Flashforward

[sleigh]

I like the basic concept, which is rather nice, BUT... There's this freaking HUGE plot hole.

First, why in the world does everyone seem to immediately jump to the conclusion that this MUST be the future and not just some dream?

But even given that idiocy, why does no one do the obvious experiments to see if it really is the future or something that can be changed? The easiest one requires a despot without a conscience, but I'm sure people like that are out there: find another person who appeared in your vision and kill that person. If you can kill them, then this isn't a vision of the future (or that future is malleable and changeable, so we can safely ignore it); if you can't, then yep, maybe we should all be concerned about what we saw. (And if you can't kill them, suddenly are people out there who know that no matter what they do or how they act, in six months they'll still be alive -- boy, would that change your perception...)

There are a thousand less violent way to test the visions in much the same way -- find (as someone suggested on a listserve to which I belong) an identifiable, large tree that appears in several people's vision, and cut it down. A tree can't be replaced in six months: if you succeed in cutting it down, then this wasn't the future that you saw.

Maybe they'll address this later, but I'll bet not. These are Hollywood characters, and they're all too often required to act stupidly by the script...

Comments

[barondave.livejournal.com]

I thought they did a good job of finding people who saw the date, and correlating with other people they met. I didn't expect them to answer all the questions in the first hour of a series. The question for me is: Can they sustain the premise for until the flash forward date in question? I haven't read the book, so don't know any of Sawyer's take. My suspicion is that the tv series will work for a while. I'll watch at least the next one.