In the year 2154, a small percentage of the world's elite is enjoying life in luxurious habitat in Space called Elysium. The rest of the population still resides in Earth which is now overpopulated and it's resources almost used up.


Max Da Costa a former car thief and now parolee is working in an assembly line for Armadyne Corporation. Armadyne provides the Elysian weaponry and Robots that police the earth's population. Max was forced to take a job from a smuggler named Spider after he accidentally got a lethal dosage of radiation while working in the Assembly line.

Spider helps the non-Elysian Citizens illegally enter Elysium. In his last attempt a group of immigrants were shot down after trying to reach Elysium without authorization. Secretary of Defense Delacourt has activated a sleeper agent on Earth to shoot down the shuttles. Delacourt was reprimanded by the Elysian President Patel. Delacourt fears losing her authority, so she made a deal with Armadyne Corp Ceo John Carlyle to overwrite the program that controls Elysium Robot and get her the Presidency.



Caryle then downloads the program and neurally stores it and prepares to deliver it to Elysium. Da Costa intercepted Carlyle shuttle and got the program. Delacourt then orders Kruger to track down Da Costa and retrieve the data that was stolen. During the firefight, Carlyle was killed along with Max's accomplice.


Max then escapes Kruger and seeks the help of his childhood friend Frey. Frey is also having her own set of problems. Her daughter  Matilda is suffering from Leukemia and needs to get to Elysium and use a device called Med-Bays that help all sort of human illness.

Kruger uses Frey and Matilda to lure Max out. Max then decided to surrender to get to Elysium but did not expect Frey and Matilda to be in Kruger's shuttle. Kruger and his colleague tried to secure the grenade that Max was holding. But unfortunately the grenade exploded causing the shuttle to crash. Eventually Frey, Matlda and Ma was caught. Delacourt orders the retrieval of the data from Max's head even though she is aware that the process would kill him. Kruger then kills Delacourt and plans to steal the information in Max's head.

Moments later Max was able to escape but Kruger was trying to catch him with the intention of using the data to rule Elysium for himself. Max managed to kill Kruger in the end and as able to reach Elysium's computer core and downloaded the file killing himself in the process. After the system rebooted, All Earth's population became Elysium citizens and those who were living in Elysium got their citizenship revoked. Frey used one of the Med Bay to cure Matilda. In the end a group of shuttles carrying multiple Med bays were deployed to Earth.

What can I say about the movie? It is pretty good in my opinion. Compared to district 9 it is not bad. It is quite memorable. The idea that in the future, the rich people would enjoy a comfortable life while the masses suffer is something that is not impossible from happening. In fact it is happening now. The concept though is not new. I have seen similar story line from other TV shows and movies. A particular show that comes to mind is Terra Nova. In that show, in the future the air has become unsafe to inhale. The rich people has the luxury to live in Domes that has clean air. Same concept here. But it is not bad. Matt Damon and Jodie Forster were both great and played their roles well. The graphics was great as well. I wouldn't mind watching the whole film again.

What are your thoughts on Elysium?

This episode is dubbed as one of the best episode in the whole series. I couldn't agree more. Now that the show is about to end, the shows creators are starting to put the final touches in putting all the pieces of the puzzle on how Ted meets his future wife.

The episode tells the story on the mother's perspective. Even the opening credits was modified featuring the mother. On the same day that Marshall proposed to Lily and the day Robin and Ted met, the mother was celebrating her 21st birthday. And get this. There are two Maclaren Pub in New York. The other Maclaren's bar is the mother's watering hole.

On that day, the mother's old boyfriend Max was running late. She received a phone call informing her that Max has passed away. Since then the mother has shove the idea of dating and falling in love believe that every person gets only one chance in love.


Through out the episode, there were references from previous episode that the mother and Ted has crossed path. In fact, the mother knows what Ted looks like. During Ted's first day in teaching , he went to the wrong classroom where the mother is attending an economics class. This is where she meets Cindy (Rachel Bilson) for the first time. Ted tells his shellfish joke and only the mother thought it was funny.

But before going to the economics class, she was inspired by the speech of one of her old acquaintance Mitch. Apparently Mitch and the mother knew each other before both of them came to New York. Mitch is creator of "The Naked man" and has said that it works 2 out of 3 times. Who would have guess that the mother is the one 1 out the 3 woman which the Naked Man doesn't work on?



Remember the Saint Patrick's day event where Ted took the mother's umbrella? We finally see what went down. The mother's friend Kelly ran into Barney. Barney tried picking her up but failed/. The mother was there as well and ran into Mitch. After offering to give Mitch a cello that is left unused, they left the club and went to her apartment. While she was getting the musical instrument in her room, Mitch strips down and showed her his move but was immediately turned down.

After a while of being on a dating Hiatus, she met Louis at and started dating him. She was staying at his Beach house during the wedding weekend. Louis suddenly proposed which caught her off guard. Eventually she turned down the proposal clear still not yet ready to take their relationship to the next level.

She then got a room on the Farhampton Inn next to Ted's. Before the episode ended, She sang a rendition of La vie en rose. Future Ted said that even though he heard her sing it a million times, the first time she heard it sing was his favorite.

In this episode we get to know more about the mother. She has a lot in common with Ted and probably the only one who would laugh at Ted's joke. A thing that I noticed with this episode is that this is the first time that they dealt with death. Correct me if I am wrong if this is the first time. But as far as I know it is.

We also get to fall in love with her and start to root for them. I think one of the biggest challenges that the creators have was finding the right actress to play the mother. I am glad that they choose Cristin Milioti to play the part. She plays the role perfectly. Putting Mitch in the mix is one of the great things about this episode. Next week I hope that they do finally met. But I think they would delayed their meeting until the last remaining episodes.

What are your thoughts about how your mother met me?

Can't wait for the third season of Continuum? Well good news. Continuum would air the season premiere on Mar 2014. The popular sci-fi series is about a policewoman who accidentally travels back in time to year 2012 along with fugitives who were supposed to be executed in 2077.

In the last season, Kiera and the members of Liberate were captured by a group charged with capturing time travelers to prevent them changing events that would impact the future. Alec has taken the time travel device and escape to save Emily. All hope for Kiera's return was destroyed by Alec's Betrayal. The new season will dive on the consequence and the effects of Alec's action.

Continuum returns in March 2014