well we don't that for certain.so how come female lawyer saw Korean guy she was marrying on the beach (or did she just assume that as it was quite a distance)?
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belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
that's the commonest one, but their are others, such as a muster or a parcel.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
so how come female lawyer saw Korean guy she was marrying on the beach (or did she just assume that as it was quite a distance)?
It sounded to me like she was making it up. If they were in Hawaii it would not have been daylight would it?
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Because of paradoxes it is now impossible for the future flashes to be part of the same timeline. However, because we have seen some flash forwards effected by the investigation after the black out we know that the writers have not thought enough about the situation. Thus the show is just going to annoy the hell out of me because it is impossible.
If the flash forwards were changeable everyone, knowing the date, would be waiting for them to happen (watching TV, gathering for a FF party or sending themselves a message in the past). If they were not changeable everyone would see themselves waiting for the flash forward - Which of course would be an impossible paradox. Therefore the flash forwards would have to be of a world / timeline where the flash-forwards never happened. We know this isn't true because some people saw themselves investigating the flash forward. He is investigating what he saw in his flash forward, so he isn't and never did any actual investigating of anything.
It's fucking sloppy writing about something that could have been quite interesting.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
I've stopped watching this already. 
Potential's there but it's just not holding my interest. Kinda feel like I've seen it all before in Heroes and Lost.
Potential's there but it's just not holding my interest. Kinda feel like I've seen it all before in Heroes and Lost.
So you think she was making it up as a convenient way to get her dream wedding 'ooh we've got to get married on a beach because I saw it!'. What if he'd turned round and said 'WTF, I saw us both slobbing on the sofa eating pizza!'
amyway, surely he could easily confirm her vision or his with some of their other friends/relatives? Speaking of which, why have his parents not had a ff in which they're grieving their son's death and contacted him about it?
The more you think about this, the shakier the whole premise becomes.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
Exactly. I thought she was making it up because she didn't have a vision either and was fishing for his.
This is not how people act. We know he want's to know what happens to him because we have seen him worried about it and even investigate it. One of his best leads might be in his wife's vision but he is not prepared to admit the truth to perhaps remedy the situation??? I would be asking every person I knew or might have hang out with if they saw me or anything about me.
Nobody knows anything about the phenomenon or if they are dreams, future visions or what, but nobody is talking about them???
There would be billions of people all over the world that would die between the event and the flash forward. A quick fucking google would sort a few things out, especially if that can find patterns of global crow population in 15 seconds.
Did people have visions but still died?
Yep. So sloppy I actually doubt they'll make it through to the season's end if Yuwipi's abc prediction is right
That said, there was an article in The Guardian last week saying it was the fastest selling TV show of all time - due to it being broadcast at the same time every where - so the ad revenues'll probably keep it going if for nothing else.
Iguana
Well-Known Member
It's already been picked up for a full season.
http://www.thefutoncritic.com/news.aspx?id=20091012abc03
Iguana
Well-Known Member
I have a big problem with that, either no-one in the flashes should have been aware of the flashes or everyone should have. If no one had been aware of them the future was obviously not set. If they had been aware of them nobody would have been doing anything other than waiting for them.
Does anyone know if this was dealt with better in the book? I know the flashes in the book were 10 years in the future rather than 6 months, so that makes it all much less urgent.
El Sueno
Dabbler
I've stopped watching this already.
Potential's there but it's just not holding my interest. Kinda feel like I've seen it all before in Heroes and Lost.
I gave up on this last night. It's so fucking pedestrian and I just don't give a fuck about any of the characters. Three episodes in and it's slowed to a crawl when usually series like this begin to pick up after an initial 'explanatory' first ep or two. Won't be wasting another 20-odd hours of my life on this.
Lazy Llama
Suburban robots that monitor reality
First episode just about held my interest.
Got 10 minutes into the 2nd episode and thought "Do I care? No, not really".
Painfully dull.
Got 10 minutes into the 2nd episode and thought "Do I care? No, not really".
Painfully dull.
FabricLiveBaby!
Live Baby Fabric!
I wonder how well it's doing in terms of ratings.
Why they wasted most of the episode on the Nazi business (without addressing the obvious point that proving he was released only proved they released him, not that he had any useful knowledge) I have no idea.
I think i'm only sticking with it to see if and how they start to resolve some of the seeming holes in the plot
It seems to be doing OK in the US and will complete at least one season.
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118009832.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&query=flashforward
Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
The nazi stuff was awesomely bad.
You'd have thought the American green light to release a WW2 nazi prisoner (possibly the last?) might have to come from Barack or Hilary at least, but apparently any alcoholic field officer has that kind of power.
Other big problems include Joseph Fiennes and his boss. They are sensationally poor actors, in this at least.
You'd have thought the American green light to release a WW2 nazi prisoner (possibly the last?) might have to come from Barack or Hilary at least, but apparently any alcoholic field officer has that kind of power.
Other big problems include Joseph Fiennes and his boss. They are sensationally poor actors, in this at least.
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
I'm quite enjoying this so far - think I will persevere for a while and see where it goes 
the one thing I'm finding annoying is that nobody seems to be trying to change anything.
like the dude who is doing the investigation - he doesn't want him and his wife to split up, right - so why the hell is he sticking all the stuff on the board in exactly the same place as he saw it in his FF - WHY?!?!?! surely he'd want to challenge teh system?! i don't get that...
the one thing I'm finding annoying is that nobody seems to be trying to change anything.
like the dude who is doing the investigation - he doesn't want him and his wife to split up, right - so why the hell is he sticking all the stuff on the board in exactly the same place as he saw it in his FF - WHY?!?!?! surely he'd want to challenge teh system?! i don't get that...
big eejit
She looks like Alan Gilzean
I was a bit sceptical about this after the first ep - 'Lost all over again' syndrome.
But I read that it gets much better as it goes on so I watched the second episode. And the thought struck me that the reason that people say it gets much better as it goes on is because everyone who doesn't like it stops watching it. If that makes sense. Cos it doesn't seem to be getting better to me.
But I read that it gets much better as it goes on so I watched the second episode. And the thought struck me that the reason that people say it gets much better as it goes on is because everyone who doesn't like it stops watching it. If that makes sense. Cos it doesn't seem to be getting better to me.
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
They'll be a sociological phrase for that and I wish I knew what it was.
ATOMIC SUPLEX
Member Since: 1985 Post Count: 3
He did burn his friendship bracelet.
You could argue that he wants the board to look the same to help him remember. I doubt this is true though, we get such heavy handed 'reasoning' and recaps for everything that I don't think you could possibly miss or speculate about much.
big eejit
She looks like Alan Gilzean
Cretinous convergence?
London_Calling
Pleasant and unpatronising
I suspect that's when you support Arsenal, but you might be right.
This was my exact comment to a mate on this one. E3 was just toilet.
Iguana
Well-Known Member
Yet it was the only one so far which didn't have any scenes of people on the toilet.
crustychick
doo-woop-de-doo
oh yeah, I forgot about the bracelet... hmmm, bet his daughter churns another one out before long
Structaural
in Chatsubo
It is, I thought that's why the Nazi made the joke to the customs guy, 'I'm here because of a murder [of crows]'
It's really trying for that Lost vibe, but doesn't seem to be hitting it, it's not mysterious enough or clever enough. I'm hoping that at least 90% of what's on matey's board is meaningless shit because he saw it on there and so he put it on there, a little circular paradox, but of course that won't happen.
I think I'll let the downloads backup and see if you lot think it's got any better...
gosub
~#
if the phrase "self fulfilling prophecy" hasn't been uttered by the end of the fourth hour I'm gone too
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