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I'm guessing he means Flash Forward... Pity, as I was enjoying it. Especially the whole "spending an hour learning absolutely bloody nothing every week" experience. ;)
Is there two shows called the same thing? I think there must be, as I don't seem to be watching the Flash Forward that you two were.

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Are you talking about this one, Mark?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_Forward

:lol: ;)

No, it just seems a lot of shows these days have a brilliant premise that gets it greenlit, but little substance to back it up...

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I'm guessing he means Flash Forward... Pity, as I was enjoying it. Especially the whole "spending an hour learning absolutely bloody nothing every week" experience. ;)

Obviously targeted at the Lost audience then! :shock:

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I'm guessing he means Flash Forward... Pity, as I was enjoying it. Especially the whole "spending an hour learning absolutely bloody nothing every week" experience. ;)

Obviously targeted at the Lost audience then! :shock:


Yeah, that's what I made of it :lol:

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ABC always had their eye on a show to replace Lost and Flash Forward was no doubt pitched as that show. I'm 99% sure that's why it was greenlit. Fortunately, I've spared myself the post-hiatus eps, so lost touch with it enough to not miss it. However, I have heard it improved a great deal after I stopped watching.

As for Heroes, nobody should be surprised by that. It's numbers were awful and it's generally been pretty bad since season 2. Season 1 is still some of the best television ever made, but they never got there again. Shame, it was a nice premise.


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As for Heroes, nobody should be surprised by that. It's numbers were awful and it's generally been pretty bad since season 2. Season 1 is still some of the best television ever made, but they never got there again. Shame, it was a nice premise.

I gave up on Heroes after a couple of episodes on season two. The first season was entertaining.

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Just watched Fringe from this week, wtf? still enjoyed it but a bit random for me....

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Just watched Fringe from this week, wtf? still enjoyed it but a bit random for me....

I think it's prob a bit too far into the story to join at the moment and have a clue about what's going on.

It's a good show though. You should watch season 1!

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Just watched Fringe from this week, wtf? still enjoyed it but a bit random for me....

I think it's prob a bit too far into the story to join at the moment and have a clue about what's going on.

It's a good show though. You should watch season 1!


I've watched them all but this week’s was the search for Peter in a strange Mobster sort of time frame / bed time story / history lesson.... as I said strange but watchable

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Geiseric wrote:
Just watched Fringe from this week, wtf? still enjoyed it but a bit random for me....

I think it's prob a bit too far into the story to join at the moment and have a clue about what's going on.

It's a good show though. You should watch season 1!


I've watched them all but this week’s was the search for Peter in a strange Mobster sort of time frame / bed time story / history lesson.... as I said strange but watchable


If you've watched them all and haven't enjoyed them - give up. You're clearly not getting it.

Myleene Klass in a bikini on a poster on the wall of your local M&S - that's watchable.

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Maybe your right, Fringe may have passed my intellect level this week...

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5 Lessons TV Should Learn After Losing Heroes

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2010/05/ ... =Google+UK

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5) Think Multiversal

Heroes‘ first two seasons flew out of the phone booth by dropping Earth into an Armageddon blender. After the horrors of 9/11, watching atomic fireballs consume New York made for riveting, if politicized, television. But then Heroes degenerated into various interpersonal soap operas that simply couldn’t sustain its apocalyptic foundation. Even Hiro’s time-traveling fell flat, mostly because it was consumed by romantic entanglements rather than world-smashing danger.

If the next superhero shows want to succeed, they need to take a cue from Dr. Who, recent Justice League films like Crisis on Two Earths and comic books like Grant Morrison’s Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne. Inject some envelope-pushing interstellar and multiversal madness. If we’re watching heroes fumble their way through their own neighborhoods, then something is rotten in the state of television. Superheroes work best when they break human and planetary bonds. Don’t mire them in earthbound soap operas. Make some space — in the outer limits of our imaginations, if possible.


While I agree with the rest of the article, I can't agree with using a multiverse - there's no quicker way to kill a comic book story, and the likes of even Grant Morrison's attempts have been poorly received (and with bloody good reason)...

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Upcoming US TV shows

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Well a whole new set of shows which may or may not make it here to torrent. :D

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Well a whole new set of shows which may or may not make it here to torrent. :D


A US TV show really has to grab me these days, more often than not I'd sooner watch a film...

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