Quote Originally Posted by MoofiaBossVal View Post
I had a similar feeling. When the heroes had the bad guy dead to rights and he whipped out the time machine from nowhere, I sighed and my engagement fell. There wasn't realism anymore. The writers were going to bend over backwards to keep the story going whether it made sense or not. It reminded me of that scene towards the end of the first season of Code Geass when the rebels and the empire have reached an amicable solution, but then the writers whip out an inane contrivance to ruin the peace and keep the story going for the sake of it. It becomes hard to care whatever is going on anymore since it doesn't matter.
It is passing strange that Kairos just happened to be at the very top of the research station, or that its use could just have it pop out at a moment's notice. Almost no information on it or how it works, either, other than the direct exposition about it nuking memories from people or an area. Plot Contrivance Ultimate, most assuredly.