Circling The Drain: The Racialicious Roundtable For FlashForward 1.20

jen*: I’m on Team Hat, here. I liked it. Though I would have been even more pleased if he’d had his shirt on. And what an outtake that would’ve been to see, if he pulled an MJ, put on his ‘Smooth Criminal’ hat, and disappeared a la Remember the Time.

Andrea: Or at least do the “Smooth Operator” lean.

Arturo: I dunno, gang, I don’t think Monaghan wants to step into Sam Rockwell territory.

Diana: The hat did look good on him, but I still don’t understand why his character gets so much action. He was with that lady on the train when first introduced; he’s been giving Janis come hither looks for a while; and now this. Somebody on the writing staff must be crushing on him hard.

And then, Janis. On the one hand, she finally knows she’s been played by all sides. On the other, her GTFO stance toward Demetri is, pardon my french, a dick move.

Andrea: See, ol’ girl was, relatively speaking, better off going to a sperm bank. Now, I’m thinking Zoey’s going to shoot Dem in the chest for this mess. SMH all around.

Mahsino: In her defense, she didn’t actually think he’d be alive to want to raise this kid, so she probably did equate it to the next best thing to a sperm bank under the circumstances. Her attitude pissed me off. She keeps saying she doesn’t want him involved with her mess, but it’s a bit too late for all that, Zoey’s probably going to figure out somethings up once she sees Janis’ daughter.

Arturo: No kidding; without an acknowledgement that he a) told Zoey and b) that she’s onboard with this plan, it’s hard to see how Dem thought that would work out. Is he gonna ask Janis to put the kid in a lucha libre mask whenever she’s near Z?

jen*: Ok. I was holding out for some miraculous, other-worldly explanation. And now I’m just pissed. I was even hoping Janis would say the baby wasn’t real – or maybe that Dem isn’t the daddy – but this? Not Cool. And for someone who’s gonna be a mom, Janis doesn’t seem to think ahead much. Obviously Zoey’s gonna hafta be connected to the baby – maybe even more if Demetri dies.

Diana: Andrea, I predicted a while ago that Zoey would shoot him when all this baby donor stuff started percolating. We’ll see.

Speaking of Dem, he’s fairly trapped himself: by Zoey, by his infidelity with Janis, and now seemingly by destiny.

Andrea: See, if Dem would have read our Roundtable where we discussed this very issue, he would have just been trapped by destiny. But, ooooooh noooooo, he had to get his baby daddy on. ::bitchlips::

jen*: For real. Things didn’t have to go down this way, unless they were planning on getting rid of Dem by the end of the season anyway. In which case I wouldn’t have watched season 2, even if it wasn’t canceled.

Diana: For real, for real. He could have been working on perpetuating his legacy through Zoey.

Open Mic!

Arturo: I’ll just go ahead and say it – no matter how the Aaron Stark plotline plays out, his saga was a burden this over-staffed show couldn’t afford. Especially not when the Jericho link to the GBO was only mentioned in passing, and not by any of the bad guys.

Andrea: Co-sign, Arturo. But then, I feel the same way about Mark. ::shrug::

Mahsino: Agreed, his storyline is a waste of time, but what bothered me more is the fact that the Big Bad supposedly has been sponsoring Simon since he was a wee lad, yet they look the same age.

Arturo: It’d be more fitting for Viggo Jr. is either a mid-level operative or just the latest in a prior line of Big Bads. But, again, we didn’t get enough meat on the bones of their story other than, “oooh, they want to knock the world out, boogedy boogedy.”

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