Continuum Sci Fi Series

[Chirios]

Coming to SyFy (God I hate that name)

Originally Canadian, a group of terrorists from the future travel back in time accidentally taking a police officer with them.

Anybody watched/going to watch this? Used a proxy to get it off the Canadian website, pretty kickass.

[Grumman]

How much of the show is wasted worrying about paradoxes? Is there a lot of hand-wringing about not corrupting the timeline, or do people do the rational thing and try to achieve their goals in the best manner available to them?

[Chirios]

How much of the show is wasted worrying about paradoxes? Is there a lot of hand-wringing about not corrupting the timeline, or do people do the rational thing and try to achieve their goals in the best manner available to them?

I wouldn't say a lot of hand wringing but it does come up. At one point one of the characters mentions that there are basically two theories of time travel: one is that it's impossible to change the past because it's already happened; and two that when you go into the past you create a wholly separate timeline. Which of the two is happening is one of the "mysteries" or questions that the show sets up. Plus characters do deliberately use the grandfather paradox.

[Grumman]

Plus characters do deliberately use the grandfather paradox.

By this do you mean they follow "Kill Hitler to avoid World War Two" logic, or that the actual timey-wimey paradox plays into their reasoning?

[Chirios]

Plus characters do deliberately use the grandfather paradox.

By this do you mean they follow "Kill Hitler to avoid World War Two" logic, or that the actual timey-wimey paradox plays into their reasoning?

Spoiler

If someone exists in the future who they don't want to exist, they kill them. They use their knowledge of the future to improve/ruin peoples lives when they want a certain thing to happen. People freely threaten/attempt to kill each others parents/grandparents.

[Dahak]

This thread prompted me to go watch that show. I quite liked it.
The show heavily implies (especially in the last episode) that the past does influence the future (like: And There Is a Plan...), but no hand-wringing about paradoxes too much. The main character is doing mostly the rational thing here.
And as the show got a second season approved, at least the evil cliffhanger might be solved...