Journeyman-Season 1/Story 1--Pilot - A Love of a Lifetime 9/2007

[Truth Seeker]

Writer: Kevin Falls

Director: Alex Graves

Star: Reed Diamond (Jack Vasser), Moon Bloodgood (Livia Beale), Kevin McKidd (Dan Vasser), Gretchen Egolf (Katie Vasser), Brian Howe (Hugh Skillen), Charlie Wyson (Zack Vasser)

Guest Star: Monique Curnen (Nicole Gaines), Athena Galvin (Tourist), Max Lee (Max), Goldie Chan (Passerby), Ricky Dominguez (Patron), Michael F. Grant (Guy in Thriller Jacket), Christopher Warren (Neal Gaines), Jessica Anderson (Sexy Vixen), Nate Bynum (Bus Driver), Jeff Redlick (Dock Worker), Betsy Rue (Actress), Big Spence (Trevor's Body Guard)

Dan Vassar is having a bad day, returning home he finds someone else living in his house who informs him that it is 1987. When he finally makes it home his wife wants to know where he has been for the past two days.​

 

[Pyrex]

I watched the first ep via Amazon and I'm definately going to tune in for the second episode.

It's got a bit of a Quantum Leap vibe going (not necessarily a bad thing), but since he comes back to the present fairly often Al has been replaced with Google. (Well, not actually google, but some amazingly accurate search engine anyway).

 

[DonTadow]

I'm turned off. If you're going to have a character travel in the path, try to go for some authenticity. He travels to 1997 and people are carrying and talking on modern cell phones. Not too many people are using cell phones in 1997 and there definately weren't any short pretty ones. Most people are still carrying pagers. I worked for a major newspaper and we all had pagers until 2000 and we were the tech savvy industry.

 

[Remus Lupin]

I had a cellphone in 1997. It wasn't short and pretty, but I had a friend with a short, pretty one.

As for the show, I liked it, but I think it suffers in comparison to Heros and Chuck (which, by the way, I LOVED!).

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I really enjoyed this one...which surprised me.

The Quatum Leap vibe is definitely there, and its a great thing. Going to keep watching this one.

 

[Jamdin]

I enjoyed the show for the most part. I was a little confused about the wife and girlfriend situation until the end. I did love what he did at the end to prove to his wife he was telling the truth.

 

[trancejeremy]

I don't think it's really fair to compare it to Quantum Leap. That show didn't really pioneer that 'vibe', both the Time Tunnel and the short lived Voyagers had very similar premises. In TT, they talked back to the people in the control booth, and Voyagers they had to fix things going wrong in history.

 

[Brown Jenkin]

I spent the first half going Meh. It did pick up in the second half but was still too Quantum Leap for me. I will likely watch a couple more episodes because there was one thing that intrigued me, which was his ex-girlfriend doing the same thing and knowing what was going on. I am curious why. If however they choose not to answer that fairly soon and it spends its time being Quantum Leap I will likely give up.

 

[Pyrex]

I don't think it's really fair to compare it to Quantum Leap. That show didn't really pioneer that 'vibe'...

I certainly won't argue that they did it *first*, but I'd be inclined to argue that Quantum Leap did it best/most successfully.

 

[DonTadow]

I certainly won't argue that they did it *first*, but I'd be inclined to argue that Quantum Leap did it best/most successfully.

If judging on ratins and longivity of time travel shows (no dr. who) I"d say it was the most successful. Once igot past my cell phone issue, i still didn't get the "charisma" from the characters i wanted. Hopefuly it will show next week.