The Librarians: The Next Chapter Season 1

[JD]

The first season of the new Librarians series starts tomorrow, so I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread for it.
The new series follows a Vikram Chamberlain, a Librarian from the past who is considered possibly the worst Librarian ever, who is brough into the present day and joins forces with a new team of Librarians and their Guardian.
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Cast
Callum McGowan as Vikram Chamberlain
Jessica Green as Charlie Cornwall
Olivia Morris as Lysa Pascal
Bluey Robinson as Connor Green
Caroline Loncq as Elaine Astalot

I'm not sure how long he'll be around, but Christan Kane will be appearing as Jacob Stone, his character from the first series.

 

[Procutus]

My wife and I are looking forward to seeing this. Since it's been a spell since we've seen the series, we watched the two-part ending of Season 4 last night to re-acquaint ourselves.

Hopefully, there will be a bit of explanation of what happened to other main characters besides Stone in the intervening years.

 

[Greg Cox]

Just watched the first episode, which was a lot of fun. The new team is appealing and I can't help being amused that the new Annex is located in Serbia, where most of Electric Entertainment's shows are filmed these days!

 

[Procutus]

Greg, we haven't had the chance to watch it yet - was there any mention of Flynn and the other characters, or do they not touch on the show's previous history?

 

[Christopher]

The first episode was good, and I like the characters. Unfortunately, I don't have cable, so the website/app won't let me watch the rest of it. It looks like it's on AppleTV, though, and I was planning on re-upping my subscription to that sometime soon to watch Murderbot.

Greg, we haven't had the chance to watch it yet - was there any mention of Flynn and the other characters, or do they not touch on the show's previous history?

Jacob Stone appears in the first episode, and we see his side of conversations with Jenkins and Jones, and I think he mentions Cassie too. So his team is still active, but presumably we won't see too much of them since they're in a different part of the world.

Kinda weird seeing Christian Kane playing both his characters from Dean Devlin shows in episodes of their respective sequel series in the same week. Jacob spent the whole episode wearing a wool hat, which may have been to conceal Kane's long Eliot Spencer hair.

 

[Procutus]

Thanks, Christopher! Looking forward to seeing it later.

 

[Commander Troi]

We missed the beginning of the ep, but it seems to have the same feel as the original show, so I'll continue to watch. I love the historian and physicist already.

 

[Greg Cox]

Jacob namedrops "Cassie" right away, when he first meets Vikram. Apparently, she was the one who figured out how and when to rescue Vikram from the time bubble.

 

[JD]

I missed the first episode, but hopefully I should be able to watch it on the TNT website or app.

 

[Christopher]

I love the historian and physicist already.

I'm torn -- I hate it when conspiracy nuts who believe in the supernatural are presented as protagonists, but they balance it out by making Connor a well-educated historian, and in the show's universe, he's actually right (although that's just what I dislike about the trope, because it's the opposite of reality).

I do like Lysa, though, and her attitude that if magic exists, she can use scientific reasoning to learn its rules. It's a nice antidote to the all-too-common tendency in fantasy fiction to portray scientists as too closed-minded and rigid to believe in the reality of magic, which is missing the entire point of science, which is literally to learn new things and expand itself. (A century and a half ago, quantum theory would've sounded like magic, but since it was real, science confirmed it and expanded to encompass it, and now it's the foundation of modern physics.)

It doesn't hurt that she's rather beautiful. I was mainly eager to see the stunningly sexy Jessica Green again as the Guardian -- she doesn't seem to have improved any as an actress since her time on The Outpost, but she's so smoldering that I don't care -- but Olivia Morris is lovely too, especially in that painting.

Speaking of the painting, why are they treating it as such a mystery why Lysa looks like the woman in the painting? If Lysa inherited the castle, it stands to reason the woman is her ancestor. People can look a lot like their ancestors, especially in fiction.

Am I right that Vikram pronounced her name like "Lye-suh" rather than like "Lisa?" It's an unusual name -- it'll take some getting used to.

Jacob namedrops "Cassie" right away, when he first meets Vikram. Apparently, she was the one who figured out how and when to rescue Vikram from the time bubble.

Oh, that's right. So that's everyone accounted for but Flynn and Eve, although I think they had some kind of closure at the end of the previous series.

How the heck did that time bubble work, though? If Vikram could stick his hand through the field, why couldn't he just walk out under his own power? And if they were frozen in time or nearly so, why was his hand outside the field moving normally? And what did people outside the field see? Was this big blue ball with a hand sticking out just hovering there for a century and a half or however long? It didn't add up at all.

 

[Procutus]

Oh, that's right. So that's everyone accounted for but Flynn and Eve, although I think they had some kind of closure at the end of the previous series.

I didn't recall this until we watched the two-part finale again, but the two of them 'tethered' themselves to the Library, in order to insure that it remained grounded to reality. So I don't know if they're still hanging out at the Annex from the previous show, or off having adventures of their own somewhere in the world.

 

[Christopher]

I didn't recall this until we watched the two-part finale again, but the two of them 'tethered' themselves to the Library, in order to insure that it remained grounded to reality. So I don't know if they're still hanging out at the Annex from the previous show, or off having adventures of their own somewhere in the world.

Oh, okay. That's not what I was thinking, which was that they had some more decisive ending that would preclude them from returning in the new series (even aside from Noah Wyle and Rebecca Romijn both having other series commitments, though that didn't stop them from getting Christian Kane). Sounds like it's possible that they could show up for a guest appearance sometime, and the lack of mention of them in the premiere doesn't necessarily mean anything.

 

[Procutus]

Finally watched both eps last night, and enjoyed both. I like the new team and the dynamic they have going on, and I want to know more about who Charlie is and what her backstory is. Clearly from their conversation, there's some previous history with her and Stone and I'm curious to learn what that is.

Also intrigued by the whole Victoria Winters angle involving Lysa and the painting. From the spelling of her name, I figured it would've been pronounced 'Lih-sah', so I was surprised by that too.

And I have to agree with Christopher, both female leads are very easy on the eyes.