Continuum: New sci-fi series that takes place in Vancouver

[vanman]

Cop from the future walks Vancouver streets in Continuum

By Glen Schaefer, The Province March 16, 2012


Actor Stephen Lobo, munching a Caesar salad at a table in the downtown Subeez Cafe, waves at castmate Rachel Nichols as she comes into the café.

Nichols joins him at the table and the two talk for a couple of minutes as the flow of servers and customers continues around them, and sidewalk strollers pass by on the other side of the plate glass window.

A-and . . . cut.

Rewind to the beginning. The 10 café extras are back at their starting point, including the friendly waitress with the coffee refill, as are the 20 or so sidewalk passersby. A film or TV location is always intriguing for how they manage to replay a little loop of fictional time again and again, keeping the background flow the same, but tweaking little bits in the foreground.

In this case, the usual on-set time loop mirrors the fiction of the new Canadian sci-fi series Continuum, in which Nichols stars as a Vancouver cop from 60 years into the future who travels back in time in pursuit of a group of fugitive political terrorists who have also jumped back in time.

The future Vancouver is North America’s financial centre, in a world where corporations run things, governments are sidelined, and rising ocean levels have devastated the east coast.

Read more: http://www.theprovince.com/news/from...#ixzz1tBDWzxyi

Checkout the teaser trailers here:
http://www.showcase.ca/video/continu...video/season+1

[officedweller]

The future Vancouver is North America’s financial centre, in a world where corporations run things, governments are sidelined, and rising ocean levels have devastated the east coast.

I didn't realize that North America was tilted to the east...

[vanman]

Haha, I thought that was odd too. Clearly the effects of global warming only apply to the east coast of North America.

[CoryHolmes]

Originally Posted by officedweller

I didn't realize that North America was tilted to the east...

It's all the people and political centres. They outweigh the rest of us

I'm happy to see Vancouver get another time in the spotlight, as with Mass Effect 3. Better than doubling for somewhere else...

[Pinion]

Took this screen cap



Looks cheesierific like most Vancouver filmed sci-fi

Oh and I think we stole North Korea's big tower

[Prometheus]

Good for you future Vancouver! You got rid of the viewcones.

[queetz@home]

Originally Posted by Prometheus

Good for you future Vancouver! You got rid of the viewcones.

No kidding, eh? I guess a lot of shoddy built high rise condos would have been torn down due to extremely high and expensive maintenance to owners (they gave up and sold) and redeveloped to office towers. Though clearly the design committee or whatever they are called was got rid of as well.

The future Vancouver is North America’s financial centre, in a world where corporations run things, governments are sidelined, and rising ocean levels have devastated the east coast.

Some of this seems true today, especially if you believe those Jesse Ventura Conspiracy theories. Though Vancouver being a future financial centre, especially North America's, is a bit of an outlier. I guess the BC Liberals must somehow held power for the next 60 years to make this happen in this show's universe...

[nova9]

Originally Posted by Pinion

Looks cheesierific like most Vancouver filmed sci-fi

Oh and I think we stole North Korea's big tower

Dude, Battlestar Galactica was awesome!!!

[cornholio]

Originally Posted by Pinion

Looks cheesierific like most Vancouver filmed sci-fi

Hey SG1 was the longest running sci-fi series ever. X-files was probably the best sci-fi series ever in terms of viewership (im guessing).

Personally my favorite was SG Atlantis, mostly for the fact that one of the main roles was played by a Czech guy playing a Czech guy (Dr.Zelenka) who always said something funny and odd in Czech. One of the first episodes I saw he had a rant in Czech and screamed "I cant work with these dam actors!", obviously though unless you speak and understand Czech then you would never know what he said in the show.

[Pinion]

The special effects looked awful from that preview ad screen grab I took earlier but they really do a good job on the show and it's interesting if only from an SSP nerd perspective.

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The show's writing is still unfortunately mediocre at best.

[Klazu]

There was also a funny writing about the show in VanCityBuzz with screen shots from the series.