maybe they spent the budget on the SFX? The headshot (poor poor guy), and the future suit stuff. also the time device effects?
Continuum Season 4
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Anxiously awating Friday....but the non-spoilery judgment is that the ending was good?
yes.
A pretty light ending, only one small (but predictable) twist at the end.
Neither Kiera nor Jasmine seems to have used a CPS suit since their raid on the future soldiers. My best guess is that when the soldiers used their countermeasures and shut down the suits, it was permanent.
Since it's aired in the US now, I'll post without spoiler code:
This was a pretty good finale. Some things were very rushed. The Traveler was tacked on, and it was odd that Curtis suddenly seemed to be a good guy. And Jasmine was just there to be there, it seemed. Still, the central character arcs were wrapped up pretty well.
The resolution of Kiera getting back to her time made more sense than Kiera's wishful thinking over the course of the season. It's amusing how totally clueless the lead of this time-travel series has consistently been about time travel. The outcome was the one that made the most sense -- she changed the future into one where she and Liber8 never went back in time, so of course there's an alternate version of herself already there, raising her son. It's a very bittersweet ending, because she's created a better life for her son but she can never be a part of it.
Indeed, assuming that Jason, Curtis, and Jasmine have all lived out their lives by this point, that would make Kiera the last survivor of the Corporate Congress/Liber8 timeline, a temporal orphan all on her own. It's kind of a sad ending -- she saved the future, but has to be a permanent refugee. But at least she has Alec, the same version of Alec that was her friend in the 2010s. (And it was fun to see William B. Davis acting all boyish and chipper and basically channeling Eric Knudsen.)
The future scenes imply some interesting possibilities. If Kagame and Kiera never went back in time in this version of history, that probably means all the other time-traveling characters who died over the course of the series -- Sonya, Travis, Lucas, Jaworski (Mike Dopud's character who died in the first episode), Kiera's CPS partner -- have counterparts who are alive and well in the new timeline. Not to mention Jason and Jasmine. It would've been interesting to see what lives their counterparts led in a timeline without Liber8. Maybe Curtis would have a counterpart there too, though I still have no idea what his deal was or when he originally came from. Probably not Kellog, though, since his grandmother was killed in 2012 in this version of history, so his counterpart was probably never born. So it's almost an "Everybody lives!" ending.
Well, except for all the Vancouver PD cops who died in the past two episodes. Quite a toll there. I noted that we got one last appearance by the recurring SWAT team leader played by Jonathan Lloyd Walker, who's also a writer-producer for the show -- and they gave him a really gory death scene, getting his head blown off by the supersoldier's mech suit. I guess he wanted to go out with a bang.
Jason would not be born either because old Alec at the end mentions he is with Emily (not Jason's waitress mom) so therefore Jason was never born. But he still got to be with old Jason from the Alternate corporate timeline. So there would be no Jason or Kellogg in the new timeline.
It still seems hard to believe that Keira would still have her son (who looks the same etc.) that would suggest that though events are totally different between the new timeline and the old corporate timeline, Kiera and here husband would have still got together and still conceived a son at the right time to look just like her son in the corporate timeline. In reality she would either have no kids or a kid that is different than her son.
It still seems hard to believe that Keira would still have her son (who looks the same etc.) that would suggest that though events are totally different between the new timeline and the old corporate timeline, Kiera and here husband would have still got together and still conceived a son at the right time to look just like her son in the corporate timeline. In reality she would either have no kids or a kid that is different than her son.
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Oh, of course, good catch.
I wonder if maybe Alec did some subtle nudging of events to ensure that Kiera and Greg met, fell in love, and started a family at the right time. As for Sam looking the same, that's more of a stretch, but it's in keeping with plenty of other time-travel stories.
On the one hand, I'm frustrated that this ending raises so many questions that I'd like to see explored and answered. On the other hand, that's often the mark of a good ending. It helps keep the series alive in your imagination after it's over.
I think the ending was as good as could be expected for this series. I really that the writers did not try to create a reset at the end and remained true what was set up in the previous seasons. The old timeline died.
It really improved from the first season and there were a lot of plot elements introduced in Season 3 that could have been explored if the series had lasted longer, but I am content with what we had--and more importantly the plot never had a chance to fizzle and drag as with so many other shows.
It really improved from the first season and there were a lot of plot elements introduced in Season 3 that could have been explored if the series had lasted longer, but I am content with what we had--and more importantly the plot never had a chance to fizzle and drag as with so many other shows.
What happened to the "there can only be one" philosophy from a couple seasons back?
What philosophy was that?
The "there only can be one philosophy" is where there can only be one.
(Pick an Alex. We'll stick one in a cage.)
(Pick an Alex. We'll stick one in a cage.)
<This is me snickering.>
Yes, but can you give me some details to jog my memory so I can recall where this came from?
EDIT: Sorry, you were talking about the Freelancers.
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Great concept adequately concluded. And Kiera is a babe.
Right. It was the Freelancers who insisted that any timeline alterations had to be minimized, that any disruptive influences on the timeline (like duplicate people) had to be eliminated (though I'm still not clear on why they waited nearly two years to start abducting Liber8 members). But the Freelancers were wiped out, and the goal in this final season was pretty much diametrically opposed to the Freelancers' goal, since the characters were pretty much united in wanting to change the future for the better (even though Kiera still hoped her timeline might survive and be accessible for her even if everyone else's future got better, because Kiera was an idiot when it came to temporal physics).
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You know what's struck me as weird about this show for a long time? The fact that Vancouver is pretty much the entire world. Every major world event that happens between 2012 and 2077, everything that contributes to the creation of the dystopian corporate society of the future, can be traced directly back to a few individuals living in Vancouver in the early 2010s -- Alec, Julian, Escher, Dillon (who was the guy who initialy proposed the formation of the CPS, until Sonya tried to kill him). There's no hint of anyone from any other part of the world having a critical impact on future events (other than the woman in that season-1 episode whom Kiera allowed to flee Vancouver after committing a murder because she was critical to inventing clean energy in the future -- but even she lived in Vancouver to start). As Vancouver goes, as the Sadler/Randol family goes, so goes the entire future of the world. It's really incredibly insular.
Not to mention that flashback/forward episode where Kiera and Jaworski crashed in that renegade farming co-op community at just the time that Kagame and Sonya happened to be there too. Even Charles Dickens would call that a contrived coincidence.
Well I think the key thing is Sadtech that was based in Vancouver must have had some major significance through out at least North America that influenced events leading up to the corporate timeline. Since Alec was now changed as a result of Kiera and Liber8's time travel that had ripple effects that caused a different timelime. Pyron may also fit into this as well but im not sure.
I enjoyed seeing Vancouver starring as itself, rather than masquerading as San Francisco, L.A., Colorado, Kansas or numerous other US locations.
Also Vancouver as the center of the world makes sense to me because it is sorta the center of my world.
Also Vancouver as the center of the world makes sense to me because it is sorta the center of my world.
Also, pretty much any show does this. How many times do aliens invade Earth by first going to London in Doctor Who for example.
