oh, sorry... Too soon?

Add the SciFi Suits to the mix, seems like we will get Flash Gordon Forward here.

Amy Chasing is right, though--sounds like a good book, so just popped the free sample to my kindle :-)

Is this a show about the Hadron Collider?

Such wasted potential, that show: GREAT CAST (BW girl was great, as you say), good production values, but the writing/plotting was " 'orrible" (see, I can do a British accent too!).

But I digress--I return you to the TB that concerns the Black Ego Hole Of Suckage That Is Braga.

Discuss. Provide Examples.

***spoilers***

The book starts out with the initial experiment and everyone fasts forward to twenty or thirty years into the future. At least, everyone who is still alive by then, of course. Now, this "vision" only lasts for about thirty seconds to a minute, if I recall, and so, most of the visions are of mundane tasks like eating breakfast or reading the newspaper. Heck, because of time zones, I think many people are/were asleep during this brief glimpse in time that everyone has. Well, for about half the novel, everyone in the world undertakes a project to piece together the "history of the future" via a mass collection of accounts from everyone in the world. There might be one guy in the entire world who was reading the internet site for Star Wars or some physicist giving a dissertation on current nuclear technological capabilites during this brief time period. No matter how unimportant or mundane, everything is compiled and eventually published for all to read. Meanwhile, the lead characters deal with problems like suddenly finding out that the person(s) he or she ends up with in life is not the one he/she is currently in love with. Heck, one guy is on a depression binge for the entire novel, disgusted with the fact that he is (apparently) leading a bad life and that there is nothing he can do to change it; the future is (apparently) set.

Well, this of course leads to the team who unleashed this mistake to try to replicate the phenomena, but this time on purpose. This time, however, only our lead character seems to have a vision, which involves ultra-fanciful things like artificial bio-mechanical bodies, "space gliding," and even a Dyson sphere.

Anywho, it turns out that the future is not set, thanks to a few suicides that occurred as a result of the initial vision. This has the effect of relieving society, and our lead characters, and allow them to take the marital plunge with people that weren't a part of their visions.

At the end, the book fast-forwards to the time in which the vision took place, and it turns out that some things that occurred in the vision took place while some things didnt. Our lead character finds out that he is being fielded for an eternal life project, which explains why he had a vision that was about 100,000 years in the future. When he is offered the red pill/syrum, he decides to decline and live out his remaining days with his loved one, thus further altering the future.

***END OF SPOILERS***

Really, I don't see how this could be anything but a TV movie, or maybe in a motion picture. There really is no action, comedy, or drama that allows a weekly television show. Maybe if they revamped the story into something involving the government's attempts at piecing the entire eperiences together or something else as equally asenine and illogical, but really, this isn't lasting more than a few episodes.

Still, as you said, its been darn near ten years, so you could be right.

But he earned it.

True story.

v'shael - better luck next time