2015-03-09, 01:14 PM
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This is a new spanish series about time travel.
I usually run away from spanish series because they are SO cheap and try to get the widest audience target they can (they include teen characters along with "grow-ups", "grandpas", children and whatever they can think of just to get the most part of the audience "related" to any of the characters and get them to watch the commercials).
Normally they also look "fake", shot in sets that you see that are sets, too colorful, too "home video". You get the idea. And the stories... they normally tend to be comedies since they seem to be unable to take themselves seriously.
That's why when I heard they were shooting a time travel series ("the spanish Doctor Who" they said at one point), I supposed it whould be shit. I was wrong.
First of all, it's no "Doctor Who" at all. As much as I love the british show, I didn't want an "spanish DW", mainly because when they do "the spanish whatever" it means "the cheaper lamer whatever". So better not walking that path. For the record, there is a "spanish walking dead" in development, called Rabia (Rage). LOL
Anyway, The Ministry Of Time.
Basically, the spanish government has a secret ministry that works on mantaining history as it is. If it was real life they would use that power to steal even more from us, but since it's fiction, they take care of history.
There's a large tunnel under the ministry that has lots of doors, everyone leading to a certain time and place. So no time machines.
An interesting fact is that time passes at the same time at both sides of the door. I mean, a door that in 2013 leaded to 1806, now would lead to 1808, so the missions are kind of one shots, no going back again to solve mistakes. I think that gives more sense of adventure. They talk about a "broken" door which leads to a fixed point in time, I guess it will have relevance later.
Since the first chapter, they say you can't travel to the future. All doors lead to past times, "as far as they know". The fact that there are also other doors outside of the ministry makes me think they could at some point travel to the future if the series gets a second season, but by now they are going to limit themselves to past times.
The series doesn't look cheap and they are taking it seriously. The audience ratings aren't high by now, though. Since it is a production of the national television I hope they make at least a second season since they don't really need to have great audiences as the private networks.
In this week's episode (the 3rd one, 8 have been shot for this season), Himmler (Hitler's right hand man) tries to get to a time door during a real visit he paid to Spain. In real life he was supposedly searching for the Holy Grail, which he believed it was hidden in the monastery of Montserrat, near Barcelona. He believed the mythic Montsalvat or Castle Of The Grail that Wagner mentioned in his opera Parsifal was really Montserrat. In the series he searches for the door, of course. Promising!
By they way, Himmler got his wallet stolen during his visit to Barcelona (really!). He got the full spanish experience. LOL
That's all by now!
This is a new spanish series about time travel.
I usually run away from spanish series because they are SO cheap and try to get the widest audience target they can (they include teen characters along with "grow-ups", "grandpas", children and whatever they can think of just to get the most part of the audience "related" to any of the characters and get them to watch the commercials).
Normally they also look "fake", shot in sets that you see that are sets, too colorful, too "home video". You get the idea. And the stories... they normally tend to be comedies since they seem to be unable to take themselves seriously.
That's why when I heard they were shooting a time travel series ("the spanish Doctor Who" they said at one point), I supposed it whould be shit. I was wrong.
First of all, it's no "Doctor Who" at all. As much as I love the british show, I didn't want an "spanish DW", mainly because when they do "the spanish whatever" it means "the cheaper lamer whatever". So better not walking that path. For the record, there is a "spanish walking dead" in development, called Rabia (Rage). LOL
Anyway, The Ministry Of Time.
Basically, the spanish government has a secret ministry that works on mantaining history as it is. If it was real life they would use that power to steal even more from us, but since it's fiction, they take care of history.
There's a large tunnel under the ministry that has lots of doors, everyone leading to a certain time and place. So no time machines.
An interesting fact is that time passes at the same time at both sides of the door. I mean, a door that in 2013 leaded to 1806, now would lead to 1808, so the missions are kind of one shots, no going back again to solve mistakes. I think that gives more sense of adventure. They talk about a "broken" door which leads to a fixed point in time, I guess it will have relevance later.
Since the first chapter, they say you can't travel to the future. All doors lead to past times, "as far as they know". The fact that there are also other doors outside of the ministry makes me think they could at some point travel to the future if the series gets a second season, but by now they are going to limit themselves to past times.
The series doesn't look cheap and they are taking it seriously. The audience ratings aren't high by now, though. Since it is a production of the national television I hope they make at least a second season since they don't really need to have great audiences as the private networks.
In this week's episode (the 3rd one, 8 have been shot for this season), Himmler (Hitler's right hand man) tries to get to a time door during a real visit he paid to Spain. In real life he was supposedly searching for the Holy Grail, which he believed it was hidden in the monastery of Montserrat, near Barcelona. He believed the mythic Montsalvat or Castle Of The Grail that Wagner mentioned in his opera Parsifal was really Montserrat. In the series he searches for the door, of course. Promising!
By they way, Himmler got his wallet stolen during his visit to Barcelona (really!). He got the full spanish experience. LOL
That's all by now!
