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That Blue Hand Group certainly proved themselves to be a bunch of troublemakers tonight on "FlashForward."(Big spoiler coming right up, so click away if you haven't watched yet.)
They set Al Gough down a line of thought that resulted in his not only playing Russian Roulette, but also taking a swan dive off the FBI building. Demetri may live as a result, and we know now that the future isn't set in stone, but I'm going to miss Al.
If you ask me, Al, Demetri, and Mark were playing with fire by heading to a Blue Hand Group club. They had no idea what they were getting into -- only that they really wanted Raynaud and were willing to do just about everything to get him.
Al may have won his game of Russian Roulette, but I'm not entirely sure that the bullet was live in the first place (if anyone out there knows by just seeing what we saw, shout). But, what did winning get them anyway? It got them admitted into a freaky club with what looked an awful lot like a torture-taking place. Our guys revealed themselves as agents in front of a group of people doing illegal things who could have taken them down and left no one else the wiser.
Did they find the Raynaud fellow they were looking for? Sure -- but not the real one who died over a hundred years ago. They even stopped him from committing suicide (for now) and worked out that he had been a teacher named Jeff before the flashforward and before he lost the will to live. Why? Because the Blue Hand Group is for people who didn't have flashes, or "ghosts" if you prefer.
They did get Al thinking about the Celia woman he may have been responsible for killing at some point in the future. He opted to prove that the flashes weren't real, that he wouldn't be responsible for killing Celia (which is not the same as her living) and that maybe he could save Demetri too. Suicide still, in my opinion, isn't really noble.
Demetri coming clean to Zoey about his flash was a good call (and something he did before Al jumped). I get where Demetri was coming from, lying to her about being there for the wedding, but long-term that was not going to work. He explained that he was like the folks in the Blue Hand Group, but Zoey wasn't buying. She believed in her vision, which now may actually come true (although I'm still not convinced she ever saw Demetri in it).
He didn't get much to do tonight, but I really like Lloyd. He's a stand-up guy. Going to see Doc Benford to make sure that she knew that he wasn't going to step over any line despite the flash makes him a good guy in my book. I still think he's going to get the chance, though, when Mark and Olivia's marriage implodes due to the flash. He'll be there to swoop in then as the rebound guy. He's smart, that Lloyd.
Quick flashes:
- Demetri's fiancée must have quite the job. Did you see that apartment?
- How did Nicole possibly know what that Japanese symbol Bryce had been looking for was? And, if she knew it so quickly, surely Bryce could have asked someone Japanese to identify it as well. Did he really not ask anyone familiar with the culture and language?
- Tracy, Aaron's daughter, is alive. I'm going with government cover-up on that one.
- I hope that even without Al, we're going to get more of Fiona Banks.
- You can go to that Already Ghosts website, but it looks like all it does is lead you back to the ABC official site. Boring.
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There is a huge logic flaw in the premise of this show. The assumption so far is that everyone who had no flash forward is dead. What if the persons in question were unconscious for some reason, or sleeping during the flash forward time. Uh-oh?
I'm not sure Lloyd is someone to admire, since it was leaked last week that he was among those responsible for causing the flash-forward and the resulting thousands of lost lives and destruction.
You can go to that Already Ghosts website, but it looks like all it does is lead you back to the ABC official site. Boring.
I can just imagine the ABC lawyers having a heart attack over the idea of putting up a web site that talks about death, suicide, and self-destruction...
Speaking of lawyers, that's what Zoe is. It's been mentioned several times, including the story of how they met. And she didn't say she saw Demetri in her flashforward. She said she knew he was there.
"And in doing that, he basically changes the entire world because he's the first person to defy Fate."
Who says he's the first person?? are we seeing everyone in the whole world and what's going on? i think anyone could commit suicide at any time thus changing the flash forwards, i think that was already pretty obvious. i mean didn't we know that already? take a chain saw to someone and cut off their head and i don't think they will survive, no matter their flash forward. i don't think we needed his suicide to tell us that. duh!
It wouldn't have to be suicide: The tape on the windows may not be there in 6 months, but anybody who saw, suppose, their hand with all it's fingers could, say, tatoo one, and their future's changed.
Maybe the folks who see inconsistent stuff "were" just asleep and dreaming in their future. But now knowing it's going to happen, they probably won't go to sleep very easily that day!
Why are all of my shows suffering from Cute Boy Elimination Syndrome (CBES) all of a sudden? Seriously!?
First Courtney Cox dumps her boy toy on Cougar Town, then Daryl kills Roxie's squeeze on Eastwick, and now Al & his gorgeous eyes take a swan dive off the FBI building. WTF, mate?
As for the rest of the show I say Zoey was asleep & dreaming in her flash...
And I thought the blue hand group was going to be something more sinister and somehow involved with the reason for the flash and not just a bunch of thrill-seeking, adrenaline junkies. That reveal is a little disappointing.
Still, they didn't explain why they went after our agents, did they? So maybe there's a little something more sinister yet to come.
The fact that they basically threw the legitmacy of the flashes right out the window is interesting. I wonder how they'll continue to play that out? Does the board have any cred now at all? Hmm...
I believe they pretty logically covered the bases with "defying" the flashforward. Although I doubt Al was the first person to kill themselves. One can easily assume that if someone killed themselves to "defy" their flashforward, and it was released to the world as a news story...there would be a large pool of people who would believe that the person in question was lying about having a flashforward in a first place. That they were, in fact, a "ghost" who just offed themselves to mess with everyone else's beliefs.
If that had been me, I would have resigned from the FBI, I would have moved to some place peaceful like Lake Tahoe, and I would have started a new career doing something not related to law enforcement, like renting boats to tourists. The woman with the two children may still die, but at least I would know for certain that I was not the person who caused her death. Suicide was way too extreme, and I hope that the writers play this card only this one time.
This show gets worse and worse. I love how they turn something possibly interesting (people thinking they have no future, and therefore doing extreme things and pushing boundaries) and turn it into some cliched goth/S&M/punk bs. There is NO emotional weight to this show. Watched V and I already care about some of those characters more than any of these. FAIL.