Continuum

Continuum is a new Canadian sci-fi series that follows a police officer from a corporate ruled future. She and a group of terrorists who killed thousands trying to bomb the Corporate Congress, are blasted back 65 years to 2012, in Vancouver. Now she wants to find a way back home but also stop the terrorists.

(Also for a joke, looks like the VPD is just as brutal 65 years in the future!)

edited 11th Jun '12 5:48:16 PM by breadloaf

Just finished the first season and really liked it. It is full of Grey and Grey Morality and makes it a difficult choice on whose side should you be on. I definitely am on Kiera's side hoping she sees how the future society is dystopian and how the Liber8's intentions are good just their method is wrong.

I would also like to get more details of how time travel works in the second season.

I just finished the last episode of season two a few minutes ago. I gotta say, I did not see any of that coming. Wow. Now I can't wait until March for season 3.

I really liked the season season finale. I assume that'd the last we'll see of Travis though, but that was a great fight scene.

Saw the new episode (Well, the new episode for America, S3E1, Syfy airs this stuff a few weeks later than the Canadian network) and so far, so good. Shaking things up, I have high hopes for this season.

Plus the name of the show makes more sense now

I binged the show on Netflix.

OK, Season 3 had way too much going on and some insane decisions (Kiera locking up Alec in a cage? Also the whole Bad Alec plotline was far too rushed, it should have been set up this season and paid off in another. There was only one week between the two Alecs, and I didn't think there was quite enough changes to justify Alec going crazy evil by the end of the season. It was a good idea, and yeah Bad Alec fits with what we already knew about 2077 Alec, but he was just...changed too fast.

Just far too many ideas thrown on screen at once.

Waning Minutes was great though.

edited 17th Aug '15 7:13:05 PM by occono

About that ending... a lot of people seem to like it, but to me it feels immeasurably cruel to Kiera, even a Fate Worse than Death.

I have a lot to say about this, but I'd like to know how many tropers were watching before I spend the time.

I think just knowing Sam is OK is fine for Kiera. She'll get over the pain of not being able to be with him. And Alec is still super rich and influential in the new 2077 so he can find a place for her in the world.

Okay, I'll break down the Fridge Horror:

One thing that is never explained is what happened to Kiera's original timeline. Either it was destroyed, or as implied by the Freelancers, it continues to exist. For all she knows, the family Kiera knew either died horribly in a Time Crash or still thinks she died in the incident, her son motherless and beyond her reach, apparently forever.

And then to have THIS dangled in front of her. A son that looks like hers, but has none of the same memories. A life that could have been hers, but never was, and never can be. Alec and Julian are probably the only people left alive who ever met her, and there is probably no record of her existing because it would interfere with the "real" Kiera's life. She is just a doppelganger, something that should not exist, and she can never have closure because of the knowledge that something so similar to her old life still exists nearby, taunting her endlessly with what could have been. Never being able to hold her son again, or even a reasonable substitute...

The memory of her family was what kept her going for years. I don't understand how anyone could just hang that up so easily, especially a mother. This nagging reminder of her loss combined with her family's uncertain fate is pure psychological torture that could easily drive a person insane.

One of the stated themes by the creators is "sacrifice" for something greater. There is a big problem with this. Kiera never volunteered for time travel. The ending along with Kellog's treachery implied that she never had the slightest chance of returning home. The choices she made could affect the world, but regardless of her decisions, she herself was set up for misery from the very beginning. It felt more as though the elder Alec, the Traveler, and the world itself used her up and tossed her aside when she was no longer needed.

That isn't sacrifice. It's running a woman through hell, and then leaving her there.

edited 28th Oct '15 10:23:10 PM by quantumenace