[empireofred]

There's this TV Show I recently heard about, it's called "Continuum." It's a Canadian production about a woman cop who lives in a corporation-ruled future. Some revolutionaries find a way to travel back in present time to change the course the world will take. Vigilant as she is, the cop follows them, and with the help of another present-day cop tries to stop the revolutionaries, who by the way are depicted as pot-smoking criminals.
We are supposed to cheer for the oppressor.

This show was really maddening to me, and how it got a 7.6 rating on ImDb is beyond me.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/

Thoughts?

[Ter]

All movies, TV series and books that include time travel are retarded.
That said, it does not matter who are the good ones or the bad ones, only the viewers decide the ratings.

[Eauz]

Why do you watch Show Case garbage?

[Bounce]

Isn't this like anything that Hollywood produces? It all relates to American exceptionalism.

[empireofred]

Why do you watch Show Case garbage?

I didn't watch it. A shocked friend explained it to me.

[empireofred]

Isn't this like anything that Hollywood produces? It all relates to American exceptionalism.

Makes you wonder if it was intentionally passed over to Canada.

[Eauz]

I didn't watch it.

Oh, that is good.

A shocked friend explained it to me.

Why would your friend be shocked? The goal is to attract viewership and ratings and a lot of these dramas are centered around this good guy vs. bad buy theme.

[empireofred]

Why would your friend be shocked? The goal is to attract viewership and ratings and a lot of these dramas are centered around this good guy vs. bad buy theme.

He (and I) was shocked because the supposed "good guy" is in reality the "bad guy," in this case! I mean, I've seen other movies with lighter propaganda, but this straight out tells you that keeping the order is more important than civil liberties. Do you not see it?

[Oxymoron]

Hard to listen to a person talking about a program that they themselves haven't seen.

[empireofred]

Hard to listen to a person talking about a program that they themselves haven't seen.

The level of reliability that the (unsourced) statement of a stranger on a forum carries, is up to you.
My post's reliance on what I consider a trustworthy source doesn't, or in your case, shouldn't, change the level of reliability it carries.

[Poelmo]

There's this TV Show I recently heard about, it's called "Continuum." It's a Canadian production about a woman cop who lives in a corporation-ruled future. Some revolutionaries find a way to travel back in present time to change the course the world will take. Vigilant as she is, the cop follows them, and with the help of another present-day cop tries to stop the revolutionaries, who by the way are depicted as pot-smoking criminals.
We are supposed to cheer for the oppressor.

Could it be that she later switches sides or at least unravels some stuff she didn't know and starts to doubt her mission? Blade Runner, I, Robot and Total Recall, plus a bunch of anti-war movies followed that path.

[empireofred]

Could it be that she later switches sides or at least unravels some stuff she didn't know and starts to doubt her mission? Blade Runner, I, Robot and Total Recall, plus a bunch of anti-war movies followed that path.

That's the hope, but it hasn't happened by the end of season 1.

[Poelmo]

That's the hope, but it hasn't happened by the end of season 1.

I've watched a couple of episodes in the meanwhile and I have to agree. She's not showing any signs of remorse or doubt, never questions the mission, she's like a Gestapo agent and she's drawn an entire police force into a war that they don't know the purpose of or who they're fighting against. Then again, the writers did give the "terrorists" valid arguments in their lines and we do get to see the corporate brutality so maybe we're just not supposed to cheer for the lead.

[jessupjonesjnr87]

More Western/Zionist propaganda I suppose. Sometimes it's hard to know whether these fuckers in Hollywood are being ironic or what.

[empireofred]

I've watched a couple of episodes in the meanwhile and I have to agree. She's not showing any signs of remorse or doubt, never questions the mission, she's like a Gestapo agent and she's drawn an entire police force into a war that they don't know the purpose of or who they're fighting against. Then again, the writers did give the "terrorists" valid arguments in their lines and we do get to see the corporate brutality so maybe we're just not supposed to cheer for the lead.

It would have been innovative to have the protagonist be despised by the viewers. But that's not the case here; well, at least not intentionally.
I'm also afraid some viewers don't see the problem.

[Noelnada]

If you watch all the episodes, you see more nuances.

The main character is actually in no way supportive of corporate oppression, her only goal and obession is to get back home to be with her family, she's actually the victim of a plot set by the most powerful corporate leader. and he is actually full of remorse due to his responsibility in the advent of the corporate dictatoriship, and set her along with the other, to change things. She did not asked to be sent back in time and don't know the reason why.

Then at some point you see the terrorist groupe split into two factions, the "good" that want to change things without violence and the bad that use violence indiscriminately.

Thoughts?

The story is more complicated and subtle than the way you present it

It's a politically correct show but this is probably the only tv series that raise some questions about corporations, their political power and the most efficient way to resist their oppression.

I wouldn't give it a 7.6, rather 6.6, i enjoy it but it's far from being perfect.

[Poelmo]

It has finally happened. As of the latest episode it seems all parties are now in agreement that parts about the future have to be changed, but it took them 18 episodes to get there.

[Locke II]

Our culture over romanticizes the concept of a group of people standing against the world. Do we over romanticize Neo-Nazis? I didn't think so.

[Hirdmann]

Our culture over romanticizes the concept of a group of people standing against the world. Do we over romanticize Neo-Nazis? I didn't think so.

Oh, but that's like totally differentz an' stuffz, 'because they're like...NOT left-wing, and therefore evil by definition!!




* = To the feeble-minded: Yes, nazism is evil. So are the other variants of socialism; but they're often lauded

[Akuma]

Timetravel is impossible. So is the show. Independend from its story.