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

Comments

[gummitch]

...a career progression from This Life and Coupling

Not to mention that small role in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies...

[daveon]

I've stuck with it, but I'm not all that engaged now. I'd like to see it wrapped up frankly. They started well and then it all went wibbly. Jack Davenport isn't actually the real villain and there's an extensive time travel plot wrapped into it.

They just brought in another baddy in the most implausible way possible.

[inulro]

Yes. This.

[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 episodeGood

[marykaykare]

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 leaden, his politics twee, and his characterisation utterly flat.

I can't comment on the tv show as I haven't been watching and don't plan to. (Probably won't vote in this category. So very much *not* a fan of tv sf.) I just want to add a hearty yeah, me too, to the comments about Sawyer. What do you suppose explains his vast popularity? It completely flummoxes me, and I have to say, my interactions with the man himself have not been what I'd call positive either.

MKK

[drakkenfyre]

I like his writing style because I don't like flowery bullshit prose. It's straight, to the point, tells a story, and has some meaning behind it without trying to mask lack of plot or content with pretty words.

And as an English major and corporate communications sell-out, it's not that I don't know the big words, I just don't like it when people try to disguise a lack of substance with them. To me, accessibility isn't a bad thing.

[drakkenfyre]

Oh, and I don't really give a crap as to whether a guy's nice or not if I'm reading his or her work. Otherwise I'd never read Peter Watts or David Brin.

But I've met him and I think he's a nice guy. Super-nice, actually. But I tend to take to people positively, so I don't know if that's part of it.

[brightglance]

Brian O'Byrne, who plays Aaraon Stafford, is someone I've known all my life - we grew up in the same little village. He's worked in the US for years now though he has come back to do theatre and film here also. (e.g. Martin McDonagh plays with Druid, Intermission.)

[daveon]

And there is a good example of an interesting plot line brought in, and then, apparently discarded for a few episodes.

Seriously, the pacing in this thing is all over the place.