Continuum (The TV show) No Spoilers.
I know we (Y and myself) are often a season or more behind of what is going down. Sometimes it's because we didn't know it would be good until critics and fans make a fuss, then we watch it at home on DVD. Sometimes my bad back makes going to a movie theatre' impossible so we have to wait for the DVD. Other times, we just get impatient on waiting for the next episode of a good show so we wait and get behind on purpose so we can have a marathon of episodes all in one afternoon, day, or weekend without waiting.
Anyway, this usually puts us a year or so behind a lot of films and a season or two (if we didn't know a show was good until late in the series) behind a good show. So even though I just read that the final episode of season two will air in a couple days,
If you are already into the show, great. You know why we like it. If not, I will try to describe JUST enough to inspire you to get a copy somewhere without destroying it's many secrets.
The Series starts in 2077 in a future too different from our own to describe and it would lose part of it's fun if I even tried. A woman that is kind of like the future's version of a cop (again, can say no more), Kiera Cameron, is to witness the future's painless version of the execution of a small, local terrorist group that has done 9/11 and Oklahoma City type of Terrorism to it's own government, and every type of treason and crimes against humanity that you can name. At the last moment, a higher up wants Kiera to be one of the 'cops' inside the execution booth with her tech-suit and gun just in case someone tries to make a grab at a guard. A moment before a switch or bolt of electricity is jolted to execute the terrorists, Ms. Cameron notices they have something small, a device of some kind that she thinks is a bomb. So she runs towards them as they all place their hand on the device and 'disappear'. But so does she.
The time device (yes, it's a timey-wimey show) jolts the group of 8 or 9 back 65 years but it also brings back Cameron since as she ran toward the energy, it enveloped her as well. Now obviously, she needs to A) Find and Eliminate the Terrorists before they destroy the future and B) Figure out a way to get home to her husband, son, job, and life. (Here is where I feel like saying 'Her only guide on this journey, is Al, a hologram that only she can see and hear.)
But that's closer than you realize. The only help she gets is from a teenaged computer nerd and hacker that has a whole studio of tech set up in one of the barns on his family farm and is a genius. Kiera, as a "Protector" has tech built into her suit, brain, and eyes and AL-ec (see, told you it was close to Quantum Leap) is able to hear her and see what she can see on some of his dozen monitors. Somehow, he is involved in inventing the software and was working on it in 2012, where Cameron (and the terrorist group) were dropped. Before, it was empty code, no "hooked up or in" then suddenly, he hears her and sees through her eyes because she is wearing some of the software and data he later invents. It's like Marconi sitting there with radio and it works but nothing's playing that BOOM, out of the blue, the Beatles or talk radio comes through. So yes, Alec is her "guide on this journey", even though he's just a boy of 16 or so, he is a prodigy and believes here when she admits that she is from the future and he is trying to help her get back home.
All -good- sci-fi owes a debt to and has some Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Carl Sagan, Jules Verne, Vonnegut, Welles, and the whole lot. Yes, you will see Blade Runner-esque things, and the questions of paradoxes are posed but this is one of the few intelligent timey-wimey things, other than the good Doctor that we have seen in a while. And though it sucks for me... I am gonna have to wait a few months until I can see season two. Yet I feel lucky they even made a second season. NORMALLY all good shows are too intelligent for the common denominator to get and are canceled soon after they air. One day we will do a whole POLL of BRILLIANT shows that were canceled way too early due to the masses being way to stupid...
But this is worth a watch. I am not your average sci-fi gal. I LOVE it...but ONLY the top notch, Prisoner, Dr. Who, Lost, Sliders, Trek, Torchwood, Twilight Zone, even Quantum Leap type of shows. The rest of the Monster of the week crap, I have no use for. And though not a Sci-Fi show, Twin Peaks was a BRILLIANT but prematurely canceled show that spawned about 25 great shows, mostly sci-fi, and about 7 or so that were really something...like X-files. There wouldn't be any American Horror Story or other such shows without Twin Peaks...Digressing.
Nutshell??
Watch this show, but in order, or you will be lost.
Zuzu
Anyway, this usually puts us a year or so behind a lot of films and a season or two (if we didn't know a show was good until late in the series) behind a good show. So even though I just read that the final episode of season two will air in a couple days,
If you are already into the show, great. You know why we like it. If not, I will try to describe JUST enough to inspire you to get a copy somewhere without destroying it's many secrets.
The Series starts in 2077 in a future too different from our own to describe and it would lose part of it's fun if I even tried. A woman that is kind of like the future's version of a cop (again, can say no more), Kiera Cameron, is to witness the future's painless version of the execution of a small, local terrorist group that has done 9/11 and Oklahoma City type of Terrorism to it's own government, and every type of treason and crimes against humanity that you can name. At the last moment, a higher up wants Kiera to be one of the 'cops' inside the execution booth with her tech-suit and gun just in case someone tries to make a grab at a guard. A moment before a switch or bolt of electricity is jolted to execute the terrorists, Ms. Cameron notices they have something small, a device of some kind that she thinks is a bomb. So she runs towards them as they all place their hand on the device and 'disappear'. But so does she.
The time device (yes, it's a timey-wimey show) jolts the group of 8 or 9 back 65 years but it also brings back Cameron since as she ran toward the energy, it enveloped her as well. Now obviously, she needs to A) Find and Eliminate the Terrorists before they destroy the future and B) Figure out a way to get home to her husband, son, job, and life. (Here is where I feel like saying 'Her only guide on this journey, is Al, a hologram that only she can see and hear.)
But that's closer than you realize. The only help she gets is from a teenaged computer nerd and hacker that has a whole studio of tech set up in one of the barns on his family farm and is a genius. Kiera, as a "Protector" has tech built into her suit, brain, and eyes and AL-ec (see, told you it was close to Quantum Leap) is able to hear her and see what she can see on some of his dozen monitors. Somehow, he is involved in inventing the software and was working on it in 2012, where Cameron (and the terrorist group) were dropped. Before, it was empty code, no "hooked up or in" then suddenly, he hears her and sees through her eyes because she is wearing some of the software and data he later invents. It's like Marconi sitting there with radio and it works but nothing's playing that BOOM, out of the blue, the Beatles or talk radio comes through. So yes, Alec is her "guide on this journey", even though he's just a boy of 16 or so, he is a prodigy and believes here when she admits that she is from the future and he is trying to help her get back home.
All -good- sci-fi owes a debt to and has some Asimov, Philip K. Dick, Carl Sagan, Jules Verne, Vonnegut, Welles, and the whole lot. Yes, you will see Blade Runner-esque things, and the questions of paradoxes are posed but this is one of the few intelligent timey-wimey things, other than the good Doctor that we have seen in a while. And though it sucks for me... I am gonna have to wait a few months until I can see season two. Yet I feel lucky they even made a second season. NORMALLY all good shows are too intelligent for the common denominator to get and are canceled soon after they air. One day we will do a whole POLL of BRILLIANT shows that were canceled way too early due to the masses being way to stupid...
But this is worth a watch. I am not your average sci-fi gal. I LOVE it...but ONLY the top notch, Prisoner, Dr. Who, Lost, Sliders, Trek, Torchwood, Twilight Zone, even Quantum Leap type of shows. The rest of the Monster of the week crap, I have no use for. And though not a Sci-Fi show, Twin Peaks was a BRILLIANT but prematurely canceled show that spawned about 25 great shows, mostly sci-fi, and about 7 or so that were really something...like X-files. There wouldn't be any American Horror Story or other such shows without Twin Peaks...Digressing.
Nutshell??
Watch this show, but in order, or you will be lost.
Zuzu