I quite enjoyed it. Its years since I watched the film, was going to again then changed my mine. I just remember Bruce Willis being an mental hospital and Brad Pitt wandering round warning him about things, then time jumping.:D
The actor was also in Doll House as well as Nikkita , he usually does the scientist tech guy. So it was a change to seen him doing this, action/ hero thing.
The actor was also in Doll House as well as Nikkita , he usually does the scientist tech guy. So it was a change to seen him doing this, action/ hero thing.
He wasn't in Dollhouse, you're confusing him with Fran Kranz.
^do you have any specifics in mind as I've been ok with how they've handled the tt stuff.
In Looper, stuff that happened, happened, and affected the timeline from then on, but couldn't affect what had happened earlier. So if you cut off a time-traveller's finger, it would disappear from his older self as soon as you did so, even though half an hour earlier he had been walking around with it intact. It was a fairly twisted and unconventional view of cause and effect. I think it does eventually fall apart if you look at it too hard, but it does have a bit more consistency to it than it got credit for.
I don't know if 12M is using the same rules, but the scene scratching the watch was similar to things in Looper.
I don't know if 12M is using the same rules, but the scene scratching the watch was similar to things in Looper.
Similar (as you say) but not exact...... hold on a mo.. it IS exact, because the scratch happened right there, the two watches being linked as they're the same watch in the same time zone but from different times. So when the old guy goes back and his younger self is tortured it DOES follow thru that chopping of youngers leg results in olders leg going WITHOUT needing to explain how he was walking around all fine and dandy 5mins before. Although when they did the whole arm carving message thing, we should really see FRESH cuts on the older Bruce's arm rather than the healed scars we got, right ?! And Bruce REALLY shouldn'ta vanished at the end, but keeled over due to the gunshot wound.
Back to Cole and the watch. If, instead of the visible scratch, he'd taken HER watch, opened the back and got her to scratch something on the INSIDE. Then took his one, opened the back to show the same message, but aged. Well this would be the show NOT doing things like Looper because the markings on HIS watch would have always been there (him being gifted her watch in the future, a future following this watch scratching moment) rather than appearing immediately after her scratching HER watch.
I haven't seen the film so relying on the show to give me an overview of the original story. It's pretty interesting, but I'm massively biased because I love Aaron Stanford and would watch him in anything. Another Nikita actor is in it too - Noah Bean. His character is pretty boring so far but I imagine he has a larger part to play later on.
The scientist Jones (future) has a really annoying accent - anyone know where she's supposed to be from?
I liked the film with Bruce Willis, and I like sci-fi in general, and particularly time travel stuff so I should be loving this. I loved 'Fringe' for instance. But in fact I am finding '12 Monkeys' really boring and a chore to watch. One reason could be that the characters are uninteresting and not fleshed out.
Does anyone know if it gets better? Because having just watched episode 2, I am thinking of packing it in.
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They also mucked up extant a few weeks ago. Someone really needs to put a rocket under the person who programmes the automation!
It's ridiculous!
Is that channel run by a bunch of 5 year olds!
Have they heard of the word professionalism?!
It's only a small thing but It shows their utter contempt for the viewing public when they do things like that!
But 12M's is good - a promising start, helped by the Naomi Watts look-a-like Amanda Schull, Dr Cassandra.;-)
They split the screen and had a loud advert for next week before the end of the first episode! >:(
I enjoyed this first episode more than I thought I would. Looking forward to next week.
Maybe they've got a new work-experience guy in pushing the buttons ^_^
For Continuum I immediately downloaded the on-demand version so I could find out what was being said at the end!
I quite enjoyed the first episode. Certainly worth giving it a go.
The actor was also in Doll House as well as Nikkita , he usually does the scientist tech guy. So it was a change to seen him doing this, action/ hero thing.
He wasn't in Dollhouse, you're confusing him with Fran Kranz.
Okay, they must look similar.
You decide
Fran Kranz
http://l.yimg.com/os/251/2012/04/10/139224656-jpg_174746.jpg
Aaron Stanford
http://nikita-tv.net/uploads/images/2013/261/unri18.jpg
was he? I only know him from Nikita and loved him in that - he played Birkhoff
I don't know if 12M is using the same rules, but the scene scratching the watch was similar to things in Looper.
Back to Cole and the watch. If, instead of the visible scratch, he'd taken HER watch, opened the back and got her to scratch something on the INSIDE. Then took his one, opened the back to show the same message, but aged. Well this would be the show NOT doing things like Looper because the markings on HIS watch would have always been there (him being gifted her watch in the future, a future following this watch scratching moment) rather than appearing immediately after her scratching HER watch.
That's surprised me as I thought that it would automatically look for both, pretty sure that Google does and maybe the V+ too.
I must be looking back at Dollhouse through warped glasses.:D
The scientist Jones (future) has a really annoying accent - anyone know where she's supposed to be from?
Does anyone know if it gets better? Because having just watched episode 2, I am thinking of packing it in.