Flash Forward - Thursdays at 8pm/7pm CT on ABC (Not Renewed for a 2nd Season)
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evildeadjedi
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So many questions left unanswered 
YOU ABC!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ABC!!!!!!!!!!!
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Oh man, last nights episode was brilliant...ABC once again s over a great series!
How's the book...anyone here read it yet?
s over a great series!How's the book...anyone here read it yet?
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One thing I will always remember from the show, "I hate Pickles! I hate Lettuce! I love tomatoes!" :lol:[/QUOTE]
I agree
One thing I will always remember from the show, "I hate Pickles! I hate Lettuce! I love tomatoes!" :lol:[/QUOTE]
I agree
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The show had too many pointless characters. Like the male nurse.
I just caught up on the last 3 episodes. I liked the last episode alot, but I figured it wouldn't answer anything since they shot it before knowing the series was cancelled. Too bad. I would like to at least know the story the writers had planned. Maybe one of them will do an interview and spill the beans sometime.
[quote name='evildeadjedi']So many questions left unanswered YOU ABC!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]
Yep, that about sums it up.
[quote name='evildeadjedi']So many questions left unanswered
YOU ABC!!!!!!!!!!![/QUOTE]Yep, that about sums it up.
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[quote name='RAMSTORIA']just watched the last episode, i was really hoping for at least semiclosure. but nope. as much as i want this to get picked up on another channel like on cable. just makes me not want to watch television.[/QUOTE]
It makes me not want to give new shows a chance personally.
It makes me not want to give new shows a chance personally.
Me too. As I've said a few times, between this and other shows getting canceled over the years--and investing a lot of time and effort following Lost and the X-files before and being let down by the endings--I'm done watching serial dramas live.
I'll watch them on DVD/Bluray when the entire run is over if they get rave reviews from start to finish. Then I don't have to worry about cancellations, or series ending crappy etc. As well as not having to wait between episodes, seasons, fast forward commercials etc.--so it's a win-win!
I'll watch them on DVD/Bluray when the entire run is over if they get rave reviews from start to finish. Then I don't have to worry about cancellations, or series ending crappy etc. As well as not having to wait between episodes, seasons, fast forward commercials etc.--so it's a win-win!
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I don't know. There's something to be said for being part of a discussion while the show is on. I'm watching BSG now (missed it for various reasons while it aired) and I miss the speculation, the talk, and the general digestion of episodes as they happen. It makes a good show better, and it makes a disappointment (like FlashForward) at least more interesting.
Other shows, well, it's good to have been there even if they died young. Journeyman, for instance, was a terrific show. And it's never been released on DVD.
With FlashForward, I think I would have given up on it after this last episode anyway. I don't know if it was the troubled history, or the difficulty of keeping large TV dramas coherent, or that the idea was just better than the execution of the idea. But the finale exemplifies everything that's wrong with FlashForward.
If I had to wrap it up in one statement, it would be that FlashForward forgot that it's not the destination, but the journey that's important. The finale was so hellbent on getting everyone where they were "supposed" to be that it felt like an anticlimax that really didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Bryce and Keiko are the best example of this. The show is busy asking the question "Will they meet?" which is boring. Now that they have, I kinda have to wonder what the fuss was about. It feels like a cheat, because they dropped everything to find each other because of their FlashForwards. What was so amazing about the meeting to cause them to do this? No idea. I also realize that I stopped caring about both of them when their entire story stopped being about them as characters. You could put anyone in their shoes for Generic Love Story #27. The interesting characters we were introduced to earlier have vanished.
Other surprises just seem like cheats. Nicole really can't tell the difference between someone strangling her and rescuing her? Wedeck is revealed to be hiding in the bathroom stall, not reading the paper. I know I often get reading the morning paper confused with getting ready to shoot someone. CIA guy massively cheats by changing "He's dead" into "He must be dead." Remember that the FlashForwards are over two minutes long. Other reveals were just boring: did anyone not think we'd get a new FlashForward, that Dylan would solve the Grand Unifying Theory, or that Janice would get an ultrasound? Didn't think so.
So, a lot of going through the motions. It's a shame, because it was sometimes brilliant and sometimes asked really interesting questions. But that's not enough to keep a big, sprawling show together in the end.
Other shows, well, it's good to have been there even if they died young. Journeyman, for instance, was a terrific show. And it's never been released on DVD.
With FlashForward, I think I would have given up on it after this last episode anyway. I don't know if it was the troubled history, or the difficulty of keeping large TV dramas coherent, or that the idea was just better than the execution of the idea. But the finale exemplifies everything that's wrong with FlashForward.
If I had to wrap it up in one statement, it would be that FlashForward forgot that it's not the destination, but the journey that's important. The finale was so hellbent on getting everyone where they were "supposed" to be that it felt like an anticlimax that really didn't make a whole lot of sense.
Bryce and Keiko are the best example of this. The show is busy asking the question "Will they meet?" which is boring. Now that they have, I kinda have to wonder what the fuss was about. It feels like a cheat, because they dropped everything to find each other because of their FlashForwards. What was so amazing about the meeting to cause them to do this? No idea. I also realize that I stopped caring about both of them when their entire story stopped being about them as characters. You could put anyone in their shoes for Generic Love Story #27. The interesting characters we were introduced to earlier have vanished.
Other surprises just seem like cheats. Nicole really can't tell the difference between someone strangling her and rescuing her? Wedeck is revealed to be hiding in the bathroom stall, not reading the paper. I know I often get reading the morning paper confused with getting ready to shoot someone. CIA guy massively cheats by changing "He's dead" into "He must be dead." Remember that the FlashForwards are over two minutes long. Other reveals were just boring: did anyone not think we'd get a new FlashForward, that Dylan would solve the Grand Unifying Theory, or that Janice would get an ultrasound? Didn't think so.
So, a lot of going through the motions. It's a shame, because it was sometimes brilliant and sometimes asked really interesting questions. But that's not enough to keep a big, sprawling show together in the end.
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