Episode 10: The "bad guys" make an unexpected move and our fearless cop duo manages to find one mysterious piece of the puzzle all the while mixing things up a little. I like how they keep injecting the drama with some dry humor. :D
I don't know how well FlashForward is faring with respect to ratings but I hope it will get a fair chance. The cast is doing a great job. The story is still interesting as nothing is quite what it seems.
One point of contention: those swat teams were a bit too quickly on the scene... unless this was all in the flash forward but then how were we to know that?
Regarding the characters, I'm going to disagree slightly. This show has two polarized categories the cast fall into: Good characters, and terrible characters. Unfortunately, our hero and his wife seem to fall into the latter. His AA sponsor has some depth, but so much keeps on being forced into the scene as if to delay the expansion of the core plot. Every episode these days, we're only being given a teeny tiny sliver of detail and mostly filler content.
What really bugs me is that the different writers all seem to be poorly unified. There is no coherent vision of how the Flash Forward happened, nor is there any comfortable consistency with regard to how the future is treated.
We can't really expect the writers to spill all the beans in just a few episodes. What would be the point in that? I can't believe episode 4 of V was "a season finale." WTF? Soon we will be down to a one hour season if they keep up this pace. Maybe they should stick with the mini series format instead to see how it is received by the viewers. But no, that would give us a set time frame and we wouldn't be hanging there wanting more. And I hate them for their mid-season breaks.
In retrospect they don't have a single redeeming feature. I don't know why I'm watching in the first place.
I don't mind flawed characters. The FBI agents in X-Files were dull by comparison. I do agree that the chemistry between husband and wife seems off and if he's an alcoholic, I can imagine why. It's a couple with issues that are implied and not completely played out. I think the actors are doing a fine job portraying that. But I could be wrong. :D
With his missing pinky I hope they get the continuity right.
Been meaning to drag this thread back up the pile since the show kicked off again. Been good so far and has really got a darker edge to it. Have to say I'm enjoying it more than Caprica.
Episode 14 takes partially place in [sp]Somalia[/sp] and that's also where the plot looses some credibility. I don't know much about FBI training, but I doubt it involves [sp]covert operations in an African country still going through a civil war.[/sp] While we kind of saw this coming that they would have to check out the place of the initial event, I don't think taking along a couple of red shirts makes it much more convincing. We drop in, do our thing and get out, easy as pie. What is believable though is that life isn't worth much in some parts of the world.
Episode 15 feels like one big riddle with some action sprinkled in. They also took some lessons from shows like Alias to the point where you don't know who you can really trust anymore which is always interesting. :)
No, and it's only getting better. Everybody loves cop-military-hospital-romantic-procedural-mystery shows, so why should this one get canceled? :D
I'm surprised we haven't seen some smoke creature yet. At least we got some descent gun fights.
The show is serviceable but you can see that it wasn't expected to last as long as it did because insignificant characters are suddenly starting to get a hell lot more important. Sucks to be the character who jumped off the roof early on in the series.
IMO they seem to have some quality issues with their fist fights. There's been a couple of times I thought they've missed when they swing their arms but yet the victim gets knocked back.
Episode 16 turned into somewhat of a Latin soap drama. One guy is supposed to get married but impregnates a female colleague during the episode in Somalia.
Another guy's wife is cheating (in a vulnerable moment, I guess) with one of the black-out device scientists (like that's likely to happen...) just as foretold in her flash forward.
Great... and one guy gets go to Afghanistan, Rambo-style, like he's going to get through customs that way. :D
Oh and this second mole inside the investigative group twist is going to get complicated really fast. I fear the writers just jumped off a cliff on that one.
Episode 17 finally removes all stops and goes all-in. Suspension of disbelief is a good thing... and you'll need it here too. At one point I felt the plot was just going all over the place. The odds of all those people being at the right place at the right time are astronomical. I hope this show doesn't jump the shark... it sure is circling the ramp just about now. :cool:
Did you catch [sp]James "Gaius Blatar" Callis[/sp] towards the end?
Episode 18 mumbles about some ancient clock thing... then we get the [sp]second blackout[/sp] and the [sp]pregnant agent appears to be cashing three pay checks by working for all the other sides?[/sp]
[sp]James "Gaius Blatar" Callis[/sp] appears to have a recurring role as some kind of [sp]autistic savant/time traveler.[/sp] Not sure what he's mumbling about either.
This show is getting more complicated by the minute... still it's interesting enough to keep watching.
This show is holding my interest more than V (which had quite a paltry entry last episode, in my opinion). Unfortunately, word is that V might get the renew, while FlashForward may not.
Episode 19 tells us that what they were afraid of was the LHC causing a global black-out?
Unfortunate make-up FX shot: the black woman wearing headphones had already "blood" on her forehead before hitting the ground during the global black-out in the control room.
I re-examined the scene again in slow motion. The problem actually isn't that the blood is on her forehead before she hits the ground.
I missed the moment right before when she hits the right side of her head on the table and in the next shot you see the blood on the left side of her head when she drops to the floor.
I suppose the makers inverted the shot for artistic reasons, unfortunately, that puts the bloody impact on the opposite side of her head.
Those are details a mind catches unconsciously, while trying to make sense of it all. :D
I don't get it, the show's great and still they dump it because nobody's watching it when it gets aired. That's insane!!
At least Fringe and V got renewed, but that's little comfort to those working on FlashForward.
There needs to be a generational change at the top soon. They need to understand that people don't sit next to their radio sets anymore and listen to the BBC. The audience is out there! It's just not on the regular channels anymore. Why don't they understand, why do they refuse to understand. There's even money to be made, if they just take the risk and make the necessary commitment.
It's like making lemonade in a kitchen and trying to sell it at the side of the road and willingly ignore the fact that there are supermarkets out there and then dumping the lemonade in the gutter because no one's buying. I guess the system has run its course. There's still a pulse... but it's terminally ill.
I just watched the 22nd and last episode of FlashForward and while it couldn't give us all the answers, it was way more satisfying than the series finale of Lost. I still can't see anything wrong with the show. I suppose people are just tired of watching another series featuring yet another FBI team. With all those CSI shows I can only imagine that people might not feel like following FF. Since I haven't watched any CSI shows lately, I was probably more open to it.
Finally watched the finale yesterday; it was satisfying in tying up most of the threads of the season, while providing a good jumping-off point for the next season.
Shame it won't get it. Still say it was better than V. Oh well, the masses have spoken. I just don't seem to have the motivation to fight it anymore.
It joins Jericho, Firefly, Standoff, Space: Above and Beyond, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, and others I cannot remember anymore whose viewership did not live up to the quality of the show.
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I don't know how well FlashForward is faring with respect to ratings but I hope it will get a fair chance. The cast is doing a great job. The story is still interesting as nothing is quite what it seems.
One point of contention: those swat teams were a bit too quickly on the scene... unless this was all in the flash forward but then how were we to know that?
What really bugs me is that the different writers all seem to be poorly unified. There is no coherent vision of how the Flash Forward happened, nor is there any comfortable consistency with regard to how the future is treated.
In retrospect they don't have a single redeeming feature. I don't know why I'm watching in the first place.
I don't mind flawed characters. The FBI agents in X-Files were dull by comparison. I do agree that the chemistry between husband and wife seems off and if he's an alcoholic, I can imagine why. It's a couple with issues that are implied and not completely played out. I think the actors are doing a fine job portraying that. But I could be wrong. :D
The first two episodes (11 & 12) start off quite strong with some action, drama, humor and explaining, which is nice.
The scenes at the dinner table with "Uncle Teddy" until the end were just great!
Been meaning to drag this thread back up the pile since the show kicked off again. Been good so far and has really got a darker edge to it. Have to say I'm enjoying it more than Caprica.
I'm surprised we haven't seen some smoke creature yet. At least we got some descent gun fights.
The show is serviceable but you can see that it wasn't expected to last as long as it did because insignificant characters are suddenly starting to get a hell lot more important. Sucks to be the character who jumped off the roof early on in the series.
Another guy's wife is cheating (in a vulnerable moment, I guess) with one of the black-out device scientists (like that's likely to happen...) just as foretold in her flash forward.
Great... and one guy gets go to Afghanistan, Rambo-style, like he's going to get through customs that way. :D
Oh and this second mole inside the investigative group twist is going to get complicated really fast. I fear the writers just jumped off a cliff on that one.
Did you catch [sp]James "Gaius Blatar" Callis[/sp] towards the end?
[sp]James "Gaius Blatar" Callis[/sp] appears to have a recurring role as some kind of [sp]autistic savant/time traveler.[/sp] Not sure what he's mumbling about either.
This show is getting more complicated by the minute... still it's interesting enough to keep watching.
It's a shame V is more likely to get renewed than FlashForward as the series has been excellent since it returned.
Unfortunate make-up FX shot: the black woman wearing headphones had already "blood" on her forehead before hitting the ground during the global black-out in the control room.
I missed the moment right before when she hits the right side of her head on the table and in the next shot you see the blood on the left side of her head when she drops to the floor.
I suppose the makers inverted the shot for artistic reasons, unfortunately, that puts the bloody impact on the opposite side of her head.
Those are details a mind catches unconsciously, while trying to make sense of it all. :D
I hope you are satisfied. :p
At least Fringe and V got renewed, but that's little comfort to those working on FlashForward.
There needs to be a generational change at the top soon. They need to understand that people don't sit next to their radio sets anymore and listen to the BBC. The audience is out there! It's just not on the regular channels anymore. Why don't they understand, why do they refuse to understand. There's even money to be made, if they just take the risk and make the necessary commitment.
It's like making lemonade in a kitchen and trying to sell it at the side of the road and willingly ignore the fact that there are supermarkets out there and then dumping the lemonade in the gutter because no one's buying. I guess the system has run its course. There's still a pulse... but it's terminally ill.
Well, it was fun while it lasted indeed.
Shame it won't get it. Still say it was better than V. Oh well, the masses have spoken. I just don't seem to have the motivation to fight it anymore.
It joins Jericho, Firefly, Standoff, Space: Above and Beyond, Sarah Connor Chronicles, Dollhouse, Lucy: Daughter of the Devil, and others I cannot remember anymore whose viewership did not live up to the quality of the show.