Well I guess we were right. They did end up working together...So there must be another season at least!? I thought that this was a one season show only. I recall Robert Wertheimer, one of the creators of the show, saying that "Charlie Jade" was more like a 20 hour movie.
By the way the ending was excellent, an amazing cap for a great tv show. Thank God it wasn't happy or rosy or something. It ended on an ambigous note and left some questions unanswered. In a way if you think about it, things are going to get worse (should the show continue), especially since now the link between all 3 universes, but especially AlphaVerse (the screwed -up one) and GammaVerse (the idillic one) is now open permanently. Also the population of BetaVerse (our universe) is not aware of the link at all, save a few individuals. Now the fight for domination will start. Just because 01 is no longer there it doesn't mean that Vexcor or any of other corporations (in AlphaVerse there are I believe 5 large coporations which basically run society) won't still try to exploit the other two universes to their advantage. And also if you paid attention at the very end you can hear the anouncement in AlphaVerse about "immigration applications to GammaVerse are now open...
Also if you recall 01 Boxer mentioned to Charlie Jade in this last episode, that his father had a file on Charlie from way back when, way before the point at which the show started, so that is why I think that somehow they, Charlie and 01 are related.It is no coincidence that they can both shift between universes. And as the show ended they were keeping each other alive by shifting blood from one to another...
And those enigmatic guys in black suits that appeared throughout the show, I take it they will be the central focus of the next season, as the story will surely expand. The guys in the black suits, as 01 Boxer said to Charlie, are behind everything. Remember that Charlie confronts one of them directly, and sees a few more throughout the show. Plus then there is that encounter in the special episode between Carl and one of those men, remember he tells him the whole story and at the end the man touches him and he forgets everything. If you noticed, everytime one of them dudes shows up, a weird yellow light seems to engulf them the same happens when Carl is touched by they guy in the bar. And at the end of the last episode they say "This we did not expect". It is as if they are entities (not sure if they are entirely human, 01 said that they have no fingerprints) from another universe, and that they have a stake in what is happening, especially since they seem to know what it is going to happen before hand... except that what occurs at the end takes them by surprise. I think that they expected a certain outcome, and that each character would play a certain role (one of them dudes tell Carl "just play your part")
Anyways, I have gone on too long, but even if they decide to do more episodes of Charlie Jade or not, it was an excellent show, great! I cannot say enough about it, in all aspects, acting, special effects, cinematography etc. etc. If this was the last of the show, it ended greatly anyways, and it made sense.
But remember that there are more than 3 universes, when Charlie first started shifting with the help of the little girl, he "visited" way more than 3 universes, some were clearly neither Alpha, Beta nor Gamma. Oh yeah and one last point, if you watch the last scene they show from BetaVerse, were Charlie Jade's girlfriend, the policewoman, sits next to the ocean and there is a swimming pool behind her, in the water appeared for a very brief instant a caption saying "half an hour from now..." and that was it. If you check the website (www.charliejade.com) that caption appears also...
PS The Space network promo mentioned "the season finale" not the "series finale"...
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