my suspicion is that this was plotted to be five seasons, they got the axe after season 3, but were given six more episodes to wrap things up.
From an article I read once while poking around the internet to see if there was going to be a season 4, that's correct, except they had fantasized ten seasons!
I liked Continuum a lot, but ended up being frustrated with it for three reasons.
One was a pitfall that time travel/alternate universe TV shows seem to have trouble avoiding: at one point, they go down a timeline for a while and then do stuff that resets them into a different version of events, which means we never get any resolution on all the interesting stuff that was happening in the first version!
The second was that their method of gradual plot exposition included retconning/"revealing" a lot of stuff about various characters that wasn't actually very consistent with what we previously knew about them -- it turned out that more and more of the characters had actually met previously, for example, and that people had known stuff where the knowledge didn't jibe with the actions we'd seen them take.
The third, and least forgivable, was that I felt like the show often failed to live up to its own ambitions about exploring ethical grey areas, and consequences, and all that stuff. It had the common TV problem of consequences only existing when the spotlight was on/when it was convenient for the plot, and not all the time.
(Also, bonus points for Kiera never having romance with either Carlos or Alec, but minus points for the random out-of-nowhere unmotivated season 3 love plot.)
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Date: 2017-11-17 11:11 pm (UTC)From an article I read once while poking around the internet to see if there was going to be a season 4, that's correct, except they had fantasized ten seasons!
I liked Continuum a lot, but ended up being frustrated with it for three reasons.
One was a pitfall that time travel/alternate universe TV shows seem to have trouble avoiding: at one point, they go down a timeline for a while and then do stuff that resets them into a different version of events, which means we never get any resolution on all the interesting stuff that was happening in the first version!
The second was that their method of gradual plot exposition included retconning/"revealing" a lot of stuff about various characters that wasn't actually very consistent with what we previously knew about them -- it turned out that more and more of the characters had actually met previously, for example, and that people had known stuff where the knowledge didn't jibe with the actions we'd seen them take.
The third, and least forgivable, was that I felt like the show often failed to live up to its own ambitions about exploring ethical grey areas, and consequences, and all that stuff. It had the common TV problem of consequences only existing when the spotlight was on/when it was convenient for the plot, and not all the time.
(Also, bonus points for Kiera never having romance with either Carlos or Alec, but minus points for the random out-of-nowhere unmotivated season 3 love plot.)