The Journeyman pilot premiered on Monday September 24, and here are my initial thoughts on it.

Wow. Honestly, it was great. Dan Vassar(Kevin McKidd) is a reporter for a newspaper and a family man with a wife and son. Suddenly, he’s cast into the past at different times without control. He jumps back and forth, and each time he jumps he’s gone for days in the present. His wife, Katie(Gretchen Egolf) and his brother Jack(Reed Diamond) think that he’s on drugs. This whole thing is a stress on Dan as he figures out that he’s been sent to the past for a purpose. I won’t give away anything else.

It jumps right in on the time travel. The one episode starts and resolves at the end quite nicely, carrying over almost nothing to the next episode. It jumps in so fast and introduces everything so fast that I really didn’t get to know anybody yet. The thing about Heroes and Lost that make them so good is that you really get to know the characters. Hopefully Journeyman will expand into that.

I was right when I said that this wouldn’t focus on the science. There were so many paradoxes in this episode that I could probably spend three hours talking about them, but I won’t bother. It could pose some problems for plotlines in the future and cause a whole lot of brain damage to anyone who tries to figure everything out, but for a first episode, this particular one thrilled and entertained very well.

This post was Authored by Brian Plyler, Our Resident Authority on all things Journeyman

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