Adam Lenhardt
Senior HTF Member
Season two appears to be a 180 degree turn from the nearly monochromatic color palette of the first season, with a lush, Wicker Man-esque palette of greens and yellows and browns. Likewise the show is trading its remote arctic base setting for a remote tropical island setting.
After a pretty epic time jump from Day 13 to Day 235 in the first season finale, and an apparent abandonment of the CDC outbreak investigation hook in favor of a deeper exploration of the Ilaria conspiracy, I was a little disappointed to see what appeared at first glance to be a reset back to the easily marketable initial premise.
However Syfy's official synopsis for the second season premiere hints at an intriguing structural development:
January 16, 2015 10:00 PM
SAN JOSE
15 months after the events at Arctic Biosystems, new CDC team with the addition of biotoxicologist Kyle Sommer respond to a potential outbreak on a Windjammer in the Northern Pacific. Their search leads them to an island occupied by a mysterious cult led by the charismatic Michael. Meanwhile, 40 years in the future, Walker arrives at the same island searching for Alan Farragut.
SAN JOSE
15 months after the events at Arctic Biosystems, new CDC team with the addition of biotoxicologist Kyle Sommer respond to a potential outbreak on a Windjammer in the Northern Pacific. Their search leads them to an island occupied by a mysterious cult led by the charismatic Michael. Meanwhile, 40 years in the future, Walker arrives at the same island searching for Alan Farragut.
So it sounds like:
The show is going to be really delving into the implications of immortality after all, with the plot jumping between the A story with the team set at some point between Day 13 and Day 235 and the B story with the immortal Julia in the same place trying to decipher what happened from the vantage point of Day 14610 or so.
Either way, I guess I'm hooked for another run.