For the little geek inside you...

Well, not sure what to think of last night’s episode. 

It was definitely the weakest so far, but any good show needs setup to progress.

So let’s see, where to begin?

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Michael visits a Nazi war criminal at a German prison, who says he knows why the Blackout lasted exactly 137 seconds.  Turns out, it’s Kabbalah, folks!  We apparently needed a NAZI to tell us that the Blackout corresponds to a Jewish religion.  The letters that form the word Kabbalah in Hebrew when added together (by their place in the alphabet)

What, was Madonna unavailable?  Demi Moore/Ashton Kutcher?  A RABBI????

Anyway, he also tells Michael that after awakening from the Blackout, he looked out into the prison yard and saw hundreds of dead crows.  What does it mean?  And has it happened before?

Are dead crows going to be “Flash Forward’s” version of “Lost’s” hatch?

Time will tell…

The best new drama of the year is ABC’s Flash Forward, hands down.

When everyone on the planet suddenly blacks out for more than 2 minutes, chaos erupts (imagine everyone on the road driving, those on an airplane, swimming, even walking down stairs).

As it turns out, people didn’t just black out for 2 minutes, 17 seconds.  They actually all experienced a glimpse of their lives 6 months in the future, “a flash forward”, if you will.

What happened?  Why/how did everyone see the future?  Why that particular moment in time?  Will it happen again?

What ensues is a group of FBI agents as they try to construct “The Mosaic”, a collection of people’s flash forwards with an attempt to discover something in common.

Also, as it turns out, not everyone was asleep.  Someone was awake and knew the blackouts were coming….Hmmm…

The show does a great job in revealing bits of the truth as the show progresses.  It doesn’t rip the curtain back entirely, of course, but it doesn’t hold everything back either.

It harkens back to the early seasons of Lost, with great character development (I love that the LA FBI chief sees himself on the toilet in his FF, and the lead actor’s (Joseph Fiennes) daughter seeming to have a FF that is much more frightening and informative than the others) and compelling plot lines.  The show could literally go in a thousand directions.  Is the Flash Forward meant to help/warn us, or is it a harbinger of an even greater disaster?

I’d love to make Media Viewer your one-stop shop to discuss FF.

For example, today’s question is…what happens in the future for those who don’t experience a flash forward?

Some have speculated that they may have been asleep.  Or, that they may be dead by that time.  Both are probably true for many.  But what if Suspect Zero (the FBI’s name for the one man on the planet thus far caught on camera as awake during the blackout) is able to block out memories of the FF.  I mean, if he can cause 7 billion people to go unconscious simultaneously, surely he can wipe a memory or two, or five, or a thousand.

What do you think?