The second season of Journeyman deserved a proper ending

I keep seeing folks list Journeyman as just another time travel show that got the axe, but nobody mentions the real problem. The writers spent season one building toward a single mystery, who sent him back, and they never got to answer it. I rewatched the whole run last month and counted at least five dangling threads, including his brother's role and the future newspaper clue from episode 3. That kind of setup needs a payoff, not a cliffhanger that NBC just let die. Anyone else track the specific plotlines they wanted resolved, or am I the only one keeping a notebook on canceled shows?

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hollyramirez2mo ago

Episode 3's future newspaper had that date circled, June 12th 1962, and I always figured that was the key to who sent him back. But the brother stuff bugs me more now, Jack kept dropping hints about their dad's old journals and then just stopped. Did you notice how the show set up that whole thing with the detective from the 1940s who recognized Dan? That never got touched again after episode 7. What did you think the newspaper was actually pointing to, the mission or the person pulling the strings?

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