GregR
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Anyone else watching this? Stars Rachel Nichols, who played Scarlet in the first GI Joe movie.It's only 2 episodes in so far, but I'm really liking it so far. I think it would be just a run of the mill SyFy offering, except that Nichols is stealing the show for me. She has this very emotive quality to her that draws me in and makes me feel for her character. Reminds me a LOT of Jennifer Garner in the early days of Alias, who I thought had that same kind of quality to her.The plot is that she's a cop from maybe 60 years in the future. The corporations have bailed out and taken over the government when the government went bankrupt. They've trod on many civil liberties, and there is a resistance fighting against them. Some of them are captured and manage to time travel back to the present, and Kira (Nichols' character) is caught in it and travels back with them. She's torn between wanting to stop them, and wanting them to succeed in trying to get back to their own time so she can tag along and get back to her kid and husband. While the terrorists themselves are split between whether they should try to return to their own time, or whether they should wage their war against the corporations in our time before they take over. They are a very bloodthirsty group, which makes for an interesting situation. You may find yourself wanting to side with the terrorists who are in effect fighting for liberty, but will be disgusted with their casual disregard for innocent lives. And find yourself cheering for the cop but at the same time in many ways she's fighting for an oppressive regime. There is also a lot of cool technology that she has, including some memory implants and communications that can record and broadcast everything she sees. And the inventor of the technology has just reached the point in his work that when she arrives in our time, he starts picking up her broadcast and is surprised since he just invented the tech to be able to communicate in the secure way it uses. So he's able to see and hear what she does, and is the only one who knows she's from the future.Anyway, give it a try if you're a sci fi geek, and haven't seen it yet. It also has Lexa Doig, the Asian who played the ship avatar in Andromeda and who played the replacement to Doc Frazier in Stargate SG1, as one of the terrorists.
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That's the best part of the show. We don't know who the good guys really are.
