I think I’m going to wait until a few more episodes have aired, and ask other people if the time travel/flash forward stuff is internally consistent or not, before I decide whether to watch this. Because I seriously cannot deal with another TV series that has time travel or flashbacks/flashforwards in time, and does not have some kind of internally consistent logic about how to handle the potential paradoxes.
The premise does sound really cool, though. Maybe I should just read the book.
I liked it. I just hope that they don’t go down the *Lost *route and get way out there.
I liked the kangaroo. A nice red herring. Or not.
Was the Chief of the FBI the guy who played the medic in Hamburger Hill? I can go for this.
I would like to see this come out: The timeline is six months ahead of real time. They figure something out during the first season, leave the cliffhanger and the real / TV show date comes up in 2010, and then they go from there, like to prevent 2012 or something. (Of course, when the world really does end in 2012, they won’t have a show to stand on, so party on, eh?)
…And then they go on from there. Let’s see how art imitates life when life pre-dates art.
Yeah, I caught the Seth McFarlane cameo as well. Maybe he’s just plowing for a future career…
I was going to say the future they saw hadn’t happened except for Mark seeing himself studying the board that was the effort to track the event. Throws a wrench into that theory unless the board was about something else. But he “remembers” the future and thinks it is about the event.
Time travel…melts the mind.
That’s how television works. Suspension of disbelief is paramount to enjoying TV and movies. You have to get used to that, because it’s not going to change any time soon.
Also the guy who thought his daughter was dead sees her alive and presumably goes looking for her.
Episode 8 is titled “Rules of the Game” - hopefully they’ll address all the pragmatic time travel stuff then.
[QUOTE=MsWhatsit;11599157The premise does sound really cool, though. Maybe I should just read the book.[/QUOTE]
Other than the basic premise the book is pretty much completely different. It is a good read though.
You needed to keep reading the rest of my post there, I addressed that. 
But yeh, now I’m not so sure after watching it again. Something has to explain why everyone’s flashforward didn’t show them self-aware of the current, foreshadowed moment. I can’t believe the writers would just expect us to ignore that, as it’s a painfully obvious consequence.
“Look Father, a giant mouse!” 
For anyone who missed the premiere it’s available on the ABC website. It looks interesting but add me to the list of people who have been burned by these mystery/conspiracy shows before (I’m lookin’ at you X-Files!).
My understanding is that the show was pitched with a hard plan for ending in five years and what to do in that time. Knowing that things actually have been planned out in advance sets me more at ease.
The fact that the creators of the show have a hard plan for a five-year series doesn’t mean that the show will air for five seasons and we’ll get to see all of it, unless the network has a hard commitment to run the show for five years (which is about as likely as my being able to flap my arms and fly to the moon). One example of this is Threshold:
Only 13 episodes were filmed, not all of which were aired in the US.
True, true.
Here are two official alternate-reality-type related websites for the show. The first is supposed to be like the Mosaic website the characters on the show propose creating, you can log in and either read/watch other folks’ own (made-up) flash forwards or post your own. The second is a blog written as if by an in-the-FlashForward-universe journalist.
In case you are wondering, GBO= Global Blackout)
I have no idea if these sites are/will be important in any way or contain hidden clues, etc., or if they are just to generate interest. I poked around for a few minutes, nothing seemed terribly interesting offhand but I thought I would share.
I’m interested enough in the show for now, as long as they don’t turn these sites into “homework” needed to follow or understand the plot. I hate it when shows do that – like with Heroes where some things were never explained except in the online comics…I eventually just gave up. But I’m ok with a little supplemental content, and I’ll be watching next week.
Yes, they may know, but will they tell us if the show gets canceled?:mad:
I stopped reading the thread after post #17 (which contains what seems like a big spoiler) so someone may have already made this point: But can we not reveal big spoilers so casually based on knowledge of the books this series is based on? A tiny minority of people who are watching this now have read the books, so ffs please use spoiler boxes.
The simple way to discover whether or not it’s a possible future is for the Chinese to find a remote village, interview the population to make sure they all saw a peaceful, normal day in the village during the fast-forward, and then machine-gun the villagers and raze the village. Bingo, the flash goes from “the future” to “a future.”
Damn, man, why so violent? So much easier and less evil to get a tattoo on a part of your body you remember not having a tattoo in your flashforward, as suggested upthread.
And yeah, that was a dick move to post the cause of the event in the book without a spoiler box. Kind of a major spoiler.
The creators have pretty much said they just took the premise and nothing else from the book, so it could be different on the show. Especially since we saw one guy get up during the blackout. It seems like this was intentional.
And I’m wondering about the whole “people acting normally in the future except for main guy” thing. He was looking at a note that said “Who else knows?” Maybe there’s another sort of event where everybody forgets about the event, or something like that. And the main guy (I still don’t know anyone’s names) is one of the few who do know about.
It seems fairly obvious that something really bad is going to happen in six months. Birds flying into windows and little girls saying “No more good days” are pretty ominous signs.
Two last thoughts:
John Cho’s little thought about “if I was asleep why wasn’t I dreaming” annoyed me. You don’t dream the entire time you are asleep. Although the writers made a good call having it be 10 pm in New York and 6 am in London. It means that a majority of the world would be awake.
Also, didn’t anyone else think that the main guy looks a lot like Richard Alpert from LOST?
Mea Culpa for not using spoiler boxes - I felt the spoilers were too minor and too integrated into my post to use spoiler boxes. And I gave a very clear warning at the beginning of my post, I’m not sure why you’d continue to read the rest of the post…? In any case I can’t be 100% sure but the series so far definitely seems like knowing anything from the book is not going to spoil anything in the series. It’s not like True Blood.
You’re right, you did give a warning, so my admoninishment is too severe. I think I have a mental habit of skipping automatically until after the first reply when reading posts, so I can easily miss one line on the top. Because if I’d seen that and it registered in my mind, I’d have skipped to the next post.
More shows need random kangaroos.