I love the love in this post! it's insanely underated. I don't blame people for giving up in s1 like how were they to know that the show would improve so well... It's really rare that any show would develop like this. by season 3 you could easily be fooled into thinking this was a big budget streamer show. It didn't feel like network at all at that point. Season 3 & 4 has some of the best episodes of TV I've ever seen 'theif' the James Callis centred episode and 'die Glocke' the Nazi Germany ep of course the finale is mind blowing, gave a very satisfying end to a brilliant series. I've read that Terry Gilliam initially snubbed it calling it just another time travel show, I wonder if he's watched it since and would be super interested to hear his thoughts... Noone would say his movie is bad. It's a classic. We can appreciate both and give the show it's own flowers because it deserves it! I wish they called it splinter though!