Wednesday, December 16, 2009

flashforward



I watched 10 episodes of the Sci-fi drama "Flashforward" last weekend.  It's the best Sci-fi drama I watched recently.   I would rate it as 4.5 out of 5.

The plot was based on the "Flashforward" novel written by a Canadian novelist. All human beings had experienced 137 seconds of loss of consciousness, due to some physics experiment.  20 millions people lost their life in these 137 seconds. Almost everyone seemed having some vision of the future 6 months later.

Everyone's life has been changed some way due the vision of the future.
FBI agents Mark and their colleagues are trying to figure out the reason and have unraveled some secret plan under the table.  Characters in the drama have also presented different personal issues, like drinking, unfaithful, post war syndrome, ...
The plot went to pretty tight and seemed plausible so far.

I believe that it had borrowed some element from Heroes, where main characters are people with super powers. The similarities are obvious. They both had some vision to the future.

I love the discussion of future and their impact in sci-fi novel, tv.  The dream and vision to the future may be the eternal topic of sci-fi.

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