Comments on: John Cho: Star Trek Cast ‘Hell-Bent’ For Sequel

By: dmduncan

dmduncan — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:21:44 +0000

Just started watching Fringe. John Noble is great.

Missed the Flash Forward opener, but did see the last episode, and it’s good. I was really interested, and it raises some fascinating questions about what would happen to your life now if you saw 6 months into the future.

It’s too early to say yet, but I wonder if they are going to explore that idea that BSG sort of ended with. FF seems to have a religious component; so did BSG. The idea being that life, existence, is a story that replays itself over and over and over again, and that we are players who have forgotten each previous performance so that we could play it fresh again. Which would make prophetic ability, really, not seeing the future so much as remembering what comes next in the story.

Fascinating stuff that raises all sorts of interesting questions. If you know what the future will be, does that enable you to change it, or does knowing it figure among the forces that make it come out exactly the way you saw it, including all your efforts to change things?

And if, like John Cho’s character, you saw nothing and had good reason to think this meant you’d be dead in 6 months, how would you change how you lived today?

By: 4 8 15 16 23 42

4 8 15 16 23 42 — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:59:40 +0000

34 – If it survives, it’ll be because there will be more to it than the one Flash Forward incident. Consider the series 24; if the show had only been about the first season’s plot arc (assassination attempt on David Palmer), then there wouldn’t have been more than, say, 2 seasons… but they resolved the 1st season’s arc and upped the ante on subsequent seasons.

By: Capt Mike of the Terran Empire

Capt Mike of the Terran Empire — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:59:47 +0000

John Cho is a great actor and I love his work that i have seen. He did wonderfull as Sulu and i like his new role on flash forward. Oh and BOB. You DA MAN!!!

By: Capt Mike of the Terran Empire

Capt Mike of the Terran Empire — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:57:16 +0000

Flash forward was better then i thought and i thought it would be a great show.It has all the elements in place with great actors. If they can follow up with a great stories then we are all in for a treat. In my flash forward i was here on trek Movie blogging about the next trek and it was very kool.

By: KingDaniel

KingDaniel — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:24:21 +0000

I thought FlashForward had a great start, but i can’t see it lasting it’s projected 3 seasons.

As cool as it was, in a year’s time people will be “are they *still* going on about that 2-minute backout?”. Fine premise for a film, novel or mini-series – but a full-on TV series?

I hope i’m wrong.

By: Xai

Xai — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:41:10 +0000

It was… fun!
Glad to see the BobOrci hanging out here… Go Bob, Go!

By: Anthony Thompson

Anthony Thompson — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 02:29:19 +0000

AP, you are a worry wart. We are talking a big-time movie franchise now; all those actors will be thrilled to do a sequel! Were there ever any serious doubts in your mind that they would be available?

By: Closettrekker

Closettrekker — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:56:31 +0000

Still have the FlashForward pilot on TiVo…..Haven’t gotten around to watching it yet.

By: sebimeyer

sebimeyer — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:50:22 +0000

#1 FlashForward’s premiere was awesome!!! It was incredibly exciting and showed a great deal of potential!

I for one am waiting till the end of Season 1 to jump in. I have no confidence whatsoever that Braga actually knows where the hell the story is going. Future Guy, anyone?

By: CarlG

CarlG — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:33:47 +0000

It’s still strange contemplating Seth MacFarlane in a “not-Family Guy” role I keep expecting him to start channeling Stewie, or break into song, or something.

Hmm… Flash Forward, the Musical? I’d watch that. :)