I'll admit, this was meant to be an advance review of tonight's two-hour spring premiere of ABC's FlashForward, but I couldn't get ABC's Medianet video player to stop skipping and eventually gave up altogether.That's perhaps symbolic of my frustration in general with ABC's creatively uneven sci-fi series, which returns tonight after a lengthy hiatus with the promise of answers, answers, and more answers.
While I applaud the producers for seeing the value in providing solutions to the many mysteries that the early episodes produced, my main issue with the series is that I just don't care at all for these characters, their situations, or what they saw in their flash-forwards. Which is a major problem for a series that spends a great deal of its time having the character talk endlessly about fate, free will, and conscious choice.
All of which makes me wonder if I'll bother tuning in to the twelve remaining episodes this season. FlashForward has already fallen off my must-see priority list for Thursday nights, which meant that I was getting around to these episodes whenever I had free time.
But I am wondering: with FlashForward set to return tonight, which among you is looking forward to its return and which of you has already given up on the series? Are you willing to give it another chance? Or did you know you'd stop watching based on your own flash-forward last fall? Discuss, along with reasons why.
FlashForward returns tonight with a two-hour episode from 8-10 pm ET/PT on ABC.
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Oh, and I have a HUGE problem with Joseph Fiennes. Very poor casting choice, imo.
But I'll at least DVR it and see if it's any better. If not, I will probably spend that time rewatching Chuck on DVD.
Unfortunately little of that made it to the screen, and the show's two largest problems have been its poor writing (which is uneven and often lacks grounding in the "real world") and the actors (many of whom are hopelessly miscast). It's a shame because the show had so much potential. After it was picked up, everyone worried what the second SEASON would be like, but no one thought they'd have problems as early as the second EPISODE.
That said, I'll probably check it out again... to see if it's gotten any better and if it can possibly live up to its potential.