I’m still DVRing it, but I’ve only watched the first episode. Is it worth continuing?
My main complaint is that they very rapidly started ignoring the science fiction elements of the story and instead turned it into a cliched run-of-the-mill action/drama show. I’m extremely interested in plot elements that revolve around discovering the identity of a mysterious group with super technology. Not so much about a girl trying to escape from kidnappers or the president trying to discover who the mole is.
If you’ve only seen the first episode, you should be pleased to know the random time-shifting and frequent flashbacks are basically entirely gone. We’re down to what seems to be about a flashback per episode, and the last one didn’t have any.
I gave up on it a couple of weeks ago. Found I just didn’t care anymore.
We are thisclose to joining you - will watch the next episode and maybe that might be the last. Turning into a mess of running around and escaping from buildings and climbing fences - and the fun stuff (what makes these alien people different) is pretty much ignored except in little spurts.
Tedious is the word so far.
This week’s episode was so out-of-tune with the rest of the series (which is really saying something for a show that is this uneven) that I told myself that I was done, but realistically, I suppose I will soldier on, as I don’t generally have anything better to do on a monday night, and I have watched each episode thus far…
I have never watched a show just to snark and nitpick it, but with The Event, that may be the chief draw for me at this point.
(if you are interested in specific details, check out The Event thread, but be aware that it is full of spoilers as well as various Doper’s none too kind critiques)
You must be me!
I “gave up on it” a few weeks ago, but then found myself watching it anyway. I can’t explain way, other than boring Monday nights.
Yeah, I figured, which is why I didn’t check it out. 
I guess I’ll keep DVRing it until the season ends, and then ask again to see if it seems to have done anything worth watching.
I think the sad fact is that there isn’t enough of an audience for pure sci-fi, so that if you don’t add the soap opera drama and cookie cutter action scenes, your market share doesn’t even register. BSG for example was so wildly popular primarily for all of the elements I hate in mainstream scifi. Even something like doctor who only comes to the US on stations like PBS. Any decent sci-fi from the broadcast networks hasn’t made it past one season as far as I can recall. I thought flashforward had a shot. I can’t think of another that looked like it would have a chance.
Unless the producer of a show is committed to the story having a beginning, a middle and an end, you get this ever-expanding mess with old plotlines being marginalized or dropped, and extraneous elements coming out of left field in a never-ending (until cancellation) soap opera. It’s why I didn’t continue watching Heroes after the first season, and I never even bothered with Lost.
I am officially done with the show. It seems the writers have even given up.
You don’t get BBC America, I take it.
It’ll get better.
…eventually…
You know, since I switched to satellite, I’m pretty sure I do. But I download a lot of video so it’s rare that by the time something is airing on PBS I haven’t already seen it from another source. 
Is the show in trouble?: Private Site