Fighting the Future FlashForward “Black Swan” ABC, Thursday, 8PM Written by Lisa Zwerling & Scott M. Gimple Directed by Michael Rymer “We can use what we saw to stop what we saw.” —Mark Benford There’s the opening salvo in what is shaping up as a holy war—a war of faith—between those who want their flashforwards to come true, and those who do not. The former include people like Aaron, who thinks he will see his dead daughter alive again, and Janis Hawk, who thinks she’ll be pregnant. The latter include Olivia Benford, who does not want to cheat on her…
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FlashForward: “White to Play”
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…