FlashForward (possible spoilers)

[Pauly]

The pilot airs tonight at 8.30pm on channel 7.

After having just seen the first episode, I think this show has a LOT of potential. It felt a lot like watching the pilot of Lost to me. Which can only be a good thing. There was even an Oceanic airlines billboard! For those who hated Lost, the characters actually ask questions in this show :p

Let us know what you think. I'm looking forward to the next episode.

[AranchineD]

I'm tempted not to watch it simply because Channel 7 have been hyping it to hell, and have a permanent watermark advertising the show until it airs, and it's just been annoying as hell.

Does look interesting though.

[D.C.]

For those who hated Lost, the characters actually ask questions in this show :p
I'm in! :D

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

I thought it was ok.

I can't wait until the season 3 reveal that you're actually watching a flashback!

[Silph]

I liked it.

I'm interested to see how the show works episode to episode though.

[Stevorooni]

I'll watch it tonight but I've heard about the show concept and it's intriguing. I gave up on Lost partway through Season 3 so I hope this doesn't meet the same fate.

I'd wonder what the long term plan for the show is once they reach the time period that they flash forwarded to, unless they just do another flash forward or slow down plot progression time so that the entire series consists of that 6 month period. I'm sure the writers have already thought of these things though.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

I gave up on Lost partway through Season 3

Get out.

[Pauly]

I'd wonder what the long term plan for the show is once they reach the time period that they flash forwarded to, unless they just do another flash forward or slow down plot progression time so that the entire series consists of that 6 month period. I'm sure the writers have already thought of these things though.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm sure they have a plan (if it lasts that long). Here's hoping because I really enjoyed the pilot.

[Stevorooni]

Get out.




Blake: G

* Blake flashes back to when he was 7 years old, he is standing on a footpath and sees a 20c coin on the ground. He reaches for it but a brown boot steps on it. He looks up to see a mysterious man. *

Mysterious Man: Blake, I have an important message for you that you have to give to a man named Reginald in 22 years time.

Blake: What is it?

Mysterious Man: "Don't forget the turnips"



Blake: e

* Blake flashes back to when he was 16 years old, he is standing on that same footpath. This time he sees a 20 dollar note on the ground. He reaches for it but a brown boot steps on it. He looks up to see the mysterious man again. *

Mysterious Man: Blake, do you remember the message I gave you 9 years ago?

Blake: Something about potatoes, my memory ain't so good

Mysterious Man: No you fool, it was "Don't forget the turnips". Your life and the fate of the world depends on this message.



Blake: t

* Blake flashes forward to when he is 54 years old, he is again on that footpath and sees a credit card woth $20,000 on the ground. He reaches for it but a brown boot steps on it. Yep it's that mysterious man again, curiously he hasn't aged *

Mysterious Man: Blake, you did not give the message to Reginald, now look at this post apocalyptic world we live in

Blake: Yeah I just noticed that

Mysterious Man: Now you must take my place. * Pushes Blake into a time portal *

* Blake is now looking at himself when he was 7 years old, he allows his younger self to pick up the 20c piece and walk away without interfering *

Blake: o

* Blake flashes back to his 54 year old self in the time period of his 7 year old self. He sees another 20c piece on the ground and as his jerk younger self took the other one this one is his! A brown boot steps on it, he looks up to see... Reginald! *

Reginald: Blake, because of you I forgot the turnips. Without that extra Vitamin C my cure for the disease that wipes out 98% of humanity was a failure and 98% of humanity was wiped out

Blake: That kind of sucks, someone should have reminded me

Reginald: I sent my assistant, Mysterious Man to do it twice and because of extensive time travelling he ended up becoming his own father

Blake: That's pretty gross

Reginald: Tell me about it

Blake: So why was I the only one who could do it?

Reginald: YOU were my assistant, Mysterious Man

Blake: MIND BLOWN



Blake: u

* Blake now flashes forward to tomorrow when he was supposed to remind Reginald about the turnips *

Reginald: I feel like I'm forgetting something

Blake: Don't look at me

Reginald: Anyway, my cure for that awful disease is now complete

Blake: Well set it loose then, I'm bored

Reginald: There we go. Oh no, 98% of the population was wiped out because there wasn't enough vitamin c in the cure. I forgot the turnips!

Blake: Well use this time travelling thing to leave yourself a note

Reginald: It will have to be cryptic enough to remind me and not ruin the space time continuum.

Blake: Use numbers, those things are cryptic

Reginald: Yes I'll use 7, 16, 54, 20 - Those numbers have appeared at random points in this adventure so now they will make perfect sense

Blake: That's stupid man! Send a person back instead, they can remind you

Reginald: Ok then * pushes Blake into time portal *




Blake: and now to finish the final letter, ... wait I was 7,16 and 54 when future me who is my own father reminded me to remind Reginald to not forget the turnips. A monetary value of 20-something featured each time and the 20th letter of the alphabet is the final letter I need to speak! What a revelation!
Well at least it would be but I need to pad this series out for a little while longer before we can conclude this little thing so let's just say that I am also Reginald and I not only created the cure but I created the disease which is primarily based on turnips




Wow that just kind of wrote itself as I made it up

[TAT]

Wish I could pep for that

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Wow that just kind of wrote itself as I made it up

http://i348.photobucket.com/albums/q321/fishfishmonkeyhat/Macros/tldrcat.jpg

EDIT: Also it looks like you forgot the t.

[dinopoke]

But that's the twist!

[9warbane]

What i think...

http://i816.photobucket.com/albums/zz89/9warbane/evil.jpg
The evil corporation did it. just like RE and fringe.

[Pauly]

Nice screen. Didn't notice that. I hope they plant stuff like this each episode like they did with Lost. One of the best parts about that show was the online community and endless theories.

[9warbane]

Hopefully it all comes together nicely and that Channel 7 don't push it's time slot to later and later time, like they did with lost.

[buckstwits]

Hopefully it all comes together nicely and that Channel 7 don't push it's time slot to later and later time, like they did with lost.

flash forward one month:

show now airs @ 1am sundays...

[Stevorooni]

Was ok, looks like one of those shows where if you miss a single episode then the series will be never make sense again.

[TAT]

Was ok, looks like one of those shows where if you miss a single episode then the series will be never make sense again.
At least it's not a Lost, where nothing makes sense no matter how many episodes you watch...

I'm intrigued to see where this is headed.

Two points of excellence:
- the father of the kid that knew Olivia's name is the guy she flashed about
- the footage at the end that showed the person moving around suspiciously during 'the blackout'

I like that they threw in a Minority Report curve with the future, too, implying that nothing has been set in stone. There's also the added intrigue of whether the characters are creating their own futures by accident or by deliberate avoidance.

Will definitely keep watching.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

What I'd like to know is, in the main characters flashforward, he obviously knows about what happened, because he's working on the case.

So the futures people saw are futures where they know that they saw the future.

So it should be pretty easy to change your future.

Or at least not be in a office being attacked by 3 star rated terrorists.


Also lost makes perfect sense it's on an island.

[Pauly]

So it should be pretty easy to change your future.

Or at least not be in a office being attacked by 3 star rated terrorists.
I think that is what is so interesting. How do you react about seeing the future, especially if you want to change it. And can you?

[TAT]

Kind of like that black guy calling up that woman in England. Did he initiate a chain of events for making that phonecall?

[AranchineD]

So, who wants to guess how many seasons it will be before we find out who that guy that was walking about at the end was? 3? 4?

[Stevorooni]

What I'd like to know is, in the main characters flashforward, he obviously knows about what happened, because he's working on the case.

So the futures people saw are futures where they know that they saw the future.

So it should be pretty easy to change your future.

Or at least not be in a office being attacked by 3 star rated terrorists.


Guy 1: You can't change the future

Guy 2: I had 2 arms in my flashforward. * chops off arm * Future changed.

So, who wants to guess how many seasons it will be before we find out who that guy that was walking about at the end was? 3? 4?

It was Sylar.

I noticed in the preview for the next episode it's got Dominic Monaghan in it. With him and that wife doctor lady we've just got Lost actors popping up everywhere! (well 2 of them)

[Pauly]

Yeah they were both planned a while back but that is all as far as I know from Lost.

So, who wants to guess how many seasons it will be before we find out who that guy that was walking about at the end was? 3? 4?
You guys must hate reading/watching mysteries. They have a word for this... suspense? Some people don't seem to like it :p

[AranchineD]

You guys must hate reading/watching mysteries. They have a word for this... suspense? Some people don't seem to like it :p

Hey, I actually like Lost, no need to preach to me! >_>

[Ali G]

You guys must hate reading/watching mysteries. They have a word for this... suspense? Some people don't seem to like it :p
There's a difference between suspense and dragging out something for the sake of it.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

The sake of it being so the show doesn't finish after 5 episodes?

Of course I'll be eating my own words come season 7.

[Ali G]

The sake of it being so the show doesn't finish after 5 episodes?

Of course I'll be eating my own words come season 7.
It's not as though the whole mystery will be solved once the guy walking around has been identified.

[banjoeskimo]

First ep was promising, I'll definitely watch more.

Also, I totally picked up on the Red Panda thing! Glad I'm not the only one. :D

Anyway, if anyone's interested, the series is based on a '90s sci fi novel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashforward_%28novel%29), but they appear to have changed the plot significantly for TV. I'll probably pick the book up in the near future and give it a whirl.

[Pauly]

There's a difference between suspense and dragging out something for the sake of it.
Apart from a few filler episodes, nothing in Lost was dragged out for the sake of it. Some people just want answers too soon and don't see the bigger picture. Considering the pace of FlashForward's pilot, I don't see it being as much of a problem.

[dinopoke]

lol kangaroos

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

It's not as though the whole mystery will be solved once the guy walking around has been identified.

You seem to be making my argument for me. Why are you doing that?

[Stevorooni]

Well you have been outsourcing your posting to other users recently

[Pauly]

lol kangaroos
omgitslikepolarbearsinlost!!!1

I have to admit it did feel sorta similar >_>

[Stevorooni]

Soon they'll find a computer that needs 6 characters typed in every 93 minutes.

[banjoeskimo]

4 8 15 16 23 42

... sorry, I was saving the world.

Back to the discussion. :p

[Ali G]

Apart from a few filler episodes, nothing in Lost was dragged out for the sake of it. Some people just want answers too soon and don't see the bigger picture. Considering the pace of FlashForward's pilot, I don't see it being as much of a problem.
Tbh I gave up on Lost during the second season. I don't have a problem with there being a bigger picture, or some things not being answered for a long time, but I found Lost to be ridiculous. I'm hoping FlashForward won't do that.

[Jazzilla]

Anyone notice the Oceanic billboard?

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/09/28/was-that-a-big-lost-clue-on-flashforward/

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Yes, several of us.

EDIT: Not the bit about it saying they have a perfect safety record, no.

[Pauly]

The thing I wanna know is about that kid that Olivia was operating on. Olivia never actually saw him in her flashforward. So he shouldn't know who she is.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

What if he saw her in his flashforward?

Also I think the flashes only showed that moment, it didn't allow them to remember everything that happened up to that point, so just because she didn't see him in her ff, doesn't mean she didn't talk to him the day before the ff.

FlashForward.

[Stevorooni]

But they all flash forwarded to the same moment in time, so if he saw her then she would have had to have seen him, but he wasn't in her vision.

The kid must be behind the flash forwards

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Maybe the kid is stalking her under her bed in the ff? It would be pretty easy because he could have got a lift over with his dad.

[Pauly]

But in the FF she never says her name. Nor does the dad say it. So even if the kid is hiding there he wouldn't have heard her name!


Besides you find out something in the next episode about the other kids FF, and it's not in the same place!

[Stevorooni]

Maybe the kid looks at a photo of her which has her name on it in his flash forward

[Pauly]

Possible. Until then I'll assume the kid is psychic :p

[Serenity]

I just saw the pilot on 7. Wow. This looks so good.

Who is this D. Gibbons? Charlie, the little girl, says it's a man. Her father thinks it's Deirdre. This is gonna be good. Will this hacker end up working with him, perhaps? Who knows.

EDIT: WAIT. The pilot was LAST week?! And I missed it?! Damn, I hate the night shifts. ;_;

[Shorty]

Just a friendly reminder for people to put important plot details in spoiler tags. It's what they're there for.

[Serenity]

Sorry! I assumed because it had gone to air it was okay.

[TAT]

Um, no. Some people have hard drive recorders and haven't found a spare hour to watch it.

(around the several hours of surfing the net >__>)

[FrozenSoul80]

Did I just see that there will be a special double encore of this on tonight? I can't see it on any TV guides but I swear I just saw it on the "what's on tonight" thing on the TV.

[AranchineD]

TV says encore is on Wednesday.

[texta]

Only watched a bit of tonight's episode before I got distracted but the thing that bothers me about the whole show is that they have this flash forward in time and then they work out exactly when that time they flash forward to is but all their visions aren't of them standing around excitedly saying "this is my dream from six months ago... here... no here".

[Pauly]

Cool ending. Only thing annoyed me was he never asked his daughter about her flash forward. A bit stupid since it's pretty important.

[Second]

I think I've been spoilt by Lost, as this just isn't grabbing me.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

Only watched a bit of tonight's episode before I got distracted but the thing that bothers me about the whole show is that they have this flash forward in time and then they work out exactly when that time they flash forward to is but all their visions aren't of them standing around excitedly saying "this is my dream from six months ago... here... no here".

I said exactly this on another forum.

[TAT]

Only watched a bit of tonight's episode before I got distracted but the thing that bothers me about the whole show is that they have this flash forward in time and then they work out exactly when that time they flash forward to is but all their visions aren't of them standing around excitedly saying "this is my dream from six months ago... here... no here".
I'd assume that they would be caught up in the moment as well as actually understanding why they were behaving the way they were.

[Pauly]

I think I've been spoilt by Lost, as this just isn't grabbing me.
Yeah I have to admit it has nothing on Lost. But it's still a fun show to keep us busy until then. Nothing else on TV worth watching :p

[Pauly]

Did anyone watch the double ep to kick us back in? I really enjoyed it!

[AranchineD]

Lost is better

[adam_91vn]

Did anyone watch the double ep to kick us back in? I really enjoyed it!

I was going to stop watching it but after the double ep I will give it another chance.

[Second]

It certainly became a lot more interesting now.

[Ali G]

Did anyone watch the double ep to kick us back in? I really enjoyed it!
Hang on, was it on Channel 7? Or have they yet to show it?

[Cubby]

I've still yet to see any of this show, but now that it's cancelled I'm not sure if I should bother. I mean, at least I'll be able to watch it all quite quickly, but won't be happy if it ends unresolved.

[Second]

It's cancelled? Oh well, it was kind of interesting.

[Cubby]

Yeah, apparently was getting pretty poor ratings in the US.

[fishfishmonkeyhat]

I wouldn't bother.