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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jan 19, 2016 12:26:39 GMT -5
Oh you sweet summer child. Season three changes the show does so many interesting things. Finally, Kellog is the best asshole and I like that for once the nerd doesn't look like an underwear model with a cardigan and/or a pair of glasses (and he's curly! us curlies must stick together). I don't know what Stephen Lobo does now that Continuum's wrapped up, but I wish him the world - you can practically see the show realising how strong his performance is and beginning to give him a bigger role as a result. |
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 19, 2016 12:35:37 GMT -5
Douay-Rheims-Challoner Well, season 3 awaits. I'm glad I didn't watch this from the start. Binge watching is amazing.
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jan 19, 2016 12:50:28 GMT -5
Sanziana True, but there was a kind of joy from Continuum being this odd little Canadian show a couple of us watched and talked about online and then started to pick apart as it bloomed into something quite other.
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Post by Post-Lupin on Jan 19, 2016 19:33:26 GMT -5
Sanziana True, but there was a kind of joy from Continuum being this odd little Canadian show a couple of us watched and talked about online and then started to pick apart as it bloomed into something quite other. The 'I was into the show before it was cool' line about a time travel show? Well played, boss. |
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Post by UnarmedAndDangerousVorta on Jan 20, 2016 14:43:00 GMT -5
I'm reviving this thread because I'm nearly done with season 2 of this show and it's so addictive. I can't seem to stop watching. It's such a good show, but I think it could be extraordinary if they would tone down the action and let these characters develop and just let me see more of the future world, goddamit show! I like my sci-fi to be creative and crazy and not bogged down in fights and crime investigations. I understand that a low budget means not including too many future scenes, but I'm so tired of ex-Mutant X poor man's Timothy Olyphant and his bald idiot boss. The future technology is so simple, yet so exciting (except the invisibility suit, that's silly, and yes I know there's time travel here), I hope season 3 brings more of that. I also have a feeling everything is about to become so complicated and I'll lose track of what's happening. I already do not know what are the three dots people and how they travel through time if Sadler hadn't invented time travel yet in they're time. And who are the distant future people? They seem to be like the bald guys in Fringe. Anyway, I suppose I 'll get everything eventually. Keira is such a puzzling character, so morally complex, I root for her and at the same time I realise she's a fascist thug. She's an essentially good person, whose nature is perverted in an unhinged society. I've seen my fair share of brainwashed people, and it's frightening how well they capture that dichotomy. I could do without the weepy family scenes though. I really dislike the Liber8 people are one-dimensional villains (I love Garza despite that), and I would really love for them to delve deeper into Alec's character, and how the action of the older affect the younger one. Finally, Kellog is the best asshole and I like that for once the nerd doesn't look like an underwear model with a cardigan and/or a pair of glasses (and he's curly! us curlies must stick together). One of the things I like about the show is that nearly all of the technology except time travel is actually plausible. We can make things invisible today and we don't need high tech to do it. I agree that we never see enough of the future but a little goes a long way. What bothers you about Carlos and Dillon? |
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 22, 2016 12:31:08 GMT -5
UnarmedAndDangerousVorta Carlos and Dillon do not bother me as characters, and actually Carlos is quite charming, it's just that I found annoying the police procedural aspects of the show the first 2 seasons. I wanted to see more of the future world. That invisibility thing is very interesting.
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 22, 2016 13:05:17 GMT -5
Whoa, Douay-Rheims-Challoner, you were right, season 3 is where it's at. Everything went completely insane this season, so much backstabbing and betrayals and unlikely alliances happen. Alec facing the Alternate Alec (such a prick) was a highlight. The show finally faced the morally ambiguous waters it swam in and delivered on its potential. And Keira and Alec managed to make up after everything! Now the only thing I want is a scene with young Alec and old Alec. That would be very interesting. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2016 15:05:19 GMT -5
Whoa, Douay-Rheims-Challoner , you were right, season 3 is where it's at. Everything went completely insane this season, so much backstabbing and betrayals and unlikely alliances happen. Alec facing the Alternate Alec (such a prick) was a highlight. The show finally faced the morally ambiguous waters it swam in and delivered on its potential. And Keira and Alec managed to make up after everything! Now the only thing I want is a scene with young Alec and old Alec. That would be very interesting. *grins* |
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 25, 2016 12:39:53 GMT -5
And I'm done. Fuck it, why did it have to end that way for Keira? Urgh. So, Kellog was the mystical Jesus guy or I'm missing something? I don't understand how could he live so long though.
Great show, with all its bittersweetness.
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Post by UnarmedAndDangerousVorta on Jan 25, 2016 14:28:21 GMT -5
And I'm done. Fuck it, why did it have to end that way for Keira? Urgh. So, Kellog was the mystical Jesus guy or I'm missing something? I don't understand how could he live so long though. Great show, with all its bittersweetness. I'm pretty sure no version of Kellogg was The Traveller since he came from way farther in the future. I was confused that they would send Kellogg to the past. I was a little dissapointed with the final season- it was very obviously rushed- but I understand how the production issues meant it had to be this way and am reasonably satisfied with what we got. |
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Post by Sanziana on Jan 25, 2016 14:36:22 GMT -5
UnarmedAndDangerousVorta I think they sent Kellog into the past so there was no way he could do any more damage. It was all a bit messy at the end, but considering they only had 6 episodes they managed to tie everything up pretty well.
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Post by UnarmedAndDangerousVorta on Jan 25, 2016 14:41:33 GMT -5
But doesn't backwards time travel leave _more_ possibility for damage? Isn't that literally the premise of the show?
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jan 25, 2016 14:44:48 GMT -5
Kellog's skills are all about manipulation of tech and finances. There's not a lot he could do in pre-Columbian America. I guess he could talk his way out of not being killed, as soon as he figures out how to communicate to anyone, but even if he somehow wound up as a leader they'd lack the industry to ever develop a time machine or do much of anything too major.
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Post by UnarmedAndDangerousVorta on Jan 25, 2016 14:50:41 GMT -5
Kellog's skills are all about manipulation of tech and finances. There's not a lot he could do in pre-Columbian America. I guess he could talk his way out of not being killed, as soon as he figures out how to communicate to anyone, but even if he somehow wound up as a leader they'd lack the industry to ever develop a time machine or do much of anything too major. No, I get that, but Kellogg is also ridiculously lucky and a survivor even without his silver tongue. I understand what the ending implied, but without seeing a corpse and this being scifi, I have a lot of trouble believing that was the end for him. It would have made more sense to me to just send him to 10 minutes after Kiera arrived in the new future. |
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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jan 25, 2016 14:55:28 GMT -5
Well he might have a successful career as a chieftain of, say, the Tsawwassen (yes I looked up a Vancouver native group) but time travel's not in his cards anywhere (especially as only his enemies know WHEN he is.)
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