Everything we thought we knew turns out to be untimely in the getting even of ABC ’s FlashForward – Well , except for that whole part about Joseph Fiennes being an impossibly wooden player and it not being a very estimable show . spoiler !
you could assure that the show ’s writers took the vantage of their drawn-out prisonbreak to rethink some parts of the show , if only because there were two pretty major backtracks in the two - part “ Revelation Zero ” double - broadside that relaunched the show last Nox . deplorably , they were n’t really backtracks of the honorable kind . Here’re the major dot of what you missed :
We Do n’t Know What Caused The FlashForward Again
That whole Large Hadron Collider affair ? No , it was n’t that after all , accord to Flosso , the ( temporary ) Modern villain who kidnapped previous scoundrel Simon ( AKA Charlie from Lost ) and ineffectual future Olivia boyfriend Lloyd to tell them just that very thing . Their experiment only expand the event , which means … Well , we do n’t really know yet . But we also learned …
Simon Was Patient Zero
Yes , that ’s right . Simon ’s flashforward where he was pour down someone ? All bogus , because he did n’t blackout at all , thanks to a magic anchor ring that jam the essence of the flashforward wave . Yes , a magic ring . And , get this – the rationality he was in a baseball game stadium in Detroit ? Because he ’d been vanish there by the Real Bad Guys to meet , after go to his father ’s funeral and it turns out that ( 1 ) Simon has been working with the Real Bad Guys since he was 13 , ( 2 ) his male parent was kill by the Real Bad Guys to give Simon an alibi for the day of the flashforward ( Why ? I have no idea ) , and ( 3 ) now the Real Bad Guys have kidnapped his baby to check that that he observe work for them . You see , the great unwashed ? Simon ’s not really malign ( as long as you ignore the fact that he was working with the RBG since he was 13 as well as the fact that he ends the episode killing Flosso upon learning about his babe ) ! He ’s just another instrument ! A pawn in a larger , unknowable game ! Oh , and talking of pawn …
imbibition Is unfit , But Drugs Make Mark A Better FBI Agent
Mark , suspended for being mentally fluid and ineffectual to do in a scene without going way over the top with his starey eyes and shouting , goes to see an prescribed FBI shrink who moonlight as a plot of ground machine , giving him special exposition - enhancing drug so that he can remember more of his flashforward . Turns out that FutureMark is working with Lloyd to solve the mystery of what ’s going on – which must make for fun stakes - out conversation : “ So , still catch some Z’s with my married woman , then ? ” “ Yeah , it ’s going nifty . How ’s that drunken tortured scene chewing working out for you ? ” – and that FutureLloyd and FutureMark are trying to hold back a second flashforward at the end of the season ( Do n’t worry , valet de chambre : The terrible ratings might do that for you ) .
Last nighttime ’s double measure felt like a season untier , just in term of info plunge and attempting to get momentum going as quickly as possible , but none of it seemed constitutive or convincing , considering everything we ’ve seen up to this point . Yes , the writers get points for quickly explaining Suspect Zero ’s identity and the import of the rings ( and Flosso in general , for that matter ) , but it was all done in a way that seemed despairing and nonsensical . ABC ’s impose rethink of the show may yet ensue in a effective FlashForward , but it ’ll take more than what we were given last night .
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