What Did You See?

Flashforward is quickly becoming one of my favorite shows. The second episode "White to Play" (whatever that means) lightened the mood significantly from the previous episode. From Demetri Noh's (by way of John "Kobe Lobster" Cho) conversation about his future wedding to Stanford Wedeck's (Courtney B. Vance) Cardio Urinary Resuscitation, I really liked seeing more humor being injected into this show. Also, the ending was great again, even though the writers of this episode cheated pretty blatantly by never letting the Benfords ask her daughter the very simple and basic question that is the title of this blog post. It was unintentionally humorous watching them spend the entire episode fretting over and wondering what their daughter saw and why it bothered her and yet the option of just Asking the child never occurred to them. Not that it matters though, leap of logic aside, this was still a very fun episode.

There were yet more instances showing that the future that was seen in everyone's visions... wouldn't have come to pass if they didn't have the visions. The visions led the FBI to Utah, which led to the explosion of the building full of dolls, which generated the picture of a burnt doll that ends up in Mark Benford's vision. I maintain that it seems as though this show operates on the theory that the future cannot be changed, and in fact, trying to fight it, may very well end up being what brings it to pass. It's been executed very well thus far, and while a large part of me hopes that they stick to that premise instead of cheating somehow, I will also greatly miss Demetri Noh if he is to actually die in March. So, either the show stays on course and paints a beautiful "mosaic"... or it gets changed somehow and one of my favorite characters survive. So, I guess it's a win-win. Unless you're Demetri Noh, anyway.

Oh, and welcome back Lynn (ages slower that Richard Alpert) Whitfield!