Flashforward episode 1

[nwhyte]

I would not have watched the first episode of Flashforward if it had not been nominated for the Hugo awards this year, and actually that would have been a shame. Literally the only thing I knew about it was that it was a TV series based on a novel by Robert. J. Sawyer, and frankly that was have been enough to put me off: I find Sawyer's prose

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[xipuloxx]

I would not be at all astonished to learn that the rest of the series failed to build on the promise of the first episode

Good. ;^)

I'm still watching it, but finding it increasingly frustrating, as the characters incessantly do things that MAKE NO SENSE -- and that's when the universe itself isn't seriously skewed. A good example was when Mark and Demitri went to Hong Kong to follow up on a lead despite their boss forbidding it -- and took their guns. On an international flight. And Mark then proceeded to wave his around in Hong Kong, threatening people there. And then all that happens is he's suspended and they're both deported. With their guns. On an international flight. AGAIN. OK, so Mark's gun is given to Demetri, who's forbidden to give it to him, but ... "wtf" has never seemed so appropriate.

Or the most recent episode where they reckon there's a mole in the FBI, so all the suspects are rounded up into a room, and guarded by a guy with a gun ... who is then surprised by the aforesaid mole grabbing his gun out of its holster and shooting him! I mean, didn't they consider the possibility that a desperate person might try to grab the only gun in the room?

There was apparently an even more spectacular lapse in logic in the same episode, but I'm clinging to the hope that what we were told wasn't true, because, well, I'll just say it is NOT POSSIBLE to shoot someone in the torso "safely".

OTOH, I am enjoying it, it just makes me want to strangle the writers sometimes!