Kansas
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections:
Seven Days:
Season Three:
Kansas
The youth behind a reality tv show try to break into Never Never Land, while Olga goes to pick up her sister at the airport. Hooter tries some new software to smooth the ride in the Sphere in order to improve Donovan's scores so that he too can be a chrononaut. The power in the facility goes briefly down as Frank tests the sphere's new smooth ride. A power surge occurs and Frank stumbles out of the Sphere, but everything is different.
Donovan is a cruel admiral, who will do anything to becomne a chrononaut. Talmadge is a torturer; Olga is a resistance leader. The flag on the fall is black and gold and does not resemble the flag of the USA. Owsley is sharply dressed and respectful. One of the reporters from the original timeline is a resistance member who is tortured. Even the writing is literally backwards.
A stoned, nice Ramsey saves the prisoner, Osslet and Parker, but takes a fatal bullet. Olga's sister is in charge of the resistance. Frank manages to convince the resistance to get him back to the hanger so that the original accident can be re-created. He talks with Olga's sister in a heart-to-heart; his counterpart and her were lovers. Here, Olga died at 12 years old and her sister went on to become a scientist.
Owsley reveals he has always wanted to be part of the resistance. Little do they know that there is a tracking chip secretly implanted into Owsley; forces raid the resistance. Donovan shoots Owsley; he has handed the reporter/resistance girl a slip of paper. It has the codes to reactivate the Sphere which Owsley locked the military out of.
Svetlana is attacked by Donovan, but Owsley shoots him. The accident is re-created and Parker ends up exiting the Sphere in the hanger in the original timeline at the moment he was originally supposed to exit. Frank goes and reminds the reporters of the importance of freedom.
Parker almost kisses Olga as her sister asked him to do and Olga is confused. Parker and Donovan discuss, "There's no place like home," and the fact we sometimes forget what freedom is about.
By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Wednesday, March 28, 2001 - 6:58 pm: The ending was a little confusing. Olga should know that Parker did not have a chance to see Svetlana.
Interesting way to give Justina Vail as little screentime as possible given her walking out on production.
By Hardly Psychic on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 2:17 pm: nit: How did parker end up back at the exact time he started? He never actually backstepped (they cut power) so shouldn't he have ended up that many days (hours, whatever) forward? Or does this mean he couldn't get back at all (remember the other timeline was "erased")?
By Lee Jamilkowski (Ljamilkowski) on Thursday, March 29, 2001 - 5:23 pm: Yeah... it means that the time Parker spent in the alternate timeline occured in only the few seconds of the power surge in the Sphere in our timeline.