This Friday on Journeyman ep11 : Home by Another Way

Nice follow up episode to last weeks, though not near as good. Jack's girlfriend returns to the show with a vengeance with apparent plans to stick around for a while. We get a nice look into Livia's life in the 40's, very nice. How hard would it be to go back to the 40's after having lived in the 80's for so long. I would think it would be really difficult knowing what modern conveniences were on the way. I like the show much better now that everyone is on board in Dan's family, it makes for a much more cohesive team work atmosphere. So Dan get's to go back and save the paper with the added bonus of getting to chat his dad up and talk him into telling the boys why he left.......One thing though, Dan doesn't learn very well, right after he screwed around with Bennett and gets shot, the very next chance he gets, he starts trying to mess around with the time line again. Not too bright.

One thing I got to thinking about was Livia, she is from the past, is it possible that Dan can run into say 75 year old Livia? As a matter of fact can Livia run into a 70 year old Livia. i'm not sure how the time travel works for her since she is going from past to future not the other way around......
All in all good episode I give it 7 pink slips on the JM scale.

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Gosh, that Livia's 1948 apartment brought me some weird childhood memories, except for the Life magazine. Hey, maybe I'm a time traveler too. It would be nice after living in the future, going back to type writers and the wonders of 1940s medicine.

Cut to a scene in the “future” with iPods, flat screen TVs and and smart phones. But would the future seem so appealing if the 1948 scene had been with a heart-warming family in a big house with fireplace and piano, while the 2007 one had been with a loner in a shabby apartment in the projects?

“Two weeks pay for every year in the paper, and three months health coverage.” No way! Here a veteran reporter like Dan would come out with a small fortune instead. He'd almost wish to be fired.

Dan “Big night for my father... Because tomorrow he's gonna leave my family.” Cut to credits. Come on, what a weak teaser. Unless we'd seen Dan could change that, which we know he won't.

I loved Nancy Stokes's 1979 hairdo. I was studying high school in the US at the time, and all the girls had that same hair style.

Why won't Katie burn that goddamned apron already? Every time she looks at it she has a dramatic moment and a flashback.

All in all, as it's been mentioned on this forum already, it's nice to see Jack on board with the time-traveling supporting team.

Ha, ha, if I'd met my father when he was in his 30s he would spot me at once. Only in fiction older characters look completely different.

And oh, come on! Similar to the issue raised about adult Aeden recognizing Dan after having met him as a child, if I'd met someone in 1979 as an adult and then again in 2007, like Dennis did, I'd certainly remember them. How come Dennis Ambacher, when seeing Dan for the first time, didn't say, “Dan Carson, UPI?” Oh, wait, when they first met, Dan still hadn't traveled back in time and met Dennis. But after Dan did that and came back to 2007, he came to a new reality in which Dennis had met him in '79 and '07, and possibly before that. The whole time line was supposed to have been screwed by that. But Dennis didn't recognize Dan even when Dan confronted Dennis and blackmailed him in his office in '07. And my head hurts!

Dan: “Do you wanna know something? I just saved the newspaper.” In the end, Dan saves his job and that of 50 other people... And the newspaper goes bankrupt. You know, often when companies fire people, it's not because the owners like to fire people. Sometimes it's necessary. And the way Dan keeps stringing Hugh along with fake news stories like that of Dylan McCleen, I can't really blame Dennis. But because of Dan old Dennis Ambacher couldn't fire anyone and had to get his kicks out of torturing kittens and puppies, and humiliating his house servants.

The final caroling scene. So Jack had left to deal with his unexpected parenthood issues. Dan was away saving his job. Katie was in her room having a meltdown. It was funny how the writers managed to fill the house with meaningless extras who only made noise, filled up the place, but didn't exchange a word with anybody, so Dan and Jack's mother would feel Katie's absence “in the crowd.” Where did all those people come from? Why else would they fill their house with so many unknown people?

The episode had several solid dramatic moments between Katie and Dan's mom, Jack and Theresa, Dan and his father Frank, Dan and Livia and what's-his-name 1948 dude, Dan and Katie. It was a better than average Christmas episode. The episode was fine, really, but nothing compared to what's possibly ahead in the show. Christmas episodes are usually sappy and slow. For instance I always cringe at the season's episodes of shows like Eureka or Warehouse 13. So in general I don't like Christmas episodes. This time it wasn't bad at all, but it wasn't fantastic either. I'm glad we're past that and on the way to better things.

I give this episode 6 Christmas caroler extras.

Well, it's weird to see Livia get engaged in the 1940s. Before I learned she was from the past, I had sort of thought she was from the future. Still, seeing Dan pick up her locket and see the picture of her beau, should have been as dramatic a moment as when Livia learned he had married Katie, or when Katie found out he was working with Livia during his time bounces.

I'm also surprised that she was able to afford such a nice place. Considering what a working woman made at that time in American history, especially one of Asian ancestry right after World War II with all the anti-Japanese sentiment at the time... I do like how her taste in formal wear fits in to nice occasions in the 1970s the same as in the 1940s.

Odd that this "mission" seemed more about fixing Dan's own present than anything in the past. I guess he is compensated in some cosmic sense for his involuntary service.

Katie should see someone from some sort of victim's services. She really needs to work out her post traumatic stress from last week's episode. At least they were able to keep the child out of it.

Since we're still doing the "Mark Day style" ratings systems, I'll give this one six timeless formal dresses.

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I'd've gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids.

This Friday on Journeyman ep11 : Home by Another Way

Solid episode this week just as good as last week maybe not as action packed. But the story made up for the lack of action. Jack’s going to be a Daddy too bad there won’t be a second season so we can see the baby. Theresa going through the family meds that was kind of strange I think she was really planning to take some of them for her own use. Dan saved his job for another year what a snake that guy was to let his Father die on the floor. Who could do that? I wonder what it would be like to meet your own Father when you both close to the same age. Glad Dan was able to influence his Father to do the right thing and to at least tell Jack and Dan why he was running off. Dan and Jack’s mother I thought might be a little evil at the beginning when she brought up Katie’s relationship with Jack. But she came through in the end for Katie. Glad to see Livia is going to be married she needs a man in her own time. Since Dan can be her time traveling squeezes.

Going to miss this show it was really a good one and deserved a few more episodes.

Don’t worry Stone I will remember the Guys name I actually watched one of his pilots that never went to air on youtube. The guy just had a big ego if I remember correctly.

MadP you will be great as our moderator on our future journeys through the land of TV. We used to focus on bad show but the last few have been awesome.

Agent Stone the writers name was "sanwords" I believe he wrote a couple of episodes for season two.

Have you noticed Dan hasn't time-traveled barefoot, with no pants, etc anymore? And am I mistaken of has he been driving a lot lately? And not because he grew smarter and came up with some clever solution for this kind of problem. The writers simply seem to have given him a break and dropped the whole "time-traveling under very inconvenient circumstances" storyline.