Afraid that his show may not return after its 12th and final episode (unless NBC orders more, which doesn’t seem likely considering the show’s low ratings), the show’s creator Kevin Falls ensures fans that the show’s 11th and 12th episode will deal with lead character Dan’s ability to time travel. SPOILERS BELOW.
From Entertainment Weekly:
Those episodes, which fulfill the network’s order, expand on Elliot Langley’s (Tom Everett) experimentation on quantum leaping and introduce Dan to a fellow time tourist, who he finds in an insane asylum. “We felt like we started to see the handwriting on the wall, between the ratings and the writers strike, so we recalibrated how we would break the last few episodes,” explains Falls. “We do answer quite a few questions so fans will get a feeling of closure.”
Had the show gone for a full season, Falls might have taken all the people that Dan and Livia (Moon Bloodgood) saved this season and turned them into some “Rube Goldberg device for season’s end,” he says. “All these people would come into play, not so much to save the world, but their stories all culminate into a bigger-picture climax.”
With the Writers Strike in full swing, and all original scripted television effectively dead or at a standstill at the networks, it doesn’t seem likely that there will be any new Journeyman for a while, if ever. But hey, Journeyman fans, you’ll at least discover how Dan is time traveling, so that’s something.
Update:
According to Kristin over at E! Online, Journeyman has, in fact, been canceled, and there is no word on whether the final 2 episodes that will explain the time travel device will in fact air.
