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Today I choose to try something different (TIC00058f)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
September 23 2020

I mentioned that I took the night off yesterday, vegged and watched TV. I was fighting a migraine tonight, but managed to hold it together until about 9:00 p.m. Today was Andrea’s birthday, and we did lunch together, take-out for dinner plus a nice cake that Jacob chose from the store (our one last year was a bit of a first-time outcome, so she deserves a good one this year), and no gift cuz it hasn’t arrived yet. We played a game after supper, watched some more TV, and then Jacob and Andrea headed to bed.

I was meditating on some work-related news I got today, and I didn’t really feel like concentrating on anything puzzle-like with my website or sorting bins. My ribs are out of alignment, I can’t get them to slide back in, and chiro isn’t until Friday.

So I was looking for something “different” to try. I have been binging Lost and Monk alternately over the last few weeks, but I was looking for a change.  » Read the rest

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Continuum – Season 4 (PWTVR00012)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
September 18 2020

Overview

The premise for the series was always about Keira getting home, and what she would find when she does. Will it be the future she left, with the timeline intact? Will her husband and son be waiting for her? In most shows, the answers would be obvious, and simple. This one recognized the complexity of time, and introduced the idea of a time war with two different factions fighting to keep different timelines intact.

Episodes That I Liked

E05 brought the reality of a time war home, and the time soldiers really started to shift Keira’s politics. Whose side is she on? Liber8 or the soldiers? Over the course of the series, Liber8 moderated some of their positions, seeing it wasn’t as clear-cut as they initially thought, or that their tactics weren’t so justified, while Keira started to see some of their point of view too.

Episodes That Were Watchable

E01, E03, E04, and E06 were pretty solid outings, showing some of the shifting alliances and political viewpoints.  » Read the rest

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Continuum – Season 3 (PWTVR00011)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
September 18 2020

Overview

At the end of Season 2, Alec had to make a choice, and it created consequences for everyone. Now there is semi-evil Alec and semi-good Alec, although it isn’t always clear which one is the good guy and which one is the bad guy. And other entities are interested in time travel for their own purposes.

Episodes That I Liked

The episodes that stand out for the season are E01 where Keira is looking for any sort of connection with anyone, feeling lost and alone; E09 where a new time traveller appears, feeling much like John Connor from Terminator; E11, where you see that the “real” future isn’t really as great as Keira might have been deluding herself into believing; and E13 where the two Alecs have to face off against each other. But are they changing the future? Or merely fulfilling it?

Episodes That Were Watchable

I rated 5 episodes as 4 stars (E2, 3, 6, 7, & 8), mostly ones having fun with double the Alecs and double the Keiras, and the introduction of the Gleaners as one of the other entities.  » Read the rest

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Continuum – Season 2 (PWTVR00010)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
September 18 2020

Overview

At the end of Season 1, Keira found another time-traveller, one who has not faired so well. Everyone thinks he’s crazy, in fact. But most of Season 2 is about her trying to get home still, yet more on an advanced technological plan with Alec to find a way for him to power the device. She also is dealing with more of the separation from her family, including her husband.

Episodes That I Liked

Episode 8 (Second Listen) shows flashbacks to when she met the future Alec Sadler while in the company of Garza posing as a prostitute. Equally, the second last episode E12 (Second Last, yep) is pretty good as it basically looks like everything is coming together for Keira, just before it all goes to crap. Both EPs are outstanding, and I rated them both 5/5.

Another 9 episodes are solid 4s for me on the rating scale, and my rating of the season overall…E01 has Alec getting a message from the future; E02 is a prison break; E04 introduced another time-traveller, one of Keira’s partners from the future.  » Read the rest

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Continuum – Season 1 (PWTVR00009)

The Writing Life of a Tadpole
September 18 2020

Overview

Keira Cameron is a police officer. It’s a pretty advanced time, the year is 2077. While she is overseeing the execution of 8 domestic terrorists, they activate a time travel device that sends them all back to the year 2013. She arrives with a bunch of her high-tech police tools — a special suit with lots of functions built into it, weapons that are keyed only to her DNA, and communications equipment to allow her to connect directly to her HQ. Except her HQ doesn’t exist in 2013. Nevertheless, she is a police officer and sworn to apprehend the 8 suspects aka Liber8, so she infiltrates the local police to work with them in combating whatever mayhem Liber8 is going to start as they try to change time and prevent a future ruled by corporations…which would also inconveniently wipe out all of their timelines, including Keira’s son and husband.

Episodes That I Liked

The first episode, A Stitch in Time, sets the show up almost perfectly.  » Read the rest

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