the world series was on, /thread

I think the series is promising, it needs to find it's legs and hopefully soon. I also think that if everyone, including ABC were to let it stand on it's own instead of in the shadow of “Lost” people would see it differently. I was just thinking about the show this morning and thought that if they introduced or focused more on a concept like red herrings that may make it more interesting with the whole: will this happen in the future?
I think it will bounce back once the World Series is over, a lot of people I know that watch the show are tuning in right now for the games.

It was the World Serious (intended). I thought it was a good, tense follow up to last week. Mark and Olivia need to get a grip or they will kill the story line. They are over going it. Hope it straightens out. Obviously what happened was planned by a group of scientists and a conspiracy secret world government. Hey, I'm allowed an opinion.

I predict this show gets canceled mid-season, its *that* bad.

Who was the blond on the train?

Of course the ratings will go back up. It was the World Series it was competing against after all. I wonder what the tivo and directtv recordings are going to add up to?

How far ahead are shows like this shot and produced? I'd imagine they are at least 3 or 4 episodes already finalized. I really have no idea though. The point is: Is production really agile enough to change the direction of a show if it's tanking? Also, i'd be really skeptical if the writers actually take into consideration the comments from fans (and haters) from message boards. No disrepect to people here, of course, just sayin' is all.

I watched the first episode and liked it. I just don't have time to watch every series that I like so I save a few for summer viewing when I can watch them all at once. And if the series gets canceled in the meantime it probably wasn't worth my time in the first place and I'm not all that disappointed. Doing the same for Dollhouse though it looks like that show is dead meat and I'm not all that disappointed.

Wait for the DVR numbers. I couldn't care less about baseball, but the Islanders were beating up on the Rangers and I NEVER miss that. I'l catch FF later today on the DVR.

It's a great show and hopefully, unlike 11th Hour, the network will keep it around.

It's really NOT a great show. It's a good show, but it's taking so long for it to go, well, anywhere. I'm getting bored with it. I'm not left wanting more either. That's what Lost does well. It leaves you with the WTF?! ending that makes you HAVE to watch next week's episode. FF tries to do that, but those moments are never that wtf. And as much as I want to like them, none of the characters are that likable. If they want to be like Lost, they need a Hurley or a Charlie (and not just the actor). Or even a Ben. Ben's a freak, but at least I enjoy watching him.

Flashforward is easily the best new show of the season and (while Lost and Dr Who are still on hiatus) the single best show currently on TV.

This is a clear case of the World Series effecting the ratings.

People love the Phillies.

Been so disappointed with the scifi this fall. SGU hit me with giant slap of boring and FlashForward has done the same. I don't get EXCITED about it like I do about Fringe, for example. I really want to be. But I'm not. And it makes me sad.

"And if the series gets canceled in the meantime it probably wasn't worth my time in the first place "

That's an asinine statement. Outstanding TV shows are cancelled every season while dreck like 'According to Jim' and 'Dancing with the Stars' survive.

Take Journeyman. The best Sci-Fi series to hit the airwaves in years, and it lasted less than a season.

Watched the Yankees, DVR'ed the FF.

Afterwards, I did find this to be one of the better informative episodes of the series, and FINALLY we have a real bad guy, instead of the 'event' as antagonist.

Once people catch up online, or with their DVR's, it may still float, but only as long as it gets progressively into the experiment, and the people responsible. Otherwise, consign it to file 13,and get something else....-kh

This is an excellent show and by the sound of it just went out on the wrong night. As a Brit I never get baseball. Keep it running cause I love it and it shows alot of promise, be it only for a season or two only ( well it is only flashforwarded six months , not 10 years like in the book). Too many shows get cancelled due to low ratings and they never tie things up. I think the execs should look at the world picture and not just america

When this show was being advertised, I stated that I would NOT watch it because it was on one of the big 3 networks (ABC). THEY HATE SCI FI SHOWS. Why they put any of them on their network is beyond me. They never never never last. Mark my words... first it's "record low ratings"... next is "cancelled".

ABC = Already Been Canceled

Watched FF this morning on Hulu. Was a pretty good episode--it's time to start following the threads a bit more, an hopefully, that's what they are starting to do.

Simon's "lines" were SO freaking cheezy, and the blonde was SO freaking dumb--they had to wind up in bed.

Did anyone see the KANGAROO while Mark was out trick or treating with his daughter? And with the actors they're presenting as the ones responsible for the Flash Forward, I'm sure the experiments in Africa have moved to Austrailia.

The attention span of these ratngs people (and often the audience too) is deplorable. Numbers go up and down for all sorts of reasons. The network had enough faith (for once) to order a full season and they should let it play out. A show's fate should not hinge on an episode by episode basis. Even the greatest tv series have episodes that fall short. Last night's FLASH FORWARD was a lot more interesting than last week's.

The networks really need to learn about canceling long-arc shows. Lots of people avoid them because they could get canceled. Vicious circle. They need to commit to a set number of episodes and then SHOW THE DAMN THINGS. Late at night for all I care, I have a DVR, but show them.

Don''t make me get the torrent of the Canadian broadcast, or convince me to wait until it's a hit because that will insure it won't be.

It's my fault, I waited to make sure the ratings were good and it wouldn't get cancelled before watching the show. Well, I just started, and am getting into, so if it goes like many others in the past it will now get cancelled before resolving the plot. I apologize to all of the other fans out there for ruining it.

It's my fault, I waited to make sure the ratings were good and it wouldn't get cancelled before watching the show. Well, I just started, and am getting into, so if it goes like many others in the past it will now get cancelled before resolving the plot. I apologize to all of the other fans out there for ruining it.

Well baseball takes precident in most households. Especially when the Yankees are involved. As soon as the World Series is done I'm sure Flashforward will bounce back, I watched it last night.

I don't know. This show hasn't really grabbed me yet. I find the acting is sub-par, there seems to be no chemistry between the actors, some of the emotional scenes comes across as forced, pretentious, and corny, the plot moves way too slow, the action isn't that good, and they keep showing us the same flashforwards over and over again. Its like every new episode they keep trying to remind us everything we saw before. It gets very repetitive. After the first episode, I'm still waiting for the wtf moment that sparks my interest.

Lost got it right. It stimulated my interest from the start. Most of the characters were very interesting, they all have really good backstories that was worth seeing, the action and acting is amazing, and almost every episode created this motivation to keep watching every week.

I hope it'll bounce back once baseball is over. Considering the crap on TV, this is one of the much better shows lately. It'd be a shame to see it tank.

They need to improve the writing and speed the pace up, a lot. We're just now, barely, past the day the Flash Forward happened.

That episode with the Nazi pissed me off. The female detective was completely unprofessional and irrational something like this: 'I don't care about a masssive crow die off, GRRRR! Nazis! I hate Nazis so much, I can't do my job! I can't investigate or draw conclusions or do anything useful, ARGH NAZIS!!!" That was a terrible waste of time. The story didn't progress and her character came off as a terrible investigator.

Then the episode in DC, last week, where the kangaroo court was held. That was just some shoddy writing. No official inquiry or hearing or court like meeting would be so poorly organized and have people behaving in such a way.

Its mostly just details, but seriously, move the story forward already and quit cutting corners with the details, make details sound plausible. Star Trek had consultants for figuring out how to make technical details up that sound plausible, Flash Forward can and should do something similar if they want to retain viewers.

Also, a lesbian nearly dies and now will want to have a baby. Lame.

Well duh!

I watched the World Series, and TiVoed FlashForward.

Will let you know after I watch it, if I liked the actual episode.

Thanks for asking.

I watched FlashForward. I despise baseball, second most boring sport ever... Golf holds that particular honor. I pretty much hate all sports. I CAN watch a little, very little, boxing. But thats the extent of it.

Edit: Damn people, fix or remove that ridiculous CAPTCHA. The freaking thing insists the text was wrong, when I know FULL DAMN WELL it wasn't way too often. Retarded damn thing.
On to the show. Its somewhat ok, I watch it, but if they cancel it I won't really care. It isn't grabbing me, and I mostly don't care why it happened.

It's the WORLD SERIES for frak's sake, what did you expect? The writers for this site need to stop trying to imply everything is an "all or nothing" situation. FF has only been on for SIX episodes, there's no real basis for judging how well it is doing week to week yet. Ratings for all networks are down across the board, and especially if you look at things on a week to week basis, since any number of other events can effect them. And it is useless to state that Vampire Diaries went up, since I doubt any of its audience cares about baseball.

And I agree with the other comments about your stupid CAPTCHA system. Either make it where it will work consistently or remove it!

Well with the world series on and the fact most of the middle of the country was having severe weather I can see why ratings would be low. I had radar on my tv for the first 47 minutes of the show last night so I didn't get to watch.

Curious, to answer your question, the blonde was in True Blood as Daphne in Season 2, though I don't know the actresses name.

I'm really interested in the series, but Joseph Fiennes' terrible American accent is so bad it distracts the hell out of me. It's like he's channelling Christopher Lambert. On the other hand, Sonya Walger's accent is as close to perfect as you can get.

While it seems that there is a rash of foreign actors doing American accents recently, the fact is, it's been going on for a long time. In the past, though, the actor's accents were often so good you didn't notice. Now, producers don't seem nearly as intent on a name actor actually being able to pull it off. It really bugs me. i want to focus on the story and the characters, not the execution. Why couldn't Mark be a Brit who moved here as a teen, or have gone through enough coaching to make it believable. At least his isn't as bad as that Kiwi on Trauma, or Hugh Laurie in House.

Another thing that I feel is poorly done is society's reaction to what happened. consider us during the months after 9/11, and we knew who had done it and why. In Flash Forward, millions died, no one knows who, or why, and everyone experienced a piece of it, yet things just seem to have gotten back to a semblance of normal. I think there would be a tremendous social, political, religious and societal upheval, but we've seen very little of it.

ratings have been declining week after week so LOL @ blaming it on the World Series, they need to stop making these kind of shows where they try to drag out a story that can be told in one season over several seasons

I LOVED the first few eps of FlashForward, but it does seem to be going downhill in a hurry. The biggest turnoff for me right now is not the slow pace of the plot, it's the MUSIC! I haven't seen music choices this bad since the Crusade series (the pinnacle of music awfulness). I have never found myself diving for the remote to mute the background music to a show before, but that shootout music a couple of episodes back was just hideous. The music from this week's ep wasn't exactly great either. If the plot doesn't pick up soon, it may not be worth the pain...

Ashley Jones played the character of Daphne in True Blood's recently completed second season.

Why would anyone watch sports when a scifi show is on?

Glad to see I'm not missing anything. The first couple of episodes weren't enough to hold me. I fully expected to revisit it as some point in the future, but it sounds like it's been more of the same. That is, boring. For me, I just didn't like any of the characters. I couldn't care less about any of their fates. Every show ultimately boils down to the characters. It's TV 101.

I really like Flash Forward. If the Cards were in the series, I'd be watching that - even over what I'm REALLY doing in the evenings, which is gaming (yep, WoW junkie). That said, I DVR that (and pretty much everything else I watch) and I don't know that they've come up with a way to track what people are watching other than the "normal" (read: Old Fashioned) way. I think a lot of shows are going to see ratings skewed that way until they can track it properly.

Ratings means money and TV is really about money, like any other business. Why would a family friendly show on a family friendly network like ABC not expect the rating to drop after two episodes in a row with overly graphic sexuality. I can find really graphic stuff on Showtime (ok, I'm a fan of Dexter) or at the video store. Why not allow my 13-yr-old triplets and I watch a cool show like Flash Forward without the blatent sexuality?

I didn't care much for "FlashForward" as I found it derivative and far too narrow a premise to make a prolongued weekly TV series out of. Much like "Lost", they could just drag this crap out for years by just adding more and more filler each week. The Star Trek shows used to do the "future event premonition" thing quite well in a single episode (or a two parter in the case TNG's "Time's Arrow"). FlashForward would have made a fairly decent film or even a good 3-4 hour mini-series, but I'm not prepared to give it six months of my life to see the answers (if any) to questions I don't really care about in the first place.

Despite all this, does anybody else find the headline and general tone of this article to be a bit excessive and sensationalist? FF ratings drop to record low? Its only 6 episodes in! Its on against a major sporting event and it's still pulling in 9 million viewers. I hardly think the FF producers will be slashing their wrists just yet. Perhaps Sci-Fi Wire are just praying for its downfall a little too much.

shame the 'record low' is still vastly higher that for anything this channel has pushed our way

sour grapes perhaps??

9 millions viewers is low? I think the show is f**king awesome! Especially now with Dom in it. The last eispode was the best one yet. I like where they're going with the story. It's creative and keeps me on the edge of my seat. Unlike Heroes that keeps getting lamer. Okay so if thats a low rating then I blame it on the WS.

Flash Forward has a wonderful premise, but unfortunately its execution is grade C. This could have been such a great show, but its plodding pace and people not talking to each other remind of the daytime stories. If it makes a full season, I'll be surprised. ABC doesn't give its shows time, but I'm not sure this show deserves it. It's alright, that's it. I really was looking forward to it, but it's slow; there's no WOW factor. Don't get me started on Stargate Universe. For me personally, this has been the worst TV season in recent memory. NOTHING stands out as must see TV. NOTHING. I hope Lost remains good.

I was just talking about FF last night. It's REALLY dragging it's heels in getting off the ground. And I agree with what someone above said...about the characters. I don't really like any of them and I have no vested interest in them whatsoever. I felt the same way about INVASION a few years back, but after about 4-6 weeks I REALLY started to love that show. But it was too late to come back, and the show was canceled. (Major Bummer). So far FF hasn't even come around for me like Invasion did. I'm tempted to stop watching, but I'm also hoping that by some miracle it will eventually peak my interest.

By the way...the Captcha below TOTALLY sucks....4th try...here goes....

So ff started off interesting, a good premise, but its going downhill each week. Its lack of budget has become apparent - seems they spent all the money on the first ep blackout. Now characters travel around the world which are obviously sounds stages on some studio lot - no roof/ceiling shots, no wide shots, then all the other scenes have frosted windows to save on extras and are in airport lounges... - now we are in Germany now we are in China - now we are back - without any time lapses or explanations to partners that they are traveling around the world. They spend whole episodes on story lines that go nowhere. They keep showing the same flashbacks again and again. A lot of the characters arent likable ... and they almost have too many characters that they cant develop any of them properly. Too many weird twists that keep making all the characters unlikable as they arent then given the screen time to justify why them so we dont like them. They are attempting to have too much scope and so skimming the details - blackmailing the president ?? really??? Nazis in Germany. Things happen too easily - they find a women in China in like 3 hrs - they just happened to find the right place. Right now all they are doing is blending the problems of Heros and Lost rather than the benefits... Narrow your scope, choose a few central characters and stick to them, concentrate on the details. Drop the terrible music choices for action scenes - sticking a rock song on an action sequence does not a Tarantino make. Also stop deciding its Xmas or Halloween or any other holiday halfway through an episode by playing seasonal music also annoying. ps Sonya Wagners acting rocks.

I don't know what everyone's talking about. I love the show, I love the characters, i love the story. I haven't been disappointed so far. The endings always leave me hoping for the following week to come quick so i can watch the show again....seriously