I complain (a lot) when things are bad on a television show; I speak up and shout and point fingers… loudly. Consequently, when a show I've watched but found grossly disappointing does something right I feel myself obligated to speak up and say as much.
For a long time – months – FlashForward has been moving towards March 15 (within its world, not ours). That is the date, Demetri Noh learned, on which he would be shot, killed with his partner's gun. While not the season's climax, it has certainly been promoted as one of the big moments in the season. It's a moment that the show gave us this week, and while it wasn't a perfect episode, it was a great moment and one of the better things the show has done all season (and I'm not even going to say something about how that wouldn't be hard).
The episode, I think, had a few missteps, the biggest of which (this would be a SPOILER — in fact, much of the rest of the piece is) was the elimination of Dyson Frost. FlashForward has put forward, over the course of the season, a bunch of potential bad guys – people who may have caused the flash. They then have go on to kill them right after we were allowed to get to know them. It's the sort of introduction and subsequent dismissal that makes me feel as though the producers are still trying to figure out whodunit and haven't quite settled on it yet. Frost was a great bad guy, the most charismatic one we've seen and to lose him is upsetting (if he's actually dead).
Yes, we've gotten the introduction of another couple of baddies, but as of this moment, they seem kind of weak and I particularly don't like Alda as one of them. She seems like a hired hand, but the idea that Demetri and Mark were following this woman who was involved with the flash just prior to the flash (even though they had no idea that the flash was coming) seems a little overly lucky.
Wait, I said that I was going to talk about the good, didn't I? Let's forget about the baddie issue for now – the producers may actually have worked it all out and may be able to make the villains we're left with compelling.
Article comments
1 - Kris
frost got shot. His eyes shut. He may have just gone unconscious. I agree...he was very charismatic and I think he was a perfect "Bad" guy. He was doing bad things and trying to "Help" I really hope he lives!
2 - Kris
The show has been improving little by little since its return, and the last two episodes I worried was backtracking, but they were only setting up for this episode. Easily the best episode yet in my book, the pilot following closely.
I was so glad Janis helped save Demetri. I would have hated it if she purposely not helped.
3 - UCLAdy04
I loved this episode and how it all played out in the end. I would've HATED it if Demetri died so I'm glad they didn't go that route. At first it looked like Zoey screwed up by aiding Alda from escaping who in turn shot the only man who knew where Demetri was...but in the end it was Alda's shooting Frost that saved Demetri. Had she not shot Frost, Mark would have stuck around interrogating Frost and would not have gotten to Demetri in time. So anyway...overall a great episode.
I'm starting to think Janice being "the mole" doesn't necessarily mean she is working for the bad guys...the previews alluded to her being a mole for the CIA. So...we'll have to see how this shakes out, but for now I can live with that stupid plot twist since it hasn't cost any major characters their life yet.
4 - MDH4Life
I must say, this is by farm my favorite show on TV right now. I have not had such a rush on any show since the first season of 24. Which for me this is better, it make more sense, and warns of a potential future and the quirks of technology. HAD THEY KILLED DEMETRI I WOULD HAVE STOPPED WATCHING THIS SHOW. Demetri pulls everything together. He is an overshadowing co-star, and makes this show worth watching. I never thought I would like him in anything other than H & K ;)
5 - Nancy
Nice review. The names of cast members would have helped, not everybody watches (at least not regularly).