Advantages: It is an interesting series Disadvantages: It ends with a cliffhanger that it seems will never be resolved
...the whole planet being destroyed. ODYSSEY 5 is Silva's only regular series to date, she has mainly been seen as a guest star in other TV shows, including CSI Miami.
Sebastian Roche (who appears in the new Robert Zemeckis movie BEOWULF) and Tamara Craig Thomas (better known as Detective Mickey Kollander in the crime drama Cold Squad) round out the crew who have been sent back in time.
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THE CREATORS
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... ...conclusion. However the cancellation of ODYSSEY 5 meant that Coto was able to move over to be a writer and producer on the ill-fated final STAR TREK television series ENTERPRISE, in its penultimate and final seasons. He would go on to write some of the best episodes of that series, and since that show's cancellation he has gone on to be writer/producer for the action show '24'.
Other recognisable names from television science fiction who are involved ...
phurren2006 18.12.2007
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series (Box Set) (DVD)
Advantages: Great plot, great subplots, great characters (when they get into it) Disadvantages: Well that fairly major issue... it ends at episode 19, with no finale!
It was one of those "oh well, there's nothing else that looks any good, let's give it a go" type purchases.
For once, it turned up trumps! (For a while... read on!)
Great premise, great characters, interesting subplots - this show looked like it was going to go from strength to strength!
Main plotline goes along the lines of:
6 people orbiting Earth in a space shuttle watch the Earth be destroyed. One of the team gets killed in the aftermath, ... ...reality of what happened dawns on them, and they realise they are the last remaining humans, they also realise they are going to run out of air rapidly. Now, here is where it starts to get a little "kooky"... Just as they've all given up hope, they get rescued by an alien space ship (yes, yes I know... give it a chance!) who sends the team back in time by 5 years to try to stop the world exploding.
So now they're 5 years in the past with the "memories" ...
tekaybe 11.09.2007
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Production Year: 2007 - Science Fiction - Director: Francis Lawrence - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Alice Braga, Charlie Tahan, Dash Mihok, Will Smith, Salli Richardson, Willow Smith
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