FlashForward: "Black Swan" 10/15 - Grading & Discussion

[Candlelight]

I thought the black guy flash forward was gonna be:
- A pigment change
- He saw someone else's flash
- He was gonna die on the operating table and come back as someone else.

The music used during the chase scene was poor.

It's still a good show but I don't know how they're gonna fill 22 episodes with mystery. Should've kept it at 13.

 

[Middle Earther]

^ I thought the guy that saw himself black was just flash forwarding to a dream he was having in 6 months. Apparently not, but that's what I first thought.

 

[Trekker4747]

It was kind of a Housian moment where he took some bizzare little detail, ran the furthest he could with it to come up with some crazy diagnosis, his superior didn't buy it until near the end when she took a leap-of-faith and bought into the crazy diagnosis which ended up being right.

 

[Chris3123]

I don't know who the guy on the left is.

He's a friend of Agent Benford's (Ralph Fiennes), and his FF was seeing his supposedly dead daughter alive.

Don't know who the other girl is,

She's the babysitter of Benford's daughter. Her FF, as revealed in this episode, is of being drowned by somebody.

 

[Skywalker]

Is Nicole being played by a different actor now? She looks different than she did in the pilot. Or maybe I'm just misremembering.

 

[Candlelight]

Did it look like Paige was being drowned by didn't-kill-himself Doctor, and subsequently he is drawing her on his notepad...?

 

[DevilEyes]

Is Nicole being played by a different actor now? She looks different than she did in the pilot. Or maybe I'm just misremembering.

No. It's the same actress, Peyton List. She looks the same as she did in the pilot (we even saw her on 'previously on' to confirm that).

I don't know who the guy on the left is.

He's a friend of Agent Benford's (Ralph Fiennes), and his FF was seeing his supposedly dead daughter alive.

Why do people keep confusing Joseph Fiennes with his brother Ralph? They don't even look that much alike.

 

[Skywalker]

Is Nicole being played by a different actor now? She looks different than she did in the pilot. Or maybe I'm just misremembering.

No. It's the same actress, Peyton List. She looks the same as she did in the pilot (we even saw her on 'previously on' to confirm that).

Thanks, I figured I just wasn't remembering right. I didn't see part of the 'previously on...' segment.

 

[Trent Roman]

Is Nicole being played by a different actor now? She looks different than she did in the pilot. Or maybe I'm just misremembering.

No. It's the same actress, Peyton List. She looks the same as she did in the pilot (we even saw her on 'previously on' to confirm that).

I had the same problem--I could have sworn she had darker hair in the pilot. Then again, in this episode it seemed to be almost blonde in some shots and darker again in others, so maybe it's a trick of the lighting.

Did it look like Paige was being drowned by didn't-kill-himself Doctor, and subsequently he is drawing her on his notepad...?

Ah? I thought it was the guy we saw in the very last moments of the episode; at least, I assumed that's why there was a dramatic reveal of the face of someone we've never seen or heard from yet.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Did it look like Paige was being drowned by didn't-kill-himself Doctor, and subsequently he is drawing her on his notepad...?

I couldn't tell who he was, but that would be a very interesting twist, if they can whomp up a good reason for it.

That would also mean that the suicidal doctor was happy to be alive because he saw himself drowning some girl he didn't even know. Twisted little puppy!

 

[Candlelight]

Ah? I thought it was the guy we saw in the very last moments of the episode; at least, I assumed that's why there was a dramatic reveal of the face of someone we've never seen or heard from yet.

Can't be; from what I gathered this episode, Simon rings British guy in his flash forward.

It's either Paige or the AA guy's daughter being drawn on the notepad, which tie in if she needed medical attention.

 

[Chris3123]

I don't know who the guy on the left is.

He's a friend of Agent Benford's (Ralph Fiennes), and his FF was seeing his supposedly dead daughter alive.

Why do people keep confusing Joseph Fiennes with his brother Ralph? They don't even look that much alike.

Whoops! I only initially remembered his last name, then the name Ralph popped into my head, and it sounded right. I wasn't even consciously aware there were two Fiennes actors.

 

[Aragorn]

Why do people keep confusing Joseph Fiennes with his brother Ralph? They don't even look that much alike.

You think with all the success Emilio Estevez is having on Two and a Half Men, he'd invite his brother Charlie Sheen to guest star once in a while.

 

[Candlelight]

Why do people keep confusing Joseph Fiennes with his brother Ralph? They don't even look that much alike.

You think with all the success Emilio Estevez is having on Two and a Half Men, he'd invite his brother Charlie Sheen to guest star once in a while.

And his father Renee.

 

[tomalak301]

I'm starting to lose it with this show, not because of the premise, but because there are just way to many characters to really follow the plot through. They keep introducing new characters each week, or bringing back characters from the first episode (Like the terrorist chick) that seem to be leading to a dead end and it's making these episodes not very interesting. I might stay with it because I liked the twist at the end, but I'm almost afriad this show is going to suffer from the Harry Potter syndrome. What that is is pretty much Harry Potter 5 (And I'm talking movies here) had a great ending with some revelations that should have been touched upon in the next movie, and then the next movie killed all that momentum with trivial stuff.

With this the last two weeks have been about "D Gibbons is a very bad man" and Crows falling in unison in Somalia. So what happens first thing in this episode? Really really poor taste of music and dead bodies and I thought I was watching a different show.

The twist at the end pushed this episode up to Average, but I fear things are getting just way to repetitive to further my interest. I'll give it another week to see if things even improve slightly.

 

[TGTheodore]

The opening music was perfect. Underscoring an obnoxiously idyllic day in the park just before the flash.

--Ted

 

[Lucky Charms]

I also liked the opening music. I felt like this episode had a nice mix of humor with drama. My only real complaint it they spent too much time on Olivia Benford. She really annoys me.

I am curious about Charlie's vision. I can't imagine Mark would not follow up on what she saw. He had to have pressed her for details.

 

[Borgminister]

Guess I'm in the minority after (finally) watching it with my son yesterday. Got to go excellent, despite the somewhat tiresome continued flashbacks of the flash forwards. Especially given the "boy in the dark" story and then the connection between autistic boy dad and the 2.17 instigator.

Boy what a stubborn one that Olivia is... her blinders' made you want to take her by the shoulders and shake some sense into her.

 

[Starscape]

Did it look like Paige was being drowned by didn't-kill-himself Doctor, and subsequently he is drawing her on his notepad...?

Ah? I thought it was the guy we saw in the very last moments of the episode; at least, I assumed that's why there was a dramatic reveal of the face of someone we've never seen or heard from yet.

To me, it looked like the priest was drowning her... which might explain why he was acting a bit odd when they were talking earlier in the episode.

 

[TGTheodore]

Did it look like Paige was being drowned by didn't-kill-himself Doctor, and subsequently he is drawing her on his notepad...?

Ah? I thought it was the guy we saw in the very last moments of the episode; at least, I assumed that's why there was a dramatic reveal of the face of someone we've never seen or heard from yet.

To me, it looked like the priest was drowning her... which might explain why he was acting a bit odd when they were talking earlier in the episode.

Perhaps he becomes furious with her, pretends to forgive her, and then pretends to be "baptizing her" to save her, and then gets a WEE bit carried away.

Or someone intervenes half way through the "baptism".

Lots of ways to go with this one flash.

--Ted