After the North Korean embassy in Washington is bombed, Parker backsteps to stop the terrorists. He stops them (at least, I think. I missed a few minutes there), but his ex-wife's fiancee, who was shopping for a wedding ring across the street, gets hit by a car and killed on his way to help Parker. Parker kind of loses it and quits the team, however, he is reinstated and allowed to backstep one more time to save his ex's fiancee and together, they stop the terrorists. Parker attends the wedding, and the episode has a happy ending after all. (Actually, this one's ending reminds me of last week's. Are they going to attend a different wedding every week?)


Some nice moments in this one! I particularly like the part where Parker calculates how much more time he will experience versus the usual, non-backstepper. He forgets the obvious, though, that he doesn't usually jump the full seven days.

-Matt

Also there are time like this one will he might make Several Backs steps and live the same Seven days over


I dont think this is a nit but this is the first time Don Franklin's character is mentioned as the Backup to Parker

If he makes several time loops within the same time period, then the nits from Episode 3 start kicking in (multiple objects at the same point in space-time). Temporal Logic Gives Me a Headache.

Unfortunately, I missed this episode (It was my bridge club's Club Championship)...

I know its Janeway's line from Voyager, but I hereby submit TLGMAH (Temporal Logic Gives Me a Headache) as an official acronym for the Seven Days section of this discussion board!

I'm glad to see this section on the site. I love this show so far. Jonathon seems perfect for this role (and it doesn't hurt that Justina is well, um...HOT) :) I'm an amateur when it comes to temporal mechanics,etc, but if Parker is always correcting the problems, thus erasing the reason for the backstep(ie, there is no explosion, thus on "day 7" no need to backstep)wouldn't it be true that the team has yet to actually perform a backstep. I know Parker has, but would they have? They refered to the advances in the program, but... My wife pointed out that the secretary(?) shouldn't keep being surprised when he tells her "Conundrum" but maybe that's the most accurate response. Parker's study of his advancing age was great. His brain is going to be fried: he has experienced so many things that only exist now in his mind; and he's getting nowhere w/ Olga(1 step forward, 2 steps back.) This show has lots of potential for story lines, but wait, it's the evil Kirk/good Kirk story next week:) Of course,(don't kill me Shatnerites) I think LaPaglia already shows more depth(interesting layers) than Shatner usually did and he apparently doesn't need a girdle:) That's why my wife loves the show! Are there any old Nowhere Man fans out there? I'm one and this show is kind of filling that gap for me. Hey, "Seven Days" followed by 7 of 9. Great combo!

Is there even such a thing as a Shatnerite? I gave up on him a long time ago. And speaknig of him and girdles, you might find thins line amusing. On an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dick is trying to improve his appearance and walks out of the bedroom wearing a girdle. Harry asks "What's it called?" Dick responds "A Shatner."

I miss 'Nowhere Man'. I think UPN needed to give it a second season, as they already had a theme... Instead of "Who are *they*?", it would have been "Who am *I*?".

I thought Bruce Greenwood did an excellent job on it...

Major series nit, though, and this kind of shows up on USA's "The Net", for a person without an identity, a heck of a lot of people knew who Tom Veil was...

Scott, introspection is where TV shows have
consistently feared to tread. It's dangerous and
controversisal, you see, and it's much safer to do
shoot-em-ups instead.
I have now, on the basis of this board, decided to
start watching Seven Days. I hope i made the right
decision, 'cause I have a dangerous tendency to
get hooked on sci-fi shows. Speaking of which, has
anyone besides me ever watched Max Headroom? That
was freaky. It reminded me a lot of 1984. (The
book, not the year.)

Scott, I agree with you about Nowhere Man even though it is off-topic. The Net is similar but not as good. For someone on the run, she seems pretty nonchalant about her situation unlike Bruce Greenwood in NM. Back to Seven Days, I like the show but hope they come up with some type of explanation to explain why so many disasters keep happening. Paker mentioned how much older he would be compared to the rest of the time due to the backsteps. I think he used 15 backsteps as an example and this number was brushed off as unlikely. However, given that a normal season is 20 to 25 episodes, he obviously will have that many disasters to fix. I hope the producers have thought this through and don't just refuse to acknowledge it.

Hey, Phil, how about a Kitchen Sink on Max Headroom and/or Nowhere Man?

OK, a possible nit:

How long a period of time passed between the first time Parker prevented the Diamond Exchange robbers from accidentally blowing themselves (and the tanker and thereby the embassy) to smithereens and the second time he backstepped to save his ex's fiancee? It seemed like it was more than a week, which would have meant he couldn't backstep far enough to save the guy, defeat the bank robbers and prevent the Second Korean War.

Yippee-ki-yay! No one else commented upon this particular episode's flaw. I have been recognized as being rather observant. Perhaps that is how I noticed this "nit-pick."
In the original time line Lt. Frank Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be endows his step-son with a wedding ring, during which time a bank robbery causes a gasoline tanker to detonate and thus incinerate Korean representatives. Afterwards, Lt. Frank Parker and Nate Ramsey visit Parker's ex-wife and her husband-to-be. Please remember what I have typed thus far. The second go around, Lt. Frank Parker is spotted by his ex-wife's husband-to-be. Because he followed Parker with his eyes, he noticed a bank robbery occurring and decided to traverse the street so as to rectify the situation. However, one of the accomplices runs Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be down and drives off. This incident caused the death of Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be. Keep in mind everything I have typed. Ultimately, he journeys into the past a second time and commandeers the gasoline tanker. Despite the fact that Lt. Frank Parker was not spotted by his ex-wife's husband-to-be and that this same husband-to-be lived beyond the explosion, Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be still traverses the street to rectify the situation. Oops, someone made a boo-boo.
P.S. It would be helpful to know the name of Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be.

My "nit-picks" are as numerically proceeds:
1) The couple in the park in Washington, D.C., who inquire of the sphere have a differently delivered reaction to Lt. Frank Parker's arrival and are standing rather than sitting the third go around.
2) Michael Clary (Lt. Frank Parker's ex-wife's husband-to-be, whose rank slips my mind) is running away from the approaching car the third go around. Detect a pattern yet?
3) Lt. Frank Parker apologizes, "I'm sorry for being a jerk last week," to Michael Clary. This statement is incorrect, considering it technically became two weeks ago after Lt. Frank Parker back-stepped a second time.