Continuum Season 4
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They had a full advance preview of episode one 3 weeks ago.
I was expecting episode 2 tonight.
OOOOO!
You're American.
There's a different rollout schedule for your lot
Never mind.
I was expecting episode 2 tonight.
OOOOO!
You're American.
There's a different rollout schedule for your lot
Never mind.
First episode was shown on Showcase in Canada last Friday and I believe can be watched through their webisite.
Stop living in the past.
The premiere started out imperfectly. The CGI of the future battlesuits in action was pretty bad. They moved too fast for suits that heavy. Maybe it's supposed to be some futuristic tech that lets them move that fast, but it looked wrong. And at first I was dreading that with six episodes left, they'd waste a whole one on the old "The hero is persuaded that the entire series was a hallucination" plotline. Fortunately that bit was resolved pretty quickly, and the rest of the episode was pretty solid.
So all the new battle lines are being drawn, and man, does Kellogg have a lot of people gunning for him now. But I guess the time soldiers are on his side, maybe?
I wonder if Alec and Julian's (and Lucas's and Jason's) hack means that HALO is now finally defunct. Stopping HALO was their main goal last season, and I assumed that the reason Brad's future still exists is because Kellogg's coup of the company prevented Good Alec from shutting down HALO and the resultant era of corporate Big Brotherhood. Of course, even if HALO has been shut down, we don't know if that will have stopped the future. After all, Kiera's future is gone now and yet she and the surviving members of Liber8 carry on as temporal orphans. So presumably Brad's soldier buddies would continue to exist even if their future were changed too.
I'm glad I won't have to wait more than five weeks (hopefully) to finally get answers about just what the hell Curtis's agenda is. We thought he was Liber8, then we thought he was a Freelancer, and now he's apparently the chief minion of this Traveler guy, who's really tall, by the way. So who the hell is he, really? And when is he really from?
One major question not yet addressed is where Travis is now. Apparently he's laying low, but presumably that will change.
So all the new battle lines are being drawn, and man, does Kellogg have a lot of people gunning for him now. But I guess the time soldiers are on his side, maybe?
I wonder if Alec and Julian's (and Lucas's and Jason's) hack means that HALO is now finally defunct. Stopping HALO was their main goal last season, and I assumed that the reason Brad's future still exists is because Kellogg's coup of the company prevented Good Alec from shutting down HALO and the resultant era of corporate Big Brotherhood. Of course, even if HALO has been shut down, we don't know if that will have stopped the future. After all, Kiera's future is gone now and yet she and the surviving members of Liber8 carry on as temporal orphans. So presumably Brad's soldier buddies would continue to exist even if their future were changed too.
I'm glad I won't have to wait more than five weeks (hopefully) to finally get answers about just what the hell Curtis's agenda is. We thought he was Liber8, then we thought he was a Freelancer, and now he's apparently the chief minion of this Traveler guy, who's really tall, by the way. So who the hell is he, really? And when is he really from?
One major question not yet addressed is where Travis is now. Apparently he's laying low, but presumably that will change.
By the way, did anyone notice that Jasmine spent the entire episode sitting in a car? Even in the climactic gunfight, she just drove up and fired out the car window while Kiera got in the back. Were they trying to hide something about Luvia Peterson's condition? Did she break her leg or get pregnant or something?
^That's why I'm glad I binge-rewatched the first three seasons last month. I think I would've been pretty lost otherwise.
It all came back eventually LOL. I'm glad the super soldier conflict in the beginning was brief. At the end of last season you got the impression that it may have been a big scale invasion.
Now I'm off to watch episode 2 (I see it online
), 'Rush Hour' (Wait, is Jackie Chan in this show now! LOL). I guess we should only post visible spoilers after the Syfy episode air.
Now I'm off to watch episode 2 (I see it online
), 'Rush Hour' (Wait, is Jackie Chan in this show now! LOL). I guess we should only post visible spoilers after the Syfy episode air.
There was no way they could've afforded that, I guess. Still, it would've been quite a shakeup to the show if there had been an overt invasion from the future and all the time-travel secrets were outed.
Now I'm off to watch episode 2 (I see it online
Yes, please. We Americans are still stuck in the past. (In many ways...)
I am extremely confused about what it is Kiera wants at this point. In her dream, the future was clearly not the dystopian hellscape that she actually came from, and had actually worked towards preventing in the previous season, but her son was still there, looking no different (well, slightly older). And then she wakes up and decides she wants to go back to her future again, as if that is A.) still possible, given all the mucking about in the past that's been going on (and she has been part of) or B.) still desirable, given that she now has realized she was living a lie and servicing an insidious agenda.
Does she really think that if they have succeeded in creating a better future (and the future soldiers seem to suggest that's a "no" so far) that there's still going to be a version of her son there waiting for her? And that even if there is, that there is not also a version of herself there already with him? Because that's exactly the sort of thing that caused all the problems last season.
I did like the episode, but I'm withholding a fair bit of judgment until I get some clarification on this seemingly major character regression.
Does she really think that if they have succeeded in creating a better future (and the future soldiers seem to suggest that's a "no" so far) that there's still going to be a version of her son there waiting for her? And that even if there is, that there is not also a version of herself there already with him? Because that's exactly the sort of thing that caused all the problems last season.
I did like the episode, but I'm withholding a fair bit of judgment until I get some clarification on this seemingly major character regression.
Her future wasn't a "dystopian hellscape" for her, since she was a Protector and the wife of a SadTech junior executive. We saw from the very start that she lived in the bubble of prosperity reserved for the elites; she just worked in the dystopian hellscape where the other 99 percent lived. (And even that's an exaggeration. Life under the Corporate Congress was comfortable enough for most people up to a point, as long as they obeyed Big Brother or didn't get too deeply into debt.) The simulated future she saw was consistent with the life she'd lived before she was sent back in time. The view outside was the version of Vancouver she came from, her son was there, the old Alec Sadler was there. Naturally, since it was a simulation created by her CMR, it was based on the data that the CMR had its memory, data about her original time. Note that Alessandro Juliani's virtual therapist character showed up in the simulation. When we encountered him the first time, he didn't even realize that Kiera had gone back in time.
Well, Kiera's never really been all that smart about temporal physics and logic. That's one thing that differentiates her from a lot of time-traveler characters in fiction. She didn't time-travel willingly, so the whole thing is out of her depth and she doesn't really grasp how it works. She just goes with her gut.
But you raise good points. There's no telling whether a version of herself will be born in the new future, or whether she'll meet and marry the same man and conceive the same son. She's just hoping that somehow it's possible. And I'm inclined to suspect the writers will concoct some excuse to allow it, even if it doesn't make sense, since I don't know if they'd be willing to let their heroine be responsible for eradicating her own son from existence.
Either he's a brilliant way of showing the complexities of time travel, and how it is possible to re-write history again and again.
Or he's suffering from ill-planed secondary character syndrome. The writers/producers have him on staff, but they have no idea what to do with him, so they keep re-writing him, hoping he'll be interesting & appropriate for the current storyline
Busy fighting Vampires & trying to remember his identity?
A pretty good year for Mr. Cross!
That's the thing, though. Curtis was killed off in the third episode, and after that Terry Chen only occasionally appeared in flashforwards to the 2070s. He didn't show up alive again in the present until the end of the second season. So they didn't have him "on staff." They probably wouldn't have brought him back from the dead unless they had a specific plan for him.
I think it's been fairly evident since around the middle of season 3 that he exists to be the recognizable (to the audience) face associated with the really tall time traveling guy. I'd be willing to bet, considering just how often the writers have teased us with that particular plot point and its apparent importance, that the writers do have some idea where they are going with him, and by association Curtis Chen. They'd have to be pretty cocky to have the guy appearing ominously all over the place and have no idea what they're really doing with him.
