… but I think he has a real shot at this!

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Frankly, it doesn’t matter to me personally what show airs before or after Lost. I TiVo pretty much everything else that I watch because, frankly, I can’t stand commercials. Lost is the only show that I find worthy of watching live and suffer through commericals. I’ve taken to writing parts of my thoughts in this blog during those breaks. After all, Lost is not a show that you watch and then turn off and forget so I don’t like to be distracted by other shows on this special night.

But, this year ABC has yet another show to debut and it is being paired with Lost. “Flash Forward” is based on the sci fi book by Robert J Sawyer (yeah, I found that name to be ironic) in which a science experiment goes wrong and everyone blacks out for 2 minutes in which time the can see 20 years into the future.

The show sounds like it has an interesting premise and I’m sure that I’ll TiVo and watch it.  We’ll have to reconvene once it’s aired and discuss it’s potential as a permanent companion for Lost.  Or at least, for the next couple of years.

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Solid show.  There are definitely some issues that need resolved with the production (the SKY HIGH ceilings at Massive Dynamics – no way they could afford that heating bill in this economy, the crazy words scrolling across the walls, some cliche’s (“Now… … we wait.”), and some cheesy dialog.  Outside of Lost, however, I can’t think of any shows that I thought were perfect from episode one.  What I can say is that you can usually tell when you are watching a real stinker (remember the Bionic Woman remake?) but this one seems solid.

I really like that the female lead is believable.  There have been too many shows (yes, I’m picking on Bionic Woman again) where the lead has such potential to be a real ass kicker but just ends up being a typical whiny, weak character.  I mean seriously, how much do women truly cry in real life (outside of watching Extreme Home Makeover and Oprah)?  And when Olivia did cry, yeah baby!  Talk about an ugly cry, the kind where the snot is flying and the face is all wrinkled and ugly.  Now that is how a real woman cries!

Ok, they did have to throw in a gratuitous underwear scene, but it was nice that Olivia wasn’t stick thin and looked like a “real” woman.   It was cool, too, that in close ups you can see some wrinkles in her face – like she’s a real person!  She’s not so botoxed that her face doesn’t move.
I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Jean (the cow) but I’m thinking I’m going to like having the bovine there.  Hopefully they won’t go 4H on it and let us fall in love then kill it.  I like crazy Dr Walter, too.

Surprisingly, I wasn’t thinking of the XFiles the whole show.  I’m excited to have a new show on TV where the characters and the dialog is intelligent.  I’m fired up and ready for more!

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(Some of this is tongue-in-cheek, in case you were wondering)

Little tidbits are starting to leak out about Season Five. I’ll keep as much as I can on my “Upcoming Episodes Season Five” page. I have an old version of Word Press so I’m not sure how to add the widget, so I’m just pasting the counter here (if it works….):

I wasn’t going to comment on this… but I found an angle that I like! So the chatter out there is that Michelle Rodriguez (Ana Lucia) is going to *appear* in episode 2 next season. I decided that this could actually be a good thing because it gives us yet another chance to have her killed off the show. Once just wasn’t enough! I know there are some of you out there who are fans but I personally couldn’t stand her character.  Why can’t they get Eko to come back?
Cheech Marin (aka: Hurley’s dad) is also set to appear in the episode so it’s looking like a Hurley flashie (I would assume flash back but Hurley sees dead people now so it could be a flash forward too).

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Fringe, two hour premier next Tuesday Sept 9.
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Will you watch?

They did themselves a disservice by making the pilot episode surround an airplane mystery.  I’m sure there were many people out there like me who were thinking that this was just going to be a Lost Part Duex.  However, the more reading about the show that I’ve done the more that I think that this is actually going to be a really good drama.

With a 10,000,000 budget for the pilot I’m expecting some amazing special effects and scenes.  The pilot episode is about the investigation of the passengers of an international flight that landed at Boston’s Logan Airport where the passengers and crew have all died grisly deaths.  In due course, those who are called to investigate discover that “what happened on Flight 627 is only a small piece of a larger, more shocking truth.”

For those of you wondering about the casting of Lance Reddick (Lost’s Matthew Abbadon) as a series regular on Fringe, J.J. said it’s a safe bet he’ll reappear on the Island. “When we were casting him, we hesitated because of his Lost character,” J.J.  admitted. “But then I realized if he goes and does another show, he’ll be less likely to do Lost, so let’s get him on this one, because I know the producer.” SOURCE: Kristin

The show centers around Phillip Broyles, a special agent for Homeland Security who heads the special Fringe division, which is established to investigate a series of terrorist/paranormal events. I know this sounds remarkably X-Files-esque but I trust JJ Abrams not to make this just another rip off but something interesting that perhaps we can obsess about week after week.
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