Flash Forward

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Maybe.

Taking LA as being 8 hours behind London then I guess we would have had this whole 'blackout' thing at 6.00pm. Height of the rush hour. I suppose one of the traffic spotting planes or Helicopters might have crashed into the HoP but the odds of it being on fire like that must be pretty small.

Now the flight paths into both Gatwich and Heathrow, well that would be murderous and I would also guess that given the rush hour timing, the main railway stations absolute carnage (although the whole 'dead man' braking system might avoid that)

Roads might be different in that they would be so slow anyway that only minor collision damage.

And yes, I do think about this sort of thing to much.

And how about a very mild disaster in Japan, with everyone tucked up in bed.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

You do realise the last 2 seasons of Lost have been nothing short of brilliant right?

And that the ending has been planned since (at the latest) mid-way through Season 2, which the most recent episodes have shown explicitly?

Kids and their attention spans these days *grumble*

Back on topic, I thought it was a very impressive pilot episode, looking forward to seeing where they go with it.

Also seeing Seth Macfarlane as an FBI agent makes me

I did enjoy the last season of lost but it was still dragged out to fuck. Read my complaint again. Lost was a good idea and a good programme, but they started making it up as they went along to drag it out. That's not how great stories are written.
Supposedly the last (next) season of Lost was always written (to some extent) so hopefully there will be a good conclusion, unlike the very disappointing battlestar galactica (- and the recent 100 bullets comic book fans).

Nice to see Seth and Harold, I wonder which other comedy actors are going to pop up?

 

[belboid]

That was interesting, though it felt 15 minutes too long. Hope the characterisation improves. I have a feeling they will have to shoehorn in a bunch of weird crap to sustain this for even one entire season. Difficult to really comment to be fair, though it did start to drag. Actually the idea of some people being awake during the 'ff' struck me as a copout really, don't know why.

How do you know they were actually people??

 

[The Octagon]

I've given this considered thought, and decided that if they have an episode where the Seth character talks entirely like Stewie or Quagmire for an episode, or John Cho gets high to cope with his upcoming death, this will be the greatest show on tv.

Bonus points if Miles from This Life does his 'guppy fish' expression.

 

[belboid]

Maybe.

Taking LA as being 8 hours behind London then I guess we would have had this whole 'blackout' thing at 6.00pm. Height of the rush hour. I suppose one of the traffic spotting planes or Helicopters might have crashed into the HoP but the odds of it being on fire like that must be pretty small.

Now the flight paths into both Gatwich and Heathrow, well that would be murderous and I would also guess that given the rush hour timing, the main railway stations absolute carnage (although the whole 'dead man' braking system might avoid that)

Roads might be different in that they would be so slow anyway that only minor collision damage.

And yes, I do think about this sort of thing to much.

No maybe about it at all - it was a nice shot, even if it was utterly absurd in its unlikelihood - you know what? The whole bleeding premise is utterly absurd!

& iirr there is a no fly zone over HoP as well, precisely to stop that kinda thing happening.

Of course, it could just be that someone fell asleep over a knackered old photocopier in full flow, causing it to overheat and burst into flames. And someone else was having a crafty fag near the secret whisky stills, knocked them over and then.... Not sure how the fire at the top of Big Ben would have begin tho....

 

[Awesome Wells]

How do you know they were actually people??

Could be anything, but it just seemed a cop out to have some people 'awake' somehow.

Perhaps it was Elvis, Jacko, Lord Lucan, Shergar and Jack the Ripper!

 

[Biddlybee]

Was this on last night?

 

[The Octagon]

Was this on last night?

Yep, but from the looks of it Five are making the most of their investment -

It's being shown on Friday at 10pm (Five), Saturday at 9:30 (Five), Sunday at 7:00 (Fiver) & 10:35 (Five), Monday at 8:00 (Fiver) & 9:00 (Five) and Tuesday at 10:00 (Fiver)

Just saw a couple of other cool points on another board -

The date of the flash-forwards is April 29, 2010, which just so happens to be the provisional airing date for the final episode of Lost - co-incidence, planned to tie-in, or just handy marketing?

Also, why did nobody flash-forward and see news reports / banners proclaiming 'Flash-forward Day', it's not like the media wouldn't know it was coming....

 

[El Sueno]

Why did so many offices suddenly burst into flames within the two minute blackout, I mean - how many fucking toasters combusted/servers overheated in that small timespan?

And are that FBI team the only people in the world trying to piece it all together? There should've been a shot of some stoners, figuring it all out in 5 mins...

Interesting stuff, all the same. Liked the ending. Most of the characters were fucking bland and not terribly well acted though imo.

 

[belboid]

And are that FBI team the only people in the world trying to piece it all together? There should've been a shot of some stoners, figuring it all out in 5 mins...

give it a chance, no doubt we will be introduced to all the other teams in the next (not so) few weeks. And they will all neatly match their national stereotypes.

Most unbelievable bit was after token girly says "hey, why dont we create a website where everyone can log there stories", no one replies "Dont be an eejit, it'll be full of made up crap and conspiraloons, the likes of whom make jazzzz look sane"

 

[The Octagon]

I hope they explore the fact that people are going to lie through their teeth about what they saw to exploit the situation (ie. Joseph Fiennes character has ended up leading the investigation because he told his boss he saw himself leading, what if someone else said they saw the same thing?). Cue enterprising young man (or woman), proclaiming his future relationship with Jessica Alba or something...

 

[El Sueno]

give it a chance, no doubt we will be introduced to all the other teams in the next (not so) few weeks. And they will all neatly match their national stereotypes.

Most unbelievable bit was after token girly says "hey, why dont we create a website where everyone can log there stories", no one replies "Dont be an eejit, it'll be full of made up crap and conspiraloons, the likes of whom make jazzzz look sane"

I was thinking that, wow yeah a website - how modern; good luck in finding a domain name though 'cos there's already been 10,000 identical ones set up in just the last five minutes by nerdy conspiracy-theorists.

 

[El Jefe]

anyone know what the really fidgetty hip hop track was that was used near the beginning, when they're doing the stakeout?

it was Mos Def.

 

[The Octagon]

it was Mos Def.

Mos def what though?








Sorry.

 

[Gromit]

give it a chance, no doubt we will be introduced to all the other teams in the next (not so) few weeks. And they will all neatly match their national stereotypes.

Most unbelievable bit was after token girly says "hey, why dont we create a website where everyone can log there stories", no one replies "Dont be an eejit, it'll be full of made up crap and conspiraloons, the likes of whom make jazzzz look sane"

Except they are going to cross reference the info so only stuff with widespread collaboration is likely to be flagged. At least it better had be that approach. If they follow up leads from two men and a dog I'll be most annoyed.

 

[mrsfran]

Santino pointed out to me that one of the names given as a lead from Feinnes' flash forward - D. Gibbons - is the same name as the artist who drew the Watchmen comic. Little reference there.

 

[janeb]

Why did so many offices suddenly burst into flames within the two minute blackout, I mean - how many fucking toasters combusted/servers overheated in that small timespan?

Buildings were on fire where planes etc crashed into them / debris from other crashes - we saw a helicopter fall down the front of one building

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Also, why did nobody flash-forward and see news reports / banners proclaiming 'Flash-forward Day', it's not like the media wouldn't know it was coming....

Nobody knows if the flash fowards come true yet and we only seen seen or heard about 7 out of 7million of them

 

[The Octagon]

Nobody knows if the flash fowards come true yet and we only seen seen or heard about 7 out of 7million of them

Kind of my point, it means that the future can potentially be altered now that people 'know' their futures.

And to be pedantic (sorry), 7 out of 7 billion.

 

[Gromit]

Buildings were on fire where planes etc crashed into them / debris from other crashes - we saw a helicopter fall down the front of one building

There's never that many manually flown aircraft over LA at a given time.

I can believe a helicopter crash or three but not the level of building firesthey had going.

Or the fact that they were making out every plane up in the air at that time crashed. Pilots rarely touch the controls of comercial flights anymore. It's mainly all done on autopilot.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Kind of my point, it means that the future can potentially be altered now that people 'know' their futures.

And to be pedantic (sorry), 7 out of 7 billion.

Oh yes 7 million is not all that many. Slip of the fingers/brain

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

There's never that many manually flown aircraft over LA at a given time.

I can believe a helicopter crash or three but not the level of building firesthey had going.

Or the fact that they were making out every plane up in the air at that time crashed. Pilots rarely touch the controls of comercial flights anymore. It's mainly all done on autopilot.

Have you seen how many copters are over london at any point in the day? I know it's not LA but it must be more or less the same. There wasn't that many fires, and a lot might have started due to ground collisions. I personally would like to think if someone was making a show this big they would do their sums. For a completely made up show I am willing to suspend belief even if they are wrong.

 

[mrsfran]

I'm less puzzled by the multitude of fires than I am about the kangaroo hopping down the street. I think that suggest space as well as time shifts.

 

[El Sueno]

Buildings were on fire where planes etc crashed into them / debris from other crashes - we saw a helicopter fall down the front of one building

Yeah, that helicopter appeared to crash long after everyone had woken up... what was that all about?!

 

[belboid]

naah, it just fell whilst we were looking at it, it had clearly carshed moments earlier.

A more pertinent question would be, what happened to the bloke Fiennes and matey boy had just saved. They ran over to pull him out of the car, then here was the cut to the falling copter, then back to them – and rescued man had disappeared!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I'm less puzzled by the multitude of fires than I am about the kangaroo hopping down the street. I think that suggest space as well as time shifts.

Or a circus/zoo malfunction. Far more logical.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Quite enjoyed it and enough to keep me tuning in, though I am worried about it becoming another "Lost" (which I stopped watching after the first series 'cos it started to annoy me)

Did anyone else notice "panda" or possibly "red panda" - it was written on the side of a bus on an advert saying something like "better tomorrow" when Joseph Fiennes was walking around after the blackout then it was also on the noticeboard during his flash forward...the series' "bad wolf" maybe?

Mind you I can't believe I noticed than and did not realise it was Seth Macfarlane

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

How long is this one? Is it going to run on forever or is it finite?

There's no point in getting into it. Its on ABC, they always cancel stuff after a couple eps.

 

[MikeMcc]

There's no point in getting into it. Its on ABC, they always cancel stuff after a couple eps.

Given the premise, I can't see how it can last more than one series.

 

[Iguana]

Or the fact that they were making out every plane up in the air at that time crashed. Pilots rarely touch the controls of comercial flights anymore. It's mainly all done on autopilot.

Any plane taking off or landing would go down. So the suburbs of many large cities would be fucked. There would be carnage all around Heathrow, Gatwick, City, Stansted and Luton. Each Heathrow flightpath tends to have planes at every 1m10s. There would be several hundred planes down in Greater London alone.