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OK so I added this as a Season pass this year taking a chance. Hey, its on NBC not Fox...it will last more than 6 episodes, right?
Anyway, I saw the previews and had this sort of "OK so its Quantum Leap redone" attitude. And...it kinda is...sorta. That being said I was really surprised by it and enjoyed the first three episodes.
I think the show is very well done, well written, and doesn't insult your intelligence. So yea the guy (Dan) does randomly leap through time, but basically tracking on a single person's life, and by somehow changing that, he makes things better in his time. What isn't clear is how he is doing this, or why. He just started doing it one day.
Apparently whatever he is wearing at the time, goes back with him. So as this has been happening more, he has been coming prepared with old out-of-date currency (so his current $20 bills don't look fake). Carrying old cell phones, because today's wouldn't work 15 years ago. There was also some comment about "Don't bring citrus back with you, it explodes, I don't know why it just does"
Which brings me to the next thing....he finds out he isn't the only one doing it. In the pilot his ex-fiancee, whom he thought died in a plane crash 9 years earlier, shows up and is clearly jumping backwards too. What they are hinting at how, is that while Dan seems to go back and track on a single person until he makes things come out better....his ex-Fiancee may be tracking HIM. She doesn't have any memory of Dan's current time, since she is supposed to be dead (they havent fully addressed that yet), and its also clear that she said she was jumping back BEFORE she had met him....but stoppped when she met him.
Another cool thing, is that he doesn't have control of when he disappears --- and when he comes back is random as well. One time he was driving his car, leapt back in time, and since he was no longer in the car it hit a telephone pole. Sometimes he also thinks he is gone only 15min but was actually hours in his present, so that has been put out there but not fully explained.
So there is enough interesting back story they are dangling out there to get you interested, but each episode is pretty much its own reward so far.
Anyway, check it out if it sounds interesting. The show is still just getting started. Better watch it before rating suck and it goes off the air like all good shows. This one is after Heroes, so I'm hoping it has a chance on Heroe's coattails.
Anyway, I saw the previews and had this sort of "OK so its Quantum Leap redone" attitude. And...it kinda is...sorta. That being said I was really surprised by it and enjoyed the first three episodes.
I think the show is very well done, well written, and doesn't insult your intelligence. So yea the guy (Dan) does randomly leap through time, but basically tracking on a single person's life, and by somehow changing that, he makes things better in his time. What isn't clear is how he is doing this, or why. He just started doing it one day.
Apparently whatever he is wearing at the time, goes back with him. So as this has been happening more, he has been coming prepared with old out-of-date currency (so his current $20 bills don't look fake). Carrying old cell phones, because today's wouldn't work 15 years ago. There was also some comment about "Don't bring citrus back with you, it explodes, I don't know why it just does"
Which brings me to the next thing....he finds out he isn't the only one doing it. In the pilot his ex-fiancee, whom he thought died in a plane crash 9 years earlier, shows up and is clearly jumping backwards too. What they are hinting at how, is that while Dan seems to go back and track on a single person until he makes things come out better....his ex-Fiancee may be tracking HIM. She doesn't have any memory of Dan's current time, since she is supposed to be dead (they havent fully addressed that yet), and its also clear that she said she was jumping back BEFORE she had met him....but stoppped when she met him.
Another cool thing, is that he doesn't have control of when he disappears --- and when he comes back is random as well. One time he was driving his car, leapt back in time, and since he was no longer in the car it hit a telephone pole. Sometimes he also thinks he is gone only 15min but was actually hours in his present, so that has been put out there but not fully explained.
So there is enough interesting back story they are dangling out there to get you interested, but each episode is pretty much its own reward so far.
Anyway, check it out if it sounds interesting. The show is still just getting started. Better watch it before rating suck and it goes off the air like all good shows. This one is after Heroes, so I'm hoping it has a chance on Heroe's coattails.
