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There was an attempt to get a Continuum thread going in … um … I think it was What's On Tonight, but the air date disparity between the Canadian, UK, and US broadcasts really hampered the ability to discuss anything. I think it was a month-and-a-half's difference between the Canadian airing and the US airing, with the

Well, intent doesn't necessarily entail the successful deployment of such, LOL! The show had aspirations, but it really floundered on many fronts. It did well enough to sustain my interest on a regular basis, but it was also so full of disappointment in its execution.

Yes, the world building was really my only complaint with this show. I really enjoy the two leads, and I like the androids and many of the technological ideas this show broaches. However, if this show is passing itself off as sci-fi, it needs to get its science and technology sorted out, along with their perceived

A viable solution is to just create a mold of the laying victim, then print the duplicate within the horizontal supporting cast structure. Like you said, its processes don't have to be thoroughly explained, and I certainly don't need in-depth detail on the science behind it. I just need to not go, "Uhm, how is that

I get that, but if you look at how this show dispenses with its devices, the seeming value of anything is negligible. They keep paying lip service to how much everything costs, but apparently they have an endless supply of whatever the plot needs. In this episode, Rudy printed out a cupcake just for the sheer sake of

… we don't know how well it can fake food.

it might have set some kind of record for the least development of its central mystery

talking to people in shelters would have gotten them their man in like 3 victims maximum with 0 technological tricks

Okay, so, apparently the bio-printers are capable of printing … food. Does that mean they've cured world hunger? Not only can it print vegetation, it can also print meat (and cupcakes). This is Star Trek's replicator tech minus the swirling lights. It's almost as over-powered as the force field bubble!

Well, Helix hasn't yet reached the kind of craziness that makes me view it in the same vein as American Horror Story. I actually still view this show as possibly-good sci-fi, but I don't even know what it's trying to accomplish anymore. Is there immortality here? Are there extraterrestrials? Is this about

Well, as you said, there's too much we don't know yet. Conceivably, she might simply be convincing herself that she remembers going on trips to Montana, just to reconcile her memories of a cabin with how her childhood eventually played out. Maybe something similar to this funny vignette from This American Life on NPR:

Well, the idea is that the Helix base receives resupplies from Chile/New Zealand, and the supply runs coincide with vanishing children at whichever city does the exporting. Anana notices this pattern, stows away on one of the supply planes, and then rides the supply crates down with their parachutes. She walks up to

Yes, but if she was raised there for her entire 6 years, she probably had no concept of the real world. As far as she'd know, the world is a wood cabin under an oppressive fortress of metal and stone! I mean, they could tell her about trees and the outdoors and such, but, if she's never been outside, that would all

enjoy the Living Existential Joke that is Sarah

I could handwave that away, because unless baby Julia had some other point of comparison, she probably never realized there was anything unusual about her situation. I'm presuming that the cabin is not a replica of an actual place in Montana that Julia really lived in at some point. I'm curious how they managed to

The external community could have been substituted with a shoreline base camp filled with disaster relief personnel. Anana could still be a concerned sister looking for her brother, but maybe from Chile/New Zealand instead. The Chilean and New Zealand territorial claims in Antarctica are right next to the large

Sarah is the one character practically guaranteed to survive the season

Ugh, yes, I suppose I'm rehashing your earlier complaints. It's just that the show keeps bringing attention to its bizarre location by implementing things that just don't work in that region:

I'll admit to a bit of schadenfreude when she started babbling about that. I was like, "I hope that soon (within the next few seconds) it truly will be like you never even existed in this show." Alas, the production team seems intent on keeping this character alive.

I'm saying they could have handed off that plot point to Julia instead. At least Julia had motive for bungling that test. Sarah just came across as unreliable.