FlashForward: "Black Swan" 10/15 - Grading & Discussion
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They're flashforwards. 
They're flashforwards.
I think he's talking about the flashabcks to previous episodes, not the flash-forwards the characters are having.
But some of the flashbacks are actually flashbacks of flashforwards.They're flashforwards.
I think he's talking about the flashabcks to previous episodes, not the flash-forwards the characters are having.
My head hurts.
Well... you really can't expect much else from the show. It's not StaticForward.
When Ned said he was black in his flashforward, I thought that either he was a crackpot or there was some sort of mind transference that we'll learn more about.
That's my overall assesment as well. This is precisely what I was afraid of when they revealed the cast and I saw that they had switched the scientists for cops and doctors. There are already shows dedicated to footraces through trailer parks and TENSE! O.R. scenes; the episode spent far too much time on this kind of generic content and not nearly enough on the central mystery. Move the story forward already.
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I gave it above average. Held my interest more than last week, but I don't agree we need more about the central mystery.
Also, the blond terrorist and the black swan story - didn't work for me. Trying to hard to be profound or something.
Also, the blond terrorist and the black swan story - didn't work for me. Trying to hard to be profound or something.
Not the best of the lot... I did like the twist ending though. Bravo to that one.
A couple weeks have already passed since the flash forward? There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of urgency on this show. Yes, the flash forward date is April, but A LOT of people died during the blackout. Everything came to a halt and there were casualties beyond life and infrastructure. But everyone is back to business as usual? It's like on 24 how people seemed to forget a nuke went of in LA a few hours earlier, yet everyone is shopping and stores are open?
Eh... average. Still has potential, and I'm interested enough to keep watching, but they need to rev things up. The past two episodes have been a little dull, IMO.
The twist at the end was kind of neat, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this revelation about the British guy (forget his name at the moment) plays out.
The twist at the end was kind of neat, though, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this revelation about the British guy (forget his name at the moment) plays out.
I gave this an "above average".
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I liked this week's episode much more than last week's episode, even though this one still could be pegged as filler with plenty of reasonable justification. It probably has to do with some of the characters finally communicating with each other and an absence of bad stereostypes and plot points that make zero sense.
I can't quite put my finger on why, but I liked this week's episode much more than last week's episode, even though this one still could be pegged as filler with plenty of reasonable justification. It probably has to do with some of the characters finally communicating with each other and an absence of bad stereostypes and plot points that make zero sense.
Average.
Okay it's become clear that the only thing this show has going for it is some decent actors and a mystery that will remain interesting at least for a few more episodes. (However - and I'm sorry to say this because I like Demitri as a character - I just don't think John Cho is a very good actor. He seems very fake in the Big Emotional Scenes.)
But the writing, oy vey!
They've taken all the cop show cliches and all the doctor show cliches and mashed them together. The dialogue sounds like the product of a contest to see if you can write a whole episode using nothing but cliches. Like that Talking Heads song that was supposed to be nothing but advertising slogans.
I liked it. It was very different from the standard tone of the rest of the show. Maybe this would all be a lot more interesting if it were more bizarre (in the style, not just the situation).
Nah, they'd still have the dire dialogue to contend with.
I hope nothing interesting happened during the Intolerable Musical Interlude because I missed it.
Overall, there's a strong reek of cliche and mock-profound phoneyness to this show. Uh oh, I'm having a flashback to....Threshold.
Hate to be a Braga-basher, but is this a coincidence?
Ratings news. At least it doesn't look like we'll get blindsided by early cancellation:
Okay it's become clear that the only thing this show has going for it is some decent actors and a mystery that will remain interesting at least for a few more episodes. (However - and I'm sorry to say this because I like Demitri as a character - I just don't think John Cho is a very good actor. He seems very fake in the Big Emotional Scenes.)
But the writing, oy vey!
They've taken all the cop show cliches and all the doctor show cliches and mashed them together. The dialogue sounds like the product of a contest to see if you can write a whole episode using nothing but cliches. Like that Talking Heads song that was supposed to be nothing but advertising slogans.I liked it. It was very different from the standard tone of the rest of the show. Maybe this would all be a lot more interesting if it were more bizarre (in the style, not just the situation).
Nah, they'd still have the dire dialogue to contend with.
Yeah, that threw my fast-forwarding schedule all off.
I hope nothing interesting happened during the Intolerable Musical Interlude because I missed it.The funny thing is, I figured from the first that he was somehow involved in the flash forward, despite there being nothing to go on besides the accent. I guess I'm well trained.
The blond terrorist is far too Hollywood-fake. And we don't know enough about her as a person (not that the show is interested in pursuing that) to know why she'd just pull that weird story out of thin air. It really reeked of something that someone might write in a screenplay, but would never say in the real world.
Overall, there's a strong reek of cliche and mock-profound phoneyness to this show. Uh oh, I'm having a flashback to....Threshold.
Hate to be a Braga-basher, but is this a coincidence?Ratings news. At least it doesn't look like we'll get blindsided by early cancellation:
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To me it sounded like loads of crap. I don't know what it was supposed to mean, and it just seemed to be something they threw in there in order to make it sound oh so profound.
The show is interesting, mostly because of the premise, but the last two episodes have been disappointing.
