Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series

Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series
by Adam J. Shully, David Carson, Jim Michaels

Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series
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Actor: Christopher Gorham, Leslie Silva, Peter Weller, Sebastian Roch?, Tamara Craig Thomas
Director: Adam J. Shully, David Carson, Jim Michaels
Brand: Sony
Producer: Jim Michaels
Producer: Gary Mueller
Writer: Manny Coto
Writer: Tommy Thompson
Writer: Tracy Torm?
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; Portuguese (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 935 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-04-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures

Movie Reviews of Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series

Movie Review: Alienographer
Summary: 5 Stars

Odyssey 5 was a nicely laid out plot about the destruction of our planet while 6 people were manning a space flight, who were given a chance to go back 5 years in time to find out how the Earth was destroyed.

The very first thing I loved about their return to Earth was their futile attempts not to upset the previous timeline, not realizing that their return already began setting in motion a series of time-line changing events.

The show sets up more than one plausible explaination and narrows them down to one reasonable conclusion and one enemy.

The acting, writing, and direction was top notch. And Love, Love, Love producer Tracy Torme~ who also had her hand in another Sci-fi show called Sliders.

Summary of Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series

The crew of the Odyessy a space shuttle orbiting above the Earth's surface looks on in horror as the Earth explodes before their eyes. Commander Chuck Taggart (Peter Weller) a geneticist (Sebastian Roche) Taggart's son (Christopher Gorham) a TV newswoman (Leslie Silva) and an astronaut (Tamara Craig Thomas) escape on a shuttle into space where they're met by a mysterious being who offers to transport them back five years in time to try to save Earth. Armed only with a bit of computer code referring to "Leviathan" Taggart is determined to save the planet. But when the Odyessy crew discovers that even the smallest action on their part can quickly change the course of history in unexpected and potentially devastating ways they must band together and proceed with caution for their rescue mission to succeed.System Requirements:Running Time 935 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre:?ACTION/ADVENTURE/THRILLERS Rating:?NR UPC:?043396138032 Manufacturer No:?13803
While flying under the ratings radar on Showtime, Odyssey 5 drew loyal fans with a premise that could have yielded fascinating developments beyond its 19-episode run. Before taking show-runner jobs on UPN's ill-fated Star Trek: Enterprise and Fox's 24, creator-writer-producer Manny Coto dreamed up this provocative pastiche of sci-fi ideas, connecting an end-of-the-world scenario with a time-travel twist and an alien invasion plot with X-Files overtones. You could argue that Coto's reach exceeded his grasp, since none of these elements combine to form a fully satisfying whole (especially since the series was cancelled before it reached its intended conclusion), but there's something to be said for the show's entertaining tangents and unexpected complications. It all begins when the five-member crew of the space shuttle Odyssey witnesses the shocking implosion of the Earth, leaving them stranded and doomed to suffocate when their air supply is depleted. Instead, they are rescued by the Seeker (John Neville), a crystalline alien in human form, who sends them (or at least, their mental and spiritual essence) five years back in time, reunited with their physical bodies with a mission to discover what went wrong and save Earth from oblivion.

Peter Weller stars as the brash, foul-mouthed Commander Chuck Taggart, a seasoned flyboy whose 22-year-old computer-whiz son Neil (Christopher Gorham) must now cope with being physically 17 again, reliving high-school (including his first serious relationship) while investigating possible causes of Earth's destruction. Along with geneticist Kurt Mendel (Sebastian Roch?), shuttle pilot Angela Perry (Tamara Craig Thomas), and TV news reporter Sarah Forbes (Leslie Silva), their quest leads to the discovery of sentient nano-bots, synthetic humans, and a far-reaching conspiracy masterminded by a NASA splinter group secretly known as "the Cadre." In his pilot episode commentary recorded with Weller in 2005, Coto outlines some of the ideas he would've developed had the series run longer, and these 19 episodes serve up plenty of surprises that hint at the series' untapped potential. That makes Odyssey 5 both fun and frustrating--we're left dangling with an unresolved cliffhanger--but the ensemble cast makes it worthwhile. While the writing skews toward juvenile silliness on some occasions (and veers into full-on comedy with guest star Ted Raimi in the entertaining episode "The Trouble with Harry"), it's clear that Odyssey 5 was pushing conventional boundaries of TV science fiction. For that reason alone, it's a shame it lacked the audience that would've warranted additional episodes. --Jeff Shannon

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