Adios, Robert Sawyer FlashForward “White to Play” ABC, Thursday, 8 PM Written by David S. Goyer & Marc Guggenheim Directed by David S. Goyer “He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over.” — D. Gibbons Well, that didn’t take long. In my review of the pilot, I expressed my extreme skepticism that the FBI, of all agencies, would be put in charge of the investigation of a scientific phenomenon. Doing so turns this science fiction story into a police procedural, which is like turning Cinderella back into a pot-scrubber. This episode took steps to correct that mistake, by introducing a…
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FlashForward: “No More Good Days”
The Anti-Lost FlashForward “No More Good Days” ABC, Thursday, 8 PM Teleplay and television story by David S. Goyer and Brannon Braga Based on the novel Flashforward by Robert Sawyer Directed by David S. Goyer “Just because we saw these things doesn’t mean they’re going to happen.” — Mark Benson This series should be so much more than it is going to be. It has a winning premise, an excellent cast, an obviously large budget, and some good writers on board. But these parts add up to considerably less than they should, largely because of one enormous conceptual flaw underlying this series.…