Circling The Drain: The Racialicious Roundtable For FlashForward 1.20
Hosted By Special Correspondent Arturo R. García
It wasn’t our fault, promise. Well, at least we don’t think so.
FlashForward officially entered lame-duck status last week, making “The Negotiation” awkward to watch, despite it finally putting its’ players, as Gabriel would say, “where they need to be.” For the first few minutes, watching Wedeck rally the troops – and credit to Courtney B. Vance for making this speech shiny yet not-saccharine – I thought this was the finale. Gang, your thoughts?
Andrea: As much as I had patience with the show to establish itself, another part of me wonders if the creatives thought they had more time to develop the show, considering that far worse shows have been picked up. I guess they forgot they were on ABC, not the CW (or whatever the hell it’s called nowadays).
Mahsino: No Andrea, it wouldn’t have lasted that long on the CW, too many people of color. But yeah, I kept checking IMDB to see if this was the season finale.
Arturo: Y’know, I’m not so sure. The CW lusts after the younger demos enough to think it would’ve been more likely to accept J-Cho as a lead actor vis-a-vis J-Fiennes. And while Smallville is positively bad, the network’s shown a steady hand in letting that fandom develop over the past 10(?!) years.
jen*: It did seem like the finale. But I’m not thinking the CW would go for a show with so many old people … playing old people.
If/when we start a bowling team, I’m hiring CB Vance to do our pre-game speeches, deal?
Andrea: It took me a minute to figure out that he’s doing the weekly into voice-over. If it were me, I’d go with “Cho. And I think y’all know what state I’d want him in when he’s making the speech.
jen*: I’m LOVING Vance, here. In fact, IMO he’s probably one of the people best-served by this show, just getting his face and talents out there. I’d love to see him in something else anytime soon. He could totally be presidential, I think.
Diana: ::Does cartwheel in gleeful anticipation.::
Did a gaggle of Lost fic-writers get ahold of the script? Because the Simon fanservice went way off the rails this week – “Look! Even formerly presumed lesbians want him!” “Look! Here he is shirtless in a douchey hat!”
Andrea: Y’all know my dislike of Simon. But I’ma give him the hat. He looked rather jaunty in it…though I do think he should’ve done a “Smooth Operator” spin and disappear from the room after his chat with Elvira and Viggo Mortensen’s younger brother.
Mahsino: Re: presumed lesbians, I think I’d just describe it as her doing her job (pretending to be interested in Simon and Janice). I’ll give it a pass since she doesn’t have a back story yet and just call her bisexual for now. And yeah, it was a douchey hat and it called too much attention to his jowls.
Arturo: You might be right on that one. Still, I found it curious that we got an inferred flirtation during her interaction with Janis, but when we got to Simon it became a case of OHMYGODGUYSHETOTALLYHITTHAT. It harkens back to your past observations about Janis being a “wish-fulfillment”-sort of lesbian for some segments of the audience.
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