“If no one can trust you, how can you trust
you?”
The future is history as several factions struggle
to
control the course of the future while Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) may
finally have her chance to finally get home to her future. LOST HOURS
picks up right at the moment
where season 3 ended when soldiers from an alternate future show up after Brad
activates the beacon. Kiera finds
herself continuing her unlikely alliance with Liber8 to stop these future
soldiers where Kellog is some wise commander in a battle scarred future, but
the real issue is trust as friendships and alliances are tested. The fight
for the future is on as the
Traveler’s real purpose is revealed (in ZERO HOUR) as one of the characters
faces their future self. Also the future
soldiers are building something that may spell trouble for the present as they
question whether they can trust Brad given his relationship with Kiera. The
future is in flux as everyone fights for
their own version of the future including Alec’s would-be son as it is revealed
who Alec was going to get involved with (and I hope that story thread is given
satisfying closure given what Alec did to save the woman he loves at the end of
season 2 and throughout season 3).
The final episode of CONTINUUM has lots going
on as creator
Simon Barry faces the challenge of providing a fitting conclusion for one of
the most intelligent sci-fi shows on TV along with resolving the storylines
from season 3 while also going back to the beginning of the show. I know there
are great challenges in wrapping
up four seasons of plans in six episodes along with budgets and actor
availability (I wonder if Roger Cross is only in two episodes of the first four
due to his roles on other shows like DARK MATTER) in what may feel like a
complex chess game. The only downside
of compressing Simon’s plans for the show is that you miss out on the chance
for the show to breathe with the occasional standalone episode with the major
arc stuff still happening in the subplots and season 4 is very arc driven which
means season 4 isn’t for new viewers (track down the first three seasons on DVD
and blu-ray). Kyra Zagorsky (known
best for her role in the
now cancelled HELIX) joins the cast as one of the future soldiers). I would
have loved to have seen CONTINUUM
continue through season 7 like Simon Barry had originally planned and these
final six episodes are what there are left to resolve a show I will miss after
the final episode airs. After watching
the final two episodes, I will probably go back to watch the show over since
the first four episodes of this final six episode season show that this series
is going out strong. The second episode
(RUSH HOUR) is better than the first (LOST
HOURS) as I believe CONTINUUM is sometimes at its best when it mixes
intelligent sci-fi with some of the best action choreography I have seen on any
TV show. CONTINUUM is one of the best
sci-fi TV shows you should be watching or even check out on blu-ray. Season
4 is a gift to fans who stood by the
show for the first three seasons and I wish Showcase (the Canadian channel
behind the show since SyFy acquires CONTINUUM and doesn’t produce it) would
have had the show around for longer instead of a six episode finale to wrap
things up.
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