Time travel TV shows for the 2016-17 season
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I think Timeless is meant to be limited to just 13 episodes. Mid season NBC's Taken prequel takes over the time slot mid season, -
Frequency trailer:
I never saw Frequency, and I'm not sure what to make of the show. I'm so sick of stories about "changing history," a deeply cliched idea that really doesn't make any logical or scientific sense (according to science, even if you could create an alternate timeline, it would coexist alongside the original rather than "erasing" it). But of course it's an idea that's not about to go anywhere, since there are fewer dramatic stakes to time travel if the characters' existence isn't jeopardized. And I suppose it might be interesting to see a show where the protagonist's world is constantly changing around her as she makes adjustments in the past, which seems to be where this is going. It's sort of like the side of Quantum Leap we never saw, what things were like for Al and Gooshie and the team back in the future while Sam was constantly changing things in the past (a side that was explored in the Ashley McConnell novels based on that show).
I'm more hopeful about Time After Time, which is more about people from the past adjusting to the future world; as I recall the movie, history there proved unchangeable, though the show won't necessarily follow suit.
I'm more hopeful about Time After Time, which is more about people from the past adjusting to the future world; as I recall the movie, history there proved unchangeable, though the show won't necessarily follow suit.
I for sure will be tuning in for Frequency, watched the movie and enjoyed it. Based on the trailer for the tv show, its seems to be pretty much the same as the movie, but with the main as a woman instead. The big mystery for the season will probably be finding out who the 'serial killer' is & her life getting messed up with the changes in the past.
Jim Caviezel is free now. Maybe they can bring him in to play the Nightingale Killer.
"Mr. Reese, what are you doing to those nightingales?"
None of these shows look appealing at all.
This has already aired on Nickleodeon.
Darling, entry level syfy for children who have not seen the Back to the Future trilogy.
Darling, entry level syfy for children who have not seen the Back to the Future trilogy.
I could feel my brain dying slowly while watching that.
I also liked "Almost Human," Philip K. Dick ripoff that it was. I'm disappointed that it's available on DVD but not blu ray, when it was a high-def show!
Where's the "dislike" button?
Kor
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Thank goodness I don't watch TV.
If you're not part of the problem, then you can't be part of the solution.
Nobody's forgiven them over Firefly.
I tend not to watch TV shows until they've got a couple of seasons under their belt now, after things like Journeyman and Terra Nova.
But it's a totaly different "them." It's been thirteen and a half years now since Firefly ended. The executives who cancelled the show left their jobs many years ago. The people in charge of the network now had nothing to do with that decision and do not deserve the blame for it, and in fact they've worked hard to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors. Blaming them for what their predecessors did is like blaming President Obama for President Bush's policies. It's just not fair.
There isn't a solution. If there was one, our voices would have been heard by now.
If we're posting stuff that already aired, there was also the Comedy Central miniseries Time Traveling Bong .
I haven't watched it myself, but if anyone is interested the full episodes are still up on the CC website.
But, conversely, the people responsible for such choices are also gone. The man responsible for championing Fringe, Kevin Reilly (who'd also gone to bat for Friday Night Lights when he was at NBC) was fired a few years back, and a show he was wanting to protect at the time, one Almost Human, went right to the chopping block with him. These things ebb and flow (like ABC's more recent changeover seeing a lot of shuffling off of the channel's less viewed programs.)
