Three Hours Gone
I knew that I would devote an hour of my time on Monday nights for Heroes. While the opening episode of Season 2 seemed to be trying to introduce too much too soon, I still enjoyed it. But it was a pleasant surprise to have enjoyed Chuck and Journeyman. That’s three hours gone from Monday nights.
Chuck is about a typical geek dude who receives an email from a rogue CIA operative who he used to go to college with. Upon opening the email, he’s bombarded with visual information, which is basically all the CIA secrets. He’s become a hot commodity to the government’s intelligence agencies. As such, he’s protected by a hot, and experienced, field agent (who kinda looks like Elisha Cuthbert, but isn’t) and by a present day Jayne. Personally, this show is much better than Jake 2.0, which is sort of thematically similar.
Journeyman is about a man who is transported back in time, a la Quantum Leap, but in segments. During the amount of time he’s in the past, he can influence events and people see him as he is. So if he meets someone he knows, they will recognize him. Even though he’s married and has a son, it seems he hasn’t quite gotten past his first love, who was lost in a plane crash. However, it’s come to light that his first love didn’t die in the crash and is also able to go back in time. The way she behaves, it seems she has control over her ability to travel in time, whereas for the main character, he can’t control it. How and why they’re able to travel in time is unexplained and will probably be revealed in later episodes.
Both Chuck and Journeyman show a lot of promise and I could easily see losing three hours every Monday.
