Continuum: Season 1

I'm a BIG sci-fi buff. Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek Voyager, DS9, so many great sci-fi titles. I came across Continuum when it was on television, during the week on the Syfy channel, I believe. I love the concept of futuristic police and how the world would be in 2077. The story had engaging characters, and a solid cast of actors portraying each role. From season to season, it kept me watching. This is a good and distinctive show to watch, if you enjoy sci-fi.

The writers are on the right track by not leading the viewers to take a side. I want businesses to thrive but I also want a good and honest government, Continuum makes choosing a side in this storyline so far impossible. Do you go with the freedom fighters who are for the people but at the same time are anarchists and in the future having to resort to terrorism to bring attention to a corrupt government and people controlling businesses? Or, do you stand by free enterprise to grow and make a profit as a free society is meant to be? I understand the points of view of both sides in both time periods but the lost of virtually all Rights is something that we see happening in America today. And the taking over of small businesses by big money and large corporations is also happening in America today. Today and the future are working towards socialism in their own way and both demonstrates how the future of a once free with the potential to be prosperous society can be lost to regulations by a too big of a government and that government being in debted to and in allianced with just a few very large corporations. Control of the people by one entity or the other or a in a combination of both is unfolding right in front of our eyes today and the everyday person does not see it happening and would soon just accept things without question. That is when anacrchist and radicals start to destroy everything both the good and the bad and leaving the people, businesses and the government to take drastic measures inwhich no good can come of it. As I said, I can see both sides in both time periods and the writers have a great story here just as long as they do not start taking sides, villianizing one side in one time period and then the other in the other time period. No anti-business leanings, no environmental leanings, no government control leanings no politics leanings but show only the truth of today and magnify todays thruths with different senarios and outcomes for the future. That is what will lead to a very successful series. Keep their heads, show all sides and points of view without letting political correctness, corporation influence, unions, anarchist and world opinion of today's America dictate the storyline. I say America when I know this takes place in Canada but since I do not know Canadian laws and lifestyles I can only speak of what I see today in the U.S.A.

I love the first season of this show. All the ideas were so intriguing. There was a lot of mystery surrounding all the characters. Lots of meaning around each corner. Incredible. But the second season gets only maybe one or two stars. All the mystery is gone. It becomes a total, literal soap opera. SPOILER ALERT: Alex appears to go over to Kellogg's side. The terrorist group splits in two and fight with each other for power. In the first season, each character is pretty much rock solid in his or her own personality/world. In the second season, everyone is changing constantly, presumably to keep us on our toes, but in actuality, it just looks like the soap opera scene to me, BIG TIME. It becomes a gang war show. It's difficult for me to even follow now because of all of the different new little groups, like the Syndicate, etc. I tired of it after probably the 2nd episode. I still give the first season five stars, though. It's one of the best and most unique shows I have ever seen. In fairness to the 2nd season, there were some really different episodes I loved a lot, especially "Second Truths", where Kiera reveals her true self to her partner. There are some others like this. In this way, 2nd season isn't so bad. Kiera is probably the only character who doesn't change much. I will say one thing about season one I was disappointed with. I was disappointed that although she seems to be the most devoted mother and wife and would never do anything to damage that relationship, she still jumps all over Kellogg (whom she herself calls a slug without scruples), while in the future, she is disappointed with her husband when he did the same before they were even married. Go figure. I guess everybody makes mistakes, even big ones. But Kiera's fooling around is not a way to be for such a devoted mother and wife (as the show portrays her so deeply) if she still wants her family when she gets back. Anyway, that's my two cents, for what it's worth.

Continuum on Blu-ray centers on Kira, a future cop who is unwittingly thrust by a previously unknown time travel device, from 2077 into 2012, our today. Multiple story lines and themes develop over the course of the first season. Show complexity rewards repeated viewing with more detail and enjoyment. Kira's husband and small son remain "back" in the future, after her trip back in time. Her overriding goal is to return to her family, while the "bad guys", the "Liber8" terrorist movement, want to change today's present to change the future of 2077 and eliminate corporate rule. Kira tries to prevent the "bad guys" from ruining her future with her family and, not coincidentally, from committing crimes to further Liber8's agenda. This, in just the first episode. Over the course of the season, we come to realize that there is not only vastly different future government with corporate rule, but that the future has dystopian aspects, as revealed by [Minor Spoiler] Kira's wondrous expression when she sees a real, live horse for her first time, later in the season. She brings her future tech police-suit and communication abilities back to 2012, which mesh with some difficulty with nascent, just invented, 2012 present day originals. There are multiple varieties of grandfather paradoxes, in technical gear - how future gear affects its development in present day, and will killing a future someone's grandparent today in young age, cause the future person "visiting" back in 2012 to disappear from today's "2012" time line? Kira sometimes defeats bad guys, but in realistic struggles - no cartoon superhero super-strength. OTOH, Kira's suit has enough tech and story development aspects, that it is almost a separate character with its own story line. How will Kira get back to her family, or will she? How will the future be changed, or will it? Can or to what extent should some present day wrongs be righted? How will that affect Kira and her 2077 world? Where does Kira come down on moral right vs. personal desire to return to one's beloved family? Many puzzles in this show, with interesting sci-fi aspects, police procedural crime solving aspects, flash back [or is it flash-forward] story telling, high quality video and some excellent audio [DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1] via Blu-ray. These puzzles and moral complexity overlying an initial, apparently simple conflict, together with the intelligent, lovely Rachel Nichols as Kira, have me impatiently waiting for future seasons. Season 2 is to premiere June 2013.

4.5 Stars. Seasons 1 through 4 (Spoiler-Free review.) CONTINUUM is four seasons of some of the best science fiction that you probably haven’t seen. It is proof that action, explosions and brainy plots CAN go together. Kiera Cameron is a police officer (AKA Protector) with a husband and son in a future run by a Corporate Congress. Life in 2077 appears to be a pretty benign, high-tech affair, all protected and served by a high-tech Citizens Protective Service. But a murderous terrorist organization is bent on disruption and death; at times on a huge scale. A handful of the group, known as Liber8, are about to be executed but escape to the past, circa 2012. Kiera is accidentally dragged back in time with them. In the new timeline, the terrorists begin their campaign to destroy the roots of the technology that leads to the future corporatocracy. Meanwhile, Kiera tries to establish a cover for herself, embedded with the Vancouver Police Department, stop the terrorists from altering the future, and figure out a way back to her family in her own time. CONTINUUM’s cast is on point without exception. (The show is a Canadian production but U.S. viewers will likely recognize some faces from familiar shows such as X Files, Andromeda and Stargate.) The show has some of the best character development you are likely to see. As the story arc moves through the successive seasons, viewers see that these characters each have real dimensions to them. Good guys and bad guys; none are entirely as expected, or always DO what you would expect. Alliances shift, shatter, reform. When there are losses, they aren’t for cheap shock value; you feel them. The plot is a twisty delight. The writing dodges nearly every typical genre trope we’ve come to expect; sometimes subtly, other times turning them and the plot on its ear. The unexpected comes at every turn. These are some of the things that make CONTINUUM stand out for me.. Unfortunately, Season 4 not only turned out to be the final season, the number of episodes was cut in half. The creators were forced to wrap up their carefully crafted four-year Machiavellian plot in SIX episodes. They did an admirable job attempting to stick the landing but as a result, Season 4 was not as strong as the previous seasons. Some plot elements and characters that had been introduced earlier got stunted resolutions. I will always wonder what it could have been if the creators had been allowed to realize what they’d envisioned. But it is still a wonderful series and one of my all-time favorites. There is no reason for anyone who likes wickedly complex, original storytelling to miss it. Pay attention. Hang on. Enjoy!! Highly recommended.

I was pleasantly surprised by the new SyFy (I hate their "re-branding" from SciFi) show Continuum. It has a solid story, well developed characters, a classic setting of time travel and good action and effects. It even has some good twists and suspense thrown in. In short this is a great show that you should be watching if you like science fiction at all. The blu-ray release is well worth the price for this great series. Also, this being another of the Canadian shows that SyFy has picked up, I have high hopes that it will have a longer run than shows like Alphas that SyFy disappointingly let go.

This Blu-ray was presented exactly as described. Very clean disc and cover box. Nicely packaged in a padded envelope and fast shipping. I would buy from this seller again! As for the Continuum series--It explains a lot about a possible future. I believe much of the tech shown is either in current theory and/or current use, mostly in secret. Watch all four seasons. It's brilliant. I found collection in my library.

65 years into the future with tech that is impressive and the world is owned by corporations versus governments. . .We see this in a lot of sci-fi movies and shows where corporations have more power than governments. Terrorist group called Liber8 are setting their plans in motion to remove the corporate mechanism from the governing body by any means necessary. They go back to the past and inadvertently travel back with a CSP officer in hot pursuit. She hot, smart, and kicks butt to get justice. . .but its 2012 where tech is low, almost ancient compared to what she knows, but she finds a helping hand in the creator of the tech as he's starting off. But its not so black and white as the story progresses where corporations are holding back the limited resources to the needy. As what she believed was her duty is not an absolute anymore. Her convictions are tested as she meets important people from the past taught in history about their achievements and accomplishments. Enter the age old conundrums of is it bad the rebel against the government? Rebellion vs. Alliance? Is the belief sacrificing some for the many a valid argument? Will taking a different course of action from the history lead to a new timeline? Great season starter with 10 episodes. Stories suck you in with action, comedy, intrigue, and sex appeal.

設定にやや無理があるのが気になりますが、娯楽作品として楽しめます。シーズン２が楽しみです。

Interesting to get a Canadian Sci-fi show that is actually well written and not just spearheaded into being too corny to care. (Yup... I'm pointing at you now Lexx, Andromeda, and "Dans une galaxie près de chez-vous"!) I was brought to Continuum for the way it handled it's tech, it's vision of the future. Telling myself I was going in for yet another procedural cop show with only bits of sci-fi elements. Yes... It is partly that. But it is also so much MORE! Never yet before did I saw something so politically inclined being produced in Canada and from a Canadian standpoint. From the heroine being a deluded slave of the megacorp to the brilliantly "V for Vandetta" gallery of brutal activists, this show has managed more than once to blurr the line of its "politically correct" intents. Which is to say; it brings the viewer in that uncomfortable zone where no side is right - which by extension makes it the perfect post-cyberpunk. What's more, hacking is handled better here than most concurrent products. And the cases will keep you on the edge of your seat. So be it for it's acting, it's writing, it's more than decently shot action sequences : Do yourself a favor. Watch it. Give it a try. Worst case scenario, season 1 does give a decent ending. You won't regret it. Happily, there is 3 other seasons to help you with the only complaint I could have... for a show that good 10 episode is too short! XD Set comes in 2 DVD of 5 episode each. There is sadly no subtitles... Which could have come in handy for a few mumbled word drowned by the music. Season 2 correct that mistake.

Très bonne série avec Rachel Nichols toujours impeccable est très belle, je recommande

You always remember your first time, don't you? The first time I saw 'The X Files'.....the first time that I saw '24'.... Yep, 'Continuum' is, to me, right up there... The premise is this. The year is 2077. The place, Vancouver. Corporations have overtaken politicians to rule the country. A terrorist group, Liber8, are trying to bring change to the high-tech surveillance Police State that the world has become. As tens of thousands of people die in the conflict, Liber8's Leader, Edouard Kagame, is arrested by Kiera Cameron, a City Protection Services (CPS) Law Enforcement Officer, and brought to justice, along with his group. Kiera is just doing her job; she a married mother of a pre pubescent boy. When the group from Liber8 are sentenced to execution, and in the process of said act, use a smuggled time machine device to escape, inadvertently Kiera manages to find herself transported back in time herself....to 2012. Whilst Liber8 plan to continue their terrorist acts on the corporations to, in effect, stop the future from happening, Kiera attempts to foil their schemes. Kiera find herself involved with the Vancouver Police Department and, alongside Detective Carlos Fonnegra, track down the members of Liber8 and thwart their plans, whilst keeping her identity secret. Kiera is assisted in her crusade by Alec Sadler, a young teen who is as surprised as Kiera that the tech that had built - a special com unit to communicate with user, visually and audial, and record data....via use of a chip implanted in the user - actually works. Of course, this is all part of Kiera's setup for being a CPS Law Enforcer in 2077; A standard piece of kit. Imagine the surprise....the tech actually works.....and, from Kiera's perspective, she's been sent back in time.....and the Older Alec, from the future, seems to have had some part to play in what has happened. From Violence, Liber8 gradually change to running a campaign of winning over 'Hearts & Minds'... Kiera finds herself as a fish out of water....wanting to stop the rebellion but also wanting to put back together the pieces of the time machine device and go back home to the future and her family. As the series goes on, we see flashbacks (flash forwards?!?) of the world in 2077; of the events that transpired on execution day, of the characters and political underhandedness going on.... Was Kiera's going back in time just coincidence or something planned? The only reminder of her son is a model soldier that he gave her on the morning of the execution. All the cast play a blinder. Rachel Nichols, as Kiera, does a very nuanced portrayal of the lead role, as does Erik Knudsen, who plays the young Alec. It's a great ensemble.....beautifully shot....great scripts....great story arcs....well paced....great action....great drama....with lots of twists and turns. The series really does make you think....and it certainly makes Kiera think....that will changing the past effect what happens in the future? Will she be able to get back to her family? Will her family even EXIST in the future? Brilliant....just brilliant... 😎

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