So the thing about Flashforward is...

[giandujakiss]

...as I'm watching it, I just can't shake the certainty that someone came up with this cool high-concept premise (everyone blacks out and sees two minutes of the same date in the future!) and then had to come up with a grand "solution" to justify it that will never, ever end up making any sense.

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[lastscorpion]

Yeah, ITA. That's why I can't really get into it.

[giandujakiss]

Yes, the whole time I'm watching, I'm thinking there's no way there's going to be a satisfactory explanation, and so the whole mystery is pointless. And they don't have characters interesting enough for me not to care that the mystery is pointless.

[lastscorpion]

characters interesting enough for me not to care that the mystery is pointless.


Oh, yeah, that would be the only thing that could save it. I watched X-Files for years after I gave up on them ever telling us what the heck was going on, just because I liked the characters. These FF guys aren't that interesting.

[giandujakiss]

Absolutely - and now I"m watching Fringe, and I'm caught between not understanding the mystery and not caring, and it doesn't matter because I love Olivia that much.