Diamond In The Rough?: The Racialicious Roundtable For FlashForward 1.14

Andrea: Okay, I’m going to try to be levelheaded about this … I dig that Demetri’s is getting into eff-it-all mode because he knows he’s going to die and is probably feeling the need to leave a piece of himself for posterity. I get that. But being Janis’ baby daddy is just all sorts of facepalm, especially since he’s not involving the woman he’s planning to marry in the decision. That’s not “taking one for the team”; that’s cheating, pure and simple. (And that line about “making her gayer”? Just. No.) I do wonder if Demetri’s feeling his thang because he’s still mad at Zoey for disrespecting him at his workplace and wants to passive-aggressively get back at her. And I hope Janis isn’t feeling her thang to the point she accepts his offer. What I’m hoping–reeeeaaaaally hoping–is Demetri survives this and talks to Zoey about siring Janis’ baby. Good lawd, I hope.

Diana: WTF?!!!! Eff being levelheaded. That was wrong. Oh Hell Naw! If he wants to procreate, he needs to do the deed with Zoey. It’s not as if he and Janis were about to die right then and there and were never going back home. They weren’t the last two people on earth with the future of humanity resting with Janis’s womb. Nien, Nien, Nien! New prediction–Zoey is going to use Mark’s gun to kill Demetri for this nonsense.

Arturo: Naaah, it’s gonna be Vogel.

Andrea: See, Diana? My being levelheaded was my way of “taking one for the team,” with far less harmful results. Demetri needs to take lessons from me. Preferably naked.

Diana: Andrea–ditto on the naked part. Ooh La La!

jen*: I could get down with nekkid Dem, most definitely. As long as he’s not nekkid with Janis. I was frankly skeeved out by his offer, although if it is passive-aggressive as Andrea said, at least I can understand it a lil bit better. But what? really? Janis?? It’s cheating, plain and simple, and Not Cool. I think maybe we were supposed to take this as some kind of Special Moment, but I didn’t get that at all. And cosign on the “make you gayer’ line, Andrea, SMH.

Mahsino: Honestly, I’m pretty cool with the idea of Dem being Janis’ baby-daddy, considering who the alternatives could have been. There was a moment there, I thought they were going to go completely out there and have her kid sired by Abdi, so I’m kind of cool with this.

Speaking of Dem, the final scene was the first one all season to make me say “oh sh-t!” the way Heroes used to. No, but seriously, what the hell?

Andrea: I’m still “oh sh-tting” and can’t even comprehend that scene. I’m just hoping that Demetri and Janis didn’t have sex before he went into that room. If the first shot of Janis in next week’s show is of her with some glow, I am going to chuck being levelheaded.

Diana: I was still on the floor trying to recover from the Janis/Demetri hook-up? But I do remember thinking that the white suit D. Gibbons was wearing was more 1983 than 1991.

Arturo: Any guy with the name “Dyson” is probably the type to want to keep the Don Johnson school of fashion sense going.

Diana: Arturo, I was thinking Miami Vice when I said that. LOL

jen*: This is the kind of thing I’ve been waiting for – something to really turn everything upside down and not be all about the Benfords. I am all in for Demitri’s story even if he does cheat [although I'll be pissed, cuz wth?]. But how is D. Gibbons having flash-forwards far enough in advance to record this stuff? I dunno if FF will be able to keep the show awesome long enough to explain all these twists.

Mahsino: I distinctly remember yelling “ohshit” at the ending. That plot twist was enough for me to actually make a note to watch it on Thursday instead of online.

Open Mic!

Page 2 of 3 | Previous page | Next page