Wednesday, April 14, 2010

FlashForward - Queen Sacrifice, S01E15

I am very tempted to stop watching FlashForward after the last episode, where the mole in the FBI was revealed, and it turned out to be one of the most sympathetic characters. Not the most sympathetic character anymore.

Janis (Christine Woods) saw herself pregnant on April 29th. She has wanted that pregnancy more than anything, fighting for it even after she got shot and her womb was nearly destroyed. She even went so far as to sleep with Demetri (John Cho) to conceive the child, even though she is a lesbian. And after all that, it turns out that not only was she feeding information to the bad guys, but she's quite evil herself. And I don't like it.

Maybe if she was straight, and there was the whole hot sexual tension between herself and Simon (Dominic Monaghan), and she conceived the baby on a passionate night, even though she hadn't really been planning on having one, I could believe it. But I just don't believe that the woman who so desperately wanted to become a mother to Willa could also be part of such a nefarious scheme. She is helping make the world a horrible place, doing it on purpose, but she still wants to bring a baby into it? The two things are contradictory. And if she changes her mind about her roll in all of this as the baby grows inside her, then I will believe it all even less, and clearly she had the time and the confused emotions to have already considered all the ramifications.

This show is lacking in credibility. It's lacking in hot sexual tension. It's lacking in everything that makes a show desirable to be watched week after week. So, I ask, why should I stick with it?

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