The Outer Limits (TV Series) Gettysburg (2000) User Reviews

One very good prediction

[talonjensen · 8/10 · 4 April 2018]

This episode is a little uneven, even so I mostly enjoyed it. In my opinion, the most interesting thing about this episode is that it was produced in 2000 and predicts an African-American President in 2013. Great call! lol

Confusing Time Disruption

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 2 October 2014]

One of the most prominent themes in Science Fictoin, is the use of time manipulation. The rule is generally that time is immutable. in other words, you can't go back and mess with it. In this one, a young doctor and his friend are at a Civil War re-enactment at the Gettysburg battlefield. One is going to play a Union medic and the other a Confederate soldier. The latter has lived a life of desperation, unhappy with his lot. He is a bigot and believes that if the South had won the war, things would be better. Enter, a photographer with a Matthew Brady camera. He poses the two men and when the camera clicks, they are thrust into the battlefield in real time. They are picked up by Lee's forces and are kept prisoner. A series of rather unbelievable events occur where they try to manipulate their situations. A Captain who is going crazy from meningitis symptoms is in command and nothing they say can change things. The young medic is made to change sides in order to treat the troops, which he does so willingly. They are trying to get back, enlisting the help of the photographer, but the young zealot sees this as his chance to change things "for the better" in his eyes. This is an uneven, strange episode, with lots of weird implications. The wrap up is a bit confusing.

About Gettysberg

[FadedOut · 6/10 · 25 July 2007]

The episode is about a time travelling cameramen who sends two men back to the battle of Gettysberg because one of them will shoot a black president here in the future. The plan goes awry when due to the accidental transporting of a confederate soldier through time to the assassination who attempts to shoot a Lincoln lookalike and hit the president. Meanwhile one of the men wants to get back to his own time and the other discovers he wants to fight, he tries to and is fatally wounded while the other gets the chance to return to his own time discovering something about a photograph of the battle he hadn't noticed before, the time traveller is there watching as the assassination happens again.

Time traveler from the future returns again

[CCsito · 9/10 · 4 April 2018]

The time traveler (Nicholas Prentice) who was in last season's "Tribunal" episode returns again as he transports several Civil War re-enactors back to the battle of Gettysburg in 1863. His reason for doing so is not revealed until near the end. His purpose for moving the men back to the past is to allow one of the men to see how the pursuit of war was a useless effort and to change the outlook of that man. The man would play another role in the future when he assassinates the current President. The time traveler was trying to change his outlook on his life and prevent the later assassination. He was using the time travel effort to convince those in the future that events in the past can be altered to a better outcome. The future assassin does have a change of heart near the end and attempts to stop the Pickett's Charge order. But he is killed by another soldier and his death in the past stops his future assassination of the President. However, the ending of the installment has an ironic twist. One of the Confederate commanders is accidentally transported into the future and appears at the time of the President making a speech at Gettysburg and he instead assassinates the President along with a Lincoln look-a-like. So the entire time travel effort produced the same result. The episode also included a pregnant woman who gave birth. I am not sure of her relation to the plot. She does get to read a historical journal of the battle of Gettysburg.

The Outer Limits: Gettysburg

[blackkatdemon · 10/10 · 17 October 2006]

Andy and Vince are at Gettysburg to do a reenactment of the famous war. One is dressed as a Union soldier and the other is dressed as a Conferdate soldier. When they are asked to have there picture taken by a weird photographer. They then get transported to the Battle of Gettysburg a few days before the battle. As they stand there few soldiers and a Col. (Meat Loaf Aday) ride up on them dressed in Confederate uniforms. Arresting the men and saying that one is a prisoner and the other can join his army. As the show goes on and they come to find out they are in the past. But I can't tell you the rest other then it is a great episode.