Winterland
Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 10:53pm by GeekBoyJust finally watched the most recent episode of Journeyman tonight. Really enjoyed it. Figured I’d post about it, for the few of us that enjoy talking about this potentially short-lived show. I’ll be out of town on Monday, and probably won’t get to watch the next episode till later in the week.
Okay, so Langley definitely knows more than he’s letting on. All that talk about the research he abandoned after 9/11. And what’s up with the fact that he mentioned teaching a class on quartz and that dude from the past saying quartz every five minutes? Coincidence or no? I’m guessing tachyons AND quartz are important parts of the puzzle now?
And so Livia’s from 1948, jumping forward, while Dan is from 2007, jumping back. Very intriguing. It almost makes me want to see a whole episode from Livia’s point of view. And how does that work for her, clothes-wise? I haven’t noticed if her outfits are dated. Seems like she wears long coats a lot. And what about her hair? (Keith, I’ll defer to your particular observational talents in this area.)
Also, now that so much of the hijack money was found on the floor of the liquor store during that robbery, does this mean Dan’s off the hook? Will less missing money mean no douchebag FBI guy giving him grief about it in the present? Or are they still mad about not finding however much Dan gambled last episode? Jack defiantly spending the $20 bill that was in evidence makes me think the FBI guy is still around.
And then there’s the matter of the crazy “key party” in the beginning. With John Schneider. How bizarre. Indiscriminate wife swapping back in the pre-AIDS era. “Love in the Time of Penicillin”. And how funny that Dan was more interested in seeing TV coverage of Nixon’s fall.
Next episode is the first of a two-parter that will serve as the winter hiatus finale. And possibly the series finale. Hope we get more answers before it’s all over!
1. Jason said ( Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 11:37 am )
I’m hopeful that the strike actually saves Journeyman (and Life). NBC is having a bad season and if the strike kills pilot season, they won’t have much to replace shows with in the fall. Also, shows that the suits like will get looked at harder and bad ratings can be excused away by the strike and an inability to try out shows in different time slots or pairings. NBC, in particular, is pretty stuck here. They don’t have a single show that’s doing as well as they would have hoped this season and aren’t really in a position to launch mid-season replacements and see how they do either because they don’t have enough shows in the can.
So, you know, fingers crossed.
Onto the show, It has gotten so complicated yet still easy to follow. That Liv is from 1948 was a great revelation. I imagine that all her future traveling (and the long period of time she spent static in her future with Dan) has allowed her to come up with some rules about time jumping that Dan still hasn’t quite mastered. The clothing and hair being one of them. He still pretty consistently sticks out like a sore thumb in the past.
So, re: the money – it’s still a problem, although less of one since it no longer exists in the present. Dan brought it to the present so, in his timeline, the problem still exists. That the money was found/used in the past means the FBI may think he has a bunch of counterfeit dollars. And, actually, if I had to guess, the FBI guy is not really interested in the money but is interested in the time travel (or what he suspects is time travel).
He’s totally from the X-Files division. A douchebagg-y sub-section, no doubt, but highly interested in the extraordinary.
2. Jennifer said ( Sunday, November 18, 2007 at 9:18 pm )
1948? That was a great revelation.
I wonder how hard of a time Livia has it in the 40’s being Asian. Must have been quite a switch to move into the 80’s/90’s/etc. I did wonder about the clothes as well. And how the heck did she get to stay for so many years in the future?
3. Keith said ( Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 7:51 pm )
You know, I never really paid that much attention to what Livia has been wearing, but now that you mention it, she’s rather trench-y, isn’t she? Dan has SOME warning that he’s about to jump (can we borrow that verb?), so maybe she always has a longish coat at hand. Her hair is rather non-descript, longish, but no particular style so she can fit in anywhere. It is interesting to think about what it must have been like for her as an Asian woman in the 40s (even in San Francisco) to jump forward to a modern time where an education (and relative lack of bigotry and prejudice) afforded her the opportunity for schooling and an independent life….then to go back. Like Jason, I’d like to see a Livia-centric episode. Does she have a family? Was she gone from her people in the 1940s for an equivalent length of time as she spent with Dan and Co.? Have we established that the time is not always equivalent? I wonder if it can be significantly different. Gah! I want this show to stick around a while.