Christopher wrote:
Every story's been done. Story is a framework, a foundation on which you build. It's how you build on that framework that matters.
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The bare bones are easy to state and outline.
These days one can spend hours and hours reading all about them, such as on web sites like tvtropes.org
Christopher wrote:
And I find Continuum to be a far more interesting, nuanced, and creative take on the "cop pursuing criminals into the past" framework than Time Trax or especially Timecop ever managed to be.
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Putting together all the bare bone tropes in a manner which holds the audiences' attention, seems to be the hard part (whether it is a tv show, movie, book, play, etc ...).
They seem to have done a good job of it in season 1 of Continuum. (There was an episode or two which I thought were clunkers).