling them it’s the only action open to them if they hope to find Maya, Eve, Levi, Petra, as well as Riley (Veronica St. Clair) and Josh (Jack Martin) who jumped into the dual colored, dual time travel destination aurora wormhole portal in an attempt to get to a hospital somewhere in time to save Riley who had been wounded by a Velociraptor in the season opening episode “Sierra“.

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It must be mentioned in our analysis that the cinematography of all the 10,000 BC episodes have been and still are superb. Each is replete with beautiful scenes of the wilderness of Australia where much of the series was filmed.

These scenes, in conjunction with realistic dinosaurs and the time travel portals make the series a wonder to behold each week that many viewers, including this editor, will certainly miss.

Gavin and Sam assure Scott that their mission is only reconnaissance at this point heading out from the safety of the village fort to perform their task of locating the mysterious time travel military base which appears to have been the root cause of all the troubles our hero survivors have experienced.

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Speaking of dinosaurs, on the route to the time travel military base that Gavin has pieced together from returning memory fragments, he and Sam encounter a huge prehistoric rhinoceros that is intent on stomping them to smithereens!

Running for their lives, the only thing that saves them is that they unknowingly enter a minefield, one of which explodes, killing the rhino thereby saving their lives. The good news is that they are on the right track because only a military base would require minefields as a defensive perimeter.

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Fortunately, Gavin and Sam find a safe path through the minefield thanks to someone who left stacked stones marking a pathway out.

The bad news is the minefield explosion apparently alerts members of the secret time travel program from the military base. Unfortunately this is precisely what happens when military helicopters are soon observed overhead followed by ground troops who easily capture Sam and Gavin holding them at gunpoint and tying them to a tree.

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Back To The Future in 2021 Ty seeks out his estranged wife Sophie (Annabelle Stephenson) who wants nothing to do with him. The encounter reinforces Ty’s resolve to do the right thing to correct his past mistakes of criticizing her, blaming her for their marriage problems.

Viewers cannot help but wonder if Ty of the past will be able to repair his own challenges with his wife of the future? We shall learn more about Ty and Sophie later in the episode.

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Meanwhile Ty and 2021 Sam locate Gavin who plans on boozing it up in a local bar rather than face the difficult choice of infiltration of the time travel base.

Ty shares a story from his past that caused a disaster for his wife in the future but is unable to get her to listen to him any longer.

Gavin agrees to attend an alcoholic anonymous meeting where Ty’s wife will be to share a story in the AA meeting that will change her life for the better.

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Segue to 10,000 BC where we are with soon to be parents Veronica (Lily Santiago) and Lucas (Josh McKenzie) who are chatting about Lucas’s desire to join Ruth (Chantelle Jamieson) in the village fort leadership council.

Viewers will recall that Veronica and Lucas are planning on staying in the past since neither had much of a future in 2021. Interestingly, Ruth believes Veronica is a leader and suggests she join the village fort council which at first does not sit well with Lucas. Later Lucas realizes his selfishness and embraces the idea.

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Back to Gavin and Sam tied to a tree, Maya also heard the landmine explosion and has been watching them the entire time when they were captured in 10,000 BC by armed soldiers from the time travel military base located nearby.

Cutting Gavin and Sam loose, Maya is as surprised to see Gavin as he is seeing her. For some reason not delineated at this time Maya decides to share details of the military weaponizing the use of time travel to be able to control events in history to their liking.

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Gavin, having learned too much about the military use of time travel was subjected to biological memory erasure by Maya to keep the dark secret from being revealed to anyone. Maya, disgusted with the corruption of the powerful time travel secret military program, says that she planned on becoming a whistleblower but was captured with her daughter Petra and sent to 10,000 BC for imprisonment to keep their military secrets safe.

Gavin shares with Maya that he has had fragments of his memory return about why the military are tampering with past history timelines. Maya then shares that she may be able to restore Gavin’s memory before they enter the time travel base in 10,000 BC.

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Maya further reveals that she is an expert in psychology operations. She makes Gavin an elixir of potentially poisonous Psilocybin mushrooms to expand his mind thereby unlocking his memories.

Gavin drinks the mixture causing a flood of memories related to his classified time travel military operations that includes the dual colored wormhole portal and a digital safe combination where an advanced computer chip that controls time travel is located. Gavin passes out and is taken to the village fort to recover.

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In a side story, we are with Leyla (Edyll Ismail) and Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) who have bonded as result of survivor the pterodactyls together in the previous episode “Don’t Look Up“. This teamwork is a factor that will become important when a prehistoric boar attacks them and Leyla becomes trapped in a tar pit which the series namesake is famous for.

Fortunately, both escaped, further strengthening their bond of friendship that serves them well later when the boar returns and they work together to kill the beast. In the end it becomes apparent that Leyla and Izzy are becoming more than friends.

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At the bar in 2021, Ty and Sam convince Gavin to help infiltrate the secret time travel military base with Ty using psychological techniques of Ty’s mistakes with his wife to encourage him. Gavin overcomes his fears and addiction when Ty shares that it was his own failures that forced his wife to drink excessively and drive, ultimately putting an innocent victim into a coma when she had an drunken auto accident.

The story stuns Gavin back to reality. Sam, Ty and Gavin head out to infiltrate the secret time travel military base but first stop by an alcoholics anonymous meeting helping Ty’s wife avoid the drunken auto accident.

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As the episode approaches the end, we are in 10,000 BC with Sam, Izzy and Maya as Gavin regains consciousness from his mind expanding experience that helped him regain more of his erased memories.

Sam, Gavin and Maya come to the conclusion that whoever is behind all this wants the information that has been locked up in Gavin’s mind. All of them vow to find out who it is and why in the future while they are in 10,000 BC.

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The final sequence finds us Ty in 2021 after he helps his ex-wife Sophie decide to seek therapy saving her from the horrible automobile accident in the original timeline.

They hug and Ty wishes her good luck in the future, now that she has a future to live again.

Viewers feel good about this development knowing that Ty has corrected one of the nightmares from his life that has plagued him for a long time. More importantly, Ty has changed the future. What are the ramifications of Ty altering the future? We simply do not know yet.

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Gavin, Sam and Ty head towards the secret time travel military base. Unknown to them, they are being followed by an enigmatic woman named Helena played by famous Australian actress Emily Wiseman in a guest starring role.

All of this leaves the task of infiltration of the secret bases in 10,000 BC and 2021 until next weeks episode called “Fire Storm”. See you then!

Join us on each of the next three weeks on X (Twitter) to enjoy a fun live tweet for the final season of La Brea when we will find out the secrets of season three in 10,000 BC in order to hopefully find “The Road Home” Back To The Future for our heroes trapped in time!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea season three as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments!

We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

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Kenn of #TeamWHR
January 23, 2024
La Brea Review Don’t Look Up – Look Around For Pterodactyl Eggs in the Ground!
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The second episode of season three “Don’t Look Up” represents a major pivot to the story arc after the superb third season opener of La Brea “Sierra”.

The episode title is an ironic play on words for vicious pterodactyls which attack our wormhole survivors from the sky in 10,000 BC. The scenes are realistically presented and artfully reminding the viewers of pterodactyls as seen in the hit film series Jurassic Park and Jurassic World.

In “Don’t Look Up”, since many members of the cast are no longer recurring or regular characters in La Brea season three as we shared in our analysis of episode one “Sierra“, series creator David Appelbaum discussed casting challenges during the pandemic during his recent interview with TVLine on “actor availability issues, There are so many situations and opportunities that come out through production that you write towards and you embrace in a pandemic and across a 17-hour time gap, can present problems, but that’s the job. You figure it out, and it is what it is. I think we’ve been able to hold onto what the heart of the show has always been, which is about this family trying to get back to each other. This is an action-adventure story about scale and scope and entertainment, and making it really emotional and making it exciting are the things that we’ve always held true to”.

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“Don’t Look Up” dovetails the first episode which was aptly named for a person referred to by that military call sign “Sierra” that involved Gavin (Eoin Macken) and Levi’s (Nicholas Gonzales) past life during their armed forces service earlier in the twenty-first century. Sierra’s actual name is Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware). No doubt we will learn more about the importance of Maya in season three episode three that is aptly named “Maya”.
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This exciting episode was written by Christopher Hollier and directed by Cherie Nowlan opens with Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) sitting in a restaurant called ‘The Sand Dollar’ somewhere near a Southern California beach subsequent to being transported by a dual colored aurora from 10,000 BC to early September 2021 in Los Angeles.

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Ty’s arrival in the future of 2021 is a scant few weeks before the original wormhole sinkhole portal that began the adventure over two years ago.

The waitress (Shawnee Jones) brings Ty beer saying he needs it after Ty had ordered virtually everything on their menu. Ty blithely says “it’s just nice to eat something you don’t have to catch” which puts an inquisitive look on the waitresses face. The sincerely friendly waitress presses Ty on what he is deep in thought about; “a break up?” Ty shares it’s a bit more complicated than that, indirectly relating he just got back to Los Angeles after a trip where he was forced to leave his friends as well as the woman he loved.

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The scene segues to the fort village where Paara’s (Tonantzin Carmelo) second in command is a warrior named Ruth (Chantelle Jamieson). Interestingly, the hierarchy in the fort is female with Ruth, her daughter Leyla (Edyll Ismail) and a female warrior (Sharon Brooks) now in charge of the fort. As is appropriate, the men follow Ruth’s orders without question during Paara’s absence.

With Gavin’s and the survivors allies Ty in the future of 2021, Levi taken prisoner by the military soldiers, and Fort Leader Paara away for the time being, things quickly go from bad to worse because Ruth does not trust Gavin and his “Sky People” like Paara did. Viewers will learn why Ruth feels this way was as the episode continues.

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The relationship between Sam (Jon Seda) and Gavin compounds the growing friction in the episode. Gavin tries to reason with Sam that his son Josh (Jack Martin) and Sam’s daughter Riley (Veronica St. Clair) may have been (were) sucked into the red side of the dual red / blue aurora wormhole portal that sent Ty ‘Back To The Future’ of 2021. Sam will not cooperate. This represents a juxtaposition of their characters with Gavin having become reasonable and Sam recalcitrant and obstreperous. Gavin shares with Sam that he believes Maya ‘Sierra’ Schmidt may be able to confirm that Josh and Riley could have been sent to the same time period as Eve (Natalie Zea) who disappeared in time last season. Sam storms out of the village fort.

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Meanwhile our young lovers, and parents to be Veronica (Lily Santiago) and Lucas (Josh McKenzie) are with Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), other survivors including the constantly complaining Judah (Damien Fotiou). They have all been assigned gardening duties by Ruth. Naturally, Judah is not happy with his work assignment forcing Lucas to tell him to “shut it”.

Veronica says if Judah keeps complaining they will “kick his ass”. The fun part of this interaction is that the Judah character provides good comic stress relief for viewers due to his constant bitching about everything and anything!

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Outside the village fort, a warning horn sound is heard. We find Sam with the body of a dead villager. Ruth demands to know why Sam has even been allowed to touch the deceased person whose body limbs have been twisted and mangled as if from a fall from a great height, perhaps from a tree.

Gavin suggests that the village person was accidentally killed. Ruth suspects someone from the nearby military from the future that kidnapped Levi and Maya’s daughter Petra (Asmara Feik) killed the man. Both ideas prove to be incorrect. We will learn soon enough it was pterodactyls that killed the man.

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Ruth orders everyone to search for clues. Veronica and Scott (Rohan Mirchananey) are paired up and they discuss Ruth who is the village fort tyrant. Veronica says to Scott that everybody needs to calm down and things will be alright.

Scott disagrees sharing with Veronica that Ruth has a bad temper and personality similar to Judah. When asked how he knows, Scott says he learned Ruth killed her husband stabbing him with a knife, dumping hubby in the river. We must assume that Scott found out about Ruth when Scott visited the fort village in the past. Veronica’s eyes get larger!

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Back at the village fort, Sam tries to leave to find Riley near the area of the dual colored aurora wormhole portal where she disappeared. Sam is stopped by village warriors guarding the gate.

Inevitably Sam’s bellicose behavior causes a fight to break out resulting in Sam and Gavin being locked up by mean ole’ Ruth.

Later we will learn that Ruth has good reasons for being so stern with the “Sky People” who do not follow orders like Sam and Gavin.

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Back To The Future in 2021, Ty has tracked down Sam while he is on duty at the hospital where he works asking for his help.

Sam thinks Ty is crazy when he gives Sam a list of things and events that will transpire in the next 24 hours including details about his daughter Riley that no one should be aware of.

Thank goodness Ty has a great memory for dates and events or we would all be up the proverbial creek with even a frakking paddle!

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Back in the fort, Izzy is practicing self defense with a bow and arrows. Leyla confronts Izzy, rudely snatching the bow from her.

Ruth is observing Izzy and Leyla bickering, and chastises them both, ultimately orders Leyla to teach Izzy how to use the weapon.

Reluctantly, but nevertheless as a product of Ruth forcing Leyla and Izzy to work together, they all set aside their differences and become friends. In the meantime Lucas requests that Ruth release Sam and Gavin.

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Suddenly, as Lucas and Ruth are discussing the release of Sam and Gavin, the village fort tower guard falls to the ground dead.

Nearby we hear the horrible sounds of flying pterodactyls screeching as they decide to turn their attack on Ruth and Lucas who escape within a inch of their lives!

This disaster proves to everyone that there are more important things than bickering; such as the Ouroboros spirals Scott and Veronica have observed nearby.

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They then learn that the pterodactyls lay their eggs in these spirals AND one such spiral is in the proximity of the village.

This is what precipitated the pterodactyl attacks in the first place. How and why? Because our resident genius Scott remembered that Ouroboros spirals are really their egg nests.

What the pterodactyls are doing is protecting their eggs in these spirals. Next we find out one spiral is in the proximity of the village fort. All of this motivates the village fort people and our survivors to learn to work together to move the pterodactyl eggs outside the vicinity of the fort.

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Ultimately, by making them all safer, a kumbaya moment is achieved ending the tension between the two disparate groups of human beings separated by 12,000 years of history.

Ruth shares with Lucas and Riley that her grandfather was a “Sky Person” from the 1960’s as the villagers refer to people who were deposited in their time by the wormhole sinkhole portals.

Ruth is observed giving Veronica and Lucas a small rocket her grandfather had cherished. We shall see if that rocket may play a role in a future episode.

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After successfully luring the pterodactyls away from the fort, our heroes find a hiding place to observe as the flying beasts examine their egg in the new Ouroboros Scott, Veronica and Lucas made to make certain their offspring is safe and sound.

Once this is accomplished, Gavin decides to seek out two people to make amends for his past behavioral outbursts when he was an alcoholic and not providing for his family.

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First Gavin finds Izzy asking her to forgive his former behavior.

Second is Sam with whom Gavin shares that the military base may be in the same location in 10,000 BC where Levi and Petra are.

Additionally, Gavin believes the base is in the same place as it was in 2021 with Maya ‘Sierra’ Schmidt there. Is there an alternate Time Travel Facility at the military base in 10,000 BC, and was Gavin involved in the future but somehow lost his memory of it ? Also, is this where Riley, Josh and perhaps Eve are? Most likely. We shall see.

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As the episode winds down, 2021 Sam visits Ty at the restaurant. Sam demands to know how Ty knew about the future events he mentioned. Ty, to an incredulous Sam, reveals the entire story to the 2021 version of Sam.

Both agree to visit the Los Angeles air base with someone who was stationed there. Who could that be viewers wonder? You guessed it, the person is none other than 2021 Gavin who has been arrested on a drunken binge!

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The final sequence finds us with Ty and Sam who bail out a 2021 Gavin from the Los Angeles county jail after his latest alcoholic binge (pre wormhole) caused by Gavin’s visions The three agree to find the secret base in 2021!

La Brea items for our consideration: Will Ty be successful in 2021 with the Sam and Gavin of that time period? What happened at the air force base that caused this all to happen? Will Gavin be able to recover his memories of “Sierra”? For these and other answers, tune in next week for episode three named “Maya” or the military code name “Sierra” to find out if Ty, Gavin and Sam will be successful in helping their friends and family trapped in 10,000 BC!

Join us on each of the next four weeks on X (Twitter) to enjoy a fun live tweet for the final season of La Brea when we will find out the secrets of season three in 10,000 BC in order to hopefully find “The Road Home” Back To The Future!
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We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

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Kenn of #TeamWHR
January 16, 2024
La Brea Review The Journey to Find Eve via Sierra With Potato Power!
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Subsequent to two full superb seasons since we began our journey from the present in 2021 when the Harris family heroes and many others fell into a wormhole sinkhole to 10,000 BC trapping them all in the past. We discovered that meddling from a further distant time in the future from the year 2076 has occurred with unknown impacts on the timeline.

The second season ended with a two part episodes called “The Journey” on a cliffhanger as Eve (Natalie Zea) is sucked into a wormhole portal to time periods unknown just after the Time Travel Facility in 10,000 BC is destroyed in the previous episode “The Swarm”.

The consequence of the facilities destruction is that new wormhole portals opened up in the skies creating visible “auroras” in the sky that deposit dinosaurs from various prehistoric eras. These dinosaurs are now roaming the countryside including vicious Velociraptors, Tyrannosaurus Rex and others that end up destroying the survivor’s encampment in 10,000 B.C.

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With La Brea renewed for a third and final season, series creator David Appelbaum updated fans on how the third season came together prior to the second season finale. “At its core, the show continues to be about this divided family trying to get back together and make it home. That’s really always at the center of the show, and that will continue to be there. But it’s also a show about survival, and can we survive in this inhospitable place of 10,000 B.C.”

“I’ve always had in mind an idea for where things would end, and where we wanted to bring things back at the very end with our characters, with certain tent poles to end the seasons and some major story moments.”

“But I’ve always kept myself open to new ideas, because you bring in a team of writers who are all really smart people with their own takes, and you get notes from the producers and the network, you just have to stay fluid in that process. But it’s also important, as the creator, to have certain milestones that are rock solid. It’s a real balancing game that you play.”

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Past season La Brea adventures have encompassed trips from the Time Travel Facility to 1988 where a young Gavin (Eoin Macken) finished growing up until he met and fell in love with Eve.

Fathering two children Josh (Jack Martin) and Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), things went sideways for Gavin including alcohol abuse subsequent to experiencing visions from 10,000 BC that everyone believed were alcohol induced hallucinations.

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During the past two seasons, both Gavin and Levi (Nicholas Gonzalez) traveled from 10,000 BC to the future all the while attempting to save Eve, family, and new found friends trapped in the past with dinosaurs and hostile individuals whose goals could change reality forever!

The time travel adventures took us to 1988 where the Harris family had ventured to ensure that Gavin would grow up as he was supposed to in order to avoid a time paradox that might result in all of them becoming nonexistent in present timeline.

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Along the way we became invested in the lives of all La Brea survivors. As with millions of viewers across time, we too ventured on an exciting emotional roller coaster ride adventure. Surviving antagonists mentioned in our previous analysis evolved into ever expanding wormhole time travel sinkholes that have adversely impacted hundreds, if not thousands of lives across the multiple timelines.

Season three started airing January 09, 2024 with an episode named “Sierra” that revealed the title came from a person Gavin knows from his past where we will discover how, and if, our time traveling friends will ever be able to find their way home?
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The episode opens with Gavin still suffering from visions that date back to his time with Izzy, Josh, Levi and Eve at home before everyone ended up trapped in 10,000 BC well before the experiences of the future now the past in La Brea.

In the present of 10,000 BC reality Gavin is in possession of a laptop computer that may hold the key to lead his family and all the survivors toward a new way home.

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“Sierra” is an extremely fast moving, absolutely enjoyable episode written by David Appelbaum and was directed by Ron Underwood.

The focus is on the characters that are known to be returning in season three. These include Eve, Gavin, Levi, Izzy, Josh, Sam (Jon Seda), Ty (Chiké Okonkwo), Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo), Riley (Veronica St. Clair), Lucas (Josh McKenzie), Veronica (Lily Santiago), Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney), Judah (Damien Fotiou), Silas (Mike Lee), Petra (Asmara Feik), and a new character named Maya Schmidt (Claudia Ware), code named “Sierra”, for which the episode is named.

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By their absence, we learn the future visitor’s from 2076 appear to have either been killed in the Time Travel Facility explosion or perhaps some escaped to other time periods like Eve. The actors who are not returning include Ella (Michelle Vergara Moore), James Mallet (Jonno Roberts), Gavin’s mother Dr. Caroline Clark (Melissa Neal) and an evil scheming doctor named Kira (Simone McAullay).

With the exception of Ella, each of these characters were competing for control of the Time Travel Facilty that Rebecca Aldridge (Ming-Zhu Hii) built before she passed away in 10,000 BC.

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Lucas and Veronica rally the survivors to build protective barriers and large fires in an effort to keep the dinosaurs away.

We learn that the couple are pregnant and receive the sincere well wishes from everyone in the encampment.

During this episode, the bond between Veronica and Lucas grows stronger are they look forward in mutual terror at the thought of becoming parents!

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The La Brea survivor’s hopes of having escaped the destructive dinosaurs become a nightmare when several of the creatures come upon the encampment and destroy it sending our heroes fleeing for their lives.

The dinosaur fighting scenes are well done and realistic looking as the prehistoric creatures destroy the survivor’s encampment.
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Prior to the destruction of the encampment, Izzy and Gavin discuss how, with all the wormhole aurora portals apparently closed, will they ever find Eve, let alone get back to 2021? Gavin, always the optimist tells Izzy that he believes that the laptop he managed to take from the Time Travel Facility before it’s destruction is the key. Izzy is doubtful of, or if, they will ever find Eve or be able to return home to their correct time.

Izzy seeks out Ty for some guidance before the dinosaurs attack. To make matters worse, the laptop is left behind during the scramble to flee from the dinosaurs.

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Gavin, Levi and Sam leads the group to the safety of Paara’s and Ty’s village fort. Viewers will recall that Paara and Ty were married last season.

While all are out looking for vegetables and other items of interest, Gavin experiences more visions from his past that includes a woman code named name “Sierra”. In discussing this, Gavin finds out that Levi remembers the events of that day from the past too.

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Unfortunately, while out exploring and professing their growing love for each other, Josh and Riley encounters a Velociraptor and are attacked.

Riley, while attempting to protect Josh, is seriously injured and is taken back to the fort where a distraught Sam sutures and bandages his daughter hoping that a life threatening infection does not kill her.

Riley regains consciousness telling her father that the internal and external injuries likely mean she is not going to survive devastating Sam.

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Josh shares that Riley saved his life during the Raptor incident while Sam asks that Ty and Gavin to excuse themselves so that he can be alone with his daughter Riley.

Outside Ty tells Gavin that Paara and Silas are away from the safety of the village fort. Silas and Paara are in process of patching up relationships that were damaged when the Time Travel Facility troublemakers turned the peaceful inhabitants against each other or enslaved them for their purposes of saing the future by raiding the past for botanical specimens.

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Levi, who has been missing from the fort, shows up with a peace offering for Gavin after he went back to the encampment to retrieve the laptop computer which incidentally has a dead battery. This leads to a fun sequence with Scott and Petra who have a table full of potatoes with electric probes stuck into them to provide battery power to the laptop.

This may be a science fiction time travel show, however the creators wove science fact into this episode, like the Baghdad Battery of the Egyptians from thousands of years ago, it is proven scientific fact that a Potato Battery can provide electrical power as well!
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During this sequence Petra shares with Scott that she and her mother ran away from the military base operating in 10,000 BC because they were “bad people” there. Later we learn that Petra’s mother may be with whom Gavin knows from his memory visions when he was a government agent. Scott powers the laptop and Gavin notices that someone is communicating with them on screen. It’s someone who says on the screen communication software that she can help Gavin find Eve if he finds “Sierra”.

Meanwhile, Scott is able to trace the messages to a signal he tracked using a map on the laptop. Gavin, Ty, Levi, Petra and Scott set out to find the source of the signal received on the laptop computer. The group splits up with Gavin seeking out Levi to to talk about his latest visions from the past.

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Levi helps Gavin recall that it was the day he met someone named “Sierra” who tells Gavin the government is not “done with you”. The woman he worked with is Sierra, a call sign communications signal.

Levi tells Gavin that Sierra is also known as Maya Schmidt who happens to be Petra’s mother! What we do not yet know is how does this all calculate into Gavin ‘s life as a government agent?

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The episode draws to a conclusion with Gavin and Levi running off in different directions to find Petra to ask her some questions about her mother.

Levi finds Petra but both are hit with a dart that contains some sort of tranquilizer that knocks them both out.

Before losing consciousness, Levi in a blur, sees two men approaching him who appear to be in uniforms of some sort.

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The final scenes find us with Gavin, Ty, and Scott who while searching for Levi and Petra, find Petra’s locket on the ground likely left there on purpose as a clue for Gavin, Ty and Scott.

Suddenly our three heroes observe a helicopter that appears flying overhead. Ty indicates that the helicopter came from the military base that Petra and her mother had escaped from. It becomes obvious that Levi and Petra have been captured by the nefarious military forces operating in 10,000 BC.

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Next, Ty takes them to a dual colored aurora time portal wormhole that is open nearby. This time travel factor was discussed near the end of season two when Gavin’s mother, in conjunction with other aspects of the Time Travel Facility, explained that a dual aurora wormhole portal opens to two distinct destinations in time.

Finally, Izzy, Josh and Sam arrive with Riley on a stretcher. Josh, knowing that Riley is dying, decides to take her through the portal to find a hospital to save her life. Ty jumps to stop Josh but instead is pulled into the blue part of the aurora time travel portal. When Ty awakes he is in 2021 on September 21, a few weeks BEFORE the original wormhole sinkhole opened in the pilot episode of La Brea.

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Final questions to consider: Where do Josh and Riley end up, and when? Are they with Eve and Sierra? What is the time period? Will Riley survive? At this point we do not know!

Tune in next week for “Don’t Look Up” and please join us each of the next five weeks on X (Twitter) to enjoy a fun live tweet for the final season of La Brea when we will find out the secrets of season three in 10,000 BC in order to hopefully find “The Road Home” Back To The Future!
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January 10, 2024
La Brea Review The Wedding and The Swarm Where Being Cornered by a Saber-Tooth is the Norm!
Welcome Back La Brea and Wormhole Time Travel Science Fiction Lovers!

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It has been eighteen exciting months, two full superb seasons since we began our journey from the present tense future in September 2021 back to 10,000 BC when our hero Harris family, and many others fell into a wormhole sinkhole, trapping them all in the past due to meddling from a further distant time in the future from the year 2076.

During the past twenty episodes our adventures have encompassed trips to 1988 where Gavin (Eoin Macken) finished growing up until he met and fell in love with Eve (Natalie Zea), fathering two children Josh (Jack Martin) and Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) until he began drinking heavily subsequent to experiencing visions from 10,000 BC that Gavin believed were hallucinations.

During Gavin’s period of alcoholism and terrifying visions from the past, Eve was consoled by his best friend Levi (Nicholas Gonzalez)whom she entered into an adulterous affair with assuming that Gavin would never recover from his alcohol addiction.

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During the past two years, both Gavin and Levi traveled to 10,000 BC attempting to save Eve and the children. Their time travel adventures took us back to 1988 where the Harris family had ventured to ensure that Gavin would grow up as he was supposed to to avoid a time paradox that might result in all of them becoming nonexistent in present time.

Levi decided to stay in 1988 after the events of the episode of the same name when Eve admitted that she was still in love with Gavin, but returned to 10,000 BC when his wife was killed as a result of an accident with the wormhole sinkholes occurred driving Levi to seek revenge when he was able to return to the prehistoric past, but from 1998, not 1988. .

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Along the way we became involved with, invested in the lives of the survivors, and learning that others including James Mallet (Jonno Roberts), Gavin’s mother Dr. Caroline Clark (Melissa Neal) and a doctor named Kira (Simone McAullay) were all competing for control of the Lazarus Time Travel Facility that Rebecca Aldridge (Ming-Zhu Hii) claimed she built before she passed away in 10,000 BC. Viewers have been taken on an emotional roller coaster ride with the surviving antagonists mentioned above with ever expanding wormhole time travel sinkholes that have adversely impacted hundreds, if not thousands of lives across the timelines.

The most interesting aspect of “The Wedding” and “The Storm” episodes is that we finally learn who of the future visitor’s from 2076 should not be trusted and there is more than one! “The Wedding” and “The Storm” set a foundation, in effect a two hour movie for the season two finale called “The Journey” to be aired February 28!
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The episode opens with Caroline and Silas (Mark Lee) who are examining time travel notes that dovetail the book of time travel equations that can be used to repair the equipment in the Lazarus Time Travel Facility built by visitors from the year 2076.

While Silas is reviewing the notes he is shot by someone with a silencer pistol who steals the notes. We do not know who this person is at point nor if Silas has survived.

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“The Wedding” is the eleventh excellent episode of La Brea written by David Appelbaum and Jerome Schwartz and was directed by Tara Miele primarily focused on a joyous event; the marriage of Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) and Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo). The fun part is that the bride and groom were appropriately dressed for the ceremony in their finest garments!

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In fact virtually everyone at the wedding looked perfectly dressed as if it was the present day. How is that possible in prehistoric times? Simple! A Hollywood wardrobe truck just happened to have fallen through the wormhole sinkhole landing safely in 10,000 BC. Naturally, this is a perfect plot ploy for our heroes and villains alike who all look rather dashing in their wedding clothes!

While everyone is getting dressed for the wedding ceremony, Ty seeks out Eve and Gavin explaining to them that Kira told him that James is apparently planning to undo the loss of his young son Isaiah (Diesel La Torraca) who went to 1988 to become Gavin. Ty also shares that his psychotherapy of James confirms that he is obsessed with a project named “Blue Moon” that is somehow related to a drawing that Isaiah made before he went to 1988.

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This of course would change all history resulting in Gavin never meeting Eve who would never have Josh and Izzy as children as well as other devastating changes to the timeline in 10,000 BC and in the future impacting everyone involved.

Ty shares that he has invited James to the wedding in order to give them a chance to question James and get to the bottom of the “Blue Moon” mystery. Levi gets wind of the discussion Ty shared with them and requests that Eve support his plan to kill James. Eve is reluctant, stating that she gave Gavin her word to allow Gavin to question James.

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Meanwhile, Lucas (Josh McKenzie) and Veronica (Lily Santiago) are studying the book with time travel equations that everyone needs in order to be able to fix the computer equipment at the Lazarus Time Travel Facility.

Veronica discovers some hand written Bible scriptures written by the man who kidnapped her and when she was Lily before she became Ella (Michelle Vergara Moore) before Ella was sent to 1988 with Isaiah when a wormhole opened in 10,000 BC as it was supposed to.

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Lucas promises that he will help Veronica, who is upset that she cannot make sense of why the Bible scripture are in the book of time travel equations. Lucas says they will figure it all out just as Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney), Riley (Veronica St. Clair), Judas (Damien Fotiou) and everyone else, including Sam (Jon Seda), Izzy and Josh are heading off to The Fort for the wedding ceremony. Next we find ourselves with all the survivor’s entering the front gate at The Fort which is Paara’s and Ty’s home. The festivities are beginning to take shape. Ty and Paara are beaming with joy as Paara welcomes everyone with a heartfelt “Thank you for coming”.

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Riley and Josh swept up in the moment are sharing a kiss when our resident worrywart Scott interrupts them saying that The Exiles, not at peace with everyone since Scott killed Taamet (Martin Sensmeier) are giving him presents for doing so. Eve spies Levi picking a poisonous flower seeds that he is determined to use to kill James. At this point it has become obvious that Levi has become an obsessive compulsive person over the death of his wife who will stop at nothing to extract revenge on James even though it has not been proven that Levi’s wife’s death was James fault. Levi gives Eve the container with the poison seeds to placate her, however later in the episode Levi will try again to kill James due to his obsessive behavior.

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Speaking of James, he arrives for the wedding ceremony thanking Ty for helping him. The psychotherapy Ty provided appears to have dealt with the emotional issues that have plagued James since Isaiah was sent to 1988 to become Gavin. Sam and Riley are keeping an eye on James since they do not trust him despite what Gavin and Ty have told him. Riley shares that Caroline is working on the time travel notes as they speak. Unexpectedly, Kira, who administered Ty’s brain tumor cure, and two Lazarus agents show up at The Fort demanding to have access to the time travel notes that Caroline and to James as well. Ty tries to reason with Kira since he had spoke with her previously about James being given therapy in his own right. It appears that Kira is obsessed herself threatens Ty “that things will not end well”.

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Kira and her henchmen are locked outside The Fort and the happy wedding takes place with Ty placing a sparkling wedding ring on Paara’s finger. We can only assume that Ty found the ring in the wardrobe truck along with his equally sparking white tuxedo jacket.

The wedding reception begins with everyone drinking fermented corn liqueur, dancing with happiness for Ty and Paara’s wedding, including, oddly enough, James, who meets with Josh and Gavin happy that three generations of James family are together.

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Eve stops Levi from his second attempt to poison James after Izzy tips her off. Gavin finds out and ends his long friendship with Levi “I don’t want you anywhere near my family”. James also meets with Caroline who accuses him of sending assassins to 1988 to kill her. James denies he was involved.

Based upon Kira’s behavior, it now seems she has been behind all the trouble at the Time Travel Facility, setting people at each other’s throats since the beginning!

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Young lovers to be Veronica and Lucas slip away to a nearby natural hot spring to enjoy each other’s company, a wounded Silas approaches them on his way back to The Fort. Veronica and Lucas help Silas who tells them that they are “all in terrible” danger. Viewers can only assume Silas is referring to Kira since she exposed her hand earlier to Ty.

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Suddenly, more bad news strikes!

Whoever had shot Silas has penetrated The Fort and kills Caroline, stealing the time travel notes that she was deciphering. Unfortunately, James is the one who found Caroline dead making him appear to be guilty.

However, Eve enters the hut to report that Silas has been shot by Kira. James convinces Gavin that Ty’s therapy, and meeting his family helped him give up on the “Blue Moon” project to stop Isaiah from going to 1988.

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It is at this point that viewers are led to believe that Kira is the only evil one since she has been at the heart of the Lazarus Time Travel Facility the entire time and easily connected to all the people who have been killed so far. This is apparently confirmed when Kira and her henchmen are witnessed fleeing The Fort taking Ty hostage in the process!

The episode draws to a conclusion when Eve, Josh and izzy are with Gavin who is seen kissing his dead mother Caroline goodbye. Paara enters informing them that she is gathering her forces to free Ty in an attack on the Time Travel Facility that will be coordinated with Gavin and the survivor’s. Eve and Gavin review what happened on The “Wedding” day with Eve apologizing to Gavin for not being forthright about Levi.

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The last scenes finds us with a recovering Silas, Lucas and Veronica. Veronica has talked with Silas who confirms that the man who kidnapped her and Lily before she became Ella in the future actually worked in the Time Travel Facility. The Bible scripture numbers turn out to be longitude and latitude coordinates that will, hopefully, help them return to their own time period. Finally, Eve and Gavin seek out James who reveals the truth about Kira who has been attempting to wrestle control of the Lazarus Time Travel Facility for her own purposes. The three of them bury Caroline and make a pact to stop Kira, save Ty and use the time machine to save Eve’s life from the vision.

However, we must ask, what of Levi who has not been seen since he was at The Wedding and is Kira really the only villain in 10,000 BC?
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“The Swarm” is episode number twelve, an outstanding episode of La Brea written by David Appelbaum and Christopher Hollier, directed by Rose Troche, opening where we left James, Eve and Gavin; at Caroline’s grave in 10,000 BC where they confess that Levi tried to kill James. James indicates that he knows of a secret passage back into the building, and has an ally that will help them gain entrance. James is sincere, promising to fix the Time Travel Facility and get them all safely back home to their present day reality.

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Eve and Gavin return to the hut in The Fort where Silas is recovering under Sam’s care with Izzy and Josh assisting. Izzy declares that they must help Levi since without his help in the past two years, many, including themselves would not have survived.

Gavin on the other hand is adamant that Levi is no longer the man they knew, now being consumed by rage and blind hatred over the death of his wife which he blames solely on James. Gavin and Eve head out to meet James and Paara to save Ty.

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In the survivor’s encampment Lucas, Ella and others are working on an enhancement to make life easier for everyone, a water tower that will become very handy later in the episode. Lucas slips and materials come crashing down into the ground. Suddenly, the sound of thousands of winged insect are heard sending panic through the crowd.

The survivor’s trapped in the camp, with the exception of Riley and Veronica who were out walking, flee the encampment, but not all. Scott scrambles into a vehicles and seals the doors. When Riley and Veronica return, they see dead bodies and hear the sound of the insects in a swarm heading towards them. Scott motions them to get into a truck where he has been hiding.

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Scott, Riley and Veronica barely make it inside the truck safely. Scott identifies them as the stinging and deadly Vespula maculifrons, otherwise known in modern times as wasps.

However, the wasps in 10,000 BC are larger and appear to be much more aggressive than our modern day variety. Scott also notes that the prehistoric version are far more toxic since people died from only a few stings The trio wait for the wasps to calm down and then move to the safety of a larger vehicle.

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Scott notes that they can use the water in the tower by mixing it with soap to kill the wasps when he sees that Ella appears to be alive outside the door to her vehicle safe spot. Ella is apparently unconscious having been stung by some of the giant wasps.

It is not known if Ella will survive at this juncture as Scott, Riley and Veronica look on in horror realizing that if they try to help Ella, the wasps would be disturbed by their vibrations walking and likely doom Ella as well as themselves! Nevertheless, they will attempt to obtain an Epinephrine autoinjector (Epi-Pen) in Sam’s medical bag and use it to save Ella.

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We segue to the Time Travel Facility where Kira is flexing her muscles informing her henchmen to secure the area while Ty is bound nearby. Kira tells Ty that she has been successful in putting the facility back on track to helping her future world of 2076 now that all resistance to her have been eliminated. Ty asks Kira what will happen to any who disagree with her? In a surprise move, Kira pulls out a knife and cuts the tie strap telling Ty that “You are free to leave”. Ty begs Kira to help the members of his time return home since it is the Lazarus Project that stranded them in 10,000 BC to begin with. Kira wants nothing to do with them informing Ty that she has a greater obligation to save the people in her time. Ty warns Kira that if she does help his people will try to stop her. Kira walks off to secure the Time Travel Facility telling Ty that if they do, “they will suffer more than they already have”.

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We move to Sam who is looking for herbal medicines to help Silas. Sam finds Levi digging up boxes he stashed from his trip to 10,000 BC from 1998. We learn that the boxes contain explosives and detonators that Levi plans to use to destroy the Lazarus Time Travel Facility.

Sam attempts to talk sense into Levi but without success. Levi, with a wild look in his eyes, tells Sam to “walk away” and “if he doesn’t he won’t have another choice” (but to harm Sam). Levi knocks Sam out when he tries to intervene and heads to the Lazarus Time Travel facility. Josh and Izzy find Sam. Izzy tells Josh to take care of Levi because she must stop Levi using the same technique he used on her when she was in need of help. The question then becomes; how will Levi be able to get in the Lazarus Facility to plant the explosives?

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Next we are with James who will meet his ally named Elliot (Nicholas Coghlan) who will help Gavin and Eve gain entrance to the Lazarus Time Travel Facility. Ty finds them and explains that Kira has let him go. On his arrival, Ty is complaining of a headache which James says is because his brain tumor cure treatments were not completed, but promises to resume them once they retake the building.

In the background an alarm is going off which Elliot says is because the security systems are failing in the Lazarus facility allowing dangerous prehistoric animal to roam outside the garden enclosure in the building. As a result, most of the scientists inside are temporarily evacuating.

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This development will help James, Gavin, Eve, and Ty achieve their mission to retake the building, who enter the secret door while Elliot resumes his post with the Lazarus Security.

The question of how Levi will get inside is answered when he jumps and knocks out Elliot. Levi, with a maniacal look on his face, is observed taking Elliot’s security card and following James, Gavin, Eve, and Ty inside!

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James takes Gavin, Eve and Ty to a computer console located in the executive lounge. James will be using Gavin’s hand print since Kira locked James out out of the system. What Kira doesn’t realize is that James built a backdoor into the computer system using Gavin’s hand print which would remain fundamentally unchanged from when he was Isaiah to access the system.

Gavin, Eve and Ty move to seal the manually seal all the the doors leading to the computer core and power generation areas. While doing this, Gavin bumps into Levi who has locked the room where parts of the wormhole are actually created, the power distribution room. Levi is in process of planting the explosives to destroy the building!

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Kira and her security henchmen are in the wormhole portal room when they discover that James has used Gavin’s hand print to access the computer systems in the Lazarus facility. Levi, armed with an automatic pistol that appears to be a silver plated Model 1911, jumps the security team in the portal room ordering everyone except Kira to leave immediately.

Back at the encampment, Scott, Veronica and Riley have located one of Sam’s Epi-Pen’s to try to save Ella. They fill the water tower with soap and feed a hose into the wasp tunnels to try and kill the insects. Veronica heads to Ella but the Epi-Pen falls out of her pocket landing on the ground surrounded by a swarm of wasps just outside the vehicle they hide in.

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Scott gets a brilliant idea and converts a super soaker waterr gun into a flame thrower to drive the wasps away. Scott’s plan works and they make it to where Ella is.

Tragically, Veronica was also severely stung in the process and Ella, who knows that she is much farther along in wasp venom shock poisoning her system, is not going to make it.

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Veronica witnesses Ella begging Veronica to take the shot since Ella came to 10,000 BC to save Veronica’s life.

With tears in her eyes, Ella’s passing away from her wasp stings since there is only one Epi-Pen is a tear jerker! In a bittersweet moment, Riley and Veronica become close friends as a result of their mutual loss of Ella.

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The episode draws to a conclusion when Gavin encounters a Saber-Toothed Tiger roaming the halls of the Lazarus Time Travel Facility. Ty, hearing Gavin yelling for help, grabs a large ax and runs to help his friend, saving Gavin at the last minute. Both realize that the immediate problem seems to be Levi who is hell bent on destroying the building.

In the final sequences at the Lazarus Facility, we are with Eve and James in the executive lounge. Eve has become suspicious of James since he is not answering her questions. It turns out that James is hiding some details as to what he is working on. Eve swings around the desk and observes James working on “Project Blue Moon” that will reverse sending Isaiah to 1988 to become Gavin and which will erase her family from history so that his wife will not die and his family will be saved in 10,000 BC and 2076!

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Eve is held at gunpoint but gets a lamp to use as a weapon and knocks the gun from James hand and then hold him at knife point. James counters with a bottle of booze and knocks Eve out. Talk about plot twists. Just when we thought James was a good guy, he too has an evil, selfish side and leaves the executive lounge!

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In the portal room Levi orders Kira at gun point to divert all power generation equipment to the portal room.

Kira is reluctant, but decides to comply with Levi’s instructions rather than be shot just as Gavin and Ty come running into the room begging Levi to stop his plan to destroy the Lazarus facility.

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While they are arguing, Kira slips away and Izzy arrives in the portal room reminding Levi that she helped her and begs him to stop. Levi reconsiders to save Izzy and goes to shut off the detonator.

Unfortunately, the device made in 1998 has a failsafe built in and continues the countdown!

The final scene is that of the Lazarus Time Travel Facility being blown to smithereens!

Among the questions that remain unanswered this season or to be answered in season three are the following:

Where did Kira go?

Where did James go?

Were Gavin, Levi, Ty and Izzy able to get outside to safety?

Join us on Twitter to live tweet the two hour special, two part season finale named “The Journey” on February 28, 2023 when we will find out what will lead up to season three in 10,000 BC in order to save everyone from the La Brea wormhole disasters!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments! We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

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February 27, 2023
La Brea Review The Return of a Beloved Hero From 1998!
Welcome Back La Brea and Wormhole Time Travel Science Fiction Lovers!

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“The Return” is the tenth excellent episode of La Brea written by David Appelbaum, Rob Wright and Peter Beals, and was directed by Greg McLean. During “The Return” we learned that one of our heroes, Levi (Nicholas Gonzalez) decided to go back to 10,000 BC from the future when he had decided to stay in of 1988 after the events of the episode of the same name when Eve (Natalie Zea) admitted that she was still in love with Gavin (Eoin Macken).

Levi’s return was a pleasant surprise for La Brea fans who thought he was being written out of the series as described by several rumors to that effect that circulated on social media and various web sites. The fans live tweeting this episode were happy to witness Levi return to his friends.

The La Brea survivors, may have become trapped when Gavin decided to stop the upload of a virus developed by Dr. Caroline Clark (Melissa Neal) at 99% before it completely destroyed the software equations running the computers in the Time Travel facility of James Mallet (Jonno Roberts) during a previous episode “The Stampede”. Fortunately, present day Southern California that had been on the verge of destruction in their own time from a tsunami tidal wave, was averted before a wormhole opened that would have also flooded our survivors in 10,000 BC.

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The interesting twist to “The Return” story arc is that Levi returned to 10,000 BC from 1998, not 1988. After staying in the future ten years where wormhole sinkholes are continuing to occur, devastating the lives of countless innocent victims, Levi came back from the future showing a bit of gray hair from ten years of natural aging.

As we will learn in “The Return”, Levi’s came back to 10,000 BC in what will prove to be his own attempt to save people who he knows as friends with a secret mission that is not revealed until near the end of the episode.
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The episode opens in a field at sunrise in 10,000 BC. A giant prehistoric Rhinoceros is witnessed near a wormhole sinkhole that opens startling the beast. Hat tip to the series VFX teams! The scenes of prehistoric creatures including Woolly Mammoths, Sabre-tooth Smilodon Tigers, Giant Vultures and the Rhino seen in this episode have been well done with special effects.

At this juncture we do not know that the time traveler is Levi since the person’s face is obscured by the bright event horizon and the rising sunlight when he comes through the time portal from the future.

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We are next at the survivor’s encampment with Josh (Jack Martin), Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) visiting Eve who is recovering from a concussion after she fell into a cave with the poisonous plant she was exposed to during an earlier episode.

Eve tells her children she will is feeling better but will take some more time to regain her strength. Izzy and Josh learn that Gavin has gone to see James at the Time Travel Facility to ensure that Eve has access to any medical treatments she may need as a result of a deal made between them when Gavin agreed to stop the computer virus upload. Josh says that their Dad is doing it to help their Mom. Eve and Izzy do not trust James. James’ behavior does seem untrustworthy and appears to be hiding something related to his refusal to understand the impact on the space time continuum of his sinkhole wormholes that are plaguing the future of our survivor’s.

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Next we are outside with Lucas (Josh McKenzie) who is carrying some oranges to share with Veronica (Lily Santiago) when sees Virgil (Greg Hatton).

Lucas does not trust Virgil who he suspects is involved with the “Murder in the Clearing” when we witnessed Virgil burning a knife sheath emblazoned with a design associated with The Exiles. After giving Virgil a nasty look, Veronica arrives. To viewers it is obvious that Lily and Lucas are falling in love as each have shared intimate details of their past lives with each other including their mutual distrust of Virgil. Although the two young people are just dating at this point, they have shared kisses to express their love for each other. Lucas asks Veronica to move in with him, but she is not ready quite yet. Later in the episode, Lily moves in with Lucas to make their relationship official.

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Viewers will also recall that Taamet (Martin Sensmeier) is Paara’s (Tonantzin Carmelo) ex husband and that Virgil is a spy for Taamet who Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney) allowed to escape subsequent after being tricked by Taamet after the knife fight with Ty (Chiké Okonkwo).

Taamet swore to Scott subsequent to the fight, when Scott set Taamet free, that he would get revenge on the survivor’s for helping Ty steal his wife. However, viewers wonder if something else be motivating Taamet? We learned more about this when Ty provided therapy to James in exchange for a cure. We will learn more about this factor at the end of the episode.

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Virgil then visits Scott who is on his assigned guard duty to protect the encampment. Virgil tricks Scott into believing that he is there to relieve him two hours early. This is Scott’s biggest flaw, his blind trust of people that he does not really know. In fact, as viewers suspected, Virgil is preparing to ensure that Taamet’s arrival at the survivor’s camp is a surprise attack by tying his red scarf on a spear to signal Taamet the lookout is no longer manned!

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Next we segue to Gavin who is on the way to meet with James when he bumps into, actually jumps a surprised Levi. Gavin notices the gray hair on Levi and asks what happened since it has only been a week since they saw each other in 1988. Levi shares that it is only a week for Gavin, but that it has been ten years for him since he jumped into a wormhole sinkhole portal in 1998! Gavin tells Levi that he was able to damage the time portal machine, but did not destroy it. Levi also shares that he joined the Department of Defense who is trying to rescue everyone still trapped in the 10,000 BC timeline. Gavin and Levi head off to see James, Gavin suspects Levi returned for Eve, but Gavin is unaware at this point that is where Levi was headed to complete his secret mission.

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At the Time Travel Facility Ty is receiving the first medical treatment for his brain tumor from a doctor named Kira (Simone McAullay). Ty, a doctor in his own right, is in good spirits since he made an agreement with to trade medicines for his brain tumor in exchange for emotional counseling to James over the loss of his young son Isaiah (Diesel La Torraca) who went to 1988 to become Gavin.

Kira provides a tablet computer to Ty to record notes from his therapy sessions with James. It becomes obvious that Kira is also distrustful of James after Caroline took Isaiah and stashed him in 1988. Kira writes a handwritten note to Ty “Don’t trust James. Find out about Project Blue Moon”. This is the first Ty has ever heard of such a thing, but agrees since Kira is the person actually providing his medicine. Ty continues his therapy of James and finds an image of a Blue Moon that Isaiah had drawn.

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What is James actually up to? Is he telling the truth to Gavin and Ty?

It is worth noting that a large number of people apparently do not trust James’ so called mission to save the future Earth in 2076 including Caroline, Silas (Mark Lee), and the now deceased Rebecca Aldridge (Ming-Zhu Hii), not to mention all the deaths from the future weapons that almost killed Lucas. No doubt that there are more details on the James factor will be revealed in future episodes of season two and three.

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Next we are with Sam (Jon Seda) and Riley (Veronica St. Clair) who are on patrol with a group of survivors searching for signs of Taamet who has promised revenge against our time travel heroes. Riley shares with her Dad that Caroline has uncovered research that it is possible to repair the machine that creates the time portals to return back to their original timeline. This conversation is cut short when smoke is observed in the distance. Upon arrival, they confirm that The Exiles had been there recently.

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Speaking of the encampment, Josh tells Izzy that something bad is going on since Caroline has vanished! It is at this point that Lucas witnesses Virgil’s red scarf on a spear that signaled Taamet it was clear to attack. Virgil is seen running from the camp lookout station. Meanwhile, Josh and Izzy have gone to the highest point in the area on top of a building that fell into the wormhole sink hole. Izzy, using a mirror and Morse Code she learned in the Girl Scouts, signals Levi and Gavin that the encampment is under attack. Josh, in a lighter moment while under pressure says Girl Scouts are “Bad Ass!”.

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Now with the proof that Lucas has been seeking he jumps Virgil demanding answers just as The Exiles launch their attack on the encampment. Virgil admits that Taamet and The Exiles have kidnapped his wife Jane (Louisa Mignone) forcing them to work in the mines and blackmailing Virgil to find a book with mathematical formulas related to Project Blue Moon that James is seeking. We learn that Veronica’s captor, who was killed in season one had the book and was buried with it by Veronica! Taamet orders Veronica to get the book or he will kill Scott!

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Eve, inside the bus sees the attack take place. Things go from bad to worse when The Exiles attack capturing everyone except Lucas, Scott, Eve, Izzy Josh, and Ella (Michelle Vergara Moore). Sam and Riley find Jane and realize that Taamet is headed for the survivor’s encampment. Izzy and Josh escape the area to go find Gavin, unaware that he is with Levi. Levi shares that he is there because his wife was killed in the future by James insanity. It appears that we may know what Levi’s mission is, that he plans to kill James. Sam, Riley and their group are also on the way back to the clearing suspecting danger for their family and friends and run into Gavin and Levi who of course is armed.

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Levi, Gavin, Sam, Riley and their group surprise The Exiles who have been forcing Ella, Lucas and Veronica to dig up the Blue Moon formula book.

The Exiles are captured, tied up and their weapons are taken. Our heroes head to the encampment where they counterattack. Taamet runs for his life, when Scott, who has enough of Taamet’s bullying when he attacks and stabs Lucas, finds the courage and mortally wounds Taamet!

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The episode draws to a conclusion when Kira tells Ty that James is obsessed with the Blue Moon computer drawing. Ty, having provided Psychiatric emotional therapy to James, thinks James plans to reset the timeline by stopping Isaiah from time traveling to 1988 to become Gavin. This would create a time paradox that would cause Josh, Izzy and others to never exist! It will also mean that no one would travel to 10,000 BC, including Ty. The result would be that Ty would end up dying in the future from his cancerous brain tumor since he will never travel to 10,000 BC to be cured.

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Just before the final scenes of the episode we are with Sam, Levi, Scott and Gavin as Taamet is dying. Taamet warns them it is not James who wants the time equations book. Gavin has the missing page to the book and begins to question if It it Kira who apparently has been hiding something that we are yet to discover.

The real question viewers must consider; is Kira telling Ty the truth? Viewers must now wonder if we should distrust James, Kira, or distrust both of them?

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Back at the survivor’s encampment, we see Virgil and Jane head off together, finally free of Taamet’s extortion. Veronica is talking with Lucas sharing why she thinks of herself as “damaged goods”; that the man who kidnapped her knew the La Brea sinkhole wormhole was going to happen and deliberately took her there in order to deliver the time travel equations book to the past. Lucas tells Veronica that she Is “the strongest person he ever met”. Veronica knows she loves Lucas for believing in her, they kiss each other as a mutual reward and Veronica announces that she is moving in with him!

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Gavin goes to tell Eve that they found what they were looking for; the time travel equations book that they may be able to use to fix the time portal machine software that he damaged and get everyone back to the future.

However, Gavin is unsure if Kira is actually working for his father James, or if she has her own agenda?

Gavin also shares the surprise that Levi has come back from the future of 1998 not 1988 where he had decided to stay.

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The very last scene finds us with Levi is waiting outside at the campfire for Eve. As the screen fades to black, Levi confesses to Eve that he is really back in 10,000 BC to kill James. Is this Levi’s secret mission. to avenge the death of his wife!

Join us on Twitter to live tweet the next four exciting episodes of La Brea in season two named “The Wedding” and “The Swarm” next week that will be aired as a two hour special leading up to the a two part season finale named “The Journey” on February 28, 2023 when we will find out what will lead up to season three in 10,000 BC in order to save everyone from wormhole disasters!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments! We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kenn of #TeamWHR
February 18, 2023
La Brea Renewed! Back To The Past From the Future in 1988 Review!
Welcome Back La Brea and Wormhole Time Travel Science Fiction Lovers!

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Tonight one of our favorite series resumes the second half of season two on absolutely fantastic news, and we here at Team WHR couldn’t be happier!

NBC announced today this superb science fiction series will continue in a third season! Thank you NBC!

“1988” is the seventh exciting episode of La Brea written by David Appelbaum and Erica Meredith and was directed by Dan Liu. During “1988” we learned that our heroes decided to go back to the future returning via the use of the Time Travel facility located in 10,000 BC.

As we learned in the previous episode named Lazarus, the Time Travel Facility was constructed by visitors from the future of Earth in 2076 who have traveled back in time in an attempt to perform a mission to save the Earth of their timeline that is on the verge of destruction in their own time.

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This type of theme has been a popular with movie goers and television audiences ever since the famous H.G. Wells novel “The Time Machine” was made into a movie 1960 by George Pal. The Time Machine movie is about H.G. (George) Wells as the protagonist who returned to the beginning of the nineteenth century after a harrowing journey to the distant future and back again.

George (H.G.) Wells ultimately decided to return to the future subsequent to retrieving three books he believe were needed to rebuild a future humanity devastated by the evil cannibalistic Morlocks who had reduced future humankind to breeding stock cattle to feed upon in the year 802,701.

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The La Brea story is also similar to an ambitious 2011 science fiction series named Terra Nova executive produced by entertainment industry legends Steven Spielberg, Brannon Braga, Jon Cassar, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank. Terra Nova chronicles when visitors from the year 2149 escape present day Earth subsequent to learning that our planet is dying from pollution causing societal decay across the world. In this case the time travelers are transported back eighty-five million years to establish a human colony to build a fresh civilization from scratch. In the Terra Nova series, there is another group with nefarious intentions that is working to maintain political power in 2149 by obtaining biological samples from the prehistoric past to save their polluted world and thereby ensure their dominance both in the past and the future.

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Unfortunately despite being a very well financed series, supported by the large group of famous producers named above and more, Terra Nova was cancelled after a thirteen episode first season. This is a fate that has befallen many time travel series over the decades starting with The Time Tunnel (1966) that also only lasted a single season, albeit with 30 episodes back in the day when seasons lasted a half year on broadcast television.

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As we begin our analysis review of the first half of the La Brea second season with “1988”, we express our sincere kudos to NBC Entertainment for extending season two to fourteen episode story arc with approximately four million viewer’s average each week since the La Brea science fiction adventure series began in 2021.

We sincerely hoped this meant that La Brea would be renewed for a third season, and our dreams have come true. We here at WormholeRiders were absolutely ecstatic when NBC Entertainment TPTB decided a third season is in store to continue this fabulous Time Travel adventure with a third season with their announcement today. Thanks NBC!
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We open with previously on La Brea after learning that the wormhole sinkholes are randomly being created in the present and the past due to the Time Travel Facility built by James Mallet (Jonno Roberts), Dr. Caroline Clark (Melissa Neal), Rebecca Aldridge (Ming-Zhu Hii) and others from the year 2076.

We had also learned that Caroline and James are the parents of Isaiah (Diesel La Torraca) who grew up in 1988 to become Gavin Harris (Eoin Macken) after spending part of his childhood growing up in 10,000 BC with his grandfather Silas (Mark Lee). It has not been revealed if Silas is a biological grandfather, or simply someone who rebelled against James and Rebecca’s plans to manipulate the past. What we do know is that James agreed to send our heroes back to 1988.

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The episode opens with Gavin, Eve (Natalie Zea), their children Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) and Josh (Jack Martin), Sam (Jon Seda) and his daughter Riley (Veronica St. Clair). They are observed with Levi (Nicholas Gonzales) reuniting on the beach in Santa Monica California during 1988.

In the background we can hear a warning about a report of an 4.6 level earthquake that has struck Los Angeles, no doubt caused by wormhole sinkhole that is about to strike off the Southern California coast as we learned in past episodes. Gavin and Eve make light humor that they must stop the wormhole before a tsunami tidal wave destroys where they had their first date in Santa Monica.

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Viewers will recall that Caroline, has equipment to detect the upcoming disaster, was kidnapped by James operatives sent to 1988 to stop her from interfering with their nefarious plans. Sam uses his father’s van and recreational vehicle from the 1988 era to plan an effort to rescue Caroline who has a computer virus to disable the Time Travel Facility in 10,000 BC.

The rescue is successful. Unfortunately Levi is shot by some of James minions. He and Eve have had a heart to heart that she will stay with Gavin. Levi understands this, but it leaves him alone in 1988 with no friends or family that we know of. Our heroes make good their escape, next planning to help Caroline stop the impending tsunami.

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Back in 10,000 BC Paara (Tonantzin Carmelo) and Ty (Chiké Okonkwo) and Lucas (Josh McKenzie) confront and capture Paara’s (ex)husband Taamet (Martin Sensmeier).

Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney) and Veronica (Lily Santiago) have taken Lucas from the survivor’s encampment to Paara’s fort. Lucas’ condition has been worsening from the wounds he suffered from the advanced energy weapons that are used against Lucas by James’ Lazarus temporal agents in the last episode.

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Taamet tells them he knows of a cure from Lucas but only if they agree to a challenge, which if Taamet loses, he will save Lucas and remain Paara’s prisoner, but if he wins he will still save Lucas but will be allowed to go free. Paara agrees to Taamet’s conditions.

Later, during the challenge fight TY uses Taamet’s weakness, his ego to distract his adversary and forces Taamet to yield. Scott helps set free Taamet who provides the cure to Lucas but claims he withheld one ingredient thereby leaving the conflict between Taamet and Paara open. The question, since we do witness Lucas getting better, is was Taamet bluffing when he tricked Scott into releasing him, and was there ever a missing ingredient? We do not really know at this point. The good news is that a recovering (cured?) Lucas and Veronica consummate their relationship with a much anticipated kiss!

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We segue to 1988 with the Harris family are at Caroline’s home where her computer network equipment is located. While Izzy and Josh and Sam and Riley become reacquainted, Gavin spends some time with Caroline and discusses why she left him in 1988 at age three, but not with his father, James, who Caroline believes is evil. Caroline maintains James is only interested in his power, not in the lives that his time travel scheme have adversely impacted and ultimately killed.

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Caroline confesses that her plan is to destroy the Time Travel Facility computer system with a virus she has cobbled together that she will upload into the Time Travel Facility in 10,000 BC. Caroline honestly tells Gavin this will likely strand our heroes in a timeline, and not their own original one! Gavin shares what he learned from Caroline with his family.

Our heroes appear to make a decision to stay in 1988 and all agree to tell Sam and Riley when they return from providing medical care to Levi. Then James’ Lazarus agents show up at Caroline’s computer lab just as she has completed the virus needed to disable the Time Travel Facility in 10,000 BC.

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As a result our heroes decide that they all must flee the premises before they are captured by James’ Lazarus agents.

Caroline has confessed to Gavin that James has placed a genetic bio-metric lock on the Time Travel Facility computers that only Gavin and James can open to insert the virus.

In the end however, everyone but Levi decides to change their mind when they realize what is at stake and realize they mist return to 10,000 BC to help Caroline plant the virus in the Time Travel Facility computers.

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The final sequences in the “1988” story finds us at the Hollywood wormhole sinkhole where Eve and Levi hug before saying goodbye to the music of U2’s “Bad”.

We see Ty and Paara in 10,000 BC deciding to get married and Lucas and Veronica holding hands as Scott looks on from a distance.

The episode ends with everyone except Levi in 1988 jumping into the back to 10,000 BC as Gavin experiences a vision of Eve that portends a foreboding event that he does not share with the others.

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Join us on Twitter for or the next exciting episodes of La Brea in season two named “Stampede” and “Murder in the Clearing” when we will find out more about adventures of our heroes in 10,000 BC in order to save Southern California from a not so natural wormhole disaster!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments! We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit TeamWHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kenn of #TeamWHR
January 31, 2023
La Brea Review Lazarus Means The Rebirth of Earth 2076!

Welcome Back La Brea and Wormhole Time Travel Science Fiction Lovers!

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“Lazarus” is the sixth exciting episode of La Brea was written by David Appelbaum and Bisanne Masoud and is directed by Adam Davidson. In “Lazarus” we learn critical elements of the story arc, including the secret that the Time Travel facility that was build in 10,000 BC was actually constructed by visitors from the future of Earth in 2076 who traveled back in time on a mission to save the planet in their time period.

We learn that the Time Travel Facility is lead by James Mallet (Jonno Roberts), husband or lover to Dr. Caroline Clark (Melissa Neal). Caroline and James are the parents of Isaiah (Diesel La Torraca) who grows up in 1988 to become Gavin Harris (Eoin Macken) after spending part of his childhood in 10,000 BC.

Inherent in these revelations is that Rebecca Aldridge (Ming-Zhu Hii), who passed away in 10,000 BC when she was attacked by prehistoric wolves in “The Fog”, must have originally come from the year 2076. Since we know that Silas (Mark Lee) is the grandfather of Isaiah, we must also assume that Silas came from the year 2076. The overriding questions viewers are seeking is why did Silas, Rebecca, Caroline and perhaps others turn against James quest to procure biological samples from 10,000 BC to save a polluted world in 2076 using the Lazarus effect mentioned in ancient scriptures when Lazarus was reborn four days after his death by God?

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Since it would seem to be a beneficial humanitarian effort to bring a rebirth to planet Earth in the future, what could have possibly set the time travelers from 2076 at each other’s throats not only in 10,000 BC, but in 1988 and 2021 as well?

While these specific story arc items are not directly addressed in the “Lazarus” episode, our hypothesis is that Rebecca, Caroline and Silas took some sort of exception(s) with James noble effort to save Earth in the future when they discovered that wormhole sinkholes would cause devastation with massive loss of life in the past.

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Before beginning our analysis and review of the outstanding “Lazarus” episode, we express our congratulations and sincere kudos to the La Brea Visual Effects Team (VFX) specialists who did an excellent job of making the interior scenes of the Time Travel Facility control room come to life on our screens.

Thank you VFX gurus!

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The episode opens with Gavin, Eve Harris (Natalie Zea), Izzy (Zyra Gorecki), Levi (Nicholas Gonzales), Sam (Jon Seda), Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney), and Lucas (Josh McKenzie) preparing to somehow storm the Time Travel Facility in 10,000 BC in order to time travel to 1988 to rescue family members mistakenly marooned in time at the end of the season one episode “Topanga” delineated in detail in our analysis of the season two episodes “The Fog” and “The Heist“!

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Our La Brea heroes, disguised as members of The Exiles as revealed in “The Cave” and “The Great Escape“, plan to use the computer card key that Scott stole from Silas after hijacking a wagon load of black rock energy ore.

As we will will learn, the black ore contains uranium that is utilized to power the wormhole time portal sinkholes that originally sent our heroes to prehistoric La Brea at the beginning of season one.

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Their plan to enter the Time Travel Facility appears to be going well as Gavin, Eve, Izzy and Levi pass muster at a guard station outside the facility until Silas suddenly shows up to cause trouble.

We then find out that James has been monitoring the events inside the Time Travel Facility and alerts the guards to apprehend the intruders while our heroes take off after Silas to learn what the hell he is doing there.

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Silas is asked why he is so fearful of the Time Travel Facility but is rather elusive on specifics.

However, Silas does agree to help Gavin’s son Josh and Sam’s daughter Riley trapped in 1988. Upon entering the Time Travel Facility through an access tunnel, a confrontation breaks out with Gavin, Eve, Sam and Izzy being captured after the group is nearly being killed by a huge prehistoric vulture before they entered the access tunnel.

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Thankfully Eve is able to distract the flying beast!

Levi, Lucas and Scott are able to escape detection.

Unfortunately, Lucas is injured by the guard’s high technology energy weapons.

Lucas begins to display the same swollen vein symptoms that have killed others in 10,000 BC during previous episodes.

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Meanwhile we find ourselves back in 1988 where Josh (Jack Martin) and Riley (Veronica St. Clair) are having a breakfast of champions (Wheaties) with Caroline who we have learned is Josh’s grandmother and Isaiah/Gavin’s real mother. The three discuss the pending wormhole sinkhole that will open off the coast of Southern California causing devastation not experienced or previously recorded in our timeline of history.

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While the Caroline, Josh and Riley discuss details of the catastrophic wormhole sinkhole that will open off the coast of Santa Monica, California, Caroline informs Josh and Riley that she has a plan and equipment to detect the upcoming disaster.

Josh and Riley are pleasantly surprised when Caroline takes them to a fairly large secret computer center where the equipment Caroline discussed is in a state of full operations using the crude computing technology circa 1988.

With this revelation we have hope that everything will work out as they plan to save Southern California from being wiped out by a tsumani.

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Along the way, Riley seeks out a younger version of her father Sam to send a message to him that she and Josh are trapped in 1988. The tactic works as she meets young Sam Velez (Jonathan Seda Jr.)

Unfortunately, Caroline is kidnapped by unknown operatives, screaming to Riley and Josh “They found me”. Could these be time agents sent by James from the past in 10,000 BC? Or perhaps they are time agents operating from the future? At this point we do not know who the operatives are or what their intentions towards Caroline are.

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We move back to the Time Travel Facility where James explains what he has been doing in 10,000 BC.

The facility was established with the benign purpose of procuring biological samples from the past to save his future world of 2076 that is on the verge of extinction.

Silas negotiates with James explaining Gavin is Isaiah and that he must agree to help them reunite with their families.

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James agrees taking Gavin on a tour of the Time Travel Facility to convince him that what is being done will not only help the Earth, but all of humanity to be able to survive in the future on Earth.

Gavin agrees to cooperate but only if James sends them all to 1988. James says that is not possible until Gavin shares that Sam has received a message from Riley in 1988 that the wormhole portal is creating unintended consequences with portals appearing is places and times that James did not anticipate.

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Back in 10,000 BC, Lucas is taken back to the survivor’s encampment with his condition worsening from the wounds he suffered from the energy weapons used by James temporal agents.

Veronica (Lily Santiago) is with Lucas comforting him. As viewers learned, Veronica and Lucas had developed a budding relationship because Lucas, who helped her overcome the guilt for what she has done in her life, was obviously falling in love with her. Veronica is unable to do anything to help Lucas, who sadly, appears to be dying.

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The final sequences in the episode finds us back in the Time Travel Facility where James has agreed to send Gavin, Eve and Izzy of the Harris family, Levi, and Sam Velez back to 1988 to rescue Josh and Riley, ultimately to reunite the two families.

As mentioned above, the visual effects of the wormhole time portal in action are outstanding as evidenced in this image from the “Lazarus” episode when Gavin, Eve, Izzy and Sam step into the time machine!

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The episode ends on a happy note when we are with the Harris and Velez families on a beach after being reunited in 1988 subsequent to successfully being transported there from the Time Travel Facility located in 10,000 BC La Brea.

The questions that require addressing are what are the consequences of the two families being in 1988? Will they be able to avert a disastrous tsunami that could destroy large portions of Southern California including Santa Monica and the surrounding areas? Can the families get back to their actual time period in the future? Can the survivor’s trapped in 10,000 BC be saved and returned to their own future lives? And what will become of James and Silas? Are James efforts to save the Earth sincere, or does he have an ulterior, more sinister agenda?

The next episode is named “1988”, an episode that will focus on the Harris and Velez families who were reunited in 1988 subsequent to being sent there by James, the leader of the Lazarus Time Travel facility from 2076. Our heroes will attempt to rescue Caroline in order to stop the wormhole sinkholes. While doing so they will face forces that threaten to tear their families apart. See you on NBC this week when we will learn more, and hopefully find out the fate of those still trapped in 10,000 BC!

We will be back in the near future with more of La Brea as well as your favorite television series and movie analysis. In the meantime, please feel free to share this article with your friends, co-workers and or family and leave your comments! We look forward to you visiting our dedicated review and analysis web site here in the future! Or as many of our readers and visitors often do, visit WHR on Twitter, or visit me on Twitter by clicking the text links or images avatars in this news story. I and TeamWHR look forward to Seeing You on The Other Side!“

Thank you.

Best Regards,

Kenn of #TeamWHR

November 14, 2022

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