Calling it a romance is almost misleading. I guess it is romantic to the right person.

Because honestly, this whole thing just seems like a pedophile fantasy. Feels pretty gross.

Oooh no it's all predestined. 28-42 year old me, who's already married to this girl is gonna time travel to the time and place where she is 7, I have no choice or control over it. Better get to the grooming so that I can fulfill the self fulfilling prophecy marriage. Because whatever I do I can't change it. Oh and every time I time travel I'm naked too sorry.

All the arguments I've heard defending it like "he doesn't have a choice" etc. Is right up there with the anime "1000 year old god in a 10 year old body" excuse.

I know it's adapted from the book. I haven't read it, and I don't know if they presented this whole thing as a romance or a tragedy( I guess that would improve things?) but as of now the only conclusion here is that all of it was a conscious choice. They *could* have made it at least relatively normal, instead of repeatedly having a grown naked man meet a child, who becomes increasingly horny for him with every interaction.

I started watching The Time Traveller's Wife last night. I loved the book and read it so many times i dogeared the copy I had.I hated the movie that came out some years back. Eric Bana and that Adams chick just didn't capture the characters for me.

Theo James though... oh gosh, he is Henry. He's absolutely Henry. Rose Leslie is a good actress, and she's doing a good job, I am not sure I like her as Claire. I'm not sure why, but she's just not fitting the picture I made in my head about this woman with guts and long love. I can't fault her acting though, she's doing a great job. But it's Theo doing it for me.

I honestly am yet to not like him in anything. I can't tell if I think he's pretty, or if he's a good actor or a bad actor. I just like watching him... he makes me believe every character I've seen him play. And say what, for me, he has definitely captured Henry's humor, his fear, his kindness, his ruthlessness, his wily cunningness, all of it... I particularly loved the scene with him and Rose Leslie [spoiler]in The Stacks where Henry introduces Claire to his mother[/spoiler].

Gosh... he totally sold me.

I read a half and half kind of review from a big outlet a couple of weeks ago, and was very surprised someone attempted this story again, and was totally prepared for another wan attempt, but no... I am really liking this.

This is definitely doing some justice to Niffenegger's beautiful love story.

The show features a romantic relationship that develops between a man and a woman who meet when the woman is a young child and the man is an adult.

I thought the show would be the story of the little girl's life as she grew up and sometimes had meetings with the older man. But the show is not the story of the girl's life. It's about him, not about her. It's just what happens to the older man when he has his moments of time travel and visits the girl. The only meaning in the girl's life are her future husband encounters.

If the show focused on the girl's full life, such as her parents finding out she met a naked man in the woods, it would show her as a well rounded character. That would make the show have more meaning. The woman needs to be her own person and it would be fun to watch her grow up from a child over time.

Unfortunately, this show is on streaming internet instead of over-the-air TV and it has limited episodes. It doesn't have time for anything to develop that doesn't involve the man.

The male lead has the charisma and looks to pull off his role well and the woman is a good actress. They are just trapped in a flawed show.