This Friday on Journeyman ep8 : Winterland

Episode 8, Winterfell? This time Dan travels in time and ends up in Westeros...

OK, another good episode. It seems the couple of clunkers were flukes. The series seems to be hitting stride. If this keeps up, I'll agree that it certainly was a shame that it got the premature ax.

The celebrity inspiration of the week was Patty Hearst, but they did a nice job of it, so I won't complain.

Favorite line: "Is this as good as Blue Nun?" Remember this episode. Any time anyone starts waxing nostalgic about the '70s, trot it out. Watergate, polyester liesure suits, hippies babbling about the power of crystals and free love, the AMC Gremlin and lousy wine. Throw in disco and gas rationing and you've got the whole decade.

Terrific revelation about Livia, which I won't mention until we've all had a chance to watch the episode. I did not see that coming at all. Clears up some dangling threads so we can move on, and that's good too. But now, it also opens up some questions, with spoilers, so I'll put them at the end.

Katie must have pulled off a shell game with the cash, and I'd really like to know how she did it. Maybe next week. The $20 bill bit appears to be getting Jack going down perhaps the real road. It'll be interesting to see where that leads.

The "I must be getting old" moment happened when Dan mentioned how cool it was to see Nixon's "I'm not a crook" speech live. Trouble is, I really did see it live. But it was the real '70s, not the TV version with a bunch of gorgeous babes and well-dressed guys in a nice house sipping wine. I was in a cinder-block dorm, tossing down beers with a bunch of scruffy guys. Come to think of it, some of my friends didn't look a whole lot different from Abby and her group.

----- Here followeth the spoilers -----

So far, Dan has traveled only into the past. It appeared to be the same limitation as on Quantum Leap: only to the past and only within his lifetime. But Livia is traveling forward. Are there different rules for different travelers? Or will Dan start going forward? And if the purpose of all of this is to correct the past and set things right, then what's the point of going forward?

Well, well, isn't that interesting? Fringe's Walter Bishop is not on a brilliant physicist and master in several other sciences, but also a wine connoisseur... Who would've guessed? But then it could be the Walter from an alternate universe, Journeyman's universe. (For you, non-nerds, that's a reference to John Noble's participation as the wine guy in the first scene, the reporter that gets fired.)

So, Dan mysteriously appears in a party where everybody's dressed like in the 1970s. Wouldn't it be cool if at least once Dan appeared in a place like that and someone told him, “Hey, Dan why didn't aren't wearing a costume for our 70s-themed party?” I mean, isn't that interesting that when time travelers arrive at a place at a different time, people are wearing the clothes of that time period, the cars are from that time, the music is the latest hit... Come on, he could appear in a medieval fair or something, just for it to be confusing.

Dan (a few moments after arriving at the 1970s key party): “I'm late for dinner with my wife.” But Dan forgets time is relative. He could get back to 2007 several days later, and then he would have a reason to worry. He could get back at the same second he left. He could get back before he left, meet himself, and since he didn't before, that would cause a time-ending paradox that would implode the universe!

“This is as good as Blue Nun?” I don't remember Blue Nun, in fact just learned about it in dtmuller's comment, but I remember that “gag wine from the future.” It's funny every time I hear.

Key party: it's the second show in a row where that is mentioned. In Pushing Daisies, in the “Robbing Hood” episode, Ned doesn't know what it is. Emerson and Chuck explain it to him, but not in so many words, and he says he gets it. Later in the episode he finally gets it and admits still he hadn't understood what that was.

By the way he looked, Professor Langley definitely knows more than he admits. Cool! Time-traveling tachyons, quartz... What's the deal with this guy anyway?

When I was a kid I remember my mother commented Tony and Doug never appeared at a calm beach. (We used to watch The Time Tunnel as it was prime-time entertainment.) Well, Dan Vasser did!

Acute case of wrong casting: Abby 2007 looks nothing like Abby 1970s.

The whole redeeming Abby case is what called my attention the least. I hardly care about those sob stories anymore. I'm more interested in Professor Langley's quartz tachyons, Garrity's investigation of the $20 bill, Jack finding out the truth about his brother and the truth about Livia. And we all had interesting developments in the latter areas.

So the truth about Livia is out. Good. I was holding myself not to tell anything! Phew! Now I can breathe. Now, there's just another thing... Never mind!

Fun facts I learned with Journeyman:
* Time traveling possibly ruins wine.
* Americans didn't care about important political events in the 1970s. (Who would've guessed?)
* Creepy dude in a pickup truck or pot-smoking hippies? Sofia's choice.

Quite good episode, almost as good as last week's. I give it 8 pot joints.

Episode 8 Winterland

This one was a trip down memory lane for me growing up in the seventies. I think they were a little over the top on the Hippies but that’s O.K. I’m not a crook who could forget that speech. Jack seems to have figured it out that Dan is really a time traveler he’s connected all the dots. Can’t figure the X-Files FBI man out my feeling he not worried about the money but maybe he suspect Dan is a time traveler too. Did Dan mention at the end that the more missions he does the longer he will have to stay in the location he travels to? I didn’t understand what he was telling his wife at the end. I know someone will fill me in on what I missed. Who next we’ve covered DB Cooper, and now Patty Hearst will Dan next assignment prevent the Sharron Tate murders. So Olivia can only go to the future and Dan to the past what a tangled web our writer are writing. Dr Langley needs to sit down and explain what’s going on to me I can’t keep up.

Darn I like this show I feel like I missing a lot of good prime time T.V. I just never watch anything on the networks anymore. Something about the twenty minutes of commercial I have to wade through. Why can’t it be like in the past when there were fewer commercials?

I really like my Boxee Box from DLink. If they
only had a Hulu hack I would have it made.

Wow with out a doubt the best episode yet for me. Livia from the past but only travels forward, Dan from the future but only only travels past, very interesting indeed. Dr. Langly is definitely my favorite character. I love the dialogue between him and Dan. I could watch a whole episode based on that.
The stories in the present are becoming very interesting and are now starting to hold my attention quite well. As some have already mentioned it seems Jack is finally starting to put it all together and has now disposed of the incriminating 20. Way to go Jack.

The Livia thing has now become very interesting. She told Dan that she showed up in the late 80's and just stayed for a long time and had to fend for herself. I believe her whole job was to somehow keep an Eye on Dan and in someway or another get him ready for what is going on even if he had no idea. It may have been as simple as not letting him do stupid things. I believe this prove interesting if we get a chance to see it.

Yes as some have already mentioned. I too lived through the Nixon speech live. Someone made a comment about what a surprise Americans taking no interest in politics. It was much to the contrary. Everyone I knew was glued to the tv, this speech concluded a long episode of very heated politics (remember the Saturday night massacre)My parents had a huge sign over their bed that read Impeach the Pres. You never know it's history when it's happening....lol.

All in all my Favorite episode. I'll give this one 9 dirty hippies and a wife swap.......

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Really late to this one, almost didn't make it, but VERY glad I did.

By far the best episode so far, had the previous episodes been of this caliber I believe the series would have had much longer legs.

Dan is not the brightest bulb, and he demonstrates it every single week, this week in the opening scenes, to establish it.

His brother got that one wrong too. GOOD! His brother is out there somewhere in his own world, psychologically seeking revenge or somehow even the score.

This was the character definition episode; we got behind the facade of Dan's brother, Olivia, Dan and his wife too. There are parts of these characters we haven't seen before, and were broadsided with.

The storyline moved right along, FBI, Time Travelers, Swingers, Hippies, Murderers and a puke colored Gremlin thrown in for good measure. Great stuff. Did not see the Olivia revelation coming, and there were so many tangents thrown in this one that I thought for a while that maybe Dan was there to straighten out the timeline for the guy in the pickup truck.

I'm going to go ahead and pronounce this one 10 out of 10. It will take some quality programming to surpass this episode. I am hoping that I get to use my new improved Journeyman meter, it's better, it "goes to 11."

I will likely be absent or do a quick drive by for the next few; I'm going to be out in the field for about a month in a number of god forsaken spots, if I have time I'll try and do a capture of the next few before I leave.

"if it was any good they'd have made an American version by now." Hank Hill