#Timeless christmas full
#Timeless christmas series

The special gave us much of what we went in wanting. Rufus was brought back, some time-travel paradox loops were closed, and the explanation of Lucy’s journal finally came full circle.

These two bonus episodes felt like a reward for that dedication. No, this was just for existing fans–the fans whose numbers may be relatively small, but whose love of the show was enough to save it from cancellation once. In fact, new viewers would have been totally confused, as the “previously on” opening was enough of a reminder of context if you’d watched the second season fairly recently. This was something for fans to come home to, not a big-budget attempt to get any new viewers. Ratings for the special were nearly identical to those for any other episode. Back in September, executive producer Eric Kripke said the special would be “basically the equivalent of two episodes.” He told Collider, “As a matter of fact, we tried, at one point, to do one long historical period to last over two hours, and then eventually, Arika wisely said, ‘Why are we doing this? Why don’t we just do what we always do, which is spend an hour in two different time periods?’ And so, though they’re connected and though it’s one long mythology story that plays over both, they really are, in effect, two time periods of Timeless that they visit, and we’ll shoot each one.”Īnd that’s what we got. Sending the gang first to the California Gold Rush and next to the Korean War in typical time-travel-mission-of-the-week style, these looked and felt just like regular episodes. There weren’t really any big surprises in these episodes they were exactly what we were told they’d be.

#Timeless christmas series

Seven months after its last regular episode, Timeless fans got a gift in the form of a movie-length (technically two parts), Christmas-themed series finale.

It all makes for a wonderful, timeless companion to the maddening daze of Christmas, as well as a sobering reminder of the occasion's real gift.**Spoilers for the series finale Christmas special of Timeless ahead **

This reason - Emmanuel himself - lies enthroned in the album's centerpiece, the sprawling 'Christmas Worship Medley,' a ten-minute choral Magnificat that there are very few of in today's seasonal selections. Even the guests on this Christmas spectacular - CeCe Winans, Matthew Ward, Lalah Hathaway, Gerald Albright, among others - are almost invisible, keenly aware of the reason of Houghton's season. Elsewhere, he wastes no time in asserting the tone of the album, one where sacred carols are turned into funk-laden praise romps ('O Come,' 'Hark') or jazzy, bohemian reinterpretations ('Silent Nocturne'), all of which are performed with a dizzying sense of arrangement and cool, but not to the point of distraction. Houghton leaves some room for levity, as in the cinematic 'Nutcracker' instrumentals, but these are mood pieces for the rest of the album. The disc does justice to its title, as this is yuletide fare that transcends the sounds of the season not only in sound, but also in spirit: Houghton isn't concerned with the commodification of the holidays, but with Christ's birth - not as a feeble, defenseless babe, but as a King incarnate that's worthy of utmost celebration and glory. In 2002, he took a departure towards '70s R&B with the impossibly soulful Real, and A Timeless Christmas picks up where that album left off. One of the most remarkable Christmas albums of 2006 was Israel & New Breed's A Timeless Christmas, a disc that, once again, proves that bandleader Israel Houghton is as much a soul singer as he is a champion of cross-generational, multi-ethnic praise & worship music.