FlashForward: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 4/29/10 - Grading/Discussion
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Re: FlashForward: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 4/29/10 - Grading/Discus
Hah hah. How completely predictable. Glad I bailed on this show.
Hah hah. How completely predictable. Glad I bailed on this show.
Re: FlashForward: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 4/29/10 - Grading/Discus
Given how you hate the show no matter WHAT it does, I'm going to say you would've bailed if she WAS a bad guy. No matter how well-written.
Given how you hate the show no matter WHAT it does, I'm going to say you would've bailed if she WAS a bad guy. No matter how well-written.
Re: FlashForward: "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" 4/29/10 - Grading/Discus
Since no less than two characters told Aaron pointblank he didn't fit in as well as he thought, I'm not sure the episode should be criticized for thinking his scheme was a clever one.
Extraordinary as it may seem, the series shows signs of tying its plot together. There will always be a certain arbitrariness, as in needing Herzog and no other to shoot down Frost. And too many scenes are melodramatic horseshit. I'm thinking of Mark and Demetri breaking into fisticuffs while pursuing a suspect.
Or Mark suddenly kidnapping Shoreh Agdashloo in Hong Kong. But I suppose it's impossible to expect all that praise for Dark Knight wouldn't go to Goyer's head. Nevertheless, a serialized plot that pretty much makes sense, without ignoring many details is an amazing achievement.
It still is not clear why the bad guys need a QED to survive a blackout. Turn off the gas and lie down in your own bed: Seems simple enough to me. But if you don't black out, you don't get a flashforward. Only if somehow not getting a flashforward makes you a free agent or something does it make sense. As of yet, anyhow.
It doesn't make sense that Janis the mole was the only person with the elementary sense to realize Campos killed Flosso (not to mention the difficulty of the other dead man in the driveway of his mother's home.) Therefore, it was always improbable if the writing was coherent that Janis was legitimately a mole, instead of a double agent using withheld information as bait. Incoherent plotting may be unpredictable but it is still bad writing.
The Big Story is developing a narrative flow. Despite myself, above average.
Since no less than two characters told Aaron pointblank he didn't fit in as well as he thought, I'm not sure the episode should be criticized for thinking his scheme was a clever one.
Extraordinary as it may seem, the series shows signs of tying its plot together. There will always be a certain arbitrariness, as in needing Herzog and no other to shoot down Frost. And too many scenes are melodramatic horseshit. I'm thinking of Mark and Demetri breaking into fisticuffs while pursuing a suspect.
Or Mark suddenly kidnapping Shoreh Agdashloo in Hong Kong. But I suppose it's impossible to expect all that praise for Dark Knight wouldn't go to Goyer's head. Nevertheless, a serialized plot that pretty much makes sense, without ignoring many details is an amazing achievement.It still is not clear why the bad guys need a QED to survive a blackout. Turn off the gas and lie down in your own bed: Seems simple enough to me. But if you don't black out, you don't get a flashforward. Only if somehow not getting a flashforward makes you a free agent or something does it make sense. As of yet, anyhow.
It doesn't make sense that Janis the mole was the only person with the elementary sense to realize Campos killed Flosso (not to mention the difficulty of the other dead man in the driveway of his mother's home.) Therefore, it was always improbable if the writing was coherent that Janis was legitimately a mole, instead of a double agent using withheld information as bait. Incoherent plotting may be unpredictable but it is still bad writing.
The Big Story is developing a narrative flow. Despite myself, above average.