Second Time When Alec blames Kiera for Emily's death wrongly

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First, goodbye! Some of us wrote comments here that were worth reading at the time, and worth reading months, years, decades later. Amazon is unwise to trash that history. Mind you many comments here aren't even worth reading once.

I too loved this show, even more when more recent shows, in which I include the 12 monkeys series, fall short in comparison.

12 monkeys disappointed me, and I stopped watching after half a dozen episodes.

When a re-run of the Continuum farm episode is rebroadcast I will record it, and look for the points you noted. In Julian's defense, he starts off as still an irresponsible teenager, less grown up than Alec. The series shows him growing, and he is equally heroic as Alec.

Yeah, I continue to think multiple instances of Alec, Kiera, Kellogg, do not constitute a paradox, if set in a multiverse where time machines are physically possible. It is one of the problems I had with 12 monkeys making putting the old and new watches together causing an explosion. The watch is not made of anything really exotic. Its components don't have any supernatural ingredients. It is just made of steel, copper, maybe titanium, gold, maybe silicon, if it is digital. Atoms of copper are indistinguishable from one another. There is no way the watches can recognize that the other watch is made of the exact same atoms.

Worse, the bad guys assassinate people by stabbing them in the chest with knives made from their breast bone. Well, anabolism and catabolism, our bodies natural metabolism means that the molecules in our body are recycled and excreted during cell maintenance. The before and after breastbones won't contain the same atoms.

What if you ground up the old watch, into dust? Would that dust trigger one of those paradox explosions? And where does the energy for that explosion come from?

In episode 1.1 Cole and the lovely Damsel in Distress are being questioned by the bad guys. Cole arranges for the explosion, when the before and after watches are placed too close to one another, killing everyone in the room. But, because he is a time traveler, he is capable of a burst of superspeed, and is capable of outrunning the explosion, carring the lovely damsel in his arms.

It is a capability that just doesn't make sense. Does he ever take advantage of this capability in future episodes?

I occasionally tuned in a random episode. I got the impression the producers never really thought out whether the model of time they were going to use was a single-threaded one, or a multiverse.

You are correct that, even in the final episode, young Alec says he doesn't know whether Kiera will end up on here original dark 2077, in Kellogg's dark 2077, or yet another 2077. Yeah, I think the evidence was there for a smarty-pants like him to realize she could only end up in a 2077 that was the direct outcome of the 2015 she was transmitted from. But maybe he wasn't as smart as he thought he was.

That episode was recently rebroadcast, and Kellogg says something about his personal experience with a paradox, but I don't see his survival when the lovely young girl was shot as a paradox. She wasn't his grandmother, she was the doppelganger of his grandmother, on the current branch of time. Kellogg's actual grandmother is safe back on the original dark branch of time, from episode 1.1. Similarly, the adorable Sam we see in the Carlos Fonegra Park, in the good 2077, is not our Kiera's adorable Sam, he is merely her adorable Sam's doppelganger. Her own adorable Sam is being raised by her husband, now a single dad, in the original dark 2077.

Except, the 2077 where evil old Alec first arranged for the first launch of the time sphere he developed, or helped develop, could only happen if Alec was born, and since Escher/Mark Sadler was a time traveler, there is the branch of time where Escher was born, and, on that branch of time there was no Alec Sadler.

Cheers!