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Maybe it’s not as sexy as dead poultry in Africa: Flash Forward episode 4
Cue the slow mo. Cue the loud background music. Send directorial subtlety out the door. Bring in the naff humour (“Your name is Ned Ned?” “Yes yes”). It’s a new episode of Flash Forward. Complete with endearingly silly pre-titles sequence cliff hanger of white person who sees 6 months in the future … when he’s [...]
Flash Forward Episode 3: I can't bring myself to dislike it
If you want didactic, 100% certain comments about the third episode of Flash Forward, look away now. You see, I can think of all sorts of reasons why I should be disliking it. But, I can’t quite stop myself liking it. Reasons I should dislike it? The dumbing down of the plot from the book. [...]
Flash Forward: episode 2
Tonight saw episode two of Flash Forward, the TV adaption of Robert J Sawyer’s novel, air on Channel 5. Despite the promise of episode one, the start of episode two was full of the clichés of mediocre conspiracy drama. Cute kid. Threatening soldiers. Ominous helicopters. Loud piano music to tell us the words coming out [...]
Flash Forward: book comes to TV
By coincidence, shortly after the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, I read a novel written a decade earlier – about what happens when the Large Hadron Collider is switched on for the first time. In that novel, Flash Forward by Robert J Sawyer, the world’s population blacks out and gets a view of what [...]
