History YMMV / Continuum

* ActingForTwo: [[spoiler:Erik Knudsen]] in Season 3, as [[spoiler: Red/Scar Alec and Green/Other/Piron Alec]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Even though the entire season was building up to [[spoiler:Past!Alec]] being evil, it could still have been argued that he was at least well-intentioned. Then comes the season finale, where he [[spoiler:taunts Future!Alec by claiming that he will do everything in his power to keep Future!Alec from being happy with Emily, even if that means killing her, and uses his dying breath to rub Kiera's lost family in her face. Even before that, he tries manipulating her by mentioning her lost family]].

* {{Anvilicious}}: Anyone starting to watch this series should be prepared for some fairly {{Anvilicious}} social commentary about corporations whose methods represent the CorruptCorporateExecutive, what it means to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, being a DefectorFromDecadence, as well as PoliceBrutality and SinisterSurveillance.
** Seriously, the EvilCorp is called [=SadTech=]. Seriously? (Though it is meant to be a bridge with the surname of Alec Sadler, who owns the company.)

* FridgeHorror: Good job solving that unsolved cold-case from the future! Wait... [[spoiler:didn't the serial killer mention that the ''30 child abusers'' were being targeted for having ''already'' slipped through the cracks of the justice system!?]]

** Seriously, the EvilCorp is called [=SadTech=]. Seriously?

* SeasonalRot: While things were getting a little murky come the second season, it still managed to attract fans and keep telling a relatively compelling storyline. Season 3, however, is where most fans agree the show really started falling apart, with many plots seeming only half-developed or rushed, and everyone turning on each other at the drop of the hat, making the heroes ''and'' the villains pretty unlikable for once. It also doesn't help this season decided to play heavy with a time travel plot to RetGone the ending of Season 2, played up an obvious EvilTwin plot with [[spoiler: Alec]], and in general had many of the characters suffer from CharacterDerailment. It's also a major sticking point this was the season that caused the network to cancel the show, approving just one more mini-season (only 6 episodes) to wrap things up.

!Tropes for the tabletop game

* SpecialEffectFailure: When [[spoiler:Past!Alec]] is stabbed in the neck and then pulls it out, the resultant blood spurt is pretty...lackluster. The neck has some pretty big vessels, and arterial spray is known for flying ''feet'' from the victim if it's a big enough hole (given the object he was stabbed with, it had to be a big hole). There's also the way it squirted ''more'' after he'd already collapsed, rather than an initial surge of blood and then weaker dribbles as his heart ran out of blood and ceased pumping.

* IdiotBall.
** Season 1: You'd think Sonja, a genius doctor, would know how to make sure someone's dead. She must have self-sabotaged.
** Season 2, Episode 6: Kiera comes out to Carlos about being a time traveller. Of course he things she's nuts. Why didn't she just show him that future tech super suit she wears everywhere? Or demonstrate one of her cyborg superpowers?
*** Correct me if I'm wrong, but the suit may have been broken at that point in the story.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
-->'''Corporate Congress Lackey:''' We call loyal citizens patriots.[[note]]Depending on what other TV shows you watch, the term carries some interesting connotations.[[/note]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Even though the entire season was building up to [[spoiler:Past!Alec]] being evil, it could still have been argued that he was at least well-intentioned. Then comes the season finale, where he [[spoiler:taunts Future!Alec by claiming that he will do everything in his power to keep Future!Alec from being happy with Emily, even if that means killing her, and uses his dying breath to rub Kiera's lost family in her face]].

* MoralEventHorizon: Even though the entire season was building up to [[spoiler:Past!Alec]] being evil, it could still have been argued that he was at least well-intentioned. Then comes the season finale, where he [[spoiler:taunts Future!Alec by claiming that he will do everything in his power to keep Past!Alec from being happy with Emily, even if that means killing her, and uses his dying breath to rub Kiera's lost family in her face]].

* JerkassWoobie: Kellog seems to be a classic ConMan, ManipulativeBastard and PunchClockVillain abusing time travel for his own gains. [[spoiler:Then he had to watch the woman he thought/might be was his grandmother die in his arms due to his former comrades trying to blackmail him and his own back story implies he only joined up with Liber8 after he was wrongfully arrested because he stayed with his dying sister (the real Liber8 member at the time) in her last moments when the arresting officers fired upon them]] it is really hard to not feel bad for the guy. [[spoiler:And he gets to witness the Charlie Foxtrot that the Liber8 inspired timeline becomes, as he becomes one of the last holdouts after a series of devastaring inter-corporate civil wars.]]

* JerkassWoobie: Kellog seems to be a classic ConMan, ManipulativeBastard and PunchClockVillain abusing time travel for his own gains. [[spoiler:Then he had to watch the woman he thought/might be was his grandmother die in his arms due to his former comrades trying to blackmail him and his own back story implies he only joined up with Liber8 after he was wrongfully arrested because he stayed with his dying sister (the real Liber8 member at the time) in her last moments when the arresting officers fired upon them]] it is really hard to not feel bad for the guy.

-->'''Corporate Congress Lackey:''' We call loyal citizens patriots.

* {{Squick}}: The incinerated remains of the [[PeoplePuppets mind-controlled bank robbers]] in "Minute to Win It".

-->'''Corporate Congress Lackey:''' We call loyal citizens [[Series/{{Revolution}} Patriots]].

* TheChrisCarterEffect: As the second series has progressed and more characters are introduced or revealed to have their own agenda, it's 50/50 whether week to week things are being thrown at the wall and seeing what sticks or if there's a master plan and the series is falling into this or GambitPileup.

* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler: Agent Gardiner]] could qualify, although this depends on whether one considers him either [[spoiler: a loyal CSIS Agent doing his job to investigate a mysterious woman who's story doesn't hold up, or simply an InspectorJavert deliberately seeking ways to antagonise and implicate Kiera for ''any'' crime whatsoever]].
* TheChrisCarterEffect: As the second series has progressed and more characters are introduced or revealed to have their own agenda, it's 50/50 whether week to week things are being thrown at the wall and seeing what sticks or if there's a masterplan and the series is falling into this or GambitPileup.
* JerkassWoobie: Kellog, seems a classic ConMan, ManipulativeBastard and PunchClockVillain abusing time travel for his own gains. [[spoiler:Then he had to watch the woman he thought/might be was his grandmother die in his arms due to his former comrades trying to blackmail him and his own back story implies he only joined up with Liber8 after he was wrongfully arrested because he stayed with his dying sister (the real Liber8 member at the time) in her last moments when the arresting officers fired upon them]] it is really hard to not feel bad for the guy.

* Anvilicious: Anyone starting to watch this series should be prepared for some fairly {{Anvilicious}} social commentary about CorruptCorporateExecutives, what it means to be a WellIntentionedExtremist, being a DefectorFromDecadence, as well as PoliceBrutality, and SinisterSurveillance.