I just finished watching the premier of Flash Forward on ABC.com and my first impression is that this is going to be an amazing science fiction drama which is main stream enough to appeal to the general public in the way the hit series Lost and 24 did a few years ago, which is not surprising considering that the executive producer of Flash Forward Brannon Braga works full time on the show 24 on Fox. Had ABC lost the bidding war when HBO sold the show Flash Forward would have been a Fox production. Flash Forward reminds me of a combination of both the Lost and 24 shows and has the best of both in one awesome package. Both have the same edgy hard hitting action feel as Flash Forward while exploring the depths of the characters and their relationships and environments.
The basic premises of the new ABC television show Flash Forward is a simple but sinister one. Everyone on the planet Earth falls unconscious for exactly two minutes and seventeen seconds. This event while strange enough of its own accord grows even stranger when virtually everyone who passed out had a vision of what they were doing exactly six months in the future. These two elements make for a fast paced mystery show with sci-fi overtones that combined to make a compelling mystery which had me on the edge of my seat and left me wanting more. I am waiting patiently until next Friday morning where I can watch it on ABC.com. The concept for the television series is loosely based upon a book by the same name written by Robert J. Sawyer. Joseph Fiennes and John Cho are the two male lead actors in Flash Forward. Both are intelligent and feisty policemen who make a perfect team to head the investigation into what exactly happened during that fateful two minutes and 17 seconds where the world went to sleep. One can only wonder what the two will find during the next 179 days before the day seen in the visions.
I’ll be frank with you. Network television does not have a good track record in my book with science fiction series. You do not have to look far to see just how many have been canceled before they had time to gather a following that does not fit in to the nice little Neilson family unites that they base their ratings on. If I remember correctly Neilson does not count people to use DVR’s to time shift, nor do they count people who watch content on the internet and for the moment networks most could not really care less what we as the consumer think of their business practices. ABC would do well to count those people in as they are now an official part of the television viewing crowd. Flash Forward will be a hit series if promoted properly and given the time to develop that such series usually need. ABC has contracted for 13 episodes this season and I sincerely hope they give it a second season to develop its following considering the short season it has this year.
We here at Augmented Living give the premier episode of Flash Forward a 10 out of 10 and wish there was an eleven on the scale. Thank you for spending your time here and feel free to sign up to our RSS feeds for more exciting articles to come.
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