teruterubozu
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Maybe I'll get back into this if Season 3 is good. I started Season 2 but kinda lost interest, even though I LOVED season 1.
Continuum (2012 tv show)
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That pic is what was known as of the end of S2.
Season 2 was better than the first. Watch it.
What twist?
That he was the future version of the nerdy kid from 2012 and was probably responsible for sending everyone back in time for whatever reason. I guess because predestination paradoxes are fun.
I dunno, maybe I'm just reading it wrong because he's William B Davis.
Freeza Under The Shower
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It's interesting that the fight choreography -and framing of it- on this show is sensible. (since the second half of S2 specifically).
This, very much this. Ever since season 1 Continuum has had me questioning who I should be rooting for....at first it feels like Kiera...she's got a family and just wants to go home....but she's also a member of a highly repressive regime. So...we're rooting for Liber8? Well....actually no because there's some pretty bad and violent people there. So it's the cops? Well, no, in season 2 they get a bit more violent and repressive. So it's Alec? Well, no, he's probably going to start this whole thing....and is passing info to himself.
Even the freelancers are pretty bad people...
And then the S3 opener.....with Kiera in her new black suit with 2 kills to her name.....I mean....where do we go from here?
charlequin
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I love how the show pretty clearly sets you up to root for a fascist in season one, and how they don't shy away from showing you ways that that's actually pretty bad.
At this point Alec is probably the most sympathetic character, although he's also now the most recent person to do something super fucked up.
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Comment written befrore Orphan Black.
Napoleonthechimp
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She'll probably end up doing the boring thing and act as the moral arbiter.
charlequin
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Stump is some kind of self-hating Canadian who gave Continuum five minutes and gave up on it.
Okay I don't understand the time travel rules in the show. Is it deterministic and fixed with a single timeline? They made it seem like any timeline without Alec was doomed but the Freelancers exist to preserve their timeline? They sorta addressed the grandfather paradox in an earlier episode so "past" Kira being dead can be kinda explained away, but is the "future" Kira just replacing her to preserve the timeline? The answer is probably just accept it but it's nagging at me.
Also it's really weird how they making "future" Kira and Alec think of themselves like they're from 10 years in the future and completely different people. I know they went through some big reveals but they went back a week, come on.
Well he's not wrong. The show doesn't engender itself when you have groups called Liber8 and very evident low budget within the first few minutes.
It definitely has some interesting ideas but it's also really rough, especially Kira's acting. Not to mention dumbshit like the super powered tight, catsuit that has convenient abilities for the current problem and is forgotten later. If I wasn't starving for a sci-fi show and didn't have a lingering crush on Lexa Doig I wouldn't have stayed around this long.
Also it's really weird how they making "future" Kira and Alec think of themselves like they're from 10 years in the future and completely different people. I know they went through some big reveals but they went back a week, come on.
Well he's not wrong. The show doesn't engender itself when you have groups called Liber8 and very evident low budget within the first few minutes.
It definitely has some interesting ideas but it's also really rough, especially Kira's acting. Not to mention dumbshit like the super powered tight, catsuit that has convenient abilities for the current problem and is forgotten later. If I wasn't starving for a sci-fi show and didn't have a lingering crush on Lexa Doig I wouldn't have stayed around this long.
SwiftDeath
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First couple episodes are good but it goes downhill quite quickly in my opinion
charlequin
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No, it's a central changeable timeline with burnt-out tangent timelines.
Any given person with the Chocolate Orange* can travel through time. If they go back, they wind up with things exactly as they were in the history of the time they traveled to. Once there, their presence starts affecting the events in the timeline. If they change something significant, the future timeline they came from is extinguished and a new one is created based on the consequences of the new sequence of events. If they don't, they can hang out in the past without any big consequences.
When the show does stuff that seems like a causality paradox, it's actually just the latest iteration of a loop. When Old Alec sends a secret message back to Young Alec, he's not sending the message he himself got; he's sending a new message, because in each timeline Old Alec tries to change the past. The Old Alec we see is on something like the fourth iteration of the time travel loop; Young Alec is on the fifth.
*Sorry, this is totally what the time travel sphere reminds me of.
Well he's not wrong. The show doesn't engender itself when you have groups called Liber8 and very evident low budget within the first few minutes.
Canadians love low budgets!
The back half of season one is much better than the front and season 2 in general is better written than the first, IMO. The start is all rather underwhelming procedural/Liber8-of-the-week stuff, and it gets much more interesting to me once it becomes more character-driven.
PHOENIXZERO
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Oh hey, a Continuum topic. I imagine this topic would be more active if the Canadian and U.S. Airings were in sync with each other. Then again it's on SyFy here so the audience probably isn't that big to begin with. It's too bad, I've enjoyed it and yeah it dragged early on but most shows do and it's always fun watching Vancouver based shows and catching actors who are all over them and the landmarks. Even better when the show actually takes place in Vancouver and isn't just a backdrop for some other city.
Nice to finally see the Kyle XY girl is the crazy killer I expected her to be last season.
If they can go back there's no reason to believe they can't go forward but no one besides Kiera really has a reason to.
Nice to finally see the Kyle XY girl is the crazy killer I expected her to be last season.
If they can go back there's no reason to believe they can't go forward but no one besides Kiera really has a reason to.
So I gave this a shot and just finished season 1. Like it so far. It's solid.
I had put this show off before reading a few comments about it here and there, but even after just watching the first episode, I have no clue what those "this is a pro-corporation control" show guys were talking about. Honestly seems like they just read a show synopsis, or really don't think about what they're watching (and need everything laid out in front of them nice and simple to understand) if they actually watched an episode.
Going to be recommending this show to some other people I know now.
I had put this show off before reading a few comments about it here and there, but even after just watching the first episode, I have no clue what those "this is a pro-corporation control" show guys were talking about. Honestly seems like they just read a show synopsis, or really don't think about what they're watching (and need everything laid out in front of them nice and simple to understand) if they actually watched an episode.
Going to be recommending this show to some other people I know now.
I finally got around to watching it. For some reason I was expecting the story to be told through the eyes of Libr8, not Kiera. I was also not expecting Master Bra'tac to be a fundamentalist terrorist.
His opening monologue implies that the corporations are evil yet we don't see their evil at all. Everyone seems happy and they haven't performed capital punishment in 40 years is all we really know. So far Libr8 look like nutjobs.
Still intrigued to see where it goes.
His opening monologue implies that the corporations are evil yet we don't see their evil at all. Everyone seems happy and they haven't performed capital punishment in 40 years is all we really know. So far Libr8 look like nutjobs.
Still intrigued to see where it goes.
Hobbestetrician
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This show has so much going on that I find myself not understanding everyone's motivations episode to episode. I need to start seeing not exactly resolution but not just new things piling on to everything else.
- What exactly is the point of Julian? Isn't Liber8 doing fine without him? Why do Kiera and Carlos keep letting him go if they know he is just gonna turn around and screw them over? And could they have found an actor that was less equipped to being a revolutionary leader? Kid is way too mopey and mush-mouthed to get anyone to follow him.
- We keep seeing flashbacks (or forwards) of Kiera as a protector in 2077 where it was clear that the people she was working for were a totalitarian regime only interested in keeping things in place, not people. Why does she continue to be on their side, or at least the side of what will become this regime? They told her in 2077 to
and she gets demerits when she does. Why would you continue to support that group? I get that moral ambiguity is one of the points of the show but damned if I am not leaning Liber8.
- Why is Carlos being such a bitch? I get that he feels he can't fully trust the 'new' Kiera but sometimes he seems to be one step away from leaving the VPD and then the next moment he is all in. Him and Betty, at the end of season 2, left the force and showed up at Julian's doorstep, what happened to that? I get that timeline is no more but did they just to ignore that or are they going to get back to it?
There are just so many different groups and people that all seem to have five different things going on for three different reasons. The web is huge at this point.
- What exactly is the point of Julian? Isn't Liber8 doing fine without him? Why do Kiera and Carlos keep letting him go if they know he is just gonna turn around and screw them over? And could they have found an actor that was less equipped to being a revolutionary leader? Kid is way too mopey and mush-mouthed to get anyone to follow him.
- We keep seeing flashbacks (or forwards) of Kiera as a protector in 2077 where it was clear that the people she was working for were a totalitarian regime only interested in keeping things in place, not people. Why does she continue to be on their side, or at least the side of what will become this regime? They told her in 2077 to
leave a couple of kids to die
- Why is Carlos being such a bitch? I get that he feels he can't fully trust the 'new' Kiera but sometimes he seems to be one step away from leaving the VPD and then the next moment he is all in. Him and Betty, at the end of season 2, left the force and showed up at Julian's doorstep, what happened to that? I get that timeline is no more but did they just to ignore that or are they going to get back to it?
There are just so many different groups and people that all seem to have five different things going on for three different reasons. The web is huge at this point.
Seasoned Badger
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The end of tonight's episode was so intense. Rachel Nichols got one mean angry face.
Jest Chillin
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They covered the possibility of that in the first season. The way time travel works in this show, even if they were to do that, for some reason it doesn't erase their current existence. I don't recall if they ever bothered to try to explain it though. It's likely just a hamfisted way for them to do whatever they want to without having to deal with those kinds of questions.
I think it is pretty clear she knows that her own side were pretty shitty but Liber8 in her own time and now were equally monstrous in their pursuit of crashing the system at any cost. When all you have to pick from are shitty choices you try to pick the least shitty one available and the one she picked is the one she feels has the best chance of reuniting her with her kid and husband. It is selfish but understandable.
Hobbestetrician
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That she does. I like her voice when she yells, too.
Quite attractive.
A rock and a hard place, I get it. Seems as if Carlos is not exactly digging the direction the VPD is taking.
Yeah, I just got to that episode.
Also Finally Master Bra'Tac is acting like Master Bra'Tac and they showed a futureback with the evil corporations being evil.
SquiddyCracker
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I'm up to episode 4 of the latest season:
God damn at that Alec v Alec meeting.
SquiddyCracker
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Episode 5:
"Sonmanto"
Heuhehuheuhe.
"Sonmanto"
Heuhehuheuhe.
How is Season 3 so far? I watched 1 and 2 on Netflix a while back and really enjoyed it.
SquiddyCracker
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It is fucking amazing.
S3E6:
Holy shit, that was an awesome end to the Alex v Alec situation. And daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn, the freelancers were pulling the strings all along.
Freeza Under The Shower
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yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Not even stealth.
Hobbestetrician
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All will be revealed eventually.
I figured. It's just he started with generic tinfoil hat crazy guy, then went to having specific knowledge of future events then back to tinfoil hat crazy guy.
I'm watching one episode a day. I should be caught up in a couple weeks. Getting sick and tired of that stupid Cascade dishwasher liquid commercial that plays several times every ad break on Showcase.ca
I'm watching one episode a day. I should be caught up in a couple weeks. Getting sick and tired of that stupid Cascade dishwasher liquid commercial that plays several times every ad break on Showcase.ca
SquiddyCracker
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Episode 8: Monsan- I mean Sonmanto is comic book levels of villainy.
Rodney McKay
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Haha, holy shit! I had no idea this had started back up already!
Mighty Chin
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It saddens me that this thread is only 3 pages. This is a great show that deserves more love.
The Incarnation
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I feel this show would be so much better if they just killed Kiera off. Such a weak lead character.
Napoleonthechimp
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I have no idea why they ever put up with that corporate villainy in the future. It goes against any human decency.
Almost caught up. I'm a few episodes in to Season 3. Man this just got even more complicated then it already was with all the competing agendas, Freelancers, and now split timelines.
I noticed Dr Lee in an episode. He wasn't trying to hit on Major Carter or Dr. Weir with his World of Warcraft skills this time :lol
Hopefully this goes somewhere and it doesn't render huge story arcs completely pointless.
I noticed Dr Lee in an episode. He wasn't trying to hit on Major Carter or Dr. Weir with his World of Warcraft skills this time :lol
Hopefully this goes somewhere and it doesn't render huge story arcs completely pointless.
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