FlashForward: “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps” Review
Perhaps the most riveting episode yet, “Scary Monsters and Super Creeps” did an outstanding job in engaging the audience without giving away too much of the story. And of course Dominic Monaghan may just yet deliver the show from the brink of obscurity. To be honest, I continue to watch “FlashForward” for two main reasons, one of them being Simon, played by Dominic Monaghan, and the other, finding out the actual cause of the “FlashForward”.
Right from the onset, Simon blatantly addresses the ultimate question of what caused the “FlashForward”, as if he was speaking right at the audience. While on the express train headed towards Los Angeles, Simon sparks a conversation with a woman. He goes on to explain that he is a famous quantum physicist and claims that he might know what caused the “FlashForward”. After some time of meaningless flattery and flirtation, Simon admits that in theory, quantum physics may be responsible for the “FlashForward”, siting “quantum superpositions” and “Schrödinger’s cat” as some of the examples.
Next we find out that a secret organization “Blue Hand” is actually responsible for the attacks on the FBI agents, although their motifs aren’t completely clear. Dmitri follows the signs which are conveniently placed all over LA to a safe house. Whether or not the “Blue Hand” is somehow connected to Simon is yet to be discovered? What we do know however, is the fact that Lloyd Simcoe, the guy with the kid, is connected to Simon.
What We Know:
Here is what we know so far…
Simon is a quantum physicist who is somehow involved with what caused the “FlashForward”
Lloyd is also an academic who is Simon’s close acquaintance
Towers which may be linked with what caused the “flashforward” are built in Somalia
“Blue Hand” is somehow involved and are trying to stop the investigation
Lloyd told Simon that they are responsible for the death of 20 million people because of their experiment
Someone in the government is leaking information
Now connect the dots…
I love “connect the dots” type of series! The Blue Hand guys who attacked were Asian… and the lady who phoned Demetri about what she saw in her FF, called from Hong Kong! And in this episode, we saw the Kangaroo again! I wonder if Simon is the guy who appeared in the Stadium during the blackout. The past few episodes were a lot of character introductions and digging into their personal lives but now investigation is somewhere! This is so cool…how do these ppl come up with this stuff to film !!
Haha I’m keeping on watching FF because like u, I wanna know the actual cause of the FF and also if they are true; I wanna see if we can in fact change destiny. I also wonder if the things that are happening are happening because it were meant to ( w/o the blackout event) or if they’re coming true simply because we are following what we see and thus molding our future the way we saw it.
Those are definitely interesting questions to ask, chance vs. destiny? Predetermination vs. multi-verses? Are there multiple versions of ourselves living in parallel universes?
so we have Schrödinger’s cat in YET ANOTHER SHOW
we may want to look into
Active Denial System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Denial_System
i heard about it on this podcast
http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2008/06jun/RICR-080612-rclay3xp-SUB-low.mp3