There is a TV show coming out about a group of people who have to go back in time to various historical events to stop the villain from messing with history. Okay, fine. I'm probably not going to watch it, because revisionist history and imposing modern fashionable perspectives on historical events to the shallow degree popular entertainment always does grinds my gears like a DC fan having to watch people die in a Batman or Superman movie.

But back on topic, if you're going to try minimizing your footprint in the timeline to prevent changes, and giving your team period garb and so forth, as the commercials seem to imply, why does two thirds of your team consist of individuals who would be marginalized at best in the majority of past periods and places?

For that matter, the group is way too young to have useful historical knowledge, especially in as broad a range of time periods I have glimpsed in the promotional materials. The best take on that sort of issue I ever saw was Michael Crichton's "Timeline" where they sent back a group of graduate students, who had specific knowledge of the era and place to which they were being sent...and still ran into difficulties, because their respective specializations didn't cover everything they needed to survive in the time period. But that's stuff you can expect them to gloss over in typical Hollywood fashion that thinks a more plausible plot point is to train oil drillers to be astronauts than to train astronauts to operate a drill.

You would think, however, that since if there is ONE THING Hollywood knows about the past, judging from how they never shut up about this aspect, it is that there was racism and sexism! And they still send a black guy & a woman to the 1930s in hopes of accomplishing something.