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Only the third TV series I've reviewed.Before you read further be advised this show has not yet released on DVD or even VHS,however "geeks"have recorded off TV and if you look hard enough,you can find home made DVD's.I looked hard enough:)
The show ran on the old UPN network for 3 seasons and then later on Spike cable and also Sleuth cable.It was a sci-fi show before its time.Running from 1998 thru 2001 it tackled Roswell's area 51 and political issues that we still tackle today although the Russians are overplayed and the Arabs are underplayed.Still interesting to see North Korea and China and Serbia and even Chetznia get mentions, all in the first 8 episodes of season one.My only issue is the cast is not the best,however they work hard to sell the shows and succeed.
Now to the series,why bother looking for such a obscure series?? Because it task's me !!!!!
Imagine,YOU and only you can go back in time but only 7 days and try to change it.If you succeed,only YOU will know what would have been.No one else will ever know because their time lines never went that far,only yours did by virtue of going back and remembering what would have been if you hadn't.You can tell them,but how much can they really understand what they just missed???
Thats some heady stuff.The whole time travel idea is based on the alien technology that was used to bend space and time so those aliens were able to transverse the distances to get here. Thats not the main story however,as like Star Trek used to do,the science is blended in to make very humane stories.A extinction level viral pandemic,a military coup,a terror attack,even a spin on "3 days of the condor" with a "no way out "ending.
Saving lives is the prime mission but resources force the decision " to backjump" be based on national security interests.Its the NSA that runs the program.
Basically the "team"is made up of a handicapped scientific brain,a old warrior NSA agent,a naval intel officer and a Pretty Russian immigrant scientist
( yes our guy has a big time crush on her),
and a few others but the man who makes it all run is the "chrononaut"In this case its U.S. Navy Captain Francis "Frank" Bartholomew Parker (Jonathan LaPaglia)whose had a hard time of things and he was in a mental hospital when the project choose him.You have to be fit and expendable to go back on these missions,and he is.
So far I've seen 8 of the 44 shows and all have been fun times and thought provoking.Some romance and family issues are also raised.I highly recommend you seek it out.One of the good shows gone to soon,a real shame.TV ad follows the pix
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4oYs1aTD-4
The show ran on the old UPN network for 3 seasons and then later on Spike cable and also Sleuth cable.It was a sci-fi show before its time.Running from 1998 thru 2001 it tackled Roswell's area 51 and political issues that we still tackle today although the Russians are overplayed and the Arabs are underplayed.Still interesting to see North Korea and China and Serbia and even Chetznia get mentions, all in the first 8 episodes of season one.My only issue is the cast is not the best,however they work hard to sell the shows and succeed.
Now to the series,why bother looking for such a obscure series?? Because it task's me !!!!!
Imagine,YOU and only you can go back in time but only 7 days and try to change it.If you succeed,only YOU will know what would have been.No one else will ever know because their time lines never went that far,only yours did by virtue of going back and remembering what would have been if you hadn't.You can tell them,but how much can they really understand what they just missed???
Thats some heady stuff.The whole time travel idea is based on the alien technology that was used to bend space and time so those aliens were able to transverse the distances to get here. Thats not the main story however,as like Star Trek used to do,the science is blended in to make very humane stories.A extinction level viral pandemic,a military coup,a terror attack,even a spin on "3 days of the condor" with a "no way out "ending.
Saving lives is the prime mission but resources force the decision " to backjump" be based on national security interests.Its the NSA that runs the program.
Basically the "team"is made up of a handicapped scientific brain,a old warrior NSA agent,a naval intel officer and a Pretty Russian immigrant scientist
( yes our guy has a big time crush on her),
and a few others but the man who makes it all run is the "chrononaut"In this case its U.S. Navy Captain Francis "Frank" Bartholomew Parker (Jonathan LaPaglia)whose had a hard time of things and he was in a mental hospital when the project choose him.You have to be fit and expendable to go back on these missions,and he is.
So far I've seen 8 of the 44 shows and all have been fun times and thought provoking.Some romance and family issues are also raised.I highly recommend you seek it out.One of the good shows gone to soon,a real shame.TV ad follows the pix
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