Flash Forward: "No More Good Days" 9/24 - Grading & Discussion

[eastman23]

ABC is going to be pushing this as a successor to Lost.

Which explains the Oceanic billboard near the start of the episode.

 

[Bad Bishop]

Heh, tried to post a comment and realized after the fact that I'd wandered off to a different thread.

Anyway, what a coincidence--April 29, 2010 will be a Thursday.

I don't get the point.

This show airs on Thursdays?

Oh. I guess this is the night where it will remain, win or lose.

 

[indianatrekker26]

im already getting into the characters. especially the guy who had the vision of his daughter still alive, even though her body was I.D.ed coming back from afganistan

 

[Procutus]

^

I agree, some fairly good characterization here. I haven't enjoyed a new show this much since Fringe debuted last year.

 

[Procutus]

Damn impressive for a first ep. I just hope that Brannon has more of a long-range plan in mind for this series than he did with the Temporal Cold War in Enterprise.

 

[SG-17]

I wonder how close to the book the series will follow?

 

[eastman23]

Huh... someone was up and walking around... hmm...

Definitely going to keep watching this show.

 

[Procutus]

That was a great end hook. Who is that guy? Now I know for certain I'll be back next week.

 

[Procutus]

I wonder how close to the book the series will follow?

Help the ignorant here; which book are we talking about?

 

[Agent Richard07]

The characters and their situations aren't doing much for me so far. Right now I'm more interested in what this "event" was and who or what caused it, and seeing that guy walking around duing the blackout was a pretty good hook.

 

[Dar70]

It was ok. Im not sure about investing in another show that will move like molasses. I wonder if the producers are smarter than lost's and have all this already planned out. I can see it becoming more and more far fetched if they dont. Lost kept painting itself into a corner and unfortunately some things were dropped and never explained.(the numbers)

 

[Starbreaker]

FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer

Excellent excellent excellent. This was a fantastic pilot, and the preview of future episodes definitely has me hooked.

 

[Skywalker]

I'm liking what I've seen so far, hopefully the mystery remains compelling. I liked the cast and they threw out an awesome hook there at the end.

 

[eastman23]

I wonder how close to the book the series will follow?

Dunno. Robert Sawyer isn't saying either:

Sawyer refused to discuss how closely the stories follow those in his book, but insisted that the series stays true to the novel's central philosophical spirit. He praised Fiennes in particular for giving life to his imagined world.

(Winnipeg Free Press article)

 

[Agent Richard07]

I wonder what kind of pacing we'll get. Will the six months be spread out over several seasons like on Lost?

 

[Agent Richard07]

FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer

Didn't know it was a book.

 

[Anwar]

Well, nice to see that Braga can do an episode that doesn't need a bunch of buildup to get into it. Here they just jumped right in and never slowed down.

 

[Archangel]

Well in the novel they know what caused the Flash Forward from the beginning. The major plotlines of the book were:

One of the scientists was murdered the day before the date they saw in the flash.
One of the scientists saw himself in bed with a woman who was not his fiance
One of the scientists saw himself making out with a woman he barely met once.

The idea of "predestination", can the future they saw be changed"
What exactly caused the flash. The first time they tried to recreate it they were missing a variable.
All of the deaths that occured during the Flash.

Also, in the book the Flash was 21 years, not 6 months.

 

[Agent Richard07]

^ Yeah, I spoiled myself a bit by looking at the book's synopsis on amazon.com. I just had to take a peek. It's about what I expected. I'm still gonna watch though to see how it all unfolds on the screen. I was also surprised to see a way the show could continue should we pass that six month point.

 

[Procutus]

FlashForward by Robert J. Sawyer

Excellent excellent excellent. This was a fantastic pilot, and the preview of future episodes definitely has me hooked.

Thanks!