We watched episodes 1-3 of Continuum tonight and ... I am CONFUSE.

So, when I watched the first episode, I thought it was playing with expectation in a really cool and different way: rather than the little band of time-traveling rebels being the protagonists, we were following the cop from the dystopic future surveillance state as she went back in time to try to stop the rebels before they "fix" the future. There didn't really seem to be good guys and bad guys so much as a bunch of characters who were a blend of both.

After 2 more episodes, though, now I'm just plain confused as to what on earth the show thinks it's doing. We seem to have gone from a setup that's full of cool & interesting moral ambiguity to "The government wants what's best for you! The only people who would question the government's actions are TERRORISTS and EVIL HIPPIES!" This despite the fact that, among other things, the heroine comes from a surveillance state, freely ignores/abuses/circumvents the laws of the present time whenever it's convenient, and tortured a guy in the first episode. And her little computer-geek buddy spies freely on everybody (including her in her underwear) and is building Skynet. But the people she's trying to catch are TEH EVIL so that makes it okay?

I don't want any major spoilers, but I'm wondering if I'm the only one who reacted this way, and whether the show is a little more self-aware of its own moral grayness later on.