a5c7b9f00b Continuum is a one-hour police drama centered on Kiera Cameron, a regular cop from 65 years in the future who finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver. She is alone, a stranger in a strange land, and has eight of the most ruthless criminals from the future, knownLiber8, loose in the city. Lucky for Kiera, through the use of her CMR (cellular memory recall), a futuristic liquid chip technology implanted in her brain, she connects with Alec Sadler, a seventeen-year-old tech genius. When Kiera calls and Alec answers, a very unique partnership begins. Kiera&#39;s first desire is to get &quot;home.&quot; But until she figures out a way to do that, she must survive in our time period and use all the resources available to her to track and capture the terrorists before they alter history enough to change the course of the future. After all, what&#39;s the point of going back if the future isn&#39;t the one you left? A detective from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver and searching for ruthless criminals from the future. My personal opinion is that time travel has always approached the same paradox &quot;if you are here, you already modified the future&quot;, but this series appears to NOT follow that rule (i will try to keep spoilers to the minimum). <br/><br/>The action is initially set in 2077, but that is so we would know the &quot;past&quot; of the people involved. In 2077 during an execution, some terrorists are sent into a room so they can be &quot;processed&quot;, but somehow they used a device to go to the past and change the outcome of the war that they started, but in this process a determined female law-enforcer jumps in with them. Initially they were supposed to go only 6 years, but they manage to go 60 years into the past landing smack down, face first into our time. All of the inmates use their knowledge of the future and advanced tactical training to start a war, and only the cop from the future knows how to stop them, and the biggest surprise is the person who is now helping the cop. <br/><br/>The acting is great, the story is entangled and everyone has a back story, the actors are not acting like in a soap opera, i loved every second of it. Considering this is a pilot, the rest of the show might go down hill from here, but I hope for the best. Season 1. While not electrifying, Continuum is entertaining. At the moment of their execution, a group of terrorists (Liber8) orchestrate a time warp that transports them from 2077 to 2012. Seemingly by accident, they transport policewoman Kiera Cameron along with them. Kiera quickly joins the Vancouver Police in an effort to fight Liber8—who are fomenting dissent in the present—and to find a way back to 2077. As the show progresses, it gradually reveals that something more than an execution escape was the cause of all these events.<br/><br/>Continuum is successful largely because of Rachel Nichols, who plays Kiera Cameron. She is beautiful and quite feminine, although not in a girlishly cute way. Rather, her femininity can be found in her shy but quiet strength; her resolute love for her son who remains in 2077; and her sense of duty in fighting Liber8. Rachel Nichols expresses all these qualities and creates a likable character. Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) is her partner in the Vancouver Police Department. While not particularly interesting himself, his casual affability and occasional quirks play nicely with Kiera&#39;s character. Perhaps a fault in this show is that there are not many well-developed characters beyond these two. Alec Sadler is the genius teenager who will become the corporate giant of the future, but who in the meantime provides tech support and information for Kiera.<br/><br/>Rachel NicholsKiera Cameron animates a plot that would otherwise be merely interesting. The show could have closely examined the philosophy of time-travel. Instead, the show uses time-travela simple plot- device, and at times in a particularly heavy-handed manner—suchwhen Liber8 attempts to kill Kiera&#39;s grandmother in the hopes that this will erase her out of existence (the tactic doesn&#39;t work, though the show doesn&#39;t explain why). More troubling, the show occasionally descends to the level of police procedural,Kiera and Carlos investigate various murders that seem only tangentially related to the plot involving Liber8. Double murder-suicides? Check. Journalist killed in political intrigue? Check. Ransom of a corporate CEO? Check. Nor are the members of Liber8 fleshed out into full characters. They veer from being political dissidents, to anarchic terrorists, to pawns in a corporate chess game.<br/><br/>Despite these faults, Continuum is an enjoyable show. The plots are snappy and the scenes from the future are particularly engaging. And overarching theme of a plot from the future being hatched in the present is tantalizing enough to keep a viewer engaged.
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