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Televisionary Has A Review of The Brannon Braga/David Goyer Script For ABC’s Sci-Fi Time Travel Pilot FLASH FORWARD!!
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David S. Goyer (“Blade: The Series”) and Brannon Braga (“Star Trek: Enterprise”) – who earlier collaborated on CBS’ short-lived alien-invasion drama “Threshold” – scripted “Flash Forward,” based on the sci-fi novel by Robert J. Sawyer.
The book is about what happens when physicists, conducting a super-high-energy experiment, accidentally cause everyone on Earth to experience two minutes and 17 seconds of his or her own future 21 years hence.
Already cast in the pilot are Joseph Fiennes (“Shakespeare In Love”), John Cho (“Harold & Kumar”), Jack Davenport ("Swingtown"), Courtney B. Vance (“Law & Order: Criminal Intent”) and the girl who plays Penny Widmore on “Lost.”
Televisionary has read the script and offers a verdict:
While Goyer and Braga's script stumbles in a few parts and the dialogue could use a little tweaking in some places (the scene between Dominic and Kathryn was a little on the nose, for example), the overall result is pretty damn strong, offering up a potential series that--like Lost before it--tackles the notions of fate versus free will, preordained destiny versus random chaos, and a life-altering experience that will shake several characters' perceptions, outlooks, and core identities as they adapt to new circumstances.
Find all of Televisionary’s review here.
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ok, you guys ought to have an obit prewritten given her status, but noooo, let's put up some brannon braga plug...
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just wonderin why harry aint piqued in...
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that's a shame. Also, Goyer's work is wildly uneven.
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Let's hear it. I still miss Quantum Leap. He never leaped home, dammit!
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What a person who was 85 and in an old folks home saw when it happened? Nothing? Heaven? Anything? I hope they address this at some point, because that could be an interesting thing to explore. Sounds like a reasonably cool show, I'll give it a chance.
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The plot of that was so obviously Casino Royale that we weren't sure whether or not it was a valid target. How can you criticize something on something so completely obvious? Same here, but substitute CR with LOST.
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You knew someone would say it.
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their obit for page sucks ass...and not one mention of dave stevens...just a quick note about the rocketeer comic and movie...
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by definition.
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Pretty much every story about a show failing or succeeding makes me think of Journeyman and how cheated it was. How cheated WE were. Still bothers me deeply.
But to stay on topic, I do think this sounds interesting. Didn't like much of Threshold. Peter (The Station Agent) Dinklage is great in pretty much anything he does though. He stole that show. -
Braga did some real good NExt Gen episodes, and all his time travel stuff was quality. Much better than the Sarah Connor time travel stuff that has been going on, so look forward to seeing the new stuff.
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Good to hear the script was "strong." Don't know if I'll necessarily feel that way when I see the pilot, but David S. Goyer has written a few solid nuggets in the past, and Robert J. Sawyer's book is fairly huge in scope, so I'm hopeful.
Braga is the man I worry about. He tends to write cautious rather than daring, and tends to neuter important scenes instead of embracing them as part of a compelling drama. I hope he's learned from his awful mistakes on "Enterprise," but that's probably wishful thinking. The man loves science fiction, which is great, but he'll need to show me something intense and mind-blowing to get my attention with this show. I hope he does.
Because Sawyer's book, especially the ending, is mind-smashingly tasty. If the show goes anywhere near the scale of the book's ending, I'll get goosebumps.
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I already saw it on Terminator: TSCC. So, that's one mystery out of the way. Also, like someone else said, what do people who are gonna be dead before 21 years see?
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... experience nothing. They aren't aware that 2 minutes have even passed. It goes black and they wake up. It's an important part of the story.
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I'm really looking for this.
But please, premiere it after LOST is done in 2010. -
How else does one SUCCESSFULLY and REALISTICALLY plot something as intricate as this?
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by hacks.
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The first half of the season will be great. Then the network will start interfering with the show. The showrunner will quit in a huff. The new showrunner will have no idea what the hell they're doing and everyone will despise it by the third season. It will be canceled by the end of the third season with no resolution.
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Televisionary wrote "dialoque could use a little tweaking...(The scene between D & K was a little on the nose)". I thought getting something on the nose meant getting it right (right on the nose)? Does the reviewer mean they were too obvious about something?
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by copying the formula, perhaps they should attempt to come up with something original. They tried it with "The Nine" -- even had a former Party of Five-r in it -- and look how that went over.
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No, you're right ... that sentence doesn't make much sense. I noticed that when I read it too ... what does the reviewer mean?
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really boring and LOST is really boring too. FRINGE is much more exciting than boring LOST. and Stargate Universe is probably gonna suck too with all the characters acting as though they were in LOST and gay characters running around just to be edgy.
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By "on the nose" he means it's being very obvious about making a point. There's usually a more elegant way to make a point than shove it in your face and force it down your throat.
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and their time travel shows
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Time Travel is a rat hole. You idiots can't write it (or even comprehend it) coherently. Us idiots can't follow it in 1 hour serial format. Just fucking leave it alone already.
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Excuse me, but I think LOST nailed it.
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This actually heavily reminiscent of Vonnegut's Timequake. There is no actual time travel possibility, it was just a one shot deal which no one was anticipating - and by the time the show is going no time travel plot lines are possible (thank god!) Its pretty much normal non-supernatural series except that everyone has this one piece of information. They will probably take Lost format and concentrate each episode one one person's experience, what they say they experienced, what they actually experienced, etc. But the focus SHOULD be on what is happening now and how it is shaped by this bit of information.
If given good writers, this could be a very interesting concept. But that is exactly why it will probably suck. Even with good writers, the studios will much about with it until it is garbage (just look what they are doing to The Unit in the name of ratings..)
All in all, good concept for a book, doubt they have the skills and will to make a good series of it.
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