Continuum Premieres May 27th
Continuum is a new series premiering on the Canadian channel Showcase.
Rachel Nichols stars as Kiera Cameron, a cop from 2077 who is swept back in time to the present day. Her mission is to stop a group of eight fanatical time terrorists from 2077, who are bent of wiping out the future of the world as she knows it.
I think I’ve seen this before, round about 1993, it was called Time Trax. Although Continuum looks like it has much better production values. No word yet on when it might air in the US.
SciFi fans will recongnize much of the cast as Stargate Alumni. Lexa Doig, Jennifer Spence, Roger R. Cross, Tony Amendola, and Brian Markson star alongside Rachel Nichols.
Check out the official Continuum site. And check out the trailer.
As far as I can tell, the plot for this show is:
Terrorists hate that they live in a society that is run entirely by corporations (after the democracies fall apart), so they battle the corporations. They kill tens of thousands in order to get 20 board members of the ruling corporations. After being caught, they are convicted and sentenced to death. Before the sentence can be carried out, they manage to teleport themselves back in time. They tried for six years, they got sixty instead.
A private corporation cop is “accidentally” also caught in the time travel bubble and sent back. She immediately captures one of the terrorists, and says “One down, x more to go” (I don’t recall how many she said). She quite obviously doesn’t get the current state of affairs for Canadian, esp Vancouver, British Columbia justice system. The guy would normally be out in 24 hours, or a week at most with a notice to appear. He has no history of convictions. He was found in an apparent state of inebriation brandishing a piece of rebar. There were no witnesses to any crime. The only problem he would have is that he has no ID. I’m sure he could apply for refugee status.
Instead of working to prevent the fall of the democracies, the terrorists decide it would be much better to hasten the fall of the democracies by immediately attacking police and a police station in order to acquire weapons, to continue their fight against the corporations, or democracy and bad hair days.
The show was littered, simply littered with ex Stargate alumni. We had SG1, SGA and SGU actors. (One actor , Mike Dopud, played in all three)
We also had the creepy kid from Jerico.
I was disappointed with the writing and the plot and the main characters (Nicols) acting. Some of the actors almost seemed embarrassed to be there. Perhaps it was just me transferring.
At least Continuum was better then HBO’s “Hemingway and Gellhorn”.
The aging effects of Nicole Kidman were absolutely superb. I have some familiarity with TV makeup and special effects and I simply don’t see how they managed to make Kidman look so young. And hemingway… a great writer but a quite a dick. A dick’s dick. Or maybe a man’s dick. His wife should’ve shot him. Would have done him a world of good. Especially if she had shot him in his… dick.
If you want to watch a good show, for my money a SciFi show that’s full of adventure and glorious sexual tension then watch the Australian show “Danger 5”. The production values are truly outstanding, the acting superb and the special effects second to none. Trust me. “Watch Danger 5”, you’ll never look at TV the same way again.