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Goodbye Flash Forward
May 28, 2010 - 04:54 PM
So how long will we be dangling from this cliff?
Quite possibly forever. The Flash
Forward cliffhanger left us with more questions
than answers. As the show was cancelled,
those are answers we may never have.
I looked forward to this show when it premiered last Fall. The pilot had a unique story with a quirky, scifi quality to it. ABC was hyping it as the next Lost. While that may have been a lot to live up to, Flash Forward always had potential for greatness. Unfortunately we never saw it. By midway through the season the story seemed to lose its focus. The four month break was probably the nail in it’s coffin.
It came back a bit stronger and more interesting but it just wasn’t enough to keep old viewers who had gotten bored months back or attract new viewers to what critics were already declaring a sinking ship.
The series finale left many plot points dangling. The core couple started out being Mark and Olivia. Breaking them apart because he refused to run off to Colorado seemed a bit lame to me. She married an FBI agent. They aren’t suppose to cut and run. The story felt forced when Olivia started to have feelings for Lloyd as soon as Mark was out the door. I never felt any chemistry between these two. And having the savant say repeatedly that Lloyd and Olivia belong together because he saw it in his visions didn’t make this story any stronger for me. The sad part is that the sweetest love story of the season was between Keiko and Bryce, two characters who didn’t come face to face until the last minutes of the show.
Nicole spends an entire season fearing that someone will drown her but it came as no real surprise that her attacker was actually saving her life. On the up side he was darn cute. Go for it Nicole.
At the end of last week’s episode Tracy had died in Afghanistan. This week, not so much. Yes, she does actually still have a pulse but that’s all you’ll get from this story. What happens next and how they make it out of the war torn country we’ll never know.
Janis helps Simon and Demetri break into the lab by collapsing into the security guards arms. No, its not just a ploy. She’s been ignoring abdominal pains related to her pregnancy all day. For someone so desperate to have this child that she slept with her partner who was marrying someone else to get pregnant, you’d think she'd take better care of herself. And I’m guessing the wedding really is off as we hear nothing about Demetri’s wayward fiancé, not that I can blame her.
As Demetri and Simon (one of my favorite characters of the series) bicker over the particle accelerator the whole thing mysteriously starts. Apparently someone (we’ll never know who) has a back door pass to start it up. As Simon and Demetri panic, Simon figures out the special code and calls Lloyd. Lloyd’s son suddenly knows their code and Lloyd calls Mark.
Mark is running around FBI headquarters which is rigged with explosives. Yes, Mark knows this but he’s still there anyway. Mark connects the dots (or the lines as it were) and figures out that the next black out will take place in about ten minutes. He frantically calls his boss to have him tell the White House and then calls Olivia to say goodbye and that he loves her and Charlie. Then here come the bad guys. A whole squad of bad guys dressed in black and wearing creepy masks. They make their way through the building shooting anything that moves. Even things that don’t.
I’m all for fun action sequences but this was something beyond over the top. When Mark’s phone rings in his office the bad guys open fire. The wall is made of glass. They can see that no one is inside but they just keep firing, and firing, and firing. Talk about a waste of ammo. And don’t we all know that the building is rigged to explode? Doesn’t anyone want to make it out of here alive?
With the blackout seconds away we see Mark in full Diehard mode running in slow mo for a helicopter hovering outside a balcony. Hey, won’t that thing drop like a rock once the blackout happens?
As the blackout hits we see a barrage of images. Does the next flash forward jump them to 2015? Perhaps. The kangaroo shows up again. Haven’t seen him since the pilot. And an older Charlie turns around and cryptically says “they’ve found him.” Is she talking about her father?
In the end I was happy to see that Lloyd and Olivia kept their clothes on if not their hands off each other. I won’t miss that story. But I’ll miss where Keiko and Bryce could have ended up. I’ll miss Simon. Janis is now having a boy as if to say that flash forwards are not set in stone. How many mystical rings are out there? Who is still causing these blackouts and why. Unless the Syfy network decides to take pity on Flash Forward fans (and I don’t think they will) I’m afraid we’ll never know. Get comfortable on that cliff. We’re going to be her a long, long time.
*****
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I looked forward to this show when it premiered last Fall. The pilot had a unique story with a quirky, scifi quality to it. ABC was hyping it as the next Lost. While that may have been a lot to live up to, Flash Forward always had potential for greatness. Unfortunately we never saw it. By midway through the season the story seemed to lose its focus. The four month break was probably the nail in it’s coffin.
It came back a bit stronger and more interesting but it just wasn’t enough to keep old viewers who had gotten bored months back or attract new viewers to what critics were already declaring a sinking ship.
The series finale left many plot points dangling. The core couple started out being Mark and Olivia. Breaking them apart because he refused to run off to Colorado seemed a bit lame to me. She married an FBI agent. They aren’t suppose to cut and run. The story felt forced when Olivia started to have feelings for Lloyd as soon as Mark was out the door. I never felt any chemistry between these two. And having the savant say repeatedly that Lloyd and Olivia belong together because he saw it in his visions didn’t make this story any stronger for me. The sad part is that the sweetest love story of the season was between Keiko and Bryce, two characters who didn’t come face to face until the last minutes of the show.
Nicole spends an entire season fearing that someone will drown her but it came as no real surprise that her attacker was actually saving her life. On the up side he was darn cute. Go for it Nicole.
At the end of last week’s episode Tracy had died in Afghanistan. This week, not so much. Yes, she does actually still have a pulse but that’s all you’ll get from this story. What happens next and how they make it out of the war torn country we’ll never know.
Janis helps Simon and Demetri break into the lab by collapsing into the security guards arms. No, its not just a ploy. She’s been ignoring abdominal pains related to her pregnancy all day. For someone so desperate to have this child that she slept with her partner who was marrying someone else to get pregnant, you’d think she'd take better care of herself. And I’m guessing the wedding really is off as we hear nothing about Demetri’s wayward fiancé, not that I can blame her.
As Demetri and Simon (one of my favorite characters of the series) bicker over the particle accelerator the whole thing mysteriously starts. Apparently someone (we’ll never know who) has a back door pass to start it up. As Simon and Demetri panic, Simon figures out the special code and calls Lloyd. Lloyd’s son suddenly knows their code and Lloyd calls Mark.
Mark is running around FBI headquarters which is rigged with explosives. Yes, Mark knows this but he’s still there anyway. Mark connects the dots (or the lines as it were) and figures out that the next black out will take place in about ten minutes. He frantically calls his boss to have him tell the White House and then calls Olivia to say goodbye and that he loves her and Charlie. Then here come the bad guys. A whole squad of bad guys dressed in black and wearing creepy masks. They make their way through the building shooting anything that moves. Even things that don’t.
I’m all for fun action sequences but this was something beyond over the top. When Mark’s phone rings in his office the bad guys open fire. The wall is made of glass. They can see that no one is inside but they just keep firing, and firing, and firing. Talk about a waste of ammo. And don’t we all know that the building is rigged to explode? Doesn’t anyone want to make it out of here alive?
With the blackout seconds away we see Mark in full Diehard mode running in slow mo for a helicopter hovering outside a balcony. Hey, won’t that thing drop like a rock once the blackout happens?
As the blackout hits we see a barrage of images. Does the next flash forward jump them to 2015? Perhaps. The kangaroo shows up again. Haven’t seen him since the pilot. And an older Charlie turns around and cryptically says “they’ve found him.” Is she talking about her father?
In the end I was happy to see that Lloyd and Olivia kept their clothes on if not their hands off each other. I won’t miss that story. But I’ll miss where Keiko and Bryce could have ended up. I’ll miss Simon. Janis is now having a boy as if to say that flash forwards are not set in stone. How many mystical rings are out there? Who is still causing these blackouts and why. Unless the Syfy network decides to take pity on Flash Forward fans (and I don’t think they will) I’m afraid we’ll never know. Get comfortable on that cliff. We’re going to be her a long, long time.
*****
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