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It's like Flash Forward is Bizarro-Lost.
I realized yesterday that I engage with Flash Forward exactly opposite from the way I do with Lost. I watch Lost practically as a character drama; the mysteries and overarching plot (engaging as they are!) are pretty much set dressing. It's all about the character interactions and backstory reveals for me, with everything else just adding spice.
Whereas with Flash Forward I'm all about the plot. I want them to get to solving his mystery and figuring out who caused the blackout and what it all means. Have you ever read a mystery novel and really enjoyed the twisty plot while you were reading it, but then as soon as you turned the last page you realized you couldn't remember any of the characters names? That's me after every episode of Flash Forward. Thank God everyone is from some other show and I can just call them Penny or Norrington or what have you.
Mark is the exception, and even he I call Jospeh Fiennes most of the time (have I ever mentioned that he was my metal Sirius Black the first time I read PoA? Tall, piercing eyes, handsome, rail thin, the works. I'm the only person in the world who was disappointed when they cast Gary Oldman.:) This week didn't deal so much with the Crazy Clue Wall but it did give Mark the chance to be disproportionately intense about everything; every single emotion the man has goes straight to 11 and I kind of love that. And he has a fantastic glower.
Something else I really like about the Fiennes is playing this character: no matter what Mark is doing, you can tell part of mind is always on that Wall. Take the conversation with the Babysitter: he was listening, he was engaged, he said all the right things, but it was obvious that part of his mind was scrabbling down into crazy detective land and mentally putting this with all of the other clues. I'm thoroughly enjoying his slow transfromation into the Question.
This week we also learned that the flashes can be self-fulfilling and may well be engineered for that; Addison Guy almost certainly would have died had Smug Doctor not put that diagnosis into Penny's head, and Smug Doctor wouldn't have gotten the idea without the flash. So that's another interesting clue that someone is pulling an extremely elaborate Xanatos gambit here. (Incidentally, is Smug Doctor the same guy as Suicide Doctor? Or are there two young white male doctors? Because if there are, they look virtually identical to me.)
And we got confirmation that Norrington is in cahoots with Charlie, because of course the two Brits are working together. At least it gives Norrington a reason to be on the show other than to stand around and look sadly at Penny, because good God, that was getting tiring. He actually got a musical tour of sadness this week. We get it, already.
Whereas with Flash Forward I'm all about the plot. I want them to get to solving his mystery and figuring out who caused the blackout and what it all means. Have you ever read a mystery novel and really enjoyed the twisty plot while you were reading it, but then as soon as you turned the last page you realized you couldn't remember any of the characters names? That's me after every episode of Flash Forward. Thank God everyone is from some other show and I can just call them Penny or Norrington or what have you.
Mark is the exception, and even he I call Jospeh Fiennes most of the time (have I ever mentioned that he was my metal Sirius Black the first time I read PoA? Tall, piercing eyes, handsome, rail thin, the works. I'm the only person in the world who was disappointed when they cast Gary Oldman.:) This week didn't deal so much with the Crazy Clue Wall but it did give Mark the chance to be disproportionately intense about everything; every single emotion the man has goes straight to 11 and I kind of love that. And he has a fantastic glower.
Something else I really like about the Fiennes is playing this character: no matter what Mark is doing, you can tell part of mind is always on that Wall. Take the conversation with the Babysitter: he was listening, he was engaged, he said all the right things, but it was obvious that part of his mind was scrabbling down into crazy detective land and mentally putting this with all of the other clues. I'm thoroughly enjoying his slow transfromation into the Question.
This week we also learned that the flashes can be self-fulfilling and may well be engineered for that; Addison Guy almost certainly would have died had Smug Doctor not put that diagnosis into Penny's head, and Smug Doctor wouldn't have gotten the idea without the flash. So that's another interesting clue that someone is pulling an extremely elaborate Xanatos gambit here. (Incidentally, is Smug Doctor the same guy as Suicide Doctor? Or are there two young white male doctors? Because if there are, they look virtually identical to me.)
And we got confirmation that Norrington is in cahoots with Charlie, because of course the two Brits are working together. At least it gives Norrington a reason to be on the show other than to stand around and look sadly at Penny, because good God, that was getting tiring. He actually got a musical tour of sadness this week. We get it, already.