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Cop from the future walks Vancouver streets in Continuum

By Glen Schaefer, The Province March 16, 2012


Actor Stephen Lobo, munching a Caesar salad at a table in the downtown Subeez Cafe, waves at castmate Rachel Nichols as she comes into the café.

Nichols joins him at the table and the two talk for a couple of minutes as the flow of servers and customers continues around them, and sidewalk strollers pass by on the other side of the plate glass window.

A-and . . . cut.

Rewind to the beginning. The 10 café extras are back at their starting point, including the friendly waitress with the coffee refill, as are the 20 or so sidewalk passersby. A film or TV location is always intriguing for how they manage to replay a little loop of fictional time again and again, keeping the background flow the same, but tweaking little bits in the foreground.

In this case, the usual on-set time loop mirrors the fiction of the new Canadian sci-fi series Continuum, in which Nichols stars as a Vancouver cop from 60 years into the future who travels back in time in pursuit of a group of fugitive political terrorists who have also jumped back in time.

The future Vancouver is North America’s financial centre, in a world where corporations run things, governments are sidelined, and rising ocean levels have devastated the east coast.

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Checkout the teaser trailers here:
http://www.showcase.ca/video/continu...video/season+1