The Racialicious Roundtable For Flash Forward 1.11 & 1.12
Andrea: I felt the way Demetri did when he saw Ealy and Charlie Hobbit in the conference room together: righteously serious direct side-eye. And John Cho melted my monitor and me with that look…only he can make side-eye all panties-worthy. I did agree with Ealy on one point: Demetri does need a new partner. Just not Ealy.
jen*: Actually, I’m all for an Ealy-Cho partnership – I thought they could totally begin working together. Though the blind FBI/CIA trust in the Hobbit is kinda crazy. I would so rather watch Cho and Ealy do the cop thing, than bring Mark back into the fold.
Speaking of Mark, how about that Plot Device, errrr, treatment, eh? One shot and he gets himself back on the case … too bad it didn’t really make him a more compelling character.
Diana: Mark is and will always be a tool. The show would be better if they let Cho take the lead and got rid of Mark altogether.
Andrea: Oh see, when the Hulu blurb said Mark would be suspended from the force, I thought–okay, I seriously hoped–that would mean I wouldn’t see him at all. Then, dammit, there he was, still the main character and the weakest link in this whole damn show. I’m going to say it: his flashforward is the flattest one. Unfortunately, it’s what the show is sorta hanging on.
jen*: You’re right, Andrea, and that’s including Demetri’s complete non-flash flashforward. But don’t mind-altering/tampering drugs tend to be problematic for addicts? Even if this experimental memory enhancer isn’t alcohol, can’t it lead to a regression?
What’s a more unpalatable possibility: that Simon could end up a hero, or that he could father Janis’ kid? (’cause I definitely picked up on some forced “tension” between those two.)
Diana: Well, clearly he was not a complete villain, but I don’t know if he’s a hero either–he’s still too self-centered. They have really dumbed down Janis and I was mad that she fell for the Hobbit’s okey-doke more than once.
Andrea: Six of one, half-dozen of the other in this case.
jen*: I didn’t get a hero vibe at all from him. But I did get the lech-y, might-try-to-roll-up-on-Janis vibe. Gave me the heebies.
In light of the revelations that Uncle Teddy works for the Big Bad Chatroulette Guy, that they were responsible for the Blackout and that Lloyd might really be just a patsy … uh, where is this going again?
Diana: I think everything is going to focus on preventing the next blackout, and then the one after that, and so on and so on….
Andrea: Diana, I think that’s how they’re going to milk this show for several seasons. If it worked for Heroes … umm, wait. What?
jen*: After I read part of the wikipedia entry for Flashforward [the book] and realized that Lloyd was actually the main character, I felt duped. They spent all that time building up Mark and his entourage, who I could give a flip about, when we coulda got straight to some British lovin’ and some Cho detectin’. Or vice versa. Either way it woulda been better.
Open Mic!
Diana: They still haven’t explained the kangaroo.
Andrea: I was feeling how the characters of color and the white marginalized characters bad-assed their way through the first part of the two-parter. But the show lost me–bored the hell out of me, really–when they reverted to recentering the white male characters–hero, villain, and stooge–in the second part. I had a Heroes flashback watching all that whiteness. BTW, Diana, the damn thing escaped from the zoo. The end.:-D
jen*: If that’s the explanation, Andrea, I won’t be surprised, but I’ll still be disappointed. Finding out about the kangaroo, and about Demetri and Gabrielle’s end is basically all I want from the show. If they can’t figure out a way to keep Cho alive, I definitely won’t be watching after this season.
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