The end of the season of FlashForward is really sneaking up on us. This episode took place on the day before the events in the visions of the future will occur. The series has almost caught up with itself, and everything felt like it was in a different gear tonight. In fact, a lot of the action felt a bit rushed. After so much build up and so many mysteries and questions being introduced, everything seemed a little too easy in this episode. Gabriel was spewing tons of valuable information and the big bad guy was caught after Janis set him up. It was all a little too abrupt, if you ask me.
If I may: Mark Benford is such an ass. I don’t think there is any way around it. The way the character is written and acted (sorry, Joseph Fiennes, but this performance really is pretty bad) makes one thing perfectly clear: he is a complete and total ass. The confrontation between he and Janis towards the end of this episode was simply maddening. After finding out that Janis was risking her life to go undercover and help take down the shadowy organization all Mark can do is chastise her for being “deceptive.” Even after she reveals that the only reason she set up the big bad was because she wanted out because she couldn’t go through with killing Mark, he still douched out and made her feel like a traitor. What. an. ass. Seriously, I hope those freaky masked people shoot him to death before the season ends.
I’m a little disappointed that the show decided to turn this into a “fate will always course correct” situation. I touched on this last week too, but I think the show spent so much time in the beginning of the season telling us that it was possible to change the future (including one of the most dramatic moments of the series in Gough’s suicide), but now we have Gabriel saying that even if you do change it, the universe will find a way to get you in the right place. I’m not a huge fan of show changing its mind halfway through the season. I’m even less of a fan of watching John Cho look depressed as he contemplates his fate. If those masked people could take him out too, I would really appreciate it, thanks.
I’m really wondering how this whole “Aaron in Afghanistan” plot line is going to mesh with the rest of the story, if it is at all. It feels really disjointed from the rest of the story, to the point of being a bit distracting. Is this story somehow going to tie into the events happening back in the USA? Does anyone care?
Only two more episodes of FlashForward left, probably forever. I hope they can give it a decently wrapped up ending. Though we still don’t have the official word that it has been canceled, so I’m sure the writers wrote the finale for a season, not the series.
Clacked by Bob Degon
on May 13, 2010 @ 21:59 EST5EDT
it has now officially been cancelled. V has been renewed for a second season. Looking forward to Caprica’s return in the fall (get the pun?). The more I think about it, the more I realize just how solid Caprica really is. Mostly excellent performances, with only the kid who plays William Adama (#1?) and Alessandra Torresani at times being iffy which is perhaps just the actors getting into their character’s skin (I noticed a slight awkwardness in Edward James Olmos in the BSG pilot, whilst watching BSG on blu ray, in the first few scenes with Mary MacDonald), no plot holes though maybe a few too many plot threads which we’re told will be consolidated in the second half of season 1. Given how difficult it is to get a series successfully off the ground, I think Ron Moore and David Eick have actually done well with Caprica.
he has a dodgy lower lip, like he burned it whilst smoking his roll ups. Apart from that, not in a position to judge his hotness.