I want to like this but it just can't hold my attention

After watching 4 episodes, I have been trying to figure out why this show doesn't appeal to me whereas other Canadian sci-fi (Dark Matter, Continuum) does. By comparing it to the aforementioned shows, I have drawn some parallels (aside from all three being Canadian productions).

Continuum also deals with time travel, and more specifically the concept of a bleak future and the endeavors of time travelers to change that future, but there the similarities end: where Continuum quickly set the scene by giving us a glimpse of this dystopian future, Travelers fails to do this. Likewise Travelers also fails to develop anything resembling a mythology, and it dispenses with character development altogether; we are given scant details about the "hosts" lives but virtually nothing about the real characters i.e. the "travelers" inhabiting these bodies. Since we do not know who they are nor why they are here nor what they are doing, we do not care what happens to them. So what if the bomb detonates? Everyone dies? Who cares? We didn't know anything about them anyway.

This is where Dark Matter made very good use of character development. When we were introduced to the crew they were strangers even to themselves, and this initial absence of back story, inter-personal relationships and concrete personalities was used to great effect as the series progressed and we got to know the characters as they in turn discovered themselves. On the contrary, if the "Travelers" still have much to learn about their "hosts" and their own mission, the audience is left completely in the dark.

Come to think of it, Travelers has no strong points whatsoever. It doesn't set the scene,its characters remain virtually anonymous; it fails on the most basic levels of storytelling.