Continuum

[sholio]

We went ahead and watched the rest of season one of Continuum on Netflix (a week or two ago, actually).

Hmmm.

I'm still not entirely sure how how I feel about this show. I like how they're developing some things, and the increasing amounts of nuance. I find Kellogg a particularly interesting character, and his interactions with Kiera are fascinatingly layered (though I kinda wish he had a name I didn't find so spectacularly un-euphonious!).

I also really like that the principle relationship at the core of the show, at least in season one, is a purely platonic one between a woman and a teenage boy. Alex and Kiera's first face-to-face meeting was wonderfully understated and delightful.

I also wonder if the explosion at the end of season one is meant to be a hint that there's more timeline meddling yet to come. I mean ... we all know that Vancouver didn't have a major terrorist attack in 2012 in our universe, right?

Still ... the plot feels weirdly disconnected and needlessly convoluted, even after only one season -- it's not any one big thing so much as a lot of things that seem like they could have been more tightly put together if the writers weren't making up a bunch of it off the cuff (or just trying to connect the characters to each other in so many little ways that it starts to strain credibility). Right now it's got me intrigued but not really wild to see what happens next.

Comments

[cantarina]

Seaon two ups the show's game, although I still find I'm not inclined to mainline it, though I go in to catch up on a few more episodes every few weeks.

Alec, Julian, and Carlos all get more to do in the second season and the show takes Keira to some interesting, sometimes dark places. If you were a Battlestar fan, Alessandro Juliani has a super great guest spot early in the season too.

Hugh Dhillon has also joined the reoccurring cast, so I guess we're officially C6D now!

It's worth watching, but it's not outstanding TV, not yet, if ever.

[sholio]

Yeah, it has picked up and I'm willing to keep watching, but I can totally wait for this one to come out on Netflix ...

[lizbee]

I watched the first few episodes, and I kind of like bits of it, but I'm finding the heroine a bit underwhelming. It's not the actress, just ... I don't know, I can't connect with her. And it bugs me that the heroine is basically a fascist, hunting down a racially diverse group of keffiyeh-wearing terrorists. Do these aspects change? Does Kiera grow?

[sholio]

Ha. Yeah, that is basically my problem with it, and the answer as of the end of season one is ... not really. The show has begun developing the terrorists with (somewhat) more depth and nuance, but Keira doesn't really seem to have encountered the crisis of conscience that I was hoping she would. Either they're saving that for future developments, or the writers are tone-deaf enough to be presenting Keira as a character we're supposed to be sympathizing wholeheartedly with. (I do have sympathy for her, but mainly in a "good person caught up in a bad system" kind of way -- the longer that goes by without Keira apparently realizing that her system is bad, the less sympathy I have.)