At it’s heart, this week’s episode is about loyalty, trust and the heart. It’s also a rather familiar police investigation kind of story, once the plot gets going. But it’s the characters that make the story its own. It happily also helped me put some distance between the fight sequence of last week (I’ve harped…
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Continuum S01E06 – Time’s Up
This week, our favorite CPS protector, Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), Alec (Eric Knudsen) and Carlos (Victor Webster) get involved with the Occupy movement. As always we open in the 2070s, and Kiera and her partner Elena (Caitlin Cromwell) are on riot patrol, and find out that Liber8 is stealing food from a company Piron, that…
Continuum S01 E05 – A Test of Time
This week, series creator Simon Barry, and writer Jeff King bring us my favorite episode of Continuum so far, by introducing a lot of things to think about in terms of timelines in paradoxes. Because this week, Kagame (Tony Amendola) and Liber8 spring into full Terminator-mode, going after CPS Protector Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) through…
Continuum S01 E04 – Matter of Time
This week’s Continuum has the ‘A’ Story falling solidly into the term – ‘police procedural’ although Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), still using her cover as working for Section 6, uses some of her tech, specifically her heads up display ocular implant. We start in pre-2077, as Sam is still a baby, and Greg (John Reardon)…
Continuum S01 E03 – Wasting Time
We join Kiera in 2077 in this week’s opener, as she is kitted out in full assault gear to chase down an ex-soldier who has become a Liber8 revolutionary. Finding their target behind a holographic wall, they capture Sonya (Lexa Doig), code-named The Queen of Hearts. This transitions us back to 2012 where Kiera Cameron…
Continuum S01 E02 – Fast Times
Continuum throws us right back into it this week, putting us right back in the year 2077 with Kiera (Rachel Nichols) getting outfitted as a CPS Protector for the first time, we learn some info about her, her CPS ID – 116914 and see her getting her tech issued, including her wicked pistol, her…
Continuum – S01 E01 A Stitch In Time
Tonight Showcase brings us its summer sci-fi show Continuum, scheduled to run for 10 episodes, it tells the story of a group of terrorists as well as protector (read as police officer) from the year 2077 who get thrown back in time to 2012 Vancouver. The terrorists are planning to use this escape to…
Continuum – Meet Travis Verta
Travis Verta is one of the members of the terrorist organization known as Liber8 that made their escape from the year 2077 back to 2012, inadvertently dragging CPS Protector Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) with them. Now, hiding out in the early 21st century, Travis and his fellows are recruiting, expanding, and planning to change their…
Continuum – Meet Carlos Fonnegra
When Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols), CPS Protector, ends up back in the year 2012 in pursuit of the escaped group of terrorists calling themselves Liber8, she realizes she may need help. She has the young techno-wiz Alec helping her out with info and coms, but she needs someone to physically cover her back as well. Posing…
Continuum – Meet Alec
When CPS protector Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) arrives in the year 2012, catapulted there by a group of escaping terrorists from the group Liber8, she finds herself conversing with a young techno-wizard named Alec. Played by Erik Knudsen, Alec will become a valuable ally to the displaced Kiera, aiding her on her quest to track…
The Mind Reels 