"Al" (Dean Stockwell) and reluctant time traveler "Sam" (Scott Bakula) from LeapCall me shallow but the main character Dan (Kevin McKidd) in Journeyman just isn't good-looking enough:
I hear he was good in HBO's "Rome" but I didn't watch that so I can only base it on this.
Journeyman is good--I've watched every ep so far but just not that good. My friend A-Max won't even watch the show because she thinks it's a rip-off of TTW which it is but I'll take what I can get until the real movie comes out in 2008 (no release date yet).
So just in case you're curious Dan is a newspaper man who suddenly begins time traveling--normally back to the 80's and 90's. His wife was suspicious at first but he proves to her that he is indeed time traveling and not cheating or gambling by burying a toolbox in the backyard with her wedding ring and a back dated newspaper inside (whatevs). We find out that his wife was actually his brother's girlfriend in the past and Dan was madly in love with a hottie named Livia who died in a plane crash. Turns out Dan now bumps into Livia in his time travels not just as 'past-Livia' but she too is a time traveler. In each ep Dan must figure out who he has to 'help' in order to get 'back to the future'. Livia has kind of become his 'mentor' in this. While each ep focuses on Dan's time travel assignment we are also unfolding his past and why he scammed on his own brother's gf. I think he got her preggers by accident but we'll see.
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Trust me, in his Roman soldier/Gladiator gear - this guy was hot! (and a little more believeable) He is kind of a bore as the SF reporter. Nice call on the accidental pregnancy, it would explain a lot b/c I don't see much chemistry there.
I'm still watching though...it will fill my time travelling void until next year
I'm actually a big fan of Journeyman, and it was comparison's to TTW that made me pick up the book in the first place. Of course, I loved the book even more than the show. But, while I did see comparisons, I don't see that many. Journeyman is more of a hybrid of so many other time travel shows.
I do, however, appreciate the wife's character more than any other on Journeyman. I can see how it would anger people that she is kind of borrowed from the book, but it was her sense of frustration and yet her coy way of keeping his secret that intrigued me most about the show. I think without her, the show would have fallen flat.
That being said, she is so not like Claire that I don't see any comparisons beyond that. Claire is utterly devoted to Henry b/c of their history. I envision the Journeyman duo splitting before the series ends, because they have so much baggage, especially regarding the brother and Livia.
Hopefully, as the show goes on, the stories will continue to diverge. However, if the show helps to make people aware of this wonderful book, as was the case with me, then it will always be a winner in my book...
I'm afraid, if not done well, the movie could have the opposite effect...
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