Busy surgeon Angie Reynolds (Lyndsy Fonseca) is happy to be on call for the Christmas season. She doesn't want to go home and would rather spend the holidays alone. She boards a train which turns into a magical Christmas train. It has brought her back home ten years earlier.
It's a Hallmark Christmas fantasy. It's a fun opening premise. The train is nice and it has Doc Brown. What it needs is a dramatic plot. It needs a story. It's actually quite simple. There should be an obvious sliding-door incident which would keep her parents together. It obviously can't be her marriage proposal. This should shot for Back to the Future. Instead, this can't stop being Hallmark. It's all about having a girlie romance.
In addition, can somebody explain the writing credits for me? There are four names and three of them says concept. It seems like these three people pitched a concept to Hallmark and they gave it to this veteran writer to spit out a script. I'd rather have the concept trio write the story they want and have the fourth guy clean it up a little. Despite the weak story, I still like Fonseca and the train concept. Quite frankly, it could be a Hallmark series where the train takes a different person in every movie.
It's a Hallmark Christmas fantasy. It's a fun opening premise. The train is nice and it has Doc Brown. What it needs is a dramatic plot. It needs a story. It's actually quite simple. There should be an obvious sliding-door incident which would keep her parents together. It obviously can't be her marriage proposal. This should shot for Back to the Future. Instead, this can't stop being Hallmark. It's all about having a girlie romance.
In addition, can somebody explain the writing credits for me? There are four names and three of them says concept. It seems like these three people pitched a concept to Hallmark and they gave it to this veteran writer to spit out a script. I'd rather have the concept trio write the story they want and have the fourth guy clean it up a little. Despite the weak story, I still like Fonseca and the train concept. Quite frankly, it could be a Hallmark series where the train takes a different person in every movie.