FlashForward is officially driving me crazy.
How can the timeline not be changed by knowing the timeline? See your life threatened at the office while drunk on Flashforward Day? Spend 4/29 at the beach instead. Hell, spend “magic day” locked in a closet with a 2-litre of Coke and a bag of chips and a laptop to keep tabs on the end of the world.
Duh?
The base logic of the show is failing me. Changing the future is easy. We do it constantly with every choice we make and by the choices those around us make. The butterfly effect is real. Flashforward fails for me because it tries to be rooted in a reality that falls too quickly.
Plus, the plot itself fails. This is the Internet age of big business. You’re telling me it took a rogue branch of the FBI to set up a searchable website for people to share their FlashForward stories?!? As if Google, Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook, and a dozen new social media start-ups wouldn’t have already been all over this idea with a solid monetization scheme making them billions in just a few weeks.
The FlashForward world should be in a state of religious and political anarchy, not business as usual with a population of billions feeling acceptance that the next six months have been pre-determined and they can just put life on cruise control for a while.
A “what if” concept that sounded interesting in the network pitch room but, so far, can’t get me to let go of reality long enough to enjoy the show.
Lost? Yes, I like Lost. The difference? Lost is so “out there” with immortals, smoke monsters, mystery energy fields, moving islands and the living dead that logic is easily thrown aside and I can just enjoy the insane ride. Lost works because it tells reality to take a hike – it’s got a sci-fi mystery story to tell.
Dare I say, FlashForward is failing me because it’s trying to be too rooted in a reality that is too easily dismissed as a Hollywood construct.
At least so far.
I’m hooked but I’m not happy about it.
