I'm most curious to know what you'll think after you've caught up beyond the first two episodes. jd
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Kevin M. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've watched the first two episodes. I like what I've seen so far, but > I also believe this would work better as a movie or miniseries. The > payoff will take place when the date they flashed forward to comes > upon them, and I have the feeling everything in between will > eventually start to feel like filler. It was, perhaps, the only > legitimate complaint of Bochco's "Murder One," that everything leading > up to the verdict turned out not to have mattered much. I'm hoping > they didn't introduce characters and b-stories just to pass the time. > > The premise of the series amounts to a very superficial debate between > fate vs. free will, but, these days, even superficial philosophical > discussions are welcome on television. I also liked that they > approached the event from multiple perspectives... some saw the flash > forward as a good thing, others saw it as bad, and still others saw > nothing at all. To be able to write multiple and dramatically > different accounts of an event is no easy task without resorting to > stereotypes, and, so far, they haven't. > > Of course, if this is, as someone suggested in an earlier thread, what > replaced "Defying Gravity," then, I'm not happy with ABC. I feel there > are more opportunities for storytelling in that summer series than in > "Flash Forward." > -- > Kevin M. (RPCV) > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
