Steineded How sad is this?

ScoobyWell Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

bazxyz Only one series so don't bother as there's no end. I don't understand how people can give a high rating when it doesn't finish? Personally it seems a waste of time to watch something that has been cut short and don't know why people like amazon would show it???

swolfcg I ended up re-watching this 10yrs later, and can't believe such a smart and entertaining tv show was yanked so early. I finished the first season within a week the 2nd time and I can't help but having inane random thoughts that a 2nd season could happen, after so long! Not going to happen, but goes to show you that the networks don't always have it right. Or maybe the viewing audience at the time was the issue when Grey's Anatomy is still being renewed after all this time.

Myriam Nys Having liked the book by Robert J. Sawyer, I was excited to learn of the existence of a series. The series, as it turns out, deviated sharply from its source material - Heaven knows why, since the book was pretty good. So a classic question arises : why buy the rights to a book, if you're going to take plot lines, characters, names, premises,.. and toss them around with wild abandon ? If you like to be creative with printed matter : there are whole storehouses for old or second-hand paper. Anyhow. The series bears watching, even though it is a very very loose adaptation. (If this were a woman instead of a show, it would be wearing a ton of make-up, a T-shirt saying "No rolex no sex", a black leather miniskirt and fishnet stockings. It's as loose as that.) Part drama, part thriller, part science fiction, it's both suspenseful and entertaining, with some remarkable visual and special effects. And some of the philosophical questions it asks remain pertinent. Is our future fixed or changeable ? What is our own role in bringing about that future, or, as the case may be, these futures ? How should one respond, for instance, if one knew - absolutely knew - that one was going to die within the next months ? With fear, bitterness, elation, patience, violence ? Does one even know how one is going to react ?Sadly the series was cancelled after a single season, which means that the work was cut off in mid-flow. It's a pity.

MrGKB ...but am not surprised that it turned out to be a flash in the pan. Production values were good, most of the casting/acting was tolerable, and the script/dialog wasn't nearly as bad as various mavens on this site have suggested, but ultimately David S. "Threshhold" Goyer's latest creation still couldn't surmount its flaws. The core concept is intriguing: a brief planetary blackout of consciousness during which most everyone experiences that time span in the future--and why some don't is, of course, a key feature of the main theme of the event, the dichotomy between free will and predestination.The major weakness, I think, was Goyer's decision to kowtow to the demands of LCD audiences of serial drama and veer too far from the source material, a 1999 novel by Robert J. Sawyer, a well-respected Canadian genre author. Too many (often extraneous) characters are introduced into the mix--the plot is shifted to focus on an FBI investigation into the origin of the phenomenon and its possible recurrence, with the mystery compounded by an overly elaborate conspiracy that is never satisfactorily resolved (or even explained)--and the result is a diffusion of interest in those characters. The primary leads suffer from being morally suspect in ways that lessen sympathy for their dilemmas, and most of their precognitions are dealt with in a facile manner that has no root in genuine character development. A sacrificial suicide toward the beginning of the story establishes that the future everyone has seen is malleable, but a number of characters make no real effort to alter what they perceive as probable negative outcomes. Cases in point would be the girl who saw herself drowning, the alcoholic FBI agent who saw himself falling off the wagon, his loyal wife who saw herself all cozy with another man, and the partner who saw nothing at all."Flashforward" smells of desperately wanting to become another "Lost," in essence, with multiple threads of mystery that could be exploited over an extended period of time. I suspect this was not all mapped out from Day One, however, but was cobbled together once the series was greenlighted for a full season. With better characters and smarter scripting, it might have worked. Alas...I didn't regret the time spent with it, but won't be returning to it, and don't bemoan its cancellation. Season Two would have just been more of the same.