2x04 The Lonely Hearts Club

There's a disconnect between what the show tells me is an emotional arc and what is actually happening on screen. Ben is going through a very rocky emotional situations. His fiance, whom he leapt into the time stream to save, is suddenly with another man and has been with him for three years. Even though he was engaged yesterday. Logically, it makes sense that Ben would be emotionally devastated, confused and torn up about this. Logically, it would make sense that Ben would make inefficient moves designed to soothe his broken heart rather than complete the mission. However, seeing Ben do these moves, that doesn't really come across well. We're getting effect without cause. Which is very jarring because they keep telling us the cause. Eventually somewhere in the episode someone's going to say Ben's acting like he just lost his fiance but is he? He's doing the things that would make you think he's emotionally damaged, but he's not really displaying any sort of emotional depth on this issue. It's like watching a man drink and the story keeps saying he's drinking because his dog died and his wife left him but he's doing happy drink scene. It fits but it doesn't fit.

Also, it's perfectly fine to lie to someone you love. Both people who work in highly sensitive government like positions and yet still someone in the relationship is complaining about how keeping a secret is the same thing as a lie. It's stupid. You agreed that work would be work and relationship would be relationship. So don't complain that work stuff hasn't been trickling down when that's what we agreed to not trickle down. Like ya'll do top secret stuff and then get pissy about keeping secrets what are we twelve? I refuse to believe women act like this in real life.