And now we come to the end of the first of half of “Flash Forward’s” inaugural season. And we’ve come a lot farther in, what, 10 weeks? than I thought we would in terms of discovering who or what is behind everything…
Well, this episode was a good deal better than the last. We finally get an answer to whether the futures seen in the flashes can be changed, as well as a heck of an unexpected cliff-hanger. That and an almost word-for-word replay of a scene from the premiere of “V” two days earlier (perhaps they themselves were having a flash-forward…). What more could you want?
Our secondary characters get a little more illumination this week as we find out why the babysitter vanished, a little more of what Dr. Bryce saw, and an ominous twist to our young dad’s background. Plus FBI partner angst, medical drama, and more terrorist connections than you can shake an ebony waterfowl at.
Variety reports that not only has FlashForward been a big enough hit for ABC to order the second half of the season into production, it’s adding three more episodes to the premiere season. Let’s just hope that those aren’t three stretch episodes as people have… Read More »ABC picks up back half of FlashForward, plus 3
Sorry I’m a few days late in getting this commentary out – real life intervened, not to mention I didn’t get to watch the episode until late Friday night. Anyway, getting on with the third episode, entitled “137 Sekunden”. I was a little disappointed with… Read More »Flash Forward, Episode 103 “137 Sekunden”
Looks like we’re developing a core theme to Flash Forward, that of dealing with a family and its own survival. Little “Charlie”, the daughter of main characters Mark and Olivia Benford, is understandably freaked about whatever she saw in her flash forward and it’s causing her to pull away from them and the rest of the world.
SciFi Wire reveals some interesting details about two upcoming ABC series that have a science fiction bent. “Flash Forward” previewed recently during a LOST episode, it’s about what happens after the entire world blacks out for two minutes and is able to see a vision… Read More »ABC Flashes Foward With Two SciFi Series