Monday, October 5, 2009

FlashForward - White to Play, S01E02

How badly might you be shaken by two minutes of your life 6 months from now? How many of us would be doing something that seems impossible to us now? Would we have ended a relationship? Started a new one? Lost a loved one? Changed jobs? Who knows! And how many of us would really see something so shockingly strange.
My bet on what I'd be doing in the future at 10pm for 2 minutes and 17 seconds? I'd be watching tv. Probably by myself. And how many of us would be doing something so ordinary?

But most of the stories we've heard so far have been upsetting and life altering. My marriage ended; I'm drinking again; I'm pregnant; I'm dead. Apparently on April 29th at 10pm, a lot of important stuff is going to be happening. And does that have anything to do with the flashforward? Is it important?

This show really has me hooked. Are all the things that we've seen or heard going to take place on April 29th? Are Mark (Joseph Fiennes) and Olivia (Sonya Walger), who are so romantic with their messages of love (I adore that they express affection with the opposite words), going to break up? Is their daughter, as was potentially revealed, going to be kidnapped? Will Demetri (John Cho) die on March 15th? And I will know whether or not he will when we get to March 15th!

Can they change things? Did Mark make a difference in the way things are supposed to play out when he burnt the friendship bracelet, or does it simply mean he must acquire another by April 29th? Who caused it, and how? And why did D. Gibbons just blow himself up?

There are so many questions and I want to know the answers. I want to find out what will happen and I love that they answer some of them (like that Demetri is supposed to die), but leave you hanging as to whether it is possible to change it. And if they can change things, is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Are you as interested and as hooked as I am?

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