Why and how was Dan traveling through time?
(Journeyman) NBC’s 2007 freshman series Journeyman was a fantasy-adventure superior to the network’s more heavily hyped Bionic Woman and Chuck, yet it died before its creators could even explain the premise. Over the course of 13 episodes—the last few of which only aired because of the writers’ strike—viewers watched San Francisco reporter Dan Vasser (played by Kevin McKidd) jump into the past for indeterminate stretches of time, in order to right cosmic wrongs. Then, when he came back to the present, he’d discover that in his absence, his job, friendships and marriage had been jeopardized, and that some of his changes to the timeline had adjusted his life in unpleasant ways. (In one painful episode, he came home to discover that he had an entirely different child.) By the end of episode 13, the writers were able to restore some basic order to Dan’s life, but they never answered one fundamental question: Why is this happening to Dan? (Fans similarly complained about Quantum Leap, which
