Note: Full spoilers for 12 Monkeys: Season 1 follow.
It seems like a long time ago that the big question about 12 Monkeys was how it was going to stack up against the 1995 film. Syfy's 12 Monkeys has quickly forged its own identity, that identity being one of the most promising Sci-Fi shows in years. This is especially welcome from Syfy, a network that has lately been better known for campy originals like Sharknado, rather than genre-defining series like Battlestar Galactica.
The premise of the show sounds simple enough. A terrible plague has wiped out most of the Earth's population but there's a time machine, so someone can be sent back to stop the plague and make everything right. That person is James Cole, an antihero who goes along with the plan because he's done a lot of bad things to survive the post apocalypse and would just like it all to go away. Cole is really part animal when he joins the time travel project, and is so determined to erase himself there's really no attempt to develop his character. That made scruffy Aaron Stanford (X2, The Hills Have Eyes) the perfect choice for the role. Those of us who watched Nikita know him as an actor who can make you love a guy that's hard to like.
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It seems like a long time ago that the big question about 12 Monkeys was how it was going to stack up against the 1995 film. Syfy's 12 Monkeys has quickly forged its own identity, that identity being one of the most promising Sci-Fi shows in years. This is especially welcome from Syfy, a network that has lately been better known for campy originals like Sharknado, rather than genre-defining series like Battlestar Galactica.
The premise of the show sounds simple enough. A terrible plague has wiped out most of the Earth's population but there's a time machine, so someone can be sent back to stop the plague and make everything right. That person is James Cole, an antihero who goes along with the plan because he's done a lot of bad things to survive the post apocalypse and would just like it all to go away. Cole is really part animal when he joins the time travel project, and is so determined to erase himself there's really no attempt to develop his character. That made scruffy Aaron Stanford (X2, The Hills Have Eyes) the perfect choice for the role. Those of us who watched Nikita know him as an actor who can make you love a guy that's hard to like.
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