Flash Forward.

Aussiemandias wrote:Just watched the last episode - it finished over here last week.

Something about this show I constantly found frustrating. It was such a great concept but I think was constantly undone by poor writing. For me, one of the main problems with the writing was that I just found a lot of the characters kind of unlikeable. On top of that a very poor attention to detail at times or just taking short cuts. However I think it's the characters that must have been an issue for this show not to resonate with people like some other shows have.

After giving it a bit of thought one of the things that just didn't work for me was the writers not giving any reason for things happening other than because people saw it in the flashforward. The example of that for me was Bryce and Keiko - they didn't have any reason to meet at the restaurant except for the reason that they met at the restaurant in their flashforward. For me that then gives no weight to the fact that they have to meet there. Maybe it's just me but this kind of thing I found weak. Surely you could have come up with some other aspect to their story to make that meeting more important. That's just an example but I think it was a common thing with the show that I found lazy by the writers. It's like they had this great idea and pinned everything on that.

Anyway, despite these factors I think it's a real shame they never got to finish their story.

jaydee74 wrote:My least favorite character is Aaron Stark. I find him irritating.

Batman25JM wrote:
With Bryce and Keiko I just figured that originally there was a reason for them meeting in the restaurant, and then once the flash forward happened it changed things. So maybe before the ff they met another way and already knew each other when they met at the restaurant. Then the ff changed things and they didn't meet prior to the restaurant, but they knew that they would meet on April 29th, and they wanted to make their future come true. I don't know if that makes sense. I know what I'm trying to say, but I'm tired right now and might not be making sense. Anyway, so yeah, they only meet because they saw each other meeting, but I'm fine with that. I love the idea of the future only happening because we saw it happening.

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:
With Bryce and Keiko I just figured that originally there was a reason for them meeting in the restaurant, and then once the flash forward happened it changed things. So maybe before the ff they met another way and already knew each other when they met at the restaurant. Then the ff changed things and they didn't meet prior to the restaurant, but they knew that they would meet on April 29th, and they wanted to make their future come true. I don't know if that makes sense. I know what I'm trying to say, but I'm tired right now and might not be making sense. Anyway, so yeah, they only meet because they saw each other meeting, but I'm fine with that. I love the idea of the future only happening because we saw it happening.

You know, what you're saying actually does make sense. If I recall correctly part of the reason Bryce was so affected by his FF was how he felt in it, not just what was happening so there is logic to what you say. He just wants to meet the person who makes him feel that way so all the lead up to that meeting almost doesn't matter anymore.

So you've kind of turned me around on that particular issue.

Batman25JM wrote:

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:
With Bryce and Keiko I just figured that originally there was a reason for them meeting in the restaurant, and then once the flash forward happened it changed things. So maybe before the ff they met another way and already knew each other when they met at the restaurant. Then the ff changed things and they didn't meet prior to the restaurant, but they knew that they would meet on April 29th, and they wanted to make their future come true. I don't know if that makes sense. I know what I'm trying to say, but I'm tired right now and might not be making sense. Anyway, so yeah, they only meet because they saw each other meeting, but I'm fine with that. I love the idea of the future only happening because we saw it happening.

You know, what you're saying actually does make sense. If I recall correctly part of the reason Bryce was so affected by his FF was how he felt in it, not just what was happening so there is logic to what you say. He just wants to meet the person who makes him feel that way so all the lead up to that meeting almost doesn't matter anymore.

So you've kind of turned me around on that particular issue.

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:
With Bryce and Keiko I just figured that originally there was a reason for them meeting in the restaurant, and then once the flash forward happened it changed things. So maybe before the ff they met another way and already knew each other when they met at the restaurant. Then the ff changed things and they didn't meet prior to the restaurant, but they knew that they would meet on April 29th, and they wanted to make their future come true. I don't know if that makes sense. I know what I'm trying to say, but I'm tired right now and might not be making sense. Anyway, so yeah, they only meet because they saw each other meeting, but I'm fine with that. I love the idea of the future only happening because we saw it happening.

You know, what you're saying actually does make sense. If I recall correctly part of the reason Bryce was so affected by his FF was how he felt in it, not just what was happening so there is logic to what you say. He just wants to meet the person who makes him feel that way so all the lead up to that meeting almost doesn't matter anymore.

So you've kind of turned me around on that particular issue.

However, he made the totally wrong choice - I would have gone with Lucy Lane (only knew that's who she was because I watched that Smallville episode recently)!!!!

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:

Aussiemandias wrote:

Batman25JM wrote:
With Bryce and Keiko I just figured that originally there was a reason for them meeting in the restaurant, and then once the flash forward happened it changed things. So maybe before the ff they met another way and already knew each other when they met at the restaurant. Then the ff changed things and they didn't meet prior to the restaurant, but they knew that they would meet on April 29th, and they wanted to make their future come true. I don't know if that makes sense. I know what I'm trying to say, but I'm tired right now and might not be making sense. Anyway, so yeah, they only meet because they saw each other meeting, but I'm fine with that. I love the idea of the future only happening because we saw it happening.

You know, what you're saying actually does make sense. If I recall correctly part of the reason Bryce was so affected by his FF was how he felt in it, not just what was happening so there is logic to what you say. He just wants to meet the person who makes him feel that way so all the lead up to that meeting almost doesn't matter anymore.

So you've kind of turned me around on that particular issue.

However, he made the totally wrong choice - I would have gone with Lucy Lane (only knew that's who she was because I watched that Smallville episode recently)!!!!