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Post by Stormrider on Sept 25, 2009 6:25:38 GMT -6
Well, Dominick Monaghan was not in the season premier episode, but he was in the preview for next week!
This is a show about how everyone in the entire world blacks out for 2 minutes 17 seconds at the exact same time. Most people have a vision of something they are doing 6 months in the future (some saw the date on a desk or newspaper). Those that do not are worried they may not be alive in 6 months!
The people (FBI?) trying to figure out what is happening watched footage from cameras all over and they see the same thing everywhere--people just drop to the ground or wherever they are (in traffic is fatal or very serious)...except for one scene at a ball park or football field, the FBI lady sees everyone except for one person faint. The one person gets up out of his seat and walks toward an exit!
Dom's preview showed him in a gorilla mask in the back seat of a car when a guy gets in to his car. Desi: Who was that guy getting into the car? Was it the father of the boy in the hospital and also in the lady doctor's vision?
Anyway, it looks like another intriguing show like Lost!
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Post by Desi Baggins on Sept 25, 2009 7:24:15 GMT -6
I don't remember who was getting into the car...I'd have to watch it again.
The show looks like it is going to be interesting!
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Post by Stormrider on Sept 25, 2009 20:55:31 GMT -6
John Cho, Harold, from the Harold and Kumar movies is another actor on the show. He is one of those who blacked out but do not have a future vision.
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Sept 26, 2009 16:54:28 GMT -6
This looks like a pretty good show. It's written/produced by one of my favorite writers, David Goyer (writer of The Dark Knight and many other good movies and comics) so I'm definitely intrigued.
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Post by Stormrider on Sept 26, 2009 23:52:52 GMT -6
I like the mystery of the main cop's vision. He has all those clues that he can go off of. But those clues were from the visions and if he hadn't had the visions, he would not have had all those notes and pictures up on the bulletin board. At first I thought the visions were about the case he was working on but now I think they were clues to what caused the blackout, time leap, and visions.
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Sept 27, 2009 19:42:48 GMT -6
But those clues were from the visions and if he hadn't had the visions, he would not have had all those notes and pictures up on the bulletin board. Yeah, that really boggled my mind. It's predestination. He had the visions about an investigation. Yet the investigation is about him having the visions. How much of what happens next is guided by these people already knowing what happens next? If I think about it too much, it hurts my head! |
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Post by Stormrider on Sept 28, 2009 5:54:23 GMT -6
I went to the official ABC Flash Forward site and for these short video clips about the main points that can't be missed of the first episode: abc.go.com/watch/clip/flashforward/SH011579400000/235959/235935April 29, 2010 -- the date flashed to -- this date will actually air on this date! 2 min. 17 secs -- there is a reason for the length mosaic -- the gathering of everyone's memories three stars tatoo on attacker's arm D.Gibbons -- a suspect (also a comic strip writer) easter egg (Freddie: Are you familiar with this comic strip writer--Dave Gibbons Watchmen?) a main easter egg blue hands -- answered in 1st 6 episodes -- Baltimore? doll photo - clue (dolls are creapy) friendship bracelet -- nothing they saw is proof that it will happen but the bracelet us proof that the memory is coming true! and he will begin drinking again cartoon playing in background of some scenes -- voiced by the other actors on the show who are characters kangaroo -- will return in 1st 6 episodes and there is a story for it -- what's in its pouch? Janis' website -- go to www.jointhemosaic.com -- with documentaries on all characters filling in as the episodes reveal them. |
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Sept 28, 2009 12:53:48 GMT -6
D.Gibbons -- a suspect (also a comic strip writer) easter egg (Freddie: Are you familiar with this comic strip writer--Dave Gibbons Watchmen?) Yeah. He was the artist on Watchmen but he's written comics as well. The first thing out of my mouth when I saw that scene was "Dave Gibbons?" Apparently, that was indeed the reference they were making. |
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Sept 30, 2009 18:16:11 GMT -6
But those clues were from the visions and if he hadn't had the visions, he would not have had all those notes and pictures up on the bulletin board. Yeah, that really boggled my mind. It's predestination. He had the visions about an investigation. Yet the investigation is about him having the visions. How much of what happens next is guided by these people already knowing what happens next? If I think about it too much, it hurts my head! Yes, these kind of puzzles within enigmas within conundrums kind of stuff would hurt my head something awful -- I haven't seen this show, but it sounds all so obtuse and obscure - As I once mentioned somewhere, I used to have a real phobia of things that didn't make sense ( or didn't seem to make sense ) - I managed to get over that phobia to a great extent, and yet, I still tend to avoid these kind of things... When the X-Files were getting more into that alien invasion trip, ( I wasn't the big X-Files fan - that was my at the time teenage daughter, but my wife and I watched it occaisonally, as our daughter watched it religiously ) it became more & more confusing to me as to what was happening, who were the good guys & who were the bad guys, and so on... This new show does sound like it has an intruiging premise - I just don't know if I would have the patience to sit there and continue to get only riddles transforming themselves into bigger riddles and coming full circle, etcetera... |
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 1, 2009 6:28:46 GMT -6
Ardo: The show Lost! is like this too. In January 2010, Lost! will air its final season and we will finally get all the answers or I will be pretty upset! I was a big fan of the X Files too. I even went to an X Files convention in Chicago one year! We never did get the answers to that show! At least I quit watching it when David Duchovany left the cast--without him, it wasn't worth it any more. Ask your daughter: Did they find the truth--was it out there?  |
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Oct 1, 2009 13:59:48 GMT -6
I used to love X-Files. The first movie and the last few seasons answered most of the questions. But the alien invasion that they had been hinting at and building towards never happened. It was such a letdown. All buildup, no payoff.
As for Lost, I have a love/hate relationship with that show. It's well done and one of my favorites but the way it piles mystery upon mystery really gets on my nerves. We're told that all will be answered by the end of this season. I'll believe it when I see it.
Flashforward is also supposed to answer our questions by the end of their first season.
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Post by Ardo Whortleberry on Oct 2, 2009 0:22:42 GMT -6
Hello, Everyone! ~~~
Yes, I had gleaned from eavesdropping in on some of the
Lost! discussions here ( and at the B&N ) that Lost! was a similar kind of mind-bending "puzzle-show"...
I guess The Prisoner was the great-grandaddy of all these kind of shows ( another show which I have only seen once or twice at the most ) --
I have only stopped by the Lost! program briefly on a couple of occaisons - I was inspired to watch when I found out that Mr Monaghan was involved ( he was being interviewed on a late-night talk show - I forget which one )
Anyway, you can tell I'm way, way behind in what's happening in that show - they have the whole series on DVD available at the library - perhaps someday I will get around to watching it from the beginning -
( we do have a tendency [ my wife & I ] to "catch up" years on down the road, with programs & movies that were big hits their first time around, but where we were "out of the loop" whenever whatever it was that was so popular was being watched
by "everyone" - but, on the other hand, the show still doesn't seem like our cup of tea, either, however ) ---
( sigh ) I'd ask my daughter about what finally did happen in the X-Files, but she's out on her own, and sadly seems to have cut off all forms of communication with her parents...
I remember when they were trying to "soldier on"
with the X-Files without Mr Duchovny,
( where they brought in a new partner for Ms Anderson,) )
my wife and I were actually watching some of these shows by ourselves by that point
We could tell the show was in its death throes by that point, & wouldn't last much longer ...
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 2, 2009 6:39:49 GMT -6
Well...
Dom still has not appeared on the show! I am getting the feeling he might be (or associated with) the mysterious, very bad man D. Gibbons (according to Mark and Olivia's daughter, Charlie). I am trying to figure out if he might by the guy walking around in the ballpark/football stadium--but it is too blurry! The guy in the doll factory who they are calling D. Gibbons also had a British-type accent. He said: " He who forsees calamity, suffers it twice over..."
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Post by Fredeghar Wayfarer on Oct 2, 2009 13:42:16 GMT -6
Ardo, I play catch-up the same way sometimes. I didn't really get into Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Scrubs when they were in their first seasons but after watching the full seasons on DVD or at a friend's house, they're now two of my favorite shows.
By the way, I could probably summarize what happened at the end of X-Files if anyone's curious. There's also info about it on Wikipedia.
(I love how this is turning into a General TV Thread/Shows That Boggle Our Minds Thread. ;D)
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Post by Stormrider on Oct 24, 2009 8:19:41 GMT -6
They are teasing us with short snips and previews of Dom now!
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- 'It's an ill wind as blows nobody no good, as I always say. And All's well as ends Better!'
