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Continuum TV Series

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Xagroth Xagroth's picture
Continuum TV Series
So I was havinga look at the new season's batch of series on EzTv.it (remember, I'm not form USA :P) when I stumbled upon this one. It reminded me an old series about a cop displaced in time using a credit card that contained a supercomputer and his ingenuity to catch escapees from his time period when I looked the wikipedia entry, so I gave it a shot. Thus far, I watched the first episode, and it contains the following: - 7 escapees (not the never concreted number of the old series. Lexa Doig being one of them is a bonus xD) from a corporate-controlled future 60 years from now (2077). They were going to be executed (the first execution in 40 years) when somehow time travel got involved. - Kiera, the Protector: unlike the escapees, she has biomods and augmentations, boots, pants and jacket with extras: Both pants and jacket are smart clothes, bulletproof and containing a computer (Ecto/mesh equivalent), and the jacket also has a taser incorporated. She also can hack an ATM or disable a video camera with them. She has a recording chip in her head (being a Protector is like being a policeman, and having a record of the event means there is no need for testimony), some sort of enhanced vision and a HUD (that lets her see faint tracks of heat and mark enemies), and a secure comm device that lets her talk with the younger version of the man that designed that tech (so she has an "operator"... a Muse of sorts, just a guy at the other side of the cable XD). A gun that won't work because of the temporal jump, and a drug-dispenser that can wither be a nanofabricator for drugs or a standard Star Trek hypospray. - Some of the escapees are ex-military, and their first movements are brutal, decisive and precise. While not at the level of what an Ultimate should be, they are quite an interesting example. - Memetic war: the escapees want democracy, freedom and the restoration of other civil rights. The corporations want to keep in power, selling a Planetary-Consortium line of safety under their control. The series is now in the 9th episode or so, and I plan to catch on it, but I thought it could be interesting to bring the subject up for all to see, specially for those new GMs that might find some inspiration in the technology showed that can be translated to EP equivalents, or that might even be directly inspired by the game. Images tend, after all, to we worth a thousand words.
OpsCon OpsCon's picture
Wonder if I can find this on
Wonder if I can find this on Netflix...
Xagroth Xagroth's picture
Opscon, you can download the
Opscon, you can download the episodes from www.Eztv.it using bittorrent. The legallity of the act is debatable, but I doubt there are DVDs on sale yet.
crizh crizh's picture
Not bad so far.
I've been enjoying it but I've got a very low entertainment threshold I've noticed. Over time the scripts have gradually started to de-buff Kiera which is beginning to annoy me. First her suit gets damaged and then last episode she nearly had her implants ruined. As a showcase for the potential benefits of future technology the show starts to lose its lustre if the scriptwriters lack the imagination to create interesting scenarios without circumventing that technology every five minutes.
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urdith urdith's picture
The suit was damaged for a
The suit was damaged for a very specific reason, just as her ecto was damaged. She's very reliant on the technology and removing forces her to solve problems without it. Plus, there's Alex's Easter Egg... The suit being fixed is going to be a big plot point.

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crizh crizh's picture
urdith wrote:She's very
urdith wrote:
She's very reliant on the technology and removing forces her to solve problems without it.
Maybe they should just send her back to the Stone Age and remove all her technology. To be fair I have been enjoying the gradual build up to revealing Alex's role in the whole affair.
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Xagroth Xagroth's picture
Personally the series
Personally the series downgrading of the technological capabilities of Kiera is coherent and logical (advanced tech => advanced maintenance she is now cut from), but that removes one of the main reasons to keep looking the series (aside form the occasional flashbacks of the future) as a source for EP stuff.
omnipotentseal omnipotentseal's picture
You can interpret the
You can interpret the conflict between Liber8 and the corporations in 2012 as an early history of Eclipse Phase, so while all the fancy technology might not always be available. The characters still share a lot of the same ideas as politically active anarchists and hypercorp NPCs. The last few episodes have really been building that history, especially with Kagame and to some extent Alec acting as masterminds of Keira's Future.
Xagroth Xagroth's picture
I would think that Alec's
I would think that Alec's opinion about time travelling is that he doesn't have an option: whatever happens, Kiera is just walking steps set on stone. The only problem I have with Liber8 are the means they use, or rather precisely, the amount of collateral deaths they cause. Sure they are desperate, and sure they are "releasing" what they see as little more than drones unable to change their ways of thinking, but they keep murdering people regardless of that's people situation while in what they think is a free time. I'm still watching episode 5 (I have little time these days to spare...) but for now Kellog seems the most decent of the bunch. By far.