{"id":3428,"date":"2012-07-15T22:27:54","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3428"},"modified":"2012-07-15T22:27:54","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T02:27:54","slug":"continuum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3428","title":{"rendered":"Continuum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/continuumtheseries.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-3429\" title=\"continuum\" src=\"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/continuum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"357\" height=\"115\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/continuum.jpg 510w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/continuum-300x97.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>I just discovered a new Canadian television series: <a href=\"http:\/\/continuumtheseries.com\/\">Continuum<\/a>, on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.showcase.ca\/\">Showcase<\/a> channel.<\/p>\n<p>The premise: a group of terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on one&#8217;s point of view) in a corporatist, dystopian future escape execution by traveling 65 years back in time, to 2012. Along with them, a female police officer also ends up in present-day Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the old days, discovering something like this mid-season would have been a disappointing experience: not knowing the back story, I might have lost interest. But these are not the old days anymore; all the episodes of Continuum that aired to date can be viewed on Showcase&#8217;s Web site.<\/p>\n<p>And they are worth watching. It&#8217;s a remarkably good series, and so far, after seven episodes, the quality has not slipped yet. Likable characters, believable effects, and a thought-provoking story. Only three episodes remain from its first season&#8230; I hope it gets the green light for a second. Series like this tend to die prematurely even in bigger markets. But then, some of them survive, even in Canada.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3428' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered a new Canadian television series: Continuum, on the Showcase channel. The premise: a group of terrorists (or freedom fighters, depending on one&#8217;s point of view) in a corporatist, dystopian future escape execution by traveling 65 years back in time, to 2012. Along with them, a female police officer also ends up in <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=3428' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","category-28-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3428"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3428\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}