D-Roc
06-18-2009, 06:13 PM
Feel free to post FlashForward pilot reviews here!
It’s not Lost, though it has elements of that show: a high-concept sci-fi premise, told intimately through the lives (present and future) of about 10 main characters, as well as a deep, abiding mystery that will be unraveled over the course of the first season and subsequent seasons right up to the last minute.
It’s not The X-Files, though it has an FBI agent (Joseph Fiennes) at its heart and a procedural element to its storylines, with potential criminals and other bad guys and creepy weirdness here and there.
It’s not ER, Fringe, Heroes or any other hit drama, though it shares elements with all of those shows, including a main character who’s a surgeon, weird science and people who may or may not have access to strange visions.
No, it’s that rare thing in television: something completely new. And, at least judging by the big-screen Blu-ray version we saw, it will look absolutely gorgeous, not to say epic, for a TV show.
“There have been comparisons to Lost, … [that the show is] a Lost replacement,” executive producer David S. Goyer told an audience on Wednesday. “[But] it was written as a spec and originally was even anticipated to be an HBO show. So it wasn’t written at all for ABC or to be a Lost replacement. And I think the comparisons are accurate in that we also have a very large cast and are telling a very big, cinematic, ambitious story, but I think once you see the pilot … that’s where the similarities end.”
Sci Fi Wire (http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/we-saw-the-pilot-heres-wh.php)
It’s not Lost, though it has elements of that show: a high-concept sci-fi premise, told intimately through the lives (present and future) of about 10 main characters, as well as a deep, abiding mystery that will be unraveled over the course of the first season and subsequent seasons right up to the last minute.
It’s not The X-Files, though it has an FBI agent (Joseph Fiennes) at its heart and a procedural element to its storylines, with potential criminals and other bad guys and creepy weirdness here and there.
It’s not ER, Fringe, Heroes or any other hit drama, though it shares elements with all of those shows, including a main character who’s a surgeon, weird science and people who may or may not have access to strange visions.
No, it’s that rare thing in television: something completely new. And, at least judging by the big-screen Blu-ray version we saw, it will look absolutely gorgeous, not to say epic, for a TV show.
“There have been comparisons to Lost, … [that the show is] a Lost replacement,” executive producer David S. Goyer told an audience on Wednesday. “[But] it was written as a spec and originally was even anticipated to be an HBO show. So it wasn’t written at all for ABC or to be a Lost replacement. And I think the comparisons are accurate in that we also have a very large cast and are telling a very big, cinematic, ambitious story, but I think once you see the pilot … that’s where the similarities end.”
Sci Fi Wire (http://scifiwire.com/2009/06/we-saw-the-pilot-heres-wh.php)