Flash Forward

[paolo]

And are that FBI team the only people in the world trying to piece it all together?

That *really* annoyed me. A couple of middle ranking FBI people are given the task of sorting out the world's biggest unexplained global phenomena.

And this is decided based on a conversation in a lobby, with an equally not-really-that-important manager.

And I hate the "deep bit" at the end. Lost used to do that all the time.

Gah. Had high hopes for this. I'll keep trying for a bit though.

 

[paolo]

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.

Mostly a runway pileup. Autoland will take it right to the runway and drop the aircraft on the tarmac, possibly do auto brake aswell, but it won't make the turn off the runway. So it would get messy there.

And anything being hand flown could make some significant modifications to, say, Hounslow, of course.

 

[The Octagon]

That *really* annoyed me. A couple of middle ranking FBI people are given the task of sorting out the world's biggest unexplained global phenomena.

And this is decided based on a conversation in a lobby, with an equally not-really-that-important manager.

To be fair, they did mention several times that every other agency in the world was looking into it, they just gave Shakespeare the lead on their particular investigation.

I would imagine other government storylines will start to seep in over the next few episodes.

Mostly a runway pileup. Autoland will take it right to the runway and drop the aircraft on the tarmac, possibly do auto brake aswell, but it won't make the turn off the runway. So it would get messy there.

And anything being hand flown could make some significant modifications to, say, Hounslow, of course.

I believe the word you are looking for is improvements.

 

[Brinxmat]

I have Sky and gave up on it.

Especially as it changed from spooky things about numbers and smoke monsters to some ridiculous nonsense about time travel.

It's like they suddenly changed the writing staff

I'm totally bored with people saying "LOST went all weird and never tied anything up...so I stopped watching three episodes into Season 2 / Season 3"

Want to know why you didn't get the answers? the tie-ins? the explanations? Coz you wimped....that's why.

Season 4 and Season 5 of Lost completely meshed the flashbacks and the flashforwards - started answering a lot of the questions, whilst still building to the finale of Season 6...

...which has been planned all along. "Wing it like Lost?" Cuh!

Enjoy your little 'wrapped up in an hour' programmes...

 

[The Octagon]

I'm totally bored with people saying "LOST went all weird and never tied anything up...so I stopped watching three episodes into Season 2 / Season 3"

Want to know why you didn't get the answers? the tie-ins? the explanations? Coz you wimped....that's why.

Season 4 and Season 5 of Lost completely meshed the flashbacks and the flashforwards - started answering a lot of the questions, whilst still building to the finale of Season 6...

...which has been planned all along. "Wing it like Lost?" Cuh!

Enjoy your little 'wrapped up in an hour' programmes...

Nail. Head.

 

[Gromit]

I started to read your long rebuttal but about three words into paragraph two you lost me so I got bored and read someone else's post instead.

 

[Gromit]

It all boils down to the fact that some people enjoy the mystery of being kept in the dark as to why freaky things are happening. Some people don't.

I personally was happy to wait for explanations whilst crossing my fingers that they weren't going to be sucky ones.

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

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

Yes, but American television and ABC in particular is famous for starting a series and then cancelling it before they show the entire season. They'll show you four eps and then scrap the other 5. You never get to see the end of that season. ABC has done that so often that I'm no longer giving anything on that channel a chance. And if it turns out there was something decent then it'll come out on DVD later.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Also - a real alchoholic (like they do in england) wouldn't be working late and drinking. A hip flask of spirits seems to make a yank and alcho. Rubbish.

 

[belboid]

uhhh, an awful lot of alcoholics do do just that in fact.

You are, tho, right about the yanks absurd attitude to drinking ("Is that you third pint? I'm calling AA")

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

uhhh, an awful lot of alcoholics do do just that in fact.

You are, tho, right about the yanks absurd attitude to drinking ("Is that you third pint? I'm calling AA")

Too right. I went to a bar with friends and was called an alcoholic for having a third pint.
When I told some other NY friends this tale they said "Wha, Amy can talk, why just the other day I saw her drink half a bottle of wine . . . to herself!!"

Really? so fucking what?

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

Also - a real alchoholic (like they do in england) wouldn't be working late and drinking. A hip flask of spirits seems to make a yank and alcho. Rubbish.

The only people in RL that I've seen carrying a hip flask are kids just shy of drinking age. They think it makes them look cool.

To be a true alchie you have to get some piss stained sweatpants and Mad Dog 20/20 concealed in a brown paper sack.

 

[Kanda]

Just watched 1st and 2nd episodes. Quite entertaining, should keep me going to the next Lost series

 

[6_6]

quite enjoyed the first episode, especially towards the end!
that was

looking forward to second episode.

 

[Strumpet]

Watching now. Am liking so far

I MUST get the last 2 series of Lost to watch before new series next year!

 

[Looby]

Just watched this, not bad. I need something now The Wire is finished and while I'm waiting for new True Blood.
I have a big crush on Joseph Fiennes which helps. Like others, I hope it doesn't become too much of a soap, I can watch eastenders for that.

I also gave up with Lost but I wouldn't have done if we'd had sky+ then. We kept missing it when it moved to sky1.

 

[Sigmund Fraud]

How does Jack Davenport get any acting work? Hes fucking mahogany. In fact the more I think about it Jack Davenport is like some inverse Danny Dyer, a rent -a-posh-fop one trick pony.

 

[London_Calling]

Not frightened of CGI are they. Huge focus on the Fiennes character I thought.

If the central premise is how they will move toward or avoid their destiny then okay, lets see how she goes. Less optimistic about the whodunit.

Bit previous with the Omar ref.

 

[dlx1]

its a bit slow then just when it getting good like when in Doll factory then add brake

 

[Awesome Wells]

Didn't enjoy this last night. 50 minutes of filler for 10 minutes of interesting plot. I fucking hate the lead character and his wife. The script is borderline dire and the acting's not much better. I can't see this working for 6 months at all.

 

[El Sueno]

Surely the world would by now be split into two factions - people who liked what they saw in the future and are contriving to make it come true, and those who didn't - who should all simply move to another country to make bloody sure it never does come true.

Was a bit boring yesterday wasn't it.

 

[Santino]

I did like the politician coming in and saying 'who are you to set yourselves up as the investigating team?', because that's we were all thinking last week. Apart from that, a bit meh.

Unlike other recent shows where the exact nature of the mystery is unclear, here we know what the mystery is, and that we're not going to get the answer to it for ages. For some reason this makes it less enticing a prospect than either Lost or Fringe.

 

[pboi]

stop over thinking it and enjoy it you cockfags

nothing is perfect ( apart from Lost S5, but that had 4 seasons to set the scene!)

 

[Gromit]

Homeland Security not Politician.

No evidence yet of someone changing their future.

Was expecting someone by now to see themselves dying in a cat crash or something. Not being able to take the knowledge and topping themselves early. Proof that the visions aren't cast in stone.

 

[Beanburger]

How does Jack Davenport get any acting work? Hes fucking mahogany.

I've often wondered that. And then when he does try to act.... he was fucking painful to watch in 'Coupling'.

 

[Santino]

Homeland Security not Politician.

She was Deputy Secretary of it. Not just a senior agent.

 

[London_Calling]

Ah, week two now?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Ep2 then. I'm already a bit sick of the flashbacks and points hammered home for the cheap seats at the back. Maybe we have all been spoiled by the wire.

Also another thing occurred to me last night. The future must be changeable. If everybody in the world knew what time these flash forwards were from the whole world would be waiting at that exact moment. There would be mass gatherings worse than new years eve 2000. Everyones flash forward would show people waiting for and experiencing the flash forward.
If all the investigators al over the world were smart they would have all focused on a breakthrough they made in the case at the time of the flash forward date. They would then get the case solved in no time (or at least jump months ahead in solving the case).

Also also also . . the board is misleading. The cop chappy only looked for names that he had written on the board because he had seen them on the board, but of course he then wrote them on the board so that's what he saw later. They could be anything. However if time wasn't changeable then that would mean that the flash-forwards were to a timeline that the flash-forwards did not take place (see my first paragraph). So he could not have seen himself investigate the flash forwards because that would create an impossible paradox. Is he investigating something else? Or is the more likely conclusion here that I have thought too much about this and it is only a daft TV show?

 

[Strumpet]

Also also also . . the board is misleading. The cop chappy only looked for names that he had written on the board because he had seen them on the board, but of course he then wrote them on the board so that's what he saw later. They could be anything. However if time wasn't changeable then that would mean that the flash-forwards were to a timeline that the flash-forwards did not take place (see my first paragraph). So he could not have seen himself investigate the flash forwards because that would create an impossible paradox. Is he investigating something else? Or is the more likely conclusion here that I have thought too much about this and it is only a daft TV show?

OOooo interesting.

 

[upsidedownwalrus]

So, another six years where fuck all happens?

I really enjoyed Lost at the start, but my attention span (and giving a fuck span) reached it's limit about half way through season three of Lost.

I am more of a person who likes everything to be wrapped up in an hour, like CSI or The "new" Bill.

Ah, well series 4 and 5 were superb