So this is what Five has been spending money on, instead of buying HOUSE season 5...
In true fashion of trying to stop people in the UK from watching the series illegally online, Five have managed to get their schedule sorted to start airing this new series just days after the US have viewed the first episode. So far, so good.
But what's this, I see...
Oh no, not the world experiencing a single event simultaneously... No, they surely had not done that in The 4400 already, no of course not... No they don't have US government officials investigating the world's population from the get go...
Y'know, it's almost as if it were The 4400, but without the super powers, and they still need to save the world.
Actually...
The series is meant to be "loosely" based off an SF novel Flashforward published in 1999. However, I saw far too many similarities with The 4400 in the first episode. And I liked that series, and it was cancelled prematurely, so perhaps I'm hating this new series just a little too much due to this bias.
Basically, what happened was
If you have watched Five at all during the last two weeks, it was not difficult to understand what the show's basic concept was:
What would happen if the world's population of 7 billion people simultaneously experienced seeing their future in six months time? And, just how did this happen?
Of course this must be investigated by the likes of the FBI post-haste.
Here's a question
If the world's population essentially blacked out whilst gaining these visions of their futures, why the hell did the scriptwriters not think to talk about the thousands who either died or just survived plane crashes after their plane pilots blacked out?
Will you continue watching it?
Well, I'll watch the second episode when it airs on Five next Monday at 9PM. I'm not ready to give up on this just yet.
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Keep watching it. The first 4-5 eps were a bit crap but then on they start introducing actual proper story archs including why the black out happened....or a possable reason. They find out that a couple of people were awake during it which is interesting to find out why and who they are.
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