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“FlashForward” is a new show on ABC that premiered recently and has a “Lost”-like appeal to it. So far it is really weird and has a strange twist that is very interesting. It is written and based off a book of the same name, written by Robert J. Sawyer.
It strangely starts with everyone in the world losing consciousness for 137 seconds. When everyone faints, they start to see visions of everyone else’s lives six months in the future, with some visions good and some bad.
This event leads to some deaths and leaves survivors to question what is going on and if the visions will come true. A team of Los Angeles FBI agents tries to collect and analyze all of the people’s visions and try to make a collection of them called the Mosaic Collection. The team led by agent Stanford Wedeck (Courtney B. Vance) and agent Mark Benford (Joseph Fiennes) is left to determine what is going on and to solve the mystery of what happened.
“FlashForward” seems like one of the “cult” shows that are popular for a time, but fade out and lose their overall general appeal like “Lost” with the solving of mysteries mixed in. Some people enjoy this, as it does keep them coming back for more, but it does make shows lose viewers if questions are never answered.
Many of these questions are left unsolved since it just started and you start to feel like it’s a show laced with mind-altering drugs complete with random visions that don’t seem to make any sense or be relevant to anything.
The show had random visions of a kangaroo hopping down the street of Los Angeles and a bird hitting a window in London, which might mean that the visions are linked to animals and humans alike, but we aren’t sure so far. The show seems like a generic alternate-reality show with twists and turns that will take them to strange and exotic places to figure out what is going on to solve the mystery.
I don’t really understand why FBI agents from Los Angeles would have to solve this mystery instead of other countries coming together to figure it out by appointing different people from various fields of study to examine this phenomenon. The show seems to run on randomly and doesn’t seem that well formatted. I am hoping to see this show produce more exciting twists, but I doubt it will really excite at all.
“FlashForward” has an interesting premise and starts out strong but seems like it’s going to start going in the wrong direction with drama about Stanford and his wife, Olivia, in marriage disputes and drama that will suck up a portion of the show and limit parts of the mystery from being solved quicker. So far, I will keep checking this out, but I doubt it will result to anything but a “cult” show that will be popular for a limited amount of time then fade out of relevance into its eventual demise.
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