“His name is Darien Lambert. And this is his story.” That might have been cooler if it had BEEN about him. ‘Time Trax’ was that show that you watched when nothing else was on; LITERALLY (well, except maybe infomercials by Billy Mays, R.I.P.). Anyways, this cheesy time-traveling nonsense was one of the last to come from Harve Bennett’s legacy of television. Now, I love time travel. Most sci-fi fans do. It can be either really fun, or really depressing and confusing. From that, criminals pay a scientist to be sent back into the past (1993, when the show begins) to escape incarceration and the authorities send a fugitive retrieval officer back to get them. It might have made more sense to me if they did it for each instance, instead of just having him in the past full time. It just made me feel like the past and future were working in tandem; especially since Lambert occasionally got updates from his superiors. All in all, I found the show hardly memorable. I always thought Dale Midkiff had a watchable presence (even though at that point the only thing I knew him for was the poor schmuck husband/father from ‘Pet Cemetary’), and he did a fairly good job of carrying a show with weak storylines and acting, but I was bored to tears with the common future-villain-scheme-of-the-week. Shows like this have a hard time finding gripping tales that expand beyond their one-trick-pony concept. Like many of the syndicated shows of the period, the special effects were a little weak, but, hey, not every show can be a ‘Star Trek’ spin-off. I liked the theme, I liked SELMA (his personal credit card-looking computer), but I’m not surprised it only lasted two seasons. The show had no real future going for it (BAM!!!)
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 18:37:28 +0000
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