Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Going Nowhere: Journeyman Cancellation Watch

Journeyman is about a guy who suddenly starts travelling back in time (but inexplicably, only in decade-long increments). After some brief confusion, he starts helping random people by averting their suicides and stuff. He becomes entangled with his former (but supposedly now dead) fiance. Then his (now magically not dead?) former fiance appears, as though she had never died, but exists in the present day and is also travelling through time. Oh, and our journey man also happens to be married in the present day, making his interactions with the many incarnations of his dead-but-not-dead-former-fiance rife with moral gray area.

If you made it through that paragraph and you still care about Journeyman, then I suggest you start crafting a strategy to save the show from cancellation now. I have no idea what the hell is going on here. And I'm not terribly motivated to find out. The stakes are low. This guy will probably have to deal with the whole not-dead-fiance thing eventually, and I'm sure his wife won't be terribly excited to hear that her husband may have found a cosmic loophole in his vows. But as far as I can tell, no one is worried about a rip in the space time continuum and there are no last minute escapes in Doc's Delorian. Also, the protagonist looks just enough like Daniel Craig to remind me of how much I like Daniel Craig, but not enough to make me watch this show. I just need to locate my copy of Casino Royale by next Monday.

Cancellation Watch: I give it six episodes. It's this year's Vanished.

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