The Racialicious Roundtable For ‘Flash Forward’ 1.10
Hosted by Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
Can I just tell you all how much I hate “press conference” scenes on film or television? And the one in “A561984″ was one of the worst yet. I don’t know where they wrote that bunch of goons to get their training from, but with all their RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE crap, we never got to hear:
* Exactly how Lloyd and the Hobbit came to think they caused the GBO
* What the test yielded apart from the blackout
* Where they got their funding for their SCIENCE!
* Who the hell is paying for all the damages their little stunt caused
Instead, these idiots gave the boys a chance to get away – and what kind of lame-ass security guard gets jacked by a *reporter*? Where was this thing held, a Sarah Palin signing? What a horrible way to kick off the show.
Diana: It was a bit lame. And those were obviously amateur rent-a-cops. I was kind of with the Hobbit on this one. They should have had more info on if they actually caused it before making it that public. They could have gone to the feds first. But that makes too much sense.
Carmen: Yeah especially after Lloyd and Charlie (sorry, I’m a Lostie) tried to act all cool during that Texas Hold’em showdown… this press conference showed them to be the dorks that they are.
Andrea: But the Hobbit/Charlie/Dan Brown-Sounding Philosophy Dude did go to Stan and tried that whole “I Got Something You Might Be Interested In” bit. And Stan bit a bit…though Janis saw through dude’s ruse. To eyerolling effect. On that I give Janis daps.
jen*: The whole confession/press conference was ridic. I understand Lloyd’s guilt, but what scientist tells everybody his experiment caused chaos when he has no proof? Just coincidence. How could they even have held a press conference without going to the FBI or something first?
As for the rest of the show …
Speaking of missed questions, how do Dem or Mark not ask Nhadra if she saw *Mark specifically* fire the gun?
Diana: Being that close to her, I think they were simply mesmerized by her voice. My question was, why didn’t they take that gun to a foundry somewhere and destroy it. Is Al’s death for nothing? Even better — Mark should just off himself now. He already knows he’s losing his wife and he’ll be on the sauce again soon.
Carmen: Because we need to leave room for a plot twist, Arturo! 
Andrea: LOL and total agreement with Carmen. But so far, the plot twists seem to be the big reveals of people’s flash-forward which seem to move the ep — and the character development — along but not the story. I sorta hoped the hiatus would be the time the creatives figured out how to move the story arc along. Alas … but I fuss. My bag is: this is the second time the question “Did you *see* so-and-so in your flashforward” would have been pertinent. Especially by folks whose job it is to, yanno, ask such questions. There’s plot twist, and then there’s borrowing Heroes writers to ghostwrite a script.
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