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Anyone who watched the film with Dennis Quaid back in the mists of time might enjoy this new series. A present day police detective discovers that she is able to speak via a ham radio with her estranged father who died in 1996. Starts on Wednesday.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2461644313/
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi2461644313/
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Will they wrap up the plot of the film in the first couple of episodes or stretch it out over the whole season?
If it is wrapped up do the father and daughter carry on solving crimes of the week (whilst trying not to mess the timeline up too much)?
I think he's a policeman too in this. Wasn't he a fireman in the film? So, I imagine it's about different crimes. Looking forward to seeing how they play it out.
So they've changed the son into a daughter?
I always liked the movie. Not sure how it'll pan out over a series though, unless the movie plot is the story arc spread over several episodes and it's a one-off series. Much as I love time travel stories when they're done well, I don't think the concept has the legs to work as standard, episodic, solve-the-crime-of-the-week TV fayre.
I'll have to look out for a UK broadcaster.
http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi782218777/
Had forgotten about this one.
Wow.
eg. get a list of kidnapped kids from that year, and a list of murdered people too, send this info back to 19## ?, save a bunch of people, QED. But they never seem to think of doing that.
Similarly with that old 7 days show, I woulda REALLY liked them, right after the guy gets in the machine, so us to've seen some mysterious guy add a thumb drive into some secret compartment. Then, when the pod is retrieved, some other mysterious guy would get the drive and act on the info - stocks and other stuff kinda thing. But nope.
Even so I can forget about the potential bigger scope of the show and enjoy it for what it is.
Personally I hope they get the family stuff out of the way early (as we've seen it all from the film) and then make it a procedural about solving crimes using the time thing.
I think there is some TV law that says a character can't use time travel to profit from.
That's why gambling never works, ala 7 Days, or Goodnight Sweetheart.
Yes that bit didn't make sense to me either. I can only assume he either set up and antenna in the hospital or he contacted her after getting out of the hospital.
Or use it to save anyone they aren't personally connected to.
And also the amount of change their time travel tinkling causes is directly related to the budget of the show.
Yes that is the most important rule of TV Time travel shows.
But how would the mysterious guy 7 days ago know that the mysterious guy in the present had planted the info? And would the information be valid anyway given that the purpose of the mission was specifically to change history (butterfly effect and all that)?
It's gone down the wrong route IMO.
It follows too closely the film plot, which we have already seen, but it does it in too serous and po-faced a way.
The father is not a likeable character unlike in the film and Payton just doesn't pull off her character.
I was hoping it would be more a case of the week show, using the knowledge of the future to change the past while trying not to affect her own life with any changes.
I think a lot of series if based on a film tend to follow the same path for the first season, I loved the film but both Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel are excellent in it, not sure Peyton and whoever the guy is who plays the dad have the magic to hold the show
I'm not out but it tried my patience when she didn't speak to her mom. Serious, WTF was that all about. Stupid, just frickin stupid. She goes off on her dad for not doing anything, then when she has the PERFECT frickin opportunity to help save her mom she wusses out. What a dink. >:(
And that uncovering of the 'bunker' at the end. Seriously, the home owner would've filled that sucker in years ago, right ?! And if they find bones in it that have laid there undiscovered for all those years then f@ck this show. >:(>:(>:(>:(>:(
Jan1 - build the hidden compartment
Jan2 - pins note on fridge, "if machine ever appears from the future and our team is sent out to retrieve it, check the hidden compartment"
then from Jan3 onwards each day he notes down the winning horses in each race onto a usb drive
[then he waits, the program was running for years]
April 7A - he gets such an order and is sent to retrieve the pod because .....
( on April 14 - guy+pod was sent back, but before he leaves, our mysterious guy puts that usb drive in the compartment. )
April 7B - he's got the drive and sees the results from Jan3 up to April13, he puts money on those from April 8th onwards, and wins billions.*
This is just an example, he could put the names of murdered people.
He could've even done a deal with a high powered firm whereby each day they list their mistakes, things they wish they'd done, things they wish they hadn't. He then takes the drive to them and they have 6 days worth of actionable information, like bidding $5million more will win them that contract.
I didn't even get that far, it would have definitely put me off.
But then the show won me over cos it appeared that with this nurse being in a different area, her abduction hadn't been linked to the killer. Hey, the show DID think things through when writing the ep.
Then with her speechlessness and the midnight gardening my :cool: turned to
Please let them turn it around in ep3 cos ep1 was a cracker.