dear flash forward, can you make it so i don't black-out the screen on you?
i had such high hopes for you. you see i'm a sucker for science fiction. it doesn't matter if the show's production value is good or bad, i'd still watch it if the science part is intriguing enough. give me dystopic futures, offworld explorers in peril, alternate reality, body-switching, hyperspace drives, wormholes, alien conspiracy, exploding mutants, space vampires, outer space battles, nanobots, and insane cyborgs and i'm you're girl!
your central premise -- a global phenomena in which everybody simultaneously blacked-out or 137 seconds during which people have a short vision of their lives six months in the future -- was attention-grabbing. sadly 12 episodes into the first season, and i'm just about ready to black-out the screen on you.
i really do not want to abandon you because i want to see what happens when the future everybody flash-forwarded to finally arrives. i wish you can fix some or all of the bugs that's keeping me from fully engaging in your vision of the universe.
1) can you use the voice-over narration sparingly? i adore Mulder's and Scully's almost poetic voiced-over reflections because they only do it either at the beginning or the end of an episode. the X-Files writers never jumped into the middle of the story and whacked the viewers on the head with some pseudo-philosophical meanderings on the meaning of chance, choice and fate;
2) speaking of philosophy, can you stop talking about it? show not tell, you're a tv show for frak sake, not a university lecture notes, "Heroes" proselytized too much and look what happened to it;
3) can you loose half of your cast of characters. i really am not interested with what happens to the sitter/nanny of the daughter of the male lead or the would-be soul mate of the resident doctor who works for the attending trauma surgeon who's married to the male lead. "Lost" got lost for a while because of it's plethora of unlikeable characters, but the show is called "Lost" -- what's your excuse?;
4) women watch science fiction so give us female characters we can root for. that Olivia character who's "angsting" over her future self's dumping of the male lead to shack up with the guy who might have caused the flash forward is not cutting it for those of us who followed the life and death of Scully, Buffy, Xena, Sam Carter, Martha Smith and Laura Roslin;
last but not the least, and corollary to #4,
5) when that Simon guy's ambiguous behind finally gets kicked, please make it so Janis does it. also give actress Gina Torres more scenes and lines.
over and out.
your central premise -- a global phenomena in which everybody simultaneously blacked-out or 137 seconds during which people have a short vision of their lives six months in the future -- was attention-grabbing. sadly 12 episodes into the first season, and i'm just about ready to black-out the screen on you.
i really do not want to abandon you because i want to see what happens when the future everybody flash-forwarded to finally arrives. i wish you can fix some or all of the bugs that's keeping me from fully engaging in your vision of the universe.
1) can you use the voice-over narration sparingly? i adore Mulder's and Scully's almost poetic voiced-over reflections because they only do it either at the beginning or the end of an episode. the X-Files writers never jumped into the middle of the story and whacked the viewers on the head with some pseudo-philosophical meanderings on the meaning of chance, choice and fate;
2) speaking of philosophy, can you stop talking about it? show not tell, you're a tv show for frak sake, not a university lecture notes, "Heroes" proselytized too much and look what happened to it;
3) can you loose half of your cast of characters. i really am not interested with what happens to the sitter/nanny of the daughter of the male lead or the would-be soul mate of the resident doctor who works for the attending trauma surgeon who's married to the male lead. "Lost" got lost for a while because of it's plethora of unlikeable characters, but the show is called "Lost" -- what's your excuse?;
4) women watch science fiction so give us female characters we can root for. that Olivia character who's "angsting" over her future self's dumping of the male lead to shack up with the guy who might have caused the flash forward is not cutting it for those of us who followed the life and death of Scully, Buffy, Xena, Sam Carter, Martha Smith and Laura Roslin;
last but not the least, and corollary to #4,
5) when that Simon guy's ambiguous behind finally gets kicked, please make it so Janis does it. also give actress Gina Torres more scenes and lines.
over and out.