So… FlashForward. The pilot was good, but not great, since it played like an episode of Lost created by people who are afraid that Lost is too confusing. Therefore, characters re-explained major plot points like it was their damn job. I mean, you only have to tell me that everyone on the planet fell asleep simultaneously, like, fifteen times. The sixteenth time is overkill.
Of course, there are times after a hard day of work when I don’t mind having a show do all my thinking for me, so for now, I’m in.
Besides, FlashForward leads me to flights of fancy. The premise is just delicious: Everyone on the planet blacked out for 2 minutes and 17 seconds, and while they were out, they had dreams about what they would be doing on April 29 around 10:00 PM. (Which just happens to be the date and time when a new episode of FlashForward will premiere. Wild!)
Just imagine if this happened to you. What if you were driving a bus when you blacked out? D’oh! What if you saw the future, and you were on the toilet (as happens to a character in the series?)
That would be bad. But it could be worse. After the jump, I’ll share the suckiest ways to flash forward…
(1) When the blackout hits, you’re taking a mid-afternoon nap. Your psychic dream blurs with your actual dream, so you wake up assuming that in seven months, you and that hot guy down the hall will be riding through a purple ocean on the back of a white horse.
(2) You black out while you’re watching the beginning of The Usual Suspects, which you’ve never seen before, and in your dream, you see yourself telling your mom that you can’t believe Kevin Spacey was the bad guy. You wake up to a ruined movie night, and all that popcorn you made now seems to mock your quest for happiness.
(3) When you black out, that damn Black Eyed Peas song is on the radio. And it’s on in your dream. And when you wake up, it’s still on.
(4) The world goes dark at the very moment you see a lucky penny on the sidewalk. In the confusion of reviving, you kick the penny into a sewer grate. This loss of luck seems to explain your vision of next April, in which you are wearing ill-fitting pants.
(5) Just before the darkness comes, you’re walking into a living room to get something. When you wake up, you can’t remember what you came in the living room to get.
Can you think of other sucky flash forwards? Do tell!
3 responses so far ↓
1 Laura // Sep 29, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Mine would be #3, but instead of the Black Eyed Peas, it’s Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb”. That song will not leave a girl who doesn’t want to hear it alone.
2 katy // Sep 29, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I essentially feel like you do about that show. Not that great, but I’m in for now. I do like a cool concept, which it is … but there was a *lot* of really clunky dialogue. And sometimes the characters just seemed so dense it was straining credibility. (Like: “In my flash forward, I was pregnant. But I’m not pregnant, so that’s totally absurd.” Seriously honey, you can’t figure this out?)
I think a terrible fast forward would be if you were watching the season finale of Lost, and it was very suspenseful and well done and you were deeply invested, and then you had to wait all those months to see what happened and to catch up to that point in the series. (Probably more terrible than if you saw a fast forward of the finale of Fast Forward.)
3 Deanna // Sep 30, 2009 at 10:59 am
I want to know how Seth MacFarlane wound up in that cast!
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