Journeyman: Game Three
By fred | October 10, 2007
(S01E03) So… what did you think about this episode ? Do you still like the show, do you like it even more, or do you get unsure about it ? I am not asking because this episode was so spectacular or special in any way, it wasn’t really. A very classic episode of what this series will be over time, but also because it’s the second of the kind (pilot excluded for being the first ever, or a pilot one might say), you know the drill already.
I was curious about the show before I saw any of it, and after the first two episodes, and while it is not perfect, I was still pretty hooked. Did things changed after the third chapter.
No, not really. Overall I’m still liking the show and I will be there in a week to see Dan’s next set of travels. That being said, something was different in the way i felt after this one. I wasn’t as enthusiastic as I used to be after, or during, the episode.
Let me get this straight : it wasn’t a bad one. It still was a good episode. But…
..But I never was much into the Dan’s untold assignment, because we knew who he had to save. For a couple of obvious reason. The first, there’s just no way he could be there to make such a huge change as to prevent so many people from dying, such a catastrophic event to be that deadly.
Second, it’s always been about one person. Maybe affecting other people’s lives, but only to get one single person to live, happily, so that he or she can do some good in the future.
And third, there can’t be any mystery for us viewers when they cast someone such as John Billingsley. Although it would have been great to cast him only to be a non important character.
..But again we didn’t learn much about those time travels. I realize this is totally unfair because we did learn new facts, such as that Livia has been traveling for quite a while, before she even met Dan. So the now first meeting ever, at the coffee shop, during the first episode, that Livia was in act a time traveler, too.
We did learned that, and that it stopped while they were together, this being the reason she never mentioned it. That, and the fact that we don’t usually believe people when say claim they can travel through time. (That is, except if they can finish from a plane in midair, which she wasn’t able to do at the time).
Speaking of evading a plane in midair, her traveling abilities kicked back in right when that plane crashed, and she “died”. How convenient. It seems obvious to me that she has nothing to do during her travel but to guide Dan, to help him through his missions. She’s supervising him in a way, and I wouldn’t be surprised if, unlike Dan, she could actually decide when and where to go.
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