'FlashForward' - 'Better Angels' Recap

Did Bryce ever met up w/ the woman in his flashforward? I cannot remember. Was his flashforward resolved?

It would not have been enough for D. Gibbons to FlashForward himself into the future to steal the tower designs. Remember, the reason that Simon gave for his designs being strictly theoretical is that we lacked technology (today, still!) to implement them. There's more going on here.

Oh, and anybody who was intriuged by the videotape at the end...I cannot urge you enough to check out the episdoe of Dr. Who entitled "Blink". It was on SyFy network a few years ago, and is completely stand alone...you don't need to know anything about Dr. Who to appreciate this episode, and it absolutely nailed that whole video-tape thing. I find it the single best episode in the series history and one of the best episodes of television ever. I cannot reccomend it enough.

When I watch this show (and admittedly I was vey tired and starting to fall asleep), I got the impression that Olivia wanted them to move so he would stop working on the investigation completely, not work on it remotely. I thought she wanted him to stop trying to save everybody. Unless I missed it, I never got the impression she would have accepted teleconfrencing.

I'm pretty sure that the guy that tells Vogel " mark benford is dead" is james remar who plays james ermine. he's the guy that apperantley took Tracy, interesting to see how it gonna play out.

Maybe this is too much to ask but can you please review this show without constant "Lost" comparisons? Not all of us are watchers of "Lost." I've never seen one episode and have never been interested in the show. It's okay to compare and contrast occasionally but enough is enough. Just review *this* show on *its* merits. Good, bad, or indifferent. Perhaps get a TVSquad member who isn't predisposed to "Lost" to help you out or to provide a "second opinion" review. Thank you.

Yup, the show seems to be in a nice little groove now.

I'm okay with the Demetri/Janis thing. Despite all the 'the future can be altered' stuff going on, I can easily believe he might still feel pretty fatalistic. He just found out Mark's gun mysteriously disappeared from storage, and there are still tons of flash forwards still happening. Given how people are reacting, probably far more are coming true than not.

So I can understand how he could see a friend having her badly wanted flash forward slip away, and impulsively say that he's going to try and give her a chance at the happiness she wants when it looks like fate is turning against her too. One last chance to take back a little control and spit in the eye of destiny; maybe subconsciously hoping that if he can affect destiny to make a flash forward happen, maybe he can affect it to make one not happen too.

As far as Mark and Olivia goes, I'm completely in Mark's corner. He's working to possibly save the lives of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people. With that on the line, you don't start throwing up needless impediments like trying to handle the whole thing remotely or some other nonsense. She, on the other hand, has one monumental task on her plate: Not sleeping with another man. Yes, his life is at risk, but frankly, she's always known that was part of his job, and now's definitely not the time to go all wobbly at the knees and declaring 'my way or the highway'.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Vogel is a red herring. The man he was talking to last night was wearing a communications earpiece, and it looked to me like they were there providing security for Mark's wife and/or Lloyd Simcoe. Vogel simply passing on the news that Mark had been killed (which could be bad information or intentional misinformation) doesn't lock in Vogel as a bad guy.

Actually, my dark horse candidate for the mole is Janis.

I'm really enjoying Flash Forward this time around. I'll admit that by the time they went on hiatus my interest had faded some, the show just seemed to have no purpose. Since it's return they've really picked things up.

However I find myself not wanting to buy into it all totally due to the fact that everything I like these days seems to get canceled just as I'm getting really involved.

Seeing the inside of the one remaining tower really added depth to the storyline. It also gave me more questions than answers... Just like any good show!!

I really like where this show is going now, I'm actually re-watching the first half of the season and it's not as pointless the second time around because the second half is starting to give answers for the questions posed in the first half. I don't know if it was their plan all along, but considering the many viewers that grew tired of watching the first half, I don't think it was a very good plan.

As for Demetri's offer to impregnate Janis, I do agree that it seems to come out of left field a bit. He seems to be so in love and committed to Zoey, and considering how hard she is at working to prevent his future murder, him offering to impregnate another woman, just makes sound like a total jackass. I hope it was just the Somalian rum talking and they didn't actually go through with it. However, it would explain why Janis was crying in her flashforward when she found out the sex of the baby.

The end part was jaw-dropping - and it's true, it did get my attention. We know that D.Gibbons/Dyson Frost managed to conduct the experiment that jumped the consciousness of the villagers two weeks into the future, but could it be that before that he had conducted that experiment to himself and saw Demetri and Simon watching that tape in the tower? Can't wait for next week for the answers (hopefully they'll answer it next week!).

And I have to agree with St3v3n - I think Vogel must be part of whoever was responsible for the blackout. He may not be the one pulling the trigger, but he may give the order. But what were they doing outside the Benford house? If they were coming to kill Lloyd would they be standing outside nonchalantly talking where anyone could see them? Or were they guarding the house? It would explain why Lloyd and Olivia could still do the nasty, and why Dylan was there hanging out with Charlie. Maybe Mark himself invited Lloyd & Dylan to live with them so he could protect them? Now that would be interesting...

I liked this episode a lot. I wish people would just stop comparing it to Lost and let it grow.

I really liked the tape from '91 angle, and can't wait to see what their explanation is. I would be satisfied with time travel, but I think the shows current lack of any mention of time travel in relation to Simon's design showing up early might mean something else entirely.


Also, I have a feeling Vogel might be part of who was behind the blackout, and may have taken this position in order to get closer to Mark, and eventually kill him. If this were true, we could logically assume he was at the house to get rid of Lloyd next (assuming Mark and him are still working together).