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FlashForward: "The Gift" 11/5 - Grading & Discussion

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    Votes: 14 48.3%
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Aragorn

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Mark, Demetri, Gough and MI6 agent Fiona Banks investigate a Blue Hand club. A surprise visit sends Aaron back to square one about his late daughter. Demetri finally tells the truth to Zoey. Nicole volunteers at the hospital and decides to help Bryce with his flashforward.
 
BTW, can I get some feedback of something I noticed in the 10/22 ep 'Gimme Some Truth'? It's in the relevant thread. Thanks.
 
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Wish I could help you with that. I checked out last week's thread and saw your question (and great pix, to boot!) but I don't recall seeing the blue light when I watched the ep.

My gut feeling is, they'll tie that in somehow, later on.

Hope tonight is as good as the promo made it look.
 
Wow, didn't think they'd do it. Thought it would turn out there was some ledge he'd land on.
 
Now this is more like it. Most of the show dealt with the flashforward, the various 'mysteries' surrounding a number of characters, and the consequences of the visions (or lack thereof). The nihilists are logical fallout from the event, and I liked the fake-out with Celia at the beginning. I like that characters are talking to each other, because the silence/lying thing has been overplayed. Heck of an ending--here we thought he was going to find her a prisoner somewhere, now we'll get to see how both on them wind up in that somewhere while also having the question of her survival addressed.

But the best part was the suicide. Finally! I liked the character and all, but it was long overdue that someone should make a radical gesture to try and invalidate their flashforward, and restores a semblance of coherence to the underlying metaphysics. We still need to figure out how the flashforward figured into the visions without the future characters being aware of the flashforward, but this blows the whole predestination thing wide open, restores free agency to the world. Good!

Oh, and I don't care what her language skills are, I think Nicole is a twit. Although we can now rule out Salvation-boy as the guy who attempts to drown her.

Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
 
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I liked the final 5 minutes of this episode (Or was it 10, I was recording it so not sure) mainly because it was the only interesting thing about the episode. The Suicide was very powerful, probably the most powerful thing this series has done this season, but are we going to get fall out from that? I mean in recent episodes we've dealt with Crows and "D Gibbons is a very bad man" yet the next episode was back to the soapy stuff. This one finally did something radical and series changing and I really want to see if the next episode carries that momentum Forward. Hell, I probably won't grade it until I see the next episode. I liked what this episode did, and on a single show, it's probably my favorite episode of the season but the important question remains, how do they build upon it since they haven't really done that at all so far.
 
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