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FUUUUUUU -ABC's FlashForward season and show ends on cliff hanger

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Sheik Yerbouti said:
Well there are still those reality shows, you know... Competitive Macramé with Retired Animal Stars... Dancing with Sea Monkeys... Are You Smarter Than a Reality Show Host..

I liked this show and Happy Town, and they both got nuked. Much easier to 'write' those 'reality' shows. God I fucking hate reality shows. I want to go on one, take a bottle of ipecac about 20 minutes before show time and let go.
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blame your friends and neighbors.

both Happy Town and FF had terrible ratings. I can't really blame ABC for canceling them.

Flashforward really should have cut like 75% of its storylines. it was just too all over the place.
 
I really liked FF. I don't think the show is particularly good (it certainly could use better direction/writing) but it was entertaining enough to watch.

This bugs me, I haven't seen the final episode, though I guess now - it really doesn't matter.
 
loki8481 said:
blame your friends and neighbors.

both Happy Town and FF had terrible ratings. I can't really blame ABC for canceling them.

Flashforward really should have cut like 75% of its storylines. it was just too all over the place.
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I blame ABC for putting Happy Town after a run of sitcoms, it was out of place.
 
I liked FF quite a bit but it seemed like they went into an early break right around the time I switched from Dish to FIOS and I never realized it came back on and I guess I didn't care enough to look for it..
Looking at the air dates on tv.com I probably stopped watching at episode 9. Oh well.
 
V started off relatively OK, but got progressively worse... and the kid always annoyed us, throughout the season. The last episode was fairly bad IMO.

FF stalled a bit early on but later got progressively better. The last episode was great IMO.

By the end of the season, I MUCH MUCH prefer Flash Forward to V, but by that time it was too late for the ratings I guess, and I'd also guess that V is a lot cheaper to produce.
 
TXHokie said:
Nice, scratch down another canceled TV show I've followed that has no ending. I wanted to know if the cop made the Matrix Morpheus jump to the helicopter (prob not)
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At first I thought that, then when the camera panned out I remembered the giant pool of water down there. He could have been jumping for that maybe? Depending on how far it is from the window.
 
Lonyo said:
At first I thought that, then when the camera panned out I remembered the giant pool of water down there. He could have been jumping for that maybe? Depending on how far it is from the window.
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But then he'll go splat. He was at least several floors up.

Remember when Janice caught "mole"

she tackled her in the same area. It was really nothing more than a really really shallow pool.
 
Gonad the Barbarian said:
This show was just not very good. I watched every episode of this and V, and IMO V was the better show (barely) and has much more long term potential. If one had to go, I think ABC made the right call. Also:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLyDAvrs25g
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I beg to differ

After the long break I stopped watching V cuz the daughter/son subplot bored the shit out of me


I'm not sure I even want to watch the finale anymore cuz it WAS getting fucking good.
 
Ns1 said:
I beg to differ

After the long break I stopped watching V cuz the daughter/son subplot bored the shit out of me


I'm not sure I even want to watch the finale anymore cuz it WAS getting fucking good.
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Do you really want to start comparing boring subplots between these two shows?
 
Damn its canceled? Loved this show. This is why i hardly watch any shows on TV anymore. It seems 9 out of 10 shows get canceled once you are hooked. I think they need to go about TV shows in a new way. If the network likes a show enough to fund it then they need to sign contracts for so many season. That way ALL shows can at least be wrapped up.
 
soulcougher73 said:
Damn its canceled? Loved this show. This is why i hardly watch any shows on TV anymore. It seems 9 out of 10 shows get canceled once you are hooked. I think they need to go about TV shows in a new way. If the network likes a show enough to fund it then they need to sign contracts for so many season. That way ALL shows can at least be wrapped up.
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Unfortunately, that's about where we are at. It's just on a seasonal basis.

I usually wait until a show is entirely over, then watch it from start->end. No season ending cliff hangers (where I lose interest waiting), no dealing with the "is it going to get renewed" bs, and just enjoyment from start to end 🙂

I need to get back to doing that.
 
Gonad the Barbarian said:
Do you really want to start comparing boring subplots between these two shows?
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Well the double agent subplot for FF basically pwned everything in V, so any further discussion is moot =P


But I am curious to know what you feel were the boring subplots.

I do think the Dimitri subplot with his GF was slow, and my god I hated her.
 
Ns1 said:
Well the double agent subplot for FF basically pwned everything in V, so any further discussion is moot =P


But I am curious to know what you feel were the boring subplots.

I do think the Dimitri subplot with his GF was slow, and my god I hated her.
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Doctor and Keiko subplot was boring.
 
That's too bad. I liked the premise but felt the writing fell short and lost interest about half way through or so.

I wish we had intentional one season shows. If you knew that working up to the finale was really it it would add a lot of interest. It kills some interest to know they are writing to keep the show going season after season rather than with a definite end.
 
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