JOURNEYMAN-could it work as a comic book?

[ironmaidenrules]

Sadly the TV show "Journeyman" is cancelled

WHAT IF. remember this is WHAT IF, it was brought back as a comic(like Buffy and Angel and i think Firefly as well)

it wont be the first TV show or Movie that was continued in printed form.

perhaps Tv just wasn't the right medium for it.

Would you buy it?
How can we make this happen?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

The concept could work as a comic, but it's kind of been done already in comic form. The chemistry of the characters had a lot to do with the actors and their wonderful performances, too. I guess it would work as a comic, but I don't particularly want to see it in that form.

 

[RogueDK]

I think that it would do well in a comic book although I'd prefer that it wasn't as linear as the tv show.

 

[cerealkiller182]

I said No, because I didnt like the show even though I liked the show because i wanted to answer no and i can definitely read. Thats when i thought the question was "could it work?"

I dont think it could work because I thought it was mediocre writing with a relatable cast. I thought the potential was in the concept and the actors starring in it. This will get lost in thecomic i would think. Would it be a bad read? Prolly not,but i suspect it would be bad enought that I wouldnt buy it

 

[Aristotle]

What was it? I only watch a few American shows, mostly comedies that people recommend to me, because I don't have a TV, I just download. So I have no idea that this show even existed.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Journeyman was one of a slew of vaguely sci-fi TV shows that the major networks--NBC, in Journeyman's case--put out last fall to try and capitalize on the success of shows like Heroes and Lost. Journeyman was about a reporter named Dan who, for some unknown reason, suddenly started flashing back in time. He quickly realized that he had vaguely defined "missions," for lack of a better word, to complete in the past in order to get back to his own time.

The concept is not exactly new in sci fi TV, but the presentation was better than most. It was a very character-driven show, with Dan acting logically, unlike so many other reluctant heroes, and actually telling his wife that this freaky-ass thing just happened to him. She doesn't believe him until he finds a way to prove it at the end of the first episode. Even after she realizes it's true, his "traveling" (as the show calls it) puts a strain on their marriage and the raising of their son. Further elements from Dan's past complicate matters even more. Also, Dan starts trying to uncover the nature of his traveling after learning that he's not the only one capable of it. Meanwhile, Dan's brother, who's a cop, starts worrying that something's going on with Dan because of his frequent absences, weird questions and requests, and general flakiness and basically starts to investigate Dan. They, of course, butt heads because Dan's brother doesn't believe Dan when he comes out and explains things, and Dan and his brother have an already strained relationship that further complicates things.

Basically, the hook was interesting in a Quantum Leap-ish sort of way, but it took things way beyond QL and focused a lot more on the characters and the emotional, professional, and personal toll this kind of weird time-jumping would believably bring to a person's life.

 

[fifthfiend]

Much that I'm predisposed to like anything involving time-travel (or at least predisposed to like those things I am not predisposed to violently hate involving time travel) I couldn't get into Journeyman. I just found it boring and kind of depressing. I mean on the one hand it was a totally well-realized depiction of a couple's marriage falling apart in slow motion for fantastical and yet at the same time totally understandable reasons, yet at the same time I kind of just don't want to tune in every week to watch a couple's marriage falling apart for fantastical yet totally understandable reasons. And I dunno, his time-traveling mission thingers kind of failed to hold my interest. I think what did it there was the show's whole thing about how whatever he did was fated or predetermined or divinely guided or otherwise somehow controlled, which kind of took away any feeling of tension or consequence to whatever he might do.

At the same time it one of those things that I could see where another person might totally find it appealing and engaging, and I was kind of sad to see it go off the air as the more that kind of thing succeeds the more likely networks are to continue putting more of that kind of thing on TV.

...It occurs to me that t's kind of weird that the "fated role" thing turned me off so hard as that's such a big part of Battlestar Galactica but it strikes me that the difference is 1. BSG uses the fate angle for the broad strokes but doesn't seem to engage in quite the degree of mystical micromanagement to which Journeyman seemed prone and 2. you never actually really know for certain whether it's fate or if everyone is just totally bug**** space-fever insane.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Journeyman treated fate as a mystery, which I liked a lot. Dan could obviously feel some invisible hand guiding events in his travels, and it looked like he was just settling into his role as a time traveler enough to actually go and start solving the mystery of that hand when it got canceled. We already saw inklings of that with the (super-creepy) professor.