Would be great and probably better as a movie.

A scifi-channel-specific spinoff would work well. Encountering more people who are also experiencing the same day would be neat. Entire episodes could be shown from person 2′s point of view, with cameos by person 1 before they realize they’re both experiencing the same day. Person 2 could screw up 1′s day by changing something unexpectedly–1 figures it out later on and says “quit doing that”. (It seemed like Jared kept doing the same thing on his days, unlike Hopper, who usually tried things differently.)

I imagine the production costs on a show like this would be lower than the other scifi channel shows. No big special effects needs, anyway….

There are so many ways that this show could continue with other repeats of the same day as suggested in some of the other posts – Jared looking for his brother, Hopper getting killed by the Ghost Dominguez, Detective Choi, Baxter, the mystery man in the last episode. Hmmm this series seems almost made for the SciFi Channel with eerie repeating of days.

I also agree with a post by Robert P. about not watching shows at their regularly scheduled time may send the wrong message to the Network Gods. Using my DVR lets me get the most in the least amount of viewing time.

Some network bring back Day Break! It definitely deserves a second look.

Sign me at 6:18 AM

I just hope they’ll produce more, I think it will gain public interest.

~Luke
San Antonio, TX

I was especially moved by episode 8 when Hopper shows up in the hospital, looking for his sister, only to have Rita tell him she didn’t make it. The music and the montage are powerful there.

Alot of stuff didn’t make any sense as some others pointed out (a wanted man, able to move in and out so easily…maybe that IS the reality of crime alerts), plus it feels like there are loose ends. Jared beaming from afar at Hopper is one of those things, but maybe we’re just reading into it too much. He could just be happy for Hopper and simply observing.

The ending felt a little bit anticlimatic, but oh well…that happens to just about every t.v. series known to man.

It would be good if the creators commented on these loose ends on a possible dvd release.

– Why was the day repeating? He took a hard blow to the head from Ortiz, but he had taken shots to the dome before? So it’s not like something jarred inside him to move forward (kind of like a track on a cd skipping). They never answered that or even pointed towards the one thing that moved him on.

– I wonder if Jared was some sort of angelic character sent to help right things from Hopper’s dad’s past? I also was disappointed that for some reason Hopper just seemed to move on from the “sorry I bit you” ending of the one episode to continuing on with his life the next? “Sorry I bit you” was THE connection to his day repeating and why. Also, what did the doctor have to do with it?

– Hippo, who popped up at times as a sniper and a kidnapper, seemed to disappear towards the end. You would have thought he had Nick’s back or maybe some battle of conscience brings him from the dark-side to aid Hopper in his battles.

– Was it me or did it seem strange how a cop on the lam for killing a ADA the night prior could simply walk in and out of courthouses, hospitals, and police stations very easily?

– I liked Choi’s character and thought he was a person they should have played up a tad more, but then again, it was all about the suspicion and conspiracy vs. other good guys.

– I think they could have easily done a second season, which would have been the first episode realizing that Chad and The Crying Man had escaped. With Hopper knowing that they might be the final two pieces of the puzzle to bringing down the defense attorney/crime-lord, Hopper could have done a reverse “Fugitive”-style show trying to capture the two guys while evading the attorney’s inner-circle from taking him down. Perhaps even Battle dying or Choi dying during the course of the show would add the emotional suspense it needed. Season Two would conclude with Hopper capturing The Crying Man with the help of a dying Chad, bent on trying to make things right before he passes. The Crying Man finally leads Hopper to bring down the attorney with the show ending or season three being about the realization at the end of two that the power, corruption, and control didn’t end with the attorney’s arrest. Perhap’s the final touch/switch is that Jared is the real bad guy a al “Usual Suspects”? Damn I’m good…

– Imagination or not, the show was solid and had a great cast. It is disappointing that the Big Four can’t be happy with a show that has 6 million plus viewers while FX and TNT would kill and financially support shows with fans like that. My favorite show right now in terms of writing and acting is “The Riches”. They are FX’s number two show with 3 million fans and FX loves it. Tragically, the Big Four don’t feel the same.

– I hope it comes out on DVD since “Kidnapped” (like-wise cancelled) just released a DVD.

– My final thoughts before I move on from my soap-box is that I am very concerned that network’s may be getting bad information concerning viewership with the new technology of TiVO and DVRs. My wife and I watched all of our shows after the fact. I can’t help but think that people not watching it during it’s original time might be giving false reads for the reason shows are cancelled that leave fans scratching their heads over.

Peace out!

ANYWAY, I was slightly relieved that I could at least watch the remining episodes online, which I have done…Now people are talking about seeing the last episode!??!? I have watched up to the 2/12/07 episode online and cannot see/access anything after that…am I viewing something wrong on the web page? I have tried every setting that I can to see that last episode on the screen, but can’t get it! HELP!!!!

Oh, and ABC has done it again: Canceled “What About BRian”, another really good show…

And they want us to get hooked on NEW shows they are promoting??? Not me…..

All in all, a very good series which ABC quit on way too easily. This show wasn’t so much about the repeating day and solving the crime as it was showing how the little things we do can affect others’ lives. We see that in the people around Hopper who are subtlely different because of something he did the day before. So even though the day was repeating for Hopper, he was actually making changes in the lives of the people around each time.

1. Moon Bloodgood is hot

2. The grinning guy at the end (consensus was he’s Jared), is actually Dr. Who

3. If there were to be any kind of sequel, it would likely be akin to Quantum Leap

4. Main Question – What caused the time loop in the first place? Better question – why the hell did the writers go back and forth between day 1, 2, 3, 4, then back to 3, with seemingly no reason behind it?

5. All in all, Moon Bloodgood is still damn hot!

Mccarrol:
Nick was not related to Hopper or his dad in any way…he was just Hopper’s Dad’s partner. Your idea for future episodes is intriging. I’d love to see old Chad stuck on that island.

t2pac:
Hopper’s dad didn’t commit suicide, as was revealed in one of the last episodes. So the idea that he had a heriditary mental disorder doesn’t work as an explanation to the repeating days.

I have actually started through all the episodes for the 4th time. While I’d love to see new stuff, I agree with a previous poster that it might be kinda lame.
Did Margo get killed? That would’ve happened during that messed up episode that had editing problems?

Anybody know if dvd’s are going to come out?
AND,
the idea of making sure Taye Diggs is aware of all the support he’s received thanks to this website is a good one. Is that happening?

Well, glad to know I’m not alone in my continuing nutso obsession with this show.

The whole brother thing was just a ploy; and he was just pretending his day was repeating uncontrollably, too. I think Jared decided to interact with Brett only when he saw Brett was close to losing hope. He gave Brett some fresh energy to see the adventure through by showing that he was not the only one going through this day.

Anyway I very much enjoyed the show but was quite disappointed that they did not bother to even hint at why or more accurately how the day was repeating… except for Jared at the end looking like he knew “something”…

I liked Jared. I wish he’d had more to do. And I guess Margo ended up dead.

Having Hopper repeat another day in season 2 might be lame, so I think they planned on showing this same day from Jared’s point of view. There would be a couple of episodes where Hopper “guest stars” in Jared’s day, because they cross paths for a little while. With Jared as the star of season 2, they could solve the question of why the day was repeating in the first place.

We now know that Jared survives the day, but I think it took him longer to get past the day than it took Hopper (because Jared was surprised that he grew a whole beard from the time his day started repeating). Season 2 might reveal that it was Jared who made the day move on and Hopper’s actions didn’t have anything to do with it. Or half way through season 2, Jared could think he solved his repeating day problem, but something backfires and he ends up sucking Hopper into his day (and that’s how Hoppers day started repeating). With the help of Hopper at the rich white mans club, Jared discovers Colburn (the main bad guy) is the one that took his brother. In the end of season 2 Jared discovers the cause of his repeating day and brings Colburn to justice after Hopper says “this ain’t over”.

Yeah, that sounds good to me. I’m just going to pretend that that’s what happens. I still can’t believe ABC dropped this show so quickly. The repeating day concept sounded stupid at first (like an action packed Groundhogs Day) but I was hooked after the first couple of episodes. Taye Diggs was impressive. He really raised the level of acting on this show. Great job!

Glad the storyline was resolved, but it’d still be neat to know how it was supposed to continue and eventually figure out the temporal issues involved.

A DVD release is definitely a must for a show like this!

I really don’t know why this show was canceled, did the execs really expect re runs of george lopez to give them better ratings?

Hopper took him to Dr. “Foureyes” (Fouraz), convinced he was suffering a mental disease in his temporal lobe…however, as Hopper walked away, Jared referenced an event from much earlier in the series: “I shouldn’t have bit you.”

The blue-eyed observer at the end of the Day Break’s final episode is a dangling thread for future episodes. A bigger “dangler” is the weirdo looking for his brother. His final words (“Anyway, I’m sorry I bit you) are proof that he too was experiencing the same repeating day. Wonder why…

I agree that having Hopper go into another repeating day wouldn’t work. The way I’d play it is that observer Mr Blue eyes is the Hopper case’s assigned agent from the Time Police, an agency vastly different from those in H. Bean Piper’s Lord Kalvan novels. These guys seek out people who have been wronged and other things/ events that didn’t turn out right the first time. They create time loops to give key individuals another chance (or another half dozen chances) to get it right.

Impressed by Hopper, they attempt to recruit him into the Time Police. We do 13 episodes of TP showing Hopper the nifty things they’ve already accomplished. The first couple of these episodes are impressive, things like giving Charles Martel enough opportunity that he finally manages to turn back the Moors. Helping a Swedish inventor come up with trunnion bearings so that Gustavus Adolphus has the mobile cannons that allowed him win the Battle of Vienna. Could even include a no brainer like getting Queen Isabella to decide to go ahead and fund Columbus’s voyage. But some episodes cause Hopper to doubt whether the Time Police are truly on the side of the angels. Like giving James Wilkes Booth enough different attempted assassinations that the one at Ford Theater finally works, saving us from the dictator that Lincoln becomes in most timelines. Our friend Hop is thinking the Time Police should work with Lincoln and get him to implement the “no third term as president” rule.

Near end of the second 13 episodes, Hopper is approached by a secret splinter group within the Time Police who have a slightly different agenda. They want Hopper to join the Time Police but only so that he can become an operative for their group.

Sound like fun?

Gordon

I loved this show, and seriously hope that it gets brought back to primetime television

Anyway, who was that guy appearing in the last few seconds of the final episode? I cannot remember him from anything, was he the one who injected Hopper with that mysterious drug?

tvseriesfinale: I also think it would be a good idea to send the feedback to Taye Diggs himself through his agent or office or whatever avenue to communicate with Taye himself.

Anyway great show! Kudos to Taye and the production staff who created this show. It is such a shame that it got cancelled. As a BIG fan I can only hope that this story will continue somehow.

Great writing, big action awesome story. We were literally on the edge of our seats for every episode. I specifically hooked the laptop up to our television every week to watch each new episode. We’re happy the story is resolved yet saddened that it won’t be continued.