I’m still liking V. It’s kinda old-school but at least it makes sense and I almost give a rat’s for the characters. Almost.

But the truth is, they’re both lame.

When will “they” get it? We’ll stay with anything if we engage with the characters. But those good writers are hard to find, and probably too expensive for the bean-counters.

Flashforward is my absolute favorite TV series. I love the
characters and care very much what happens to them. I loved
the original novel by Robert Sawyer, the plot of which has
been changed out of all recognition for the TV series, but
the premise is so compelling that I enjoy the TV series despite the changes.

The problem with so many American TV shows is that stations are SO concerned with viewers that they don’t dare take any chances or make a show that builds up – it has to deliver from the first second and please everybody. I mean it’s a battlefield of cancelled shows that never really got a chance. If you people out there in TV land find FlashForward to be bad or boring then you simply are impossible to please.

Fiennes bores me but i’m enjoying the rest of the cast.

Am curious to see how it all plays out and whether the production can pull off a decent resolution or waffles. Either the future is changeable or it isn’t. Events in the last ep suggest it is, but arguably that renders the entire flash meaningless.

Unless it doesn’t.

I suppose my curiousity is engaged in the sense of whether this TV show can pull off a fairly ambitious premise AND hold an audience.

Finally, as a recovering alcoholic, the approach of Fiends character is unrealistic. He’s seven years sober and active in AA. It’s unlikely that the revelation would unhinge him the way it is. He has tools to deal with uncertainty. And his sponsor is more unstable than he is. This is not the way an active 7 year old would behave or his sponsor. They are more likely to be the most centered people in the whole show.

I’m keeping watching, but i also felt that this show is like Prison Break. No More than 2 seasons!

They’ve only slightly touched on who caused the blackouts and no one seems to have asked why people saw the future during these blackouts.

It’s okay, but it needs to get better to keep viewers and ratings.

1) Flashforwards – Ok, LOST has flash forwards, flashbackward, flash sideways, physical as well as just visually.

2) Secretive group experiment responsible for screwing with peoples lives.

3) Casts consisting almost entirely of dysfunctional people.

“Mark and Olivia Benford relationship has been a train wreck based on nothing substantial”

I totally agree. I liked the last episode ‘The Gift’ because it finally started to deal more with the real issue of the FlashForward. The character relationships aren’t enough for me to care about.

I am hoping ‘V’ sticks around. I am going to need something after LOST ends next year.

I don’t care if some aliens stopped here cause they want to changed our lives/way of living and people being totally fine with that, like is totally normal.
F* that.
Talking about “V”, just in case.

Either way, the comparison to Lost was a bad thing for FF. However, considering that the FF pilot played like a lame imitation of the Lost pilot, it was impossible not to make the comparison.

I still say comparing FF to Lost during the media buildup for the premiere was a big mistake for the network. FF looked really fresh and different in all those commercials this past summer but then when you tell me it’s similar to Lost I lose interest. I don’t care anything about Lost. I know Lost gets good demo numbers but FF would’ve fared better if it had the look and smell of something totally new instead of just a copy of something old and tired.

LostAtSea: You have Joseph Fiennes pegged! He reminds me of George Clooney in the early days of ER, hanging his head and grinning through every single scene. One trick ponies with a nice complexion, not to mention good family ties.

The problem is that it is not a must watch and if it goes away neither one of us will care.

As for LOST, it did have a few weak seasons but the last season I thought was incredible.. Can’t wait to see what happens next.

Fingers crossed FlashForward picks up.

But as many people have already pointed out, it’s not so surprising given the quality of the show. Or the drop in quality as the case might be. I’ve definitely been disappointed with the previous 2-3 weeks as well (though I have yet to watch the most recent episode).

What I have not seen mentioned (and my apologies if I missed a comment) is the firing of executive producer Marc Guggenheim. Perhaps he was responsible for some of the plots, or characterizations that were most off-putting to viewers? If so, then hopefully the show will begin to pick up soon, and therefore be able to stop the loss of it’s audience.

However, if he was instead fighting for the elements that the people leaving did want to see, then his loss will most likely only hasten the departure of the existing audience.

This is only speculation, but the dismissal of Guggenheim could be what saves FlashForward or seals it’s fate.

The writers seem content to manufacture clearly illogical scenes just to get some emotion. I’ll admit that the last few minutes of the last episode was good aside from the fact that it was meaningless.

I still don’t understand why everyone thinks the flash forwards will be the future. Has their brain chemistry changed? Apparently science has no relevance in the FlashForward world.

As for the show, I lost interest after the pilot. Too much bad writing and acting for me to care.

The biggest of which being that they don’t seem to be expanding character development beyond whatever they saw in their flashforward. Benford and his wife’s interactions are STILL focused solely on the whole cheating thing, Demetri doesn’t seem to think about anything but the fact he’ll be dead by then, etc. etc. after SEVEN episodes. Quite simply, we don’t know who they are. (as a matter of fact, I had to look at the Wikipedia page just to find out their names) We just barely know who they may or may not be 6 months from now, and nothing else. It’s slowly getting quite repetitive, despite some change on the mystery side…