Journeyman: And the Time-Travel Plot Thickens
What’s Left Behind Shouldn’t Stay Behind
I only watched one TV show on Monday night, and Journeyman was its name. My stinginess paid off big time, too, because that one hour with the endangered rookie was worth all of the repeats and reality stuff on all of the other broadcast networks combined. Even better, it reinforced my belief that NBC is committing a major injustice by canceling the sci-fi drama, which is truly getting better and better, this early in the game.
On last night’s episode, it wasn’t so much a question of where the title character Dan Vassar (Kevin McKidd) went, but rather what havoc he wreaked as a result. His companion in time travel, Livia Beale (Moon Bloodgood), has warned Dan over and over (and over) again not to change the timeline by, for instance, interfering when and where he shouldn’t. The aim is to focus on the person or people he’s supposed to help, and to leave everything else by the wayside, even if he has the knowledge and ability to mediate other situations, as well.
The last episode “The Hanged Man” didn’t find Dan unnecessarily butting into business not his own, the typical case. Instead, he inadvertently left something behind while saving a woman and her teenage son just before their trailer home went over a steep cliff: a digital camera light-years beyond the technology available in their mid-1980s era. The repercussions of that mistake were, let’s just say, monumental, giving viewers the weirdest glimpse yet of the grave hazards of being in Dan’s shoes. It was completely mesmerizing TV.
Don’t forget to tune in to the—dare I write it—final episode of Journeyman this Wednesday night at 10pm EST. Dan will meet a fellow time traveler played by actor Don McManus and hopefully also finally track down the elusive scientist Elliot Langley (Tom Everett), a questionable man who clearly knows a whole lot more about the travelers’ predicaments than he’s currently admitting. The last possibility alone makes the next installment “Perfidia” a must-see television event for fans who’ve remained loyal.
Moon Bloodgood and Kevin McKidd/Journeyman photo courtesy of NBC
I hope NBC executives rot in the fiery pits of hell for canceling this show. I hope their children are stolen in the night and castrated with a spork in an aquarium of leeches, and then salt is poured on their wounds. Without my weekly fix of Kevin McKidd, I won’t smile anymore.
Well, you know I feel your pain. I’m hoping that the NBC execs responsible for trying to end Journeyman get some common sense for Christmas and then recant their decision not to pick it up. If only…