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Flashforward. New show written by writer of Nick Fury and Blade Trinity
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So why did they need the autistic people?
I don't know about perfect recall as Penelope didn't seem to remember the equations on the mirror.
No they don't. Like Mark needing the drug or Lloyd having to revisit the bedroom and have conversations to jog it. Also, these people would have been subject to repeated flash forwards. Remembering the details of one hugely traumatic, global disaster might be easier? I dunno.
Also, seriously pet shop lady, "You signed on for this"? No she didn't! That was her whole point! And furthermore, if you had told her to kill Mark Benford FIRST, then told her to steal the blueprints, she could have done both instead of failing at both! Worst. Diabolical. Taskmaster. Ever.
What I find amusing is when people say something like, "Your vision doesn't seem to add up to 2 and a half minutes." As though you expect for every single 2.5 minute interval in your life to be terribly exciting and life changing, and not simple "I sat in front of my computer and was downloading porn."
All in all, though, it's a vastly better show than V. Although Mark is an idiot for letting Frost get shot.
I think it was more that everyone remembered their's pretty well because it was a very unusual thing that had just happened, but Mark had gaps because he was hammered at the time. It was also a relatively short period of time--if it had been hours or days I'm sure people wouldn't have detailed memories of exactly what happened. No one has said that everyone remembers them perfectly.
My problem is the whole closed-loop nature of the experiments. Baltar remembers seeing Olivia in the future, because in the future he keeps trying to find her and change her trajectory? And in his futures she's with Lloyd, so how does he know what she's doing and where she is anyway? Ouch my head.
Maybe even in those futures when she's with Lloyd, she's still in the same places? Or maybe it's not every future, and he's just exaggerating/generalizing? Or maybe he's just fucking crazy?
Early flashforward experiments using savants was quite interesting, it implies there's been a whole lot of work done into this "consciousness field" stuff they mentioned and early attempts were possibly harder to remember. although given how bad Baltar is at being sane, it seems odd that nobody remembers the crazy waiter at the wedding.
"He remembered our order perfectly! A little too perfectly."
Giving him a cap was a great idea. Otherwise, it would have been completely distracting.
They 'pace' of the show has remained high and, as an example of good writing, the Janis reveal/twist made things make sense and pull together rather than made me go WTF?!? which is what seems to happen in other shows with regular twists.
Ripped from the pages of Asimov! (Who may have ripped it from elsewhere too, I don't know.)
Well I'm not terribly surprised.
I liked the show well enough but it was absurdly predictable and the "twists" so far have been pretty ho-hum.
My wife loves the show though and will be really disappointed that it was canceled.
It seems like a good fit for a USA or FX sort of show; but I'm sure it'll just die a quiet death.
I'm not sure why the public doesn't seem to like Sci-Fi in their prime time shows unless it is completely fucking retarded faux sci-fi like Lost or Heroes.
Fun while it lasted.
If faith is just a silent tribute, mine is just a desperate act.
Still, it's really sad that this show gets canceled for V.
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This show got better over time and I would've been really interested on how they went for further seasons. The premise was cool, the actors were cool and the story was decent if you discount all the boring shit. The idea behind the show seriously could've made for some really interesting stuff and I think the writers had good plans.
At least the final wrapped things up enough. Not awesome, but I didn't expect it to be so it was decent.
As for the final episode, I really liked it, it worked as a series finale, it worked as a good bit of cliff hanger television, it worked as an undecided fate-vs-free will argument, it just worked.
I'm confident that the plot of this could have been drawn up for a single series of something amazing.