FlashForward: Flash Me Forward. Please!

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After watching the first episode of the new television series “FlashForward“, I could not help but speculate about what might have caused the mysterious black out. We’ve all done that, lets admit it, prematurely predicting the rest of the movie before it even started.

How many times has your friend annoyed you with his wacky and often inaccurate theories on “Lost”, or “Fringe”? Not enough right? Well…sorry folks, here is another one.

Before going into much detail about “FlashForward” it’s best we try and analyze the general synaptic structures of similar television shows. Lets take “Lost” for example. From the onset, the director skilfully manipulated us into formulating various theories on the main thematic elements of the show. First it was the “purgatory”, then came the “ET”. In hindsight the time traveling theme was quite obvious right? Not really, not for me at least. And of course there remains a plethora of questions before we get to the bottom of “Lost”.

So now we come to “Fringe”. Although not as mysterious, or philosophical if you’d like, as “Lost”, “Fringe” blatantly confronts us with the themes of time travel and parallel-universes, while putting a lot of emphasis on technology, biology, and fringe science.

So what does “Lost” and “Fringe” have in common? Both of them have some elements of time travel, multi-verses, technology, and biology. Both of the shows focus on the mystic of the human mind, and the power of modern science. Although I can’t tell you definitely what “FlashForward” will be about, I can tell you however what it’s not going to be about. It will not reference religion or extraterrestrials within its plot. No, the black-outs were not caused by the gods, nor by the Aliens. It will most likely have some of the more familiar elements of modern technological advances, time travel, parallel-universes, and a secret organization plotting world domination. Think of “FlashForward” as something along the lines of – Jack Bauer meets Lost – an action packed sciene-fiction joy-ride which will only get better, I hope.