Category: Journeyman

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

I just watched it, and I liked it. It wasn't quite as good as Chuck, but it was just as good if not better than Bionic Woman.

I'm intrigued enough to continue tuning in and to see what happens next. It would appear than Moon Bloodgood's character Livia is jumping around in time too, so maybe it's no coincidence that this is happening to Dan. Having Dan be in love with two women, one from the past, one from the present, is a nice twist on the normal time travel concepts.

They don't bother explaining the science behind the jumping in time, but I hope they at least allude to it later. Having no explanation at all would get a little frustrating.

I couldn't get over the fact that this show just seems to have to much Quantum Leap in it... I think more people feel that way, as no one I know even watched the pilot.

Time will tell if there's enough development in the story to succeed here, but I actually lost track of the show while it was on, and didn't care...

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