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I caught the debut of FlashForward. The whole world blacks out for a couple minutes and has visions of events six months from now. Better than The Nine, but nowhere near Lost--not yet, anyway. None of the characters seem that memorable. Also, if the plot turns out to be trying to avoid the future, isn't it another Heroes? (And what'll they do for a second season?) I'll check it out next week, but I still need to be convinced.
A few notes:
1) What's Desmond's wife doing cheating on him?
2) What's Seth MacFarlane doing on a serious show?
3) Yay Detroit! Some activity at the Tiger's game.
4) They're jumping ahead to April 29th. I already know what I'll be doing April 29th--celebrating my birthday.
Update: FlashForward had good numbers, beating Survivor in the demos (and of course beating the NBC comedy lineup).
posted by LAGuy @ 12:28 AM
3 Comments:
Any other year, Reeve Flertz would have been celebrating his birthday this April 29 . . .
One basic problem in time-travel fiction is that unless you allow for a specific targeting mechanism (and how do you that for the future- presumably you're going there to find out whats going to happen), whats the chance that some temporary temporal dislocation is going to put you anywhere meaningful- I mean we sleep for about a third of the time, a lot of other time is spent doing nothing of consequence that impart any useful information.
Yes TV drama won't focus on the dull parts of life but this still bothers me
All fiction concentrates on the interesting moments of life. Flashforward, so far, has unknown forces causing the problem, and much of the series will be about finding out whodunnit.
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