Is anyone out there still watching this show? I tuned in because the show had Vorenus. The show started off kind of slow, but I stuck with it and it actually turns out to be pretty good.
IMHO, they’ve done a really good job of realistically portraying the consequences of the time hopping. It probably the only show I’ve seen that deals with time travel without creating huge continuity errors almost instantaneously. The whole triangle between Vorenus, his wife, and his brother is also well done. I hope some other people are watching this show because I’d really like to see where the writers plan on taking things.
I’m still watching, and it’s one of my favorite new shows this season (my other favorite being Pushing Daisies). I had also started watching because of Vorenus, and was somewhat surprised how good of a show it is.
I like how the time traveling affects Dan and his life in the present. His going back in time and saving people is well done, but the present day consequences (especially with the money) is the most interesting part. I thought the wife was annoying at first, but she’s growing on me, and I like how they portray Dan’s marriage; it’s a realistic relationship even though it’s unusual events that are happening to them. I also really like the troubled relationship that the two brothers have.
Overall, I’d say that the show is well written, and and very well acted. I’d recommend to anyone that didn’t start watching (or watched the pilot and gave it up) to maybe give it a try.
I was actually really concerned about whether or not McKidd would be able to escape the Vorenus image in my head, but he’s done well. A little of the uptight frigid leaks through, but he manages to pull of a likeable, understandable and occasionally dashing modern man. In the end, however, the dynamic between him and his women is what makes his character stand out more. Cheers to all three of them!
The show itself has definitely grown into its premise without taking the oft-used route of formulaic monster-of-the-week. Each problem, barring the Beautiful Mind guy, has been at least intriguing and the meta-story of why this is happening seems to be heating up.
Huh. I kinda thought that was Anthony Michael Hall . The only one on the show that I bothered looking up was Moon Bloodgood, and that was just because I couldn’t believe that Tia Carrere was still looking so young.
This episode made me say “Best. Wife. Ever…” out loud. How can you beat a chick that can outsmart the Feds like that?
AAAGGGHHH!!! I forgot to watch last night! Can someone spoil it for me? Last week the teasers for this week’s episode showed agents showing up at the Vassar home. Please, just a quick rundown.
I almost de-Tifaux-ed it, but I gave it a little more time, and I’m glad I did. (I’m also glad you didn’t spoil it for Baker, though, since I haven’t seen last night’s episode yet)
The one thing that really stands out for me is how much the brothers look like they actually are brothers. They both have a similar timbre to their voice and they both hold their bodies and move the same way as well. I expect the casting people to look for visual similarities, but they really nailed it with these two actors.
Also one of my favorite new shows. I wonder how it will be affected by the strike?
Spoilers for last night:
[spoiler]Dan goes back to 1973 and appears at a wife-swapping party (while Nixon proclaims on the TV, “I am not a crook.”). Moon Bloodgood shows up also. He meets the hosts’ college-age daughter, who is traumatized to walk in on her mother having sex with another man. Dan returns to the present. There, he finds out the girl ran away from home after that incident and disappeared after taking a ride from someone in a green pickup. Next, Dan appears a year or so later and sees the girl on the side of the road with a flat tire. He stops her from getting a ride in the pickup and sends her off with a group of dropouts in a VW van. Again, back in the present, he finds she then spent 30 years in jail for a crime. He goes back in time again, to 1975, and interrupts her and her friends robbing a grocerty store. He talks her into walking away from her ‘friends.’ At the end, in the present, he finds she has just been elected to congress (or something).
Meanwhile, in the present, the FBI is investigating the old stolen money. They search Dan’s house, but his wife has hidden the money in his jacket giving Dan the chance to walk away with it right under the detective’s noses. While cleaning up, the wife finds an old picture of his old girlfriend dated “Christmas 1948.” When Dan goes back for the last time (to stop the robbery), she confirms that she does indeed live in 1948 and travels to the future just like Dan travels to the past. She told him his trips would start to get longer, like when she was visiting the future and fell in love with him over several years.
Also, during the episode Dan meets with the creepy scientist guy who tells Dan cryptically not to tell “the men with guns” about his time-travelling.[/spoiler]
A little jumbled but you get the idea. I like that they are nicely developing the meta-story and I always find the depictions of the 1970s kind of fun. I wonder how far back he can go?
I’ve been intending to watch Journeyman, and have been recording it from the beginning, but haven’t yet seen a whole episode. However, as time passes and I hear more about it, I’m becoming more intrigued. Last night while eating dinner at work I decided to go to nbc.com and start watching an episode…it was episode 3 – the one with Neelix from Star Trek Voyager, in the San Francisco earthquake. I onlyl had 20 minutes to watch, but I liked what I saw and I will be back for more!
Thanks to the wonder that is the DVR, we’re way behind (the last one I saw was the one where Livia gave him her watch), but I really, really like it. My husband and I were discussing it last night, as apparently we three (me, him and our son) and y’all in this thread are the only people that like it. I love the characters, and the realism of the complications of time-travel (not only his job in jeopardy, but little things like “counterfeit” money from 2007 he tries to use in the nineties.) I really, really like how his wife is sometimes supportive and even jokes about it, and sometimes really pissed off, and sometimes puts on the game face and makes the best of it - often all within one episode. It’s such an interesting, albeit realistic, take on a marriage. Sure, I don’t have a time-traveling husband, but mine’s got hobbies I find alternately amusing and infuriating, so I totally get that.
It actually makes me a bit grateful for the writers’ strike. Since the network already bought the episodes and they’ve made them, they’re going to show them, even though the ratings are in toiletland. If it was a normal season, it wouldn’t have lasted 6 eps, I bet.
I’ve been watching it. I was a bit frustrated at first at how few questions Dan was asking, but thankfully, that’s changed.
From what we know so far, I am wondering if his journeys and Livia’s aren’t part of some sort of test. My best guess is that, somewhere in the future, a future version of Langley is using his machine to test whether or not he can change time and if so, by how much. Each time, he’s changing something incrementally larger to see if it’s possible to change something REALLY big like 9-11 or Hitler’s rise to power. There must be some reason he’s choosing involuntary subjects rather than volunteers from his own time…maybe he can’t use someone in his time only in his past.
Hmm. I watched the first episode, which was pretty good, but then didn’t want to commit another hour to tv. But it sounds interesting; I guess I was expecting it to turn into a sloppy mess quickly. I did like how he didn’t try to keep it a secret from his wife forever.
Any fairly intelligent take on time travel would be a welcome surprise. Guess I’ll catch it on repeats. Is the show available for download?
ETA: If I were writing the show, I’d want to build up to bigger changes until it’s obvious that the “present day” world of the show isn’t the one we’re living in.
I started watching this because I thought the main character was played by Michael Anthony Hall, and my wife watches (watched?) the Dead Zone and I couldn’t believe he’d be cast to play such similar characters. Then it turned out it wasn’t him, but it was kind of good so we kept watching anyway.
Also Moonblood is very sexy. And the guy who plays Jack was one of my favorite characters from Homicide: Life on Sesame Street.
Anyway, I think each episode keeps getting better. Last night after the show it occured to me that the writing team might have actually plotted out where this is taking us, rather than a random series of events like Quantum Leap. I like that he jumps in time, but only nominally in distance, eg, he doesn’t end up in China or Washington, D.C.
I did miss the first episode or two, so it took a while for everything to make some sense.
I’ve been watching from the beginning. I think he needs to tell his brother what’s going on. I am glad that he is starting to figure it out on his own I’m of the opinion that he’s doing good work and I want to help him out by removing all his obstacles (brother, job, etc)
Baldwin I like the way you think, and I hope they get rid of the kid that way. But that’ll have to be a season finale or something.
It was the promo monkeys that made me think that the mysterious scientists is behind the jumping, but did the story make the same claim? He just seemed to be an interested party in his dialog.
It’s the only new show we watch. We liked the pilot but almost gave up on it after the third or fourth episode. But the last couple of episodes have really picked up.
Originally I kept watching to laugh hysterically at all the terrible “location” shots of San Francisco, (Golden Gate bridge where it shouldn’t be, house in non-existant neighborhood) coupled with the “in the past” location shots that clearly weren’t (saving someone from a streetcar in 1985 that didn’t exist until 2003).
Now I watch it b/c I like it.
Also, I was watching Trainspotting the other night for the first time in several years. Imagine my surprise when I figured out who Tommy was. Spoiler for the movie: The guy that was straight-laced at the beginning, but then got hooked and later died
I’ve Tivo’d the whole series to date (except the pilot ep), but I won’t watch until I know it’s been picked up for a second season (I don’t like to get hooked on a show and have it cancelled on me). Does anyone know if it’s been at least given the go ahead for a full season?
And the guy who plays Jack was one of my favorite characters from Homicide: Life on Sesame Street.