Space-Time Continuum

I am a fan of time travel, as I feel most people are. It's the chance of a do-over, the ability to bend time and space, the ultimate control over everything. This is why when I heard of a new show that involved time travel, I quickly set my DVR and refreshed myself on time travel with movies like Back to the Future, Hottub Time Machine, The Time Machine, and Idiocracy. Now that was refreshed and well versed with time travel, I watched the new show on the Sci-fi channel.

Continuum heavily advertised the time travel side of the show and the events that could happen if someone from the future was to travel back to our time in order to pursue criminals. While the premise had great potential, the eventual lead in was a bit of a let down. The show opens on the future where Corporations have bailed out failed governments and now run everything. A resistance group has fought back, but its leaders have been captured and are sentenced to death. Right before their execution, they form together a sphere that time travels them sixty years into the past, or our present day. What was supposed to be a six year jump to the beginning of the revolution has resulted in a sixty year leap to before they were born. Unknown to the criminal jumpers, one brave future cop was also caught in the blast and transported with them. Now she is on a mission to find the criminals before they can use their knowledge of the future to change historical events and change the future.

The show starts off with great promise as our feminine hero captures the leader of the resistance. She is present and then transported back to our time where her futuristic communication is just in beta and the creator of the technology is mid way through his creation. They are able to communicate and he sees everything that she sees, which gives him an insight into things he will eventually create. Our hero joins forces with the local police force in order to track down each of the criminals and stop them from destroying the present. The premise is good, but I feel they could have used the time travel story line to better equip the show than a one time use. It almost feels like they used it as a cop-out to give our hero better technology to track down the criminals and make her super human compared to everybody around her.

With all this said, I'll give continuum a few more episodes in order to give it time to stretch its legs and let the plot grow. So far, what I've seen isn't all that impressive after the first couple of times the futuristic technology is used. It becomes normal and the effectiveness of it wears off. Hopefully, they will use the time travel bit to start off every season in a new year where our hero gets closer and closer to the jump date and return back to her own life.