Journeyman vs Goodnight Sweetheart

Journeyman is a pretty good show, as far as it goes, but not really a great show. Goodnight Sweetheart, a British time travel comedy, is a great show, at least for the first season. Gary Sparrow, our hero in Goodnight Sweetheart, time travels back to London during the Blitz. He and his mate instantly realize what this means-they can get stinking, bloody rich!Our hero in Journeyman, well, he’s a total patsy so far. He doesn’t want to get rich, he wants to be a hero. Even when another time traveler tells him he has to have current era money and…

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NBC’s Journeyman Time Travel in Frisco

I like Sci Fi, and to a lessor degree I like SF or Science Fiction. What is Science Fiction? Is NBC’s Journeyman science fiction? Science Fiction is a story where Science plays a major role in the story and there would be no story if you removed that scientific element. The Matrix, for example, would not work if you removed the computer complex known as The Matrix. Sci Fi however, is a more subtle beast. Sci Fi is dragons flying around New York City for no logical reason, sci fi is a fifty foot marshmallow man stepping on a church,…

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