[Cancelled] FlashForward - Season 1

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It's the Females that Neilson ratings just happen to survey

Wow - you reduced an extremely complicated process into a single erroneous statement. The entire process is completely random. Nielsen isn't going out looking for females to skew the results. And they don't technically survey viewers, they install meters in roughly 5000 homes that send back data every night to the Nielsen database.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/question433.htm

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Anyone else notice any continuity glitches/plot holes?

I noticed a few:

1) Assuming it's 10PM (California Time) at the time of everyone's flash forward:

A) Immigration checks wont take place at that late hour as international flights from Europe do not land so late (correct me if I'm wrong). Re: Nazi guy coming in the the USA. Ep 3

B) California is -8 hours behind GMT. So, if it's 10 PM in LA, it's 6 AM in London and I highly doubt that any intelligence officer would work at that early hour on such a particular case. Re: Shot with Alex Kingston. Ep 1

C) Why could you get a sonogram at 10PM? That department is closed at that time! Re: Shot with hot pregnant FBI chick in hospital. Ep 1

2) The guy that was trying to commit suicide somehow blacked out on Venice Beach and then magically appeared in the ER seconds later where a patient died. Ep 1.

3) After burning his fake Kabbalah wristband, it magically appears back on to wrist in a following shot. Ep 2

4) When the bird flys in to Alex Kingston's window, bounces off and falls to the ground, all behind Alex's back, how was she able to explain in a later scene that she knew it was a pigeon and further relates it broke it's neck when she didn't even turn around to see it? Ep 1.

I don't think the writers sincerely thought this one through. Why 10PM (PDT)?

What did you see?

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Anyone notice that they changed the date for the flash forward? They determined that it was on April 30th, and now its the 29th?

I wondered if they were gonna do that a few days ago because April 30 lands on a Friday, the show airs thursdays. I thought they may change it so that they can make an event out of it, showing the season finale on the day the flash forward takes place. Guess they did heh.

Anyone else notice any continuity glitches/plot holes?

1) Assuming it's 10PM (California Time) at the time of everyone's flash forward:

A) Immigration checks wont take place at that late hour as international flights from Europe do not land so late (correct me if I'm wrong). Re: Nazi guy coming in the the USA. Ep 3 - I dunno, I thought flights came in at all times, I could be wrong.

B) California is -8 hours behind GMT. So, if it's 10 PM in LA, it's 6 AM in London and I highly doubt that any intelligence officer would work at that early hour on such a particular case. Re: Shot with Alex Kingston. Ep 1 - Could be if its an important case. Especially if you consider the FBI agent is at scotland yard, it may be important.

C) Why could you get a sonogram at 10PM? That department is closed at that time! Re: Shot with hot pregnant FBI chick in hospital. Ep 1 - It could have been an emergency, maybe she was at a hospital and thinking there was something wrong with the baby.

2) The guy that was trying to commit suicide somehow blacked out on Venice Beach and then magically appeared in the ER seconds later where a patient died. Ep 1. - It showed him waking up in the pier then they showed the operating room where everyone else was waking up. He wasn't back until the time where they are going to operate on Dylan, and by that time there were many other injured people at the hospital. Maybe he got a lift to the hospital in an ambulance with the person he helped in the water on the beach.

3) After burning his fake Kabbalah wristband, it magically appears back on to wrist in a following shot. Ep 2 - It's magic.... or a boo boo in the editing room. But ya they weren't careful with that point!

4) When the bird flys in to Alex Kingston's window, bounces off and falls to the ground, all behind Alex's back, how was she able to explain in a later scene that she knew it was a pigeon and further relates it broke it's neck when she didn't even turn around to see it? Ep 1. - They did turn around after it hit the window. It only showed like 5 of the 137 seconds of their flash forward, so make they had enough time to look out the window down at the dead bird. Flying into a window like that, the obvious type of death would be breaking its neck... or maybe she just assumed that is what happened to it.

I don't think the writers sincerely thought this one through. Why 10PM (PDT)?

What did you see?

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TonyLock

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Anyone else notice any continuity glitches/plot holes? . . . What did you see?

Watched Ep 2 just now again and noticed these:

1) Sulu says "...I met a woman who also didn't have a vision and 5 minutes later she died..." Well, she did indeed die 5 mins into the show but in "reality" she died several hours later.

2) How does Sulu get cell access coverage in the basement of the FBI building in the car parking lot.

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1) I'm pretty sure he didn't mean it so literally. It's more like one minute she was here and the next minute she was dead.

2) It's possible to get cell reception in under ground parking. Maybe he was only on the first level. The reception may be spotty but it's not impossible.

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re: the date being 29th and 30th, wasn't that explained in the first episode that because of the time differences it was technically different days in different places? Most of them points seem pedantic, the only one which holds up really well is having a sonogram at 10pm - but we have no context of what has happened before so I am sure it will get explained.

Expect loads of references between flash forwards and things which seemed meaningless (the fact a bird hit that window) becoming important (all the crows died).

So is that little black kid one of the two suspects? Weird scar down his face to make him easily identifiable as an adult...

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TonyLock

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More problems with the show...

I just watched episode 3 again and noticed the following:

Glass is Never Half Full

In the scene where Penelope is having lunch with that black woman (the head FBI's wife), look at her glass at the beginning of the scene. At the beginning, it's about 10% full with a dark liquid, which looks like coke. In a few moments later (about 30 seconds in to the scene), her glass in now full with a yellow (urine) coloured drink. Weird!

Das English Buch

It's very unlikely that a prison in south Germany would have English books in it's library. How do I know the Bird book was in English? Well, Penelope's husband was reading it aloud in the penultimate scene of the episode.

Murder Population

In the above mentioned scene the cute FBI chick pulls up data of the crow population. The data shows a shizzle load of crows had died on the day of the blackout, which in the episode is about 4 or 5 days ago. However, the graph shows data that exceeds in to the next few months! WTF?

Department of Homeland Insecurity

Again, in the above scene, the hot FBI chick looks up some record of CDC requesting funds from HLS to investigate the sudden death of the murders (collection of crows) and the then blackouts of the human population in that area. This report was dated 1991. However, as we all (wise people) know HLS didn't have a name until September 8th, 2001.

I mean, come on, these are rookie mistakes.

And lets not mention the window scene in London in episode 1, where you can see the tower of London, Big Ben and the London Eye through one window. I've lived in London for nearly 40 years, that's just BS! And considering Alex Kingston (a British actress) was in that shot, surely she could have consulted somewhat. I realize the film makers wanted to convey to the average dumb American that this was taking place in a different country but please, give the American public some credit.

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Watched Ep 2 just now again and noticed these:

1) Sulu says "...I met a woman who also didn't have a vision and 5 minutes later she died..." Well, she did indeed die 5 mins into the show but in "reality" she died several hours later.

2) How does Sulu get cell access coverage in the basement of the FBI building in the car parking lot.

1) He's Sulu.

2) He's Sulu, and it was in the script.

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Wanderermy

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What exactly is wrong with making criticism about a TV show? If we invest time into watching a show, I think we deserve the right to critique it then.

Nothing is wrong with that, I was trying to say that rather than nip-pick everything ... enjoy it, that's what's entertainment are for.

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The thing is, people get into their shows. Some people watch tv shows for more than just "cheap Entertainment" and to those people they look at the realistic side of the show, and what makes what happen. Nothing wrong with that, and honestly it could end up helping the show, by them spending the time and effort to make it as realistic as possible.

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