From Bill Harris of Postmedia Network:
Link: Eric McCormack says ‘Travelers’ isn’t your typical sci-fi or time-travel show
Spaceships? Naw. Aliens? Nope.
Eric McCormack wants you to understand that his new series Travelers is grounded, despite the accurate science-fiction tag.
“I’m getting a lot from people who are kind of saying, ‘Oh, sci-fi, and oh, there already are all these time-travel shows,’ †McCormack said. “And I say, ‘It’s not like that.'” Continue reading.
From Kelly Townsend of The TV Junkies:
Travelers creator and star on the concept behind the Canadian series
Is who you present yourself as on Twitter and Facebook really who you are? That’s just one of the big themes surrounding Showcase’s new series Travelers. Continue reading.
I intend on giving this a 2-episode try but this article made me less excited than I was. I’d rather the show be fullon with its scifiness.
Remember Continuum ? It ‘happened’ in Canada.
Remember Stargate Atlantis where David Hewlett played Rodney McKay, a Canadian genius scientist with a big Canadian flag on his shoulder all the time, and he basically saved all the dumb American characters all the time ?
FBI Travelers don’t do it for me.
Just another Canadian show pretending to be American. I’m sick of this culturally degrading practice, going to give this one a pass. Let me know when you actually want to tell a Canadian story Showcase.