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Journeyman

Saw all episodes so far. Really thought I wouldn't like it much, but I'm enjoying it so far. Hope it stays good...
 
I wasn't thrilled with the 1st episode but thought I'd give it a couple more. Glad I did, as I'm really getting into it now.
 
Moon Bloodgood got into skimpy lingerie for only 1 episode so far. 🙁 They're not taking advantage of their actors.

Oh the show... it's only alright. They need to do a better job of showing how he returns to the present and when. The idea itself has also been done more than once before.
 
I like the show, but Lucius' wife gets on my nerves. They need to bring back Titus Pullo. The Lucius and Titus combo was unstoppable. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Shawn
I like it a lot. So much better than Bionic Woman. That show is crap.
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I really want to like Bionic Woman, but I think it has 2 major weaknesses: 1, it feels canned, and 2, it's simply too fast. A lot of the action, dialogue, etc. feels like a combination of typical Hollywood stuff and Hardy Boys books. The big thing that bugs me though is the speed. Bionic Woman gets acclimated too fast. Like I think it was the first episode that she fought the other blonde bionic woman, then talked to the good-guy leader after the ambulance too her fiancee away - she said, now I know what I can do, blah blah blah, essentially now she calls the shots. What, one fight out of the hospital and now she knows the full range of her powers and abilities? It's just too fast to make it believable. She's too confident in herself and her responses, like when she decides not to help out blonde bionic woman in the parking lot with the girl she's babysitting. Instead of drawing me in, I feel kicked out of the reality they're trying to create.

I think that Journeyman shares some of the same weaknesses. The Quantum Leap thing has been done, although this is an interesting take on it. But, things are moving too fast and being too vague. And by too fast, I mean he gets sucked into doing things quickly, but without asking questions any sane person would ask. He lets his old girlfriend disappear time after time without asking her too many "real" questions. And his situation with his wife...I wish they had dragged that out more. Him hiding the ring to show her (in the first episode iirc?) kind of took the fun out of the "oh crud his wife is going to leave him because she thinks he's nuts" thing. But I guess that would be too much pressure on top of him because of his job, boss, and brother. That and the show is too vague. He's not saving the world; he's just saving individual people. What benefit do these people have to society? Not to mock the individual, but this time-warp thing is ruining is life, his marriage and family, his career, and his relationships. Why would some person or some organization bother sending him back all these times to fix these people's lives when his own is falling apart? There's no clues, nothing. Of course I still need to catch up on last week's episode...
 
I like it. It's much better that the typical fare in this sort of genre.

I thought the ring part was cool and raised the protagonist from being just an pawn played by outside forces to a thinking actor, and in retrospect, more importantly, brought the story to what he does for who he loves.

I think I'll enjoy it. Let's see.
 
I REALLY wanted to like this series. I liked whats his name in ROME a lot, but I just think the writing is flat and lifeless. Not as flat as Flash Gordon flat, but it just don't compel me to watch it. I think the hack writers on it need a major kick in the pants, like most network TV writers do. I may try to watch a few more episodes, since whats his name does hold his own in it, but one good casting decision wont keep this afloat for another season.
 
Originally posted by: RossMAN
After Monday's episode I think we're finally making progress on how/why he keeps going back in time.
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Getting the call from the scientist he talked to in the future while in the past was a fairly interesting twist.

Not sure about the "hottness" of Olivia though. it almost looked like they have 2 people playing her, and the one doing the young Olivia seemed rather nice, the old not so much.
 
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
By the second episode I found it boring, removed it from the Tivo list. Quantum Leap this show is not.
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That's because you expected it to be a Quantum Leap. Try keeping an open mind next time.
 
Every episode except for the last has shown how that saving the person in the past helped something in the future. Unless I missed it, did they show the event on the last show with the mail bomber?
 
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