I liked this pilot. Sure, it was trying awfully hard to be Lost at times, and some parts worked better than others. For example, I wasn't particularly infatuated with any of the characters. I'm sure we'll get to know more about them and hopefully grow to like them more in future episodes. It would have been difficult for a show to both showcase its characters and establish this kind of high-concept premise all in the pilot episode. (Not that it's impossible--Lost was able to do it, and I think that Life on Mars did a pretty good job of it last year.)
But I did find the high-concept premise to be really interesting. Everyone time-hopping to the future all at once!? How strange and interesting. It actually seems a bit like a Fringe plot, but I like that it's this one strange occurrence that we're going to deal with in this series, where as Fringe has a never-ending parade of weird events.
One good/bad thing about the FlashForward pilot was that it made me feel very, very nervous. Like Lost, I think FF has the potential to be a very interesting show, but it's not exactly low-stress entertainment. I'm interested to see if FF begins to work in some occasional comedic relief (like Lost has done masterfully), because watching it might give me an anxiety attack if it doesn't.
Play-by-play:
- So apparently everyone blacking out at the same time can cause some major problems.
- Penny has no accent!
- Those balloons are awesome!
- The cinematography looks Lost-esque. Be on the look out for Jacob. I would not be at all surprised if he's behind all this.
- OMG, for a second, I thought the guy talking about his Marine daughter was Richard Hatch!
- Demetri: "I cannot dance to 'Islands in the Stream'! I will never live it down."
- I like the rapid-fire jumping around from person to person to this jazzy music.
- The pickup truck flying through the air wasn't a sign that they needed backup?
- Oh no! There go the balloons!
- Charlie dreamt that "there were no more good days." That's not good.
- Where'd the kangaroo come from? Is that like the polar bear on Lost? Six years from now, are we still going to be wondering where the kangaroo came from?
- Oh geez, airplanes!
- "People probably died walking up the stairs."
- Wow, Mark is perceptive for noticing a calendar and putting together that his consciousness jumped to the future. Well, maybe not--everyone else seems to have noticed a calendar too.
- They jumped to April 29, 2010, 10 p.m. So can there be a second season to this show or does it all become a mute point after April 29?
- Go Demetri! Even with all this going on, he still managed to haul the blonde into the station.
- The guy who saw himself in London during the flash looks familiar. (Holy cow, how mortifying is it to admit that I think I recognize this guy--Lee Thompson Young--from The Famous Jett Jackson? Oh wow.)
- That was not a very realistic looking view of London from the window. It kind of looked like a cartoon.
- OMG! Big Ben's on fire! Put it out!!!
- Convenient that people were undergoing brain scans at the time.
- Uh oh. Demetri saw nothing.
- Aww, this poor dude was in the bathroom. That's embarrassing.
- So who thinks Mark knocks this girl up? She did laugh at his "sweetheart" crack.
- They're going to need a really big web site if everyone's posting their visions on it. I bet someone's already started the web site anyway. Twitter probably crashed from all the traffic.
- You don't always dream when you're asleep, do you? So wouldn't it be possible that someone who saw nothing was asleep?
- So because he's alive in April, does that mean that Bryce wasn't going to kill himself anyway? Or him being alive in April proves that the visions were always supposed to happen? (Oh geez, it feels like we're plunging into the debates we've already had for Lost.)
- Aaron's daughter is Kris Furillo from Wildfire!!!!!!!!!!!
- Whoa, this guy's daughter was alive in the flash forward. That's strange.
- If Olivia (Penny) didn't want to talk about what she saw, she probably shouldn't have asked Mark what he saw. That kind of invited a follow up question.
- I know who the guy Olivia was with was! He was on Swingtown.
- And there's the friendship bracelet. Never has a friendship bracelet seemed so ominous.
- This FBI girl has no life. She's been watching hours and hours and hours of surveillance tapes all day long? Can't anyone else help her with this? And how did she spot that guy? Crazy good eyes!
- I'm very unnerved by all of this.
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