When it comes to love and fate, what do you believe? To be honest, I am not sure what I believe. Maybe that is why I watch a lot of movies and television shows that are about romance and angst and time. Not always about time travel, not always about reincarnation – but just time. Time spent trusting and falling in love. Time spend realizing who you are and time connecting.
Providence Falls is about time and fate. But like a lot of movies about love, time and fate – it is a journey. A journey that will lead you down many twists and turns. It will make you question what makes sense, what fate allows, and what you can change about fate.
A book to movie adaptation isn’t easy. It’s not something that there is a lot of failure at (IMO) but there is a lot of that is subjective.
Providence Falls: Chance of Lifetime, I am sat and paying attention. The ship has chosen me, my heart and head are all in, and I am ready for my rewatch (yes, I wanna watch it again and see what I have possibly missed).
Hallmark Channel – you did good on this movie event. Like really good.
LIAM O’CONNOR & HIS ACCENT
There is something that I love about starting in the past, because history is always on repeat. When it comes to a movie with dueling timelines, I love learning about the past and figuring out if it’s going to be the same this time around.
Cora and Liam are on the run in the 1800’s with everyone chasing them. Liam tries to tell her to go back and save herself, but she doesn’t want to and will go wherever he goes. Only that leads to her death – dying in Liams arms.
Now, would you think that is the end? Of course. But suddenly Liam has been stuck in limbo for 200 years and the Department of Destiny needs him to fix what is broken. He distracted Cora from being with Finn – her fated.
Apparently it’s super important that Cora and Finn end up together – which I am confused about. I do love Evan Roderick and I think that he’s a great actor. The thing is that you don’t choose the ship, the ship chooses you. And I am really hoping that Liam doesn’t do what he’s supposed to do and get Finn and Cora together. I can’t help it.
Maybe it is the accent that is so attractive, but I don’t care what it is. I love these two. Lachlan Quarmby will become your new crush. Trust me.
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THE CASE
Cora has recently been promoted to detective and it seems like everyone hates her. She thinks that everyone hates her and well, that is true. They think that she is a nepo baby as her Dad used to be the chief of police. The reality is though, she’s a hard worker. She’s busted her back for this.
Someone has been robbing places and she’s caught the case. Liam has been sent back to earth as a detective that comes to help her. Cora doesn’t want a partner and doesn’t think that she needs one. But hey, we all need a little help sometimes.
She recognizes a necklace that has been stolen from the dream that she had. She doesn’t know what is happening as there are a lot of little things that she’s catching and can’t explain where she knows these things from, but she knows that she knows them.
Though Liam and Cora get off on the wrong foot, he’s doing everything to change that. Though there is always something happening with the case, I do love that we’re getting bits and pieces of it, the way that Liam and Cora fall in love in the past and the way that history is repeating itself.
The case is important and I am sure that over time – through the movies – we’ll get more cases. BUT, for now the way that the world is being set up has me investing in every character versus the case.
We know that there were seven souls from Ireland that are reincarnated and while right now, we’re focused on Cora, Liam, and Finn, I would like to learn more about them.
But I would also like Liam and Cora’s relationship to repeat itself and her to not think the worst of him.
DUDE NEEDS TO STAY IN LIMBO
I am really not fond of the man that keeps showing up from the Department of Destiny. He sees that there is something wrong with this whole situation and he’s wondering how to change fate. How can the department intervene?
He sees that Liam and Cora have a connection.
As things keep happening and Liam keeps trying to tell him – but it’s being taken for granted. This guy is his handler and I just can’t stop just wanting to call him a cock block. Like, mind your business.
Liam isn’t quiet about his contempt for Finn – he’s actually passive aggressive about it. It makes me laugh, but I also feel for him because he has no choice but to keep trying to push the two together.
Finn is trying to get to know Cora, but it feels like he’s trying too hard. Cora is open to possibilities even though possibilities seem to be the things that will break her. He’s interested in everything that she’s doing, flirting subtly, and showing interest in things at work and outside of work.
Finn invites her to the Police Ball, and she declines. She doesn’t want to have her co-workers thinking the worst of her, but lives with it. She doesn’t want to subject herself to that criticism on the weekend.
One thing that feels like a lot is that we hear a lot about Cora being unliked. However, we really don’t see that. So it feels very overwhelming and unnecessary.
A BALL TO FALL
Finn talks Cora into going to the ball and tells her that it would be a good opportunity for people to see a different side of her. She listens to him and I kinda love this for her. I love that she’s opening herself to possibilities.
The thing is – she needs to make some choices and it is a good thing that people are pushing her to do just that.
The ball was a beautiful thing to see, because we saw in both timelines. We know that history is repeating itself, so allowing us to see both timelines gives the viewer a leg up on figuring out what is happening.
BUT, in the same breathe it make us question what hand fate has. Liam is trying to stop fate, because fate repeating itself meant that Cora would end up dead and that was something he couldn’t deal with.
He also had to protect another person from the past – Meredith. He sees her at the ball and tries to stay out with her so that her husband doesn’t get murdered. She wants to be with him and Liam wants to cut things off as he’s in love with Cora.
It doesn’t matter that he tries to keep Meredith out so she’s not hurt, because her husband is murdered. When the two return to her home – he is suddenly a suspect. He can’t explain what he knows, but he’s hoping that Cora can believe in him.
But his alibi – well, he’s not willing to tell what it is. Why? Well, again that has to do with Cora.
SECOND CHANCES
Cora wants to make a difference in the world around her. She’s trying to get a program off the ground which gives kids in the system a second chance. One of the kids that is in the program is the person that can help Liam. But he won’t do that to Cora – make her believe that her program isn’t working.
He’s actually willing to take a murder wrap to make sure that she’s okay and I am like say what! Liam remembers being a thief and why he did the things he did. He knows that this kid was there because his stepfather made him be there.
When Cora sees the footage, she is confused. She goes to talk to the kid and that’s when his stepfather shows up and she makes the arrest. Closes the case.
I can’t help but love Katie Stevens as Cora. She’s managing to balance the romance of the movie and the action of it. She knows how to give angst and vulnerability while playing distant. She is good at a love triangle. Her as Cora and her actions towards both Finn and Liam is what is selling the romance of the movie for me.
I want her to play the field so she can realize that Liam is the one for her.
When Finn tells her that he wants to get to know her more than he does already. He pours his heart out and I have to admit – I felt for him. But then there was Liam walking away and she goes to tell him how she feels and I found myself jumping up and down excited over that.
Overall Providence Falls: Chance of a Lifetime was a charming movie that made me really think about love, fate, and what happens when you give love a chance. I am here for it.
OTHER THOUGHTS
- Liam giving her up because he wants to keep her safe is the most beautiful thing
- The last 5 minutes of the movie had me rooting for Finn
- Cora not knowing who to choose in present day was real – extremely real. Her pouring her heart out – I cried.
- Do I believe in destiny? I don’t know.
- Cora at the ball in the 1800’s – that dress looked painful to wear
- Everyone does a good Irish accent
- The BBQ – so much I want to know. Like what did Finn’s face look like when he saw her leaving with Liam
- Liam getting shocked every time him and Cora touch – it’s a c*** block. I said it and I don’t regret it
- Cora standing up to her Dad was the energy we needed from her
- Love the flashbacks soooo much
- Not sure why a person being a tea person is a bad thing and yet I understand it
- Cora talking to Liam in the 1800’s and giving him her necklace – telling him he can be a better man. I loved this, even if it made him return things and ppl think he’s guilty of murder
Tell us – did you watch the movie? What did you think? Are you in for the series?
