Continuum is one of my favorite shows and one of the best on TV. Continuum is a Canadian show, it also airs on the Syfy channel in America. This show is amazing. It has many stories, plots and ideas relevant to many social, political and even cultural events happening in the world today.
Liber8 is a terrorist organization. When Kiera comes to apprehend them. They bomb the Corporate Congress. One has to understand that in 2077 corporations run the world literally. The heads of the most powerful corporation are part of the Corporate Congress.
Liber8 are found guilty for their crimes. At their execution instead of their deaths they are sent back in time to the year 2012. This was not planned by the corporations.
In 2012 they recruit more members using the web, flyers and action as calls to arm. Liber8 idea is simple, they believe they can bring freedom from the rule of the Corporate Congress if they change the past. They will use killing, kidnapping, bombing, whatever it takes to ensure a new future.
Liber8 plan may have worked but unknown to them CPS Protector Kiera Cameron was also sent back with them.
When Kiera is sent back she instantly links up with Alec Sadler. In the future he runs one of the most powerful corporations in the world SadTech. But in 2012 he is only a teenager.
Unlike Liber8, Kiera wants the future to be the same as she left it so she can return to her family, to her son.
Here is the reasons I love this show. It is difficult to say who is the "good guy". The show follows Kiera but in truth I can't say she is the hero of the story. You see Liber8 uses tactic that are horrible but their cause is just. They are fighting to end slavery and corporate domination. The future is bright for those who do as they are told but for the poor and individuals it can be a horrible place. Kiera is CPS which are police in the future but CPS works for the corporations. To her the future is not so horrible or at least she lives in denial about it. She may even agree with Liber8 if they weren't placing the people she cares for in danger. As far as Kiera is concerned she will do anything to make certain the future stays the same even if that means condemning everyone to a future with no freedom.
Perhaps when she returns she would fight for that freedom but for now she will not allow Liber8 to change her future, her home.
An ongoing theme in this show is "who will own the future". Who gets to decide what the future will be? What right does any of them have to decide the fates of others?
Some much more is going on in the story I can't write it all, plus it would be spoilers. If you are not watching this show you should be.
Continuum has some cool technology.
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