Timeless
2016 - 2020


Season 1
NBC, 2016-2017
Season 2
NBC, 2018
Season 3
Fan-made, 2018-2019
Season 4
Fan-made, 2019-2020

My Timeless Story...

In the summer of 2016, as I was watching the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, NBC aired trailers for one of their upcoming new series, Timeless. In the years before then, I had a rule: don't watch any new television series unless it has three seasons, has been renewed for a fourth season, and/or is a completed series (including a satisfying series finale). I broke that rule for Timeless. I broke it because what I saw in those initial trailers included everything that interests me in fiction: time travel, history, and action. That summer, I knew that I would love Timeless. However, I had no clue just how much the series would mean to me. It was the first series that I took part in discussing on Twitter after episodes had aired. The first time I did "live Tweeting" was for the season 1 finale, The Red Scare, because I felt so strongly that NBC should renew the series, that I wanted my enjoyment of the series to count, and to be heard.

Then... NBC canceled Timeless. It hurt, but I rolled my eyes, shrugged my shoulders, and told myself: this is why I should abide by my Three Season rule. I did more tweeting to save the show, and because of my experience trying to do the same with Firefly back in 2002, I gradually backed away and accepted the cancelation. Then along came 13 May 2017, and NBC un-canceled the series. I remember very distinctly exactly where I was that day when I read the news online, and announced to everyone in the room with me that Timeless had been uncanceled. I was so freaking happy about it, and dove back into the fandom.

Months passed, and anticipation grew for the season 2 premiere. I had it marked on my calendar - complete with a countdown. I rewatched season 1 in the week leading up to the premiere, and poked around in the fandom on Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr. At the time, I was still shipping both Garcy and Lyatt. Garcia Flynn was my favourite character (in second place in overall favourite characters, behind Tony Almeida of 24 who held the position for the past 17 years).

Season 2 began, and like most fans of Garcia Flynn, I was disappointed and worried about where the series was going if the writers were keeping Garcia locked up (barely in the first three episodes). That, and I dropped Lyatt like a hot potato as soon as the writers shoved Wyat/Lucy sex down our throats. Seriously, nothing turns me off a 'ship faster than 1) one of the two characters showing serious disrespect towards the other *coughs* Wyat to Lucy *coughs*, and 2) characters hopping into bed when one looks so hesitant and reluctant to do it *coughs* Lucy. Thankfully, Garcia got out of prison and joined the team, and Jessica returned from the dead which threw that lyat crap in the garbage where it belongs. By the end of The Salem Witch Hunt, Garcy was my one and only Timeless 'ship, and by the end of The Kennedy Curse, Garcia Flynn had dethroned Tony Almeida as my Favourite Character of All Time.

After Hollywoodland, the Timeless fandom fell apart. It went from being the most welcoming and friendly fandom I have ever experienced, to an absolute nightmare. Being a target of lyat bullies, stalking, doxxing (yes, I got the police involved), harassment, and the spreading of lies completely destroyed my enjoyment of participating in the fandom. But I stuck with it because I thought that tweeting to #RenewTimeless and #SaveTimeless actually meant something when in actuality... it didn't.

In the end, NBC didn't renew Timeless for a third season, and Sony couldn't get anyone to save it on a different network or platform. Then NBC did something worse than cancelling the series... they gave a green light for the writers to do two final episodes (a "movie") to close out the story.

It. was. an. abomination.

And I call bullshit when the writers said that that "movie" was a "love lettre to the fans." It was only a love lettre to lyat fans. But for fans who actually watched the series for the story, it was equivalent to the writers giving us the middle finger. I watched that thing on the night it aired. I turned down the volume after the writers had Garcia commit suicide so that lyat could fuck. I watched Junior level figure skating on YouTube on my laptop, glancing up, waiting for the São Paulo (Garcia/Garcy) scene since we knew it was coming from BTS photos shared online, and an official description that stated that the "movie" would be visiting Brazil in 2014. I watched the São Paulo scene, wished it had felt in character, and then (SMGDH) thought that there was no way that the writers wouldn't have Lucy save Garcia. Then, I watched as Lucy and her stupid, selfish team did NOTHING to save Garcia Flynn, nor his family. I was disgusted. I wish I could have Timeless "Movie" Amnesia because I wish I had never watched a single second of that piece of shit.

I'll watch anything that Goran is in, but I will NEVER watch that Timeless lyat fanfic finale "movie" ever again.

Anyway, in the immediate aftermath of that thing, I thought that it had destroyed my love of Timeless forever. I couldn't watch any episodes (not even my favourites) for months after it aired. I couldn't read fanfic that featured Wyat (something I still struggle with today, and if Wyat's in a fic, I usually will skim through his scenes). For another year and a half after that thing aired, I struggled rewatching the series. I struggled writing my own fics, too. I will never forgive NBC or those writers for that "movie." I will never forgive how the episodes in that "movie" forever tarnished the Original 26 (OG26) Timeless series.

Then, things started feeling "off" with the Garcy group that I spent time with online. The first time I journaled about this "off" feeling was in April 2019, and I started to put distance between myself and some in that group. I had experienced bad fandoms before, and the red flags were everywhere. I still struggle forgiving myself for not leaving that group immediately after my gut feeling told me that something wasn't right with how they were treating me.

The day before I launched my Goran Višnjić Archive fansite on 20 December 2019 (as a holiday gift for that group), people who I thought were my friends started unfriending me, and blocking me. I still don't know why that happened, and I don't care to know because it's all bullshit they made up to feel powerful when they ousted me. The worst part was finding out that some of them had been privately spreading lies about me in order to get other Garcy/Goran fans to unfriend/block me as well. It worked, and it sucked. Like, it really, really sucked. I still get triggered when I see some of their usernames, and I still struggle trusting others who continue to interact with them. But I am slowly getting better. And I cannot wait for the day that I forget their usernames. I'm also slowly forgiving myself for not bolting out of that group the very first time my gut told me that something was wrong. But it is what it is, and my life is better off without two-faced "friends."

I admit that I was negatively influenced while I hung out with that group. I am ashamed that I took part in public and private (for lack of a better word) "events" with them. Since being ousted, I have had time to reflect on my actions while I was "in" with them. I've reached out to fans to apologize for things that I said. And I've had a couple Lyatt fans reach out to me to apologize as well. I would like to use this space to publicly apologize to those I hurt years ago whose usernames eluded me (or whose accounts had gone private, disappeared, or had me blocked) while I was reaching out to others. I know things that I did were wrong, and I'm sorry.

I'm writing this in March 2023, five years after the beginning of Timeless season 2, and I am happy to report that I still love Timeless. I still love Garcia Flynn. I still love Garcy. And I still love Goran. The dark side of the fandom (both 'ships: Lyatt and Garcy) failed to make me associate the series with their hate and negativity. They failed to push me away from continuing to create fanworks for the fandom. They failed to take away the joy that I still have when I create a new fanart, or work on a fanvid, or post a new chapter (or one-shot) fic to AO3. I suspect their endgame was to chase me out of the fandom, but fuck them They failed.

I'm thankful that not all my memories of the Timeless fandom are bad. I took part in the fandom during season 1, and the fans involved online at that time actually renewed my belief that fandom can be something fun to participate in. I helped organize and create events for the now defunct Garcy Weekends, Garcy Weeks, Garcy October, and Garcy Holidays. Freaking GORAN VIŠNJIĆ DM'd me a Happy Birthday video back in 2018, and sometimes I still need to pinch myself to know that it wasn't a dream. I got to work with one of my favourite fanfic authors, qqueenofhades, in creating the episode graphics for her fan-made Timeless season 3 and season 4. My love for the series brought me back to writing. Before Timeless, I had stopped making fanart, and I stopped writing in 2009 - thinking that nothing would ever inspire my muse again - and then came Garcia Flynn, and Garcy. I have one of the best fanfic editors that I've ever had for any fandom I've ever written for - thank you, Burgundy_In_Chaucer ♥ And I learned who my real friends in the fandom are, and I'm very, very thankful for that. Timeless also reignited my love of learning history, and because I write Timeless fanfic, I'm constantly researching history, and I love it.

I hope that my love for Timeless never dies, just as I hope that it will continue to inspire me to create new fanworks for years to come.


My Favourite Characters My Favourite 'Ships My Favourite Episodes
* Garcia Flynn
* Lucy Preston
* Emma Whitmore
* Karl
Amy Preston
Jessica Logan
Connor Mason
Carol Preston
Noah
Lorena Flynn
Iris Flynn
Jiya Marri
Maria Thompkins
Benjamin Cahill
Nicholas Keynes
Dave Baumgardner
Stiv Casey

* = my absolute favourites

* Garcia Flynn/Lucy Preston
* Garcia Flynn/Lorena Flynn
* Noah/Lucy Preston
* Karl/Amy Preston
Rufus Carlin/Lucy Preston
Karl/Jessica Logan
Karl/Lucy Preston
Robert Todd Lincoln/Lucy Preston
Young JFK/Kayla
Wyatt Logan/Jessica Logan

* The Capture of Benedict Arnold
The World's Columbian Exposition
The Salem Witch Hunt
* The King of the Delta Blues

         


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