Flashforward 09/24 -- Opinions?

[MPB_in_Salt_Lake]

@Exapno_Mapcase

I watched my recorded episodes of Flashforward and CSI back to back and in both the plot lines were so blatantly telegraphed that I knew… the future!

It’s odd that they count on viewers being surprised about the cop lady being killed but hammer home the obvious small details. I’m sure that they’ve done focus groups to tell them that this is what works, but it does hurt the show.

Just like not immediately checking on all the other cell phone records. The reason they don’t is obviously that it isn’t a plot point. The writers know that this was the only phone call they need to worry about and they didn’t want to waste the precious moments of airtime down dead ends. (Then why do they repeat Cho’s story so often? I have no answer.)

Those few of you who look for such things will have noticed that a different team wrote this show. It wasn’t nearly as well written as the pilot, not unusual, but often a sign of whether a show will be able to continue in style. Way too early to make a call on that one but I’m hoping that next episode won’t be as clunky. The show has promise but could fail for me the same way Lost did in its first season.

I am glad to know the pilot and the second episodes were written by different writing teams, because I also thought the pilot was MUCH better than episode #2 was.

I have never watched a series from the start to its end, and this is the first SciFi show I have watched since “The Outer Limits” in the 1990’s.

I like it so far, and hope it continues to build on the initial premise, without becoming so complex it gets unwatchable…

[jackdavinci]

Starting a new thread for tonight: http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=11642021