I just found this show and after watching the first two episodes (the third apparently aired last night), I’m pretty impressed. What they’ve done, at least in the premiere, is to twist some well-worn sci-fi television tropes in interesting ways. Is anyone else watching this? It’s not in the class of Defying Gravity (though technically not a Canadian show, I think of it that way since after ABC gave up on it, I had to find the last four episodes online as they were broadcast by Canada’s SPACE network–and because it featured the lovely Christina Cox and Laura Harris), but it ain’t bad.
Oh, and I see The Listener is back. The first season was okay, the second sucked pretty hard. I predict that this third season will split the difference and just suck a bit. It’s a shame. I love the concept, but they just refuse to take any chances with the show.
Never heard of Continuum until your post. Does it even air in America? Based on some of the cast in the link you gave, I’d probably give it a chance if it ever ran on a channel I get.
I’ve been watching this - I find it fairly rough and very “Canadian” if that makes sense, but I agree that it’s doing some interesting things with the genre and the standard tropes that we see that have led to some nice reversals. I also like that they’ve carefully balanced the “this week: Kiera misunderstands some aspect of 2012 culture, with embarrassing results!” and the face that she is a bit of an alien in the culture. I hate when shows go for cheap wince moments like that, and they’ve kept them to a bare minimum. The complicated motivations of Liber8 (hate that name) are a nice touch as well.
I also like that it doesn’t hand hold about the nature of future tech and just throws things out there, expecting us to pick up on them. A neat little touch was things like the digital graffiti in the most recent episode.
I hate the stupid depth of field camera work though. It’s pointless and distracting.
I would’ve liked some more time for her to fit in to the unfamiliar culture, instead of constantly being thrown into the deep end of some high octane investigation. It’s all a bit exhausting.
I also find her separation from Alec, with them never meeting (which she doesn’t seem to want to ever happen) a bit disconcerting. It’s sitting there at the back of my mind every time I watch, a big empty plot point waiting to be tapped. Drives me nuts.
Thanks anyway, but my internet connection basically sucks for streaming (you get what you pay for with cheap DSL). Nothing except youtube really works, and there I have to use a 3rd party add on to let it buffer before it starts running.
The “war on the past” is very Terminator (which they openly referenced in this episode), but it’s an interesting take on the material and the vagaries of time travel. Being confronted with yourself in utero has to be unsettling. I’m curious as to how they’re going to resolve the grand(mother) paradox.
This just popped up on iTunes and I watched the first ep. Partly because I like the lead actress, partly because I mistakenly thought it was based on “Millenium.” Can’t say the pilot won me over - did it get better?
I’ve been watching the Syfy airings (Mondays at 8/7c).
I thought the setup in the first episode was pretty good. The design and effects for the scenes set in the future were cool. Once they moved back in time, the flaws in the writing started to show a bit. I felt the same about the second episide, which aired this week.
A poster on another board I visit (or maybe in a different SD thread?) opined that the show picks up a bit after episode 3. I’ll stick with it for now.
Except that at some level - they want us to root for the ‘bad guys’ - the ones that were ‘freedom fighters’ in the future - so far, I agree, these guys need to be put down/away.
I am having a hard time believing that the main char does not recognize the name of the guy she met in the future - the old man that smiled when the 7 got away.
Beyond that - I’m curious as to where and how they take it - it could be very interesting, or it could be “almost capture, almost get home” week after week and that gets boring quick (unless you’re talking about season 1 of sliders, then it could be _very_interesting)