Last year we began watching what has turned out to be the SyFy channels best product since the original Battlestar Galactica - Continuum. It's got a lot going for it including:
- Great acting and well chosen actors
- An interesting sci-fi plot (making it seem like less of a cliche than perhaps it is)
- Great special effects for a TV series
- The Smoking Man (yes, he's been hiding in Vancouver all these years).
- The hottest sci-fi actress since James Kirk's (pick any) girlfriend - wait she was Jim Kirk's girlfriend - yikes.
- Clothes that change color based on what's happening.
- Vancouver of the future (looks pretty cool, of course we've still not really seen the Vancouver of the present).
- Wiki-leaks gone bad terrorists with an Internet name.
- That bald guy who was in Madmen and about 20 other shows (he's good, we just can't remember who he is).
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| Rachel Nichols - star of Continuum in her mood suit. |
The future in this Dystopian series looks pretty grim. Corporations, technology and the Patriot Act on steroids have all but eradicated personal freedoms. But the cops are cool and the Bill Gates of 2077 or 2079 or whenever it is has had a crisis of confidence about the world he helped to create. He is none other than the Smoking Man... Where's this guy been since 1990's ? And where are the cigs? We're guessing that they're totally illegal in 2079 even for Alec Sadler (a.k.a. Bill Gates or maybe he's Larry Ellison but definitely not Steve Jobs).
Season 2 was better than Season 1 - but they were both good which bodes well for Season 3
Now, there's another web series out there also called Continuum so don't get confused - it's experimental and not quite ready for prime time, see below...
The Continuum knock off - we really don't know what the hell it's about
And apparently Continuum just sounds like a cool title because John Mayer used it for his latest album too...
Before we depart; let's list a few of our favorite paradoxical plot twists from the SyFy Continuum series:
- Did Rachel going cause the terrorist attack?
- Did Alec's dad work for him in the future only to become his dad in the past?
- Did Liber8te invent their terrorist network on Twitter?
- Did Carlos (the sidekick) star in shampoo commercials in the alternative time stream?
- Does Alec send bimbo girlfriends to himself in the past?
- Does Mark Zuckerburg help corporations take over the world?
We'll have to wait for Season 3 to find out the answer to these and more...
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