Happy New Year's Day, everyone.
More Canadian sci fi is coming to SyFy this month: Rachel Nichols will portray Protector Kiera Cameron from 2077 Vancouver, accidently sent back to 2012 Vancouver with a group of convicted terrorists (members of the anarchistic Liber8, led by Edouard Kagame, played by Stargate SG-1s Tony Amendola, of whom I'm a big fan) when these archcriminals escape their planned, fleeing into the past.
Protector Cameron, despite being her society's approximation of a cop, doesn't exactly protect and serve the folks. In 2077, national governments have collapsed into insolvency, and the Corporate Congress that has formed to replace them doesn't even pretend to be democratic or egalitarian. It seized power against the will of many, and fought a furious war to suppress all opposition (Cameron fought as a soldier in the CC Army in this war, so it must have ended very recently). Even nonviolent, vocal dissent has been outlawed.
Small wonder, then, that the freedom fighters/terrorists of Liber8 have justified their own mass killings, as necessary to destroy the power of the new, unelected leaders and restore individual freedom. Their escape into the past is meant to give them a chance to alter history, by preventing the authoritarian Corporate Congress from rising to power.
Doesn't this sound interesting? I've seen a trailer, and while I was a little disappointed in Nichols (she isn't hard to look at, but I'm not sure I buy her performance as a cop) the premise is good. What do you think?
