DISQUS

Matt M · 2 months ago

I've given up on FlashForward. I did intend to stick with it for a while, but just lost the will to watch it. Well - the will to record it each week. I think I've still got 3 and 4.

Anyone want to buy me a PVR with series link for Xmas?

shelly · 2 months ago

I'm firmly convinced that the only ones watching this show are people who are waiting for the story to progress and payoff with the arcs already set up, not people who enjoy this show. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Dan · 2 months ago

@Shelly: No, you're probably right. I'm committed for two reasons: (1) I DO want to know how they're going to end the series (and setup season 2 if they get one), so the pilot's hook has worked on me. (2) I think you can learn more from bad or troubled TV shows than you can from good ones (well, sometimes), but that's speaking from a screenwriting perspective. But, yes, it's not a good show -- it just shows enough promise, often enough, to keep me tuning in.

TomBobBill · 2 months ago

I actualy quite enjoyed this one. Maybe my expectations have hit rock bottom.

smith-kingsley · 2 months ago

We were already told (in episode one) that Lloyd is a physicist at Stanford. That's why he tells Dylan they need to move to Palo Alto.

Dan · 2 months ago

Ahh, I must have missed that. It was probably for the best, as it would have been TOO obvious Lloyd was involved in the blackout had I known he was a physics boffin! Ep4's climax wouldn't have worked had you known his occupation already, surely...

bob · 2 months ago

I missed that he was a physicist too... Or just forgot it. Cool. Simon is a rather amusing character. I find the funny moments on this show a bit off-putting really but at the same time I welcome them as a break from what is otherwise rather dour. I was pleased that he started off by talking about the double slit experiment.

It was a generally pleasing episode, I thought. Not the high point that the previous week's was but it kept me happy. Agent Noh and Janis are still excellent. And I could even grow to like Mark and Olivia if they keep arguing... it was the cloying luvvy duvvy relationship with cute "I hate you" notes I found hard to swallow.

I thought it interesting that half a million people if not more are gathered in Times Square to watch a ball drop so obviously some people are marking the flashforward event. Makes it more strange that none of the other flashes show recognition of this but now I guess I am willing to buy the explanation that they conveniently forgot to check their watches just to make the flashes more interesting.

Finally... why do I watch? Because the idea of knowing the future interests me. What people do with the information, how it changes them etc. I also think it well directed- a couple of scenes had me purring with happiness at the screen this week. And I am growing more invested in my favourite characters with each episode.

And being on channel 5 it is easy to stream from their website. And I want to support the acquisition of scifi shows.

Dan · 2 months ago

I wish I cared about the Benford's marriage, but it's fallen prey to the old TV problem of putting a relationship under strain that we're not even invested in to begin with. It's hard to care about a couple breaking up when you have no sense of how GREAT they are together, or how much in love. Plus, I think Sonya Walger had natural chemistry with Lost's Henry Ian Cusick, but there's not much with Joseph Fiennes. Right now, I can see the appeal of Olivia having an affair with Simon -- maybe they'll claim that was the point all along?

i_like_trees · 2 months ago

'Makes it more strange that none of the other flashes show recognition of this but now I guess I am willing to buy the explanation that they conveniently forgot to check their watches just to make the flashes more interesting.'

One of the major plot holes of the program. I suspect that at the point the flashforwards come they'll just sort of black out (maybe have another flashforward?), but in any case have no control over their actions. Otherwise it would make no logical sense.

As for the olivia benford thing, I usually don't care but I have to say I loved the scene with the three of them in their living room.

bob · 2 months ago

" (maybe have another flashforward?)"

Ooh yes...