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10/01/09
George Orr, the character in that book has what he's called 'effective dreams', where his dream changes the reality of the world. As a younger man, he was in a world where there had been a nuclear war, and he dreamed that world away.
In the book, the therapist he's working with works with George to create a better world, and the havoc that results from the resulting changes to the world.
Freakin' brilliant book
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Man, I miss it. It's hard to believe we're where we are now in just four short seasons.
09/30/09
"Wait, wait, what are you doing in second season.. no.. no, that's not.. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~!"
09/30/09
So many things that made it a great season!
09/29/09
If you saw a future where you where lost in the desert, I’m pretty sure you would be cancelling that trip to the Grand Canyon.
This is the major flaw of Flash Forward and what will render its major theme kind of redundant and increasingly irritating.
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First: That's not a major flaw, that's a way to keep you curious and coming back next week to see if they change anything
Second: It's the pilot, you can't expect them to answer every question
Third: Specially the ones they want you to have. Lost wasn't even a time travel show and now we don't know if it can be changed or not. That's not a bug. It's a feature. It's what keeps people addicted!!
09/30/09
Put simplest of terms, it would be way to easy to avoid the future you see in a flash forward (Quit your job, sell your house, get locked up in prison, move to another country etc.).
09/29/09
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Also a memorable one for me is an episode from Stargate Atlantis "The Seer". The prediction of the future that doesn't isn't as they thought. When Sam sees a future where Atlantis is destroyed by the Replicators, it was actually the rebel Replicator cloned city of Atlantis that was destroyed instead.
09/29/09
What about the multiple X-Files episode about time travel - the guy who can predict other people's deaths, or the woman who relived the bank robbery over and over? Push, with multiple futures? Time Cop? "The Man Who Folded Himself"? Groundhog Day? Various Star Trek episodes? Stargate? Macbeth? Quantum Leap? Eureca? The DC time travel system is all over the place, so it is hard to identify (some things can be changed, others can't be). I am sure there are a bunch of others that I am forgetting.
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Is he right about M&S? Sure, we all buy that M would die from autoerotic asphyxiation, b/c duh... but he also said Scully doesn't ever die... was he lying or mistaken?
09/29/09
"Before I draw nearer to that stone to which you point", said Scrooge, "answer me one question. Are these the shadows of the things that will be, or are they shadows of things that may be, only?"
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09/18/09
In a spooky voice, with a flashlight under my chin: "In The Year 2000"
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