<p>I saw the second episode but haven’t watched the premiere yet. Must do that before the next episode!</p>
<p>I wouldn’t worry about them setting up an ending date. Remember “Save the cheerleader, save the world!”?. They saved the cheerleader, saved the world, but the next season it turned out that the bad guy wasn’t really dead. I agree about too many characters on Heroes, but it really is a well done show. The acting and the writing are fabulous.</p>
<p>I liked the premise for FlashForward, too. I also “allow” myself to get involved with a show on occasion. My last one was Heroes, but I’ve gotten behind now. Before that it was one season of American Idol. I had always been very stuck up about it and said that I would never watch it, but then I starting feeling left out because everyone was talking about it all the time, so I did…and enjoyed it. :)</p>
<p>Oh, and I have watched the Bachelor occasionally, but shhhhh… no one needs to know about that!</p>
<p>Gotta admit, tonight’s episode (3) was a little bit disappointing. DNA testing takes WEEKS, not hours or days. The FBI bureau chief is a bad cardboard prop - apparently his purpose is to stand as a sort of a foil to our brilliant hero Mark. </p>
<p>If I were Demetri, I’d be partying it up and taking all kinds of risks now, since he knows he lives till March, then when March comes put on a bullet-proof vest and hide out.</p>
<p>I haven’t seen the show (no cable and no reception), so I can’t say. It’s been too long since I’ve read the book. From what I can remember you could easily have different characters, but TV shows have a way of not stopping if they are popular. (Battlestar Gallactica excepted.)</p>
<p>I agree about the FBI bureau chief. Overall, I’m still liking it. I think you have to let the scientific inaccuracies roll off your back. Some of those things are necessary to move the story forward. Also, we’re dealing with a premise of the whole world blacking out and having a vision at the same time, so any license they take with facts kind of pales in comparison to that!</p>
<p>mathmom, glad someone else has read and enjoyed the book! There are full episodes of the show on Hulu if you care to see how the two match up. Right now I think having read the book is keeping me from getting into the show a bit–the premise is close but not exact, so I can’t stop comparing the two (what I remember of the book, at least) and wondering how the book plot points will factor in. Always the case with adaptations where you know the original, alas.</p>
<p>One plausible explanation I can think of that might explain the characters unable to escape the fates of their flash forwards, Einstein’s “String theory”.</p>
So true! Plus, all the various crime scene shows are constantly getting complex test results in a matter of hours. I try not to get too hung up on stuff like that if the story is good.</p>
<p>Yes, you’re right. As long as I’m suspending my disbelief, I’ll suspend it for stuff like DNA tests. It always kills me on CSI, though, when they get DNA or other test results back almost the SAME DAY, or on other shows (including FlashForward) where they just enter an obscure question into the computer and the answer pops up in exactly the form they need in seconds! </p>
<p>Still, I like the premise, the characters and actors. I’ll shut up and go along for the ride.</p>
<p>Bringing up this thread to say, “WHAT? FF is on hiatus until March, 2010?” I hate it when shows do this! I’ll probably forget everything that’s happened so far. Gr-r-r-r!</p>
<p>I was surprised, too, then relieved. I have watched all the shows so far, decided from the previews that I might be interested but had to start from the beginning (I didn’t watch West Wing until it was over, and now can’t get enough - endless looping.) I say relieved because now I’m free to move about on Thursday nights.</p>
<p>I liked the first 2 episodes, but then it got too repetitive for me–continuously showingthe same flash backs/flashforwards, and the main character getting mad at his wife in advance for who she was going to have an affair with in the flash forward–not very evolved.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m not happy about the way things are going with the series; it’s getting a bit dull. </p>
<p>Although the “alternative reality” thing may get interesting if they play it right (although I don’t think Star Trek is finished with it yet, so they’d have to take it a totally different direction). They’ve just got to move it along a bit faster. And we all know that the future they saw isn’t the future that’s going to happen, since looking for it in the present will change the future anyway (remember the Temporal Prime Directive?)</p>