So last season, in the vast well of confusion, Emily tried
to kill Evil Alec and was arrested. Good Alec did kill Evil Alec and now as the
sole remaining Alec he is dropping all charges against Emily.
That paragraph pretty much sums up how confusing Continuum has become.
Carlos would like some quid pro quo for this dropping the
charges, but it involves Alec approving something with his company – only Kellog
kind of stole the company last season.
Kiera and time-travelling-alternate-future-guy Brad uses
his beacon to check if his future still exists. And from that Beacon futuristitc
super-sioldiers appear and chase them. Oops, backfire. Brad tries to distract
them but one still goes on to hunt Kiera while she tries to use her invisibility/armour
suit to escape. They have better guns but I think her suit may be better. She’s
eventually knocked out. Thankfully future people use weapons that destroy walls
but don’t leave any marks on people
She wakes up… in 2080, in her own time, apparently after
a 3 year coma after the whole execution chamber bomb (when
she first went back into the past in season 1). Apparently her CMR kicked
in and decided to create a fun little happy story while she was unconscious. Continuum I’m not buying this because
the whole “it was all a dream” storyline has long since been an excuse for
justifiable homicide for some time now.
So Kiera is reunited with her child for lots of
tearfulness (and the kid is bizarrely mature). And in comes old Alec praising her for
changing the future – and then she wakes up in the 21st century
again with Carlos and Young Alec. Ok so the random aside was a way to fill in
minutes.
Alec takes Kiera home – or to the home that Corporate
Evil Alec bought anyway which is now his. Hey he gets all the fancy loot
without any of the guilt! Kiera has a new goal though – she has stopped Good
Alec creating an evil Dystopian future (which is what future Alec was worried
about) and has stopped Liber8 doing whatever naughty shenanigans they were
planning on (actually, I think their naughty shenanigans was stopping Alec
creating an evil dystopian future too – only they used more bombs to do it). So
job’s done- she can now go back home (her non-dystopian and possibly
non-existent future where she might not even exist) and see her family (who
also may not exist or be her future). And she needs Alec to make that happen.
We’re assuming she’s filed time-travelling
storm-trooper-space-marines under “irrelevant minor detail.”
The next day she comes down to find Alex, Emily, Alec’s son
Jason (who is older because Time Travel) and ex-Liber8 Lucas (who is on side
for reasons I don’t even remember any more and he may even have died a couple
of times because this show is confusing) plotting to get the company back off
Kellogg. He’s also doing this for Kiera because he cannot possibly get her back
to the future without all of his technology back in hands.
At said company, Kellogg meets with Curtis (who works for
the strange time-travelling quasi-religious sect under some guy called the
Traveller because the writers felt that 10 quintillion storylines and faction
just weren’t enough) who wants to ally with Kellogg. He also warns Kellogg that
his soldiers from the future (Kellogg is the future warlord who leads Brad’s
space marines in another grim future) and Curtis can help him manipulate them.
Kellogg decides he’s going to wait on that one – Curtis pulls out 8 levels of
ominous cryptic warnings in response.
At the police station Carlos is still having to deal with
his boss-lady who he doesn’t like much. But he wants Dillon back who,
considering the shit he pulled last season, is not something I can agree on. He’s
also hella pissed with Kiera for the difficulty her running around with Liber8
has caused him. She assures him everything will be fine now in a sense that implies
she’s about to jump off a building which makes Carlos somewhat concerned. Kiera
explains that Brad’s dark future is still on and he and his storm troopers are
now running
She’s now directing Carlos at Kellogg – who, because he now controls Alec’s company pretty much controls the police force. Carlos is kind of limited – now if Kiera does her rule breaking thing, she can bring in evidence with which she can arrest Kellogg.
Alec goes to a café to speak to sorta-brother Julian and
his followers. He feels out how much Julian knows and tries to recruit him to
help him into Pyron and cause more shenanigans.
While Lucas contacts Jasmine – who still doesn’t trust Kiera. He warns her that Kellogg is the new source of chaos and badness and there’s something else happening in the future involving Kellogg – and they can’t rely on Kiera because she’s too invested in Brad.
So, time for the plan – with Carlos and Kiera gate
crashing Kellogg’s party. They try to check what Kellogg knows about anything
and he stonewalls constantly. No surprises there. But while they’re doing this,
Lucas, Alec, Julian and others do some naughty hacking which shuts down poor
Kellogg’s computers. Kellogg pouts mightily. Carlos and Kiera claim all the
smug. But Carlos does tell Kiera that she kinda sorta needs to speak to Brad
about the Storm Troopers.
Kellogg calls Alec and tantrums, firing Julian and then
declaring war.
Which leaves Alec with a lot less resources connecting to
Kiera, a nice flashback to season 1. He also tells Kiera how he mightily screwed
over Kellogg with his hack, which Kiera didn’t know about beforehand (really,
her plan was for her and Carlos just to attend a party?). Kiera is worried that
this war will not help – but all the data that Alec stole is to help get her
home and Kellogg is going to be so defensive he won’t even know what the real
plan is. She also wants his help to find Brad. To rescue him – not to try and
stop his storm troops who shot her. His plan to find them is overheard by
Lucas.
The space marines have found a base with Brad and their
leader, Marcellus, greats him as an old friend (don’t mind the random shooting,
that’s how we say hello in the future). He introduces the whole team and tells
them they’ve come back in time because everything became even more terribad
awful in the future. They’d also quite like why Brad didn’t kill Kiera long
with all the other time travellers as he was supposed to.
The storm troopers are pulling their suits apart to build
something else – which they won’t tell Brad about because he’s no longer on the
trust worthy list. Though there is some debate about this – whether to kick him
out or tell him all.
Kiera goes scouting around looking for Brad and runs into
Jasmine – who isn’t happy about Kiera soloing the whole Brad & storm troopers
thing. When Kiera finds them, Jasmine insists on coming with her, giving her a
little time first. She calls Carlos and has him ready because relying on
Jasmine isn’t ideal.
Kiera sneaks in invisibly and transfers lots of info to
Alex and Jason about the superior technology and items. Kiera overhears that Brad
has at least convinced Marcellus he’s part of the team and is safe. She doesn’t
leave fast enough before her tech is overwhelmed by the much more fancy tech
the soldiers have and we have a firefight.
She flees to the roof and is shot… again leaving no marks with weapons that break down doors. She is captured and held over the edge of the building to answer questions. She plays the police angle and to warn them about Kellogg while at the same time telling them that Brad is totally their enemy. They decide to kill her by dropping her off a building
Apparently her going invisible and having an armoured super-suit didn’t clue them in that he has technology to survive the fall. Which she does. Garza provides covering fire and she and Kiera flee.
Meanwhile Emily is kidnapped. Just. Whoever these goons
are they didn’t seem to know that she’s an amazingly skilled martial artist who
does not kidnap easily.
Kiera brings Carlos up to speed and he despairs while
Kiera is still sure that Brad will come through – and she’s still having lots
of insecurities about her future and seeing her kid again.
And Curtis meets with Jasmine – he doesn’t want Kellogg
to become more powerful so is willing to manipulate Liber8 to do it. As per
usual we have no idea which side Curtis and the Traveller are on.
Kellogg gets a mysterious delivery – an item with a
holographic message inside.
I can understand Kiera’s urge to go home, especially
after seeing her hallucination child. But she needs to think this through more,
or we need to see her thinking this through more. We need to see more of her considering
whether she even has a future to return to, let alone what that future looks
like. And ignoring Kellogg & Brad’s dystopia is beyond short sighted
considering, if it happens in Kellogg’s life time, it’s likely to be something
she will one day have to live through (and her son certainly will). Now, her
considering all of that and declaring “no, I’m done. I’ve done enough, it’s
someone else’s turn to pick up this baton” is an acceptable answer I could
respect. But only if she has considered that and isn’t just pretending it isn’t
going to happen.
I forgot how utterly confusing Continuum became – so many factions. So many different storylines
and groups. And, honestly, I don’t mind because I can kind of keep them all in
order – it is working and I even kind of like how many people are involved and
how you can never really know what anyone’s motives are because there are so
many sides. I do like some complexity, even if I do feel like I’m getting lost,
and I like that it isn’t as simple as a good vs evil battle or just two
factions – because life is never that neat. I do wonder though, with this being
the last season, how Continuum can
possibly wrap all of these up in a satisfactory manner?
