Dialogue on tonight's 'Continuum' (Canadian sci-fi/cops)

[Newsjock]

http://continuumtheseries.com

It's a new series, currently airing only in Canada on the Showcase cable channel but available from all the usual sources of gray repute, that deals with a group of anti-corporate activists who escape execution in corporate-controlled 2077 by time-traveling to 2012, bringing a Vancouver police officer along with them.

Cops? Time travel? In GD, you say? Well, now six episodes into the series, there's starting to be some serious talk going on, like this on tonight's episode (which I don't think spoils any serious plot elements for those who haven't seen it yet):

"How well do you know the history of this period?"
"They purged the history files from my school's data in 2058."
"In 2010, the world's banking industry nearly collapsed due to some questionable business practices."
"What happened next?"
"The governments bailed them out. Not a single corporate CEO went to trial, and they walked away with billions in bonuses. The only ones who suffered were the people they were supposed to be accountable to."
"No wonder the corporations changed the history books. We forgot our history, and they repeated it."

No idea how the series will play out, but it features some of the most visible direct references to Occupy that I've seen on series television. And here's a fake website -- "A Call to Arms for a New Mankind" -- from the show:
http://liber8.com/manifesto.php

Recommended.

[Electric Monk]

1. Thanks, sounds interesting. I hadn't heard of it, but it's getting an 8.0/10 on imdb

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1954347/

and you're right, it's easy to find episodes online if you know where to look, so I think I'll check it out

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. Something is in the water I tell ya

And it's good.

[canuckledragger]

3. I love this kind of thing!

Gotta be a name for it & I can't think of one

Sci-fi/Fantasy & the like are one of my favorite genres on account of creative story telling like this.

Easy to slip in a good social commentary about current events & educate people on the sly because a sci-fi story flys under most peoples' radar.

-the New Battlestar Galatica TV series did this about the Iraq & occupation,
-the movie District 9 did about 'aliens' but was really about apartheid & racism

there's others but those 2 are the recent good ones I remember

[Rosco T.]

4. It's an outstanding program

HIGHLY recommended, search out the usual sources, it's well worth your time. A well written, brilliant blend of cop procedural, scifi time travel and political comment.