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San Francisco, 3:56 AM
Sun Dec 6
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02:04 AM
The difference between these two shows is that Flasforward presents itself as itself, and if you don't buy into that from the very start, the show has nothing to keep you interested. With Lost, it presented itself as Gilligan's Island for a modern age, and only after it got you hooked on the original premise, setting, and characters did it reveal that everything you thought you were watching it for was largely inconsequential compared to the greater whole.
Lost's team also knew how to play the audience along, by both holding back on the really big mysteries, and by regularly answering the minor ones to keep the audience both interested and satisfied. FF started out really big by necessity, but they've been pretty stingy with the small stuff since then, so whatever they've shown us has barely registered compared to how the same things would have gone over on Lost this early in the game.
12/05/09
Not sure how it's going to happen if they took his gun away, but I definitely got the feeling. Mark's stupid behavior combined with his very strong desire to do the right thing seems like it would be the result of a LOT of the bad things that have happened and will happen to him.
But yeah. This show essentially gets a shoulder shrug out of me. It started off interesting, but I just don't care about it. Just when I think it gets interesting, the directors/writers seem to get distracted and look at the new shiny plot idea instead.
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"I would've loved it if we'd seen that Gough's suicide ended up being the event that caused the death of the
woman he was trying to save anyway, thereby proving that the events will happen nonetheless..."
That would be brilliant and I think would turn over the show. The mystery of fate vs. freewill or the combination of both would be brought to its rightful place, in the front of the storyline.
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Thank you. I've been asking this same question for the last month or so. If this is Mark Benford sober, what kind of insufferable prick must he have been back when he was drinking? And how in God's name has he made it this far without murdering a small child?
12/05/09
I believe the term face à claques applies.
12/05/09
Along the same lines, some fear bedbug infestation since ridding their homes is so expensive. Pshaw, a few might say: gasoline is only $3/gal, and matches are free!
So, we know fate isn't locked into stone in FlashForward. We also know that Fate's grooves are dug very deep into the road.
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I don't care about the characters very much other than thinking Olivia should dump Mark for Lloyd. Mark hasn't shown any brilliance at his job like Gregory House or Robert Goren (L&O Criminal Intent) to explain why he's managed to last in the FBI so long with all his flaws.
The plots are a total mess. Decide what kind of show you are and stick with it. And pick up the pace. It doesn't have to be 24 fast but give me a reason to pay attention to more than the first and last 2 minutes of the episode.
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It's pretty good... compared to the other FF episodes anyhow, but shit actually happens, and we get quite a few answers.
So not to shabby overall.