Feel like saving FlashForward?

If you would like to save FlashForward or at least give it a try, head over to Save FlashForward Center, where you'll find everything you can do, if not to save the show, at least to make some noise so ABC gets to know that people did watch the show and did care about it.

Save FlashForward Center is not just about a petition online or a web campaign that doesn't do any effect on the real world; on the contrary, it's got everything pretty well laid out and constantly updated to let you know what to do starting by phone calls and letters and from there to well organized campaigns on Facebook and Twitter.

If you liked the show, you should check out that site. As I said above, even if the show doesn't come back, fans shouldn't let it go without making their voices heard.


Disclaimer: I am not affiliated in any way with Save FlashForward Center, but I support their cause. Why? Read here my previous post on the subject.

Was Flash Forward one year too early for television?

Now that it's a fact that FlashForward has been cancelled, a question arises: was this show one year too early for television? What would have been its fate if it had started after Lost's end?

FlashForward was supposed to fill Lost's void after its departure. Even the network "sold" their production as "the new Lost". I guess ABC thought that starting one show during the other show's final season would make the transition easier, but it turned out completely wrong, killing the new one, which could have made it for at least a second season.

FlashForward wasn't bad at all. Yeah, it had ups and downs, took some time to finally get on its feet, but most shows go through that; even today's successful shows were pretty weak on their early days. But unfortunately, FlashForward didn't make it. A second season could have attracted a good portion of Lost's viewers, but ratings were so low that the show seemed a lost cause (no pun intended).

Definitely, FlashForward should have started one year later. Anyways, at least ABC supported the show until the end, while other networks would have cancelled the whole thing in the middle of the road throwing the remains to the dumpster.

Goodbye 24, welcome CTU?

As we all know, 24 is coming to an end; I still don't know why and my guess is that both parts didn't agree on the contract renewal conditions, otherwise it doesn't make sense to let the show go, as ratings weren't bad and another season could have worked fine on that front.

So now that 24 will be put to rest, why not starting a spin-off called "CTU"? The new show would revolve around the new NY based CTU (well, duh) and would tell stories of terrorist threats without the limitations of 24's "real-time" format.

Not so long ago, Kiefer Sutherland threw the idea over the table on an interview by saying something along the lines that 24 could continue without him. Why not? There's plenty of stuff to be done, as I said, without the limitations of the 24 hours format.

What do you think?

Now that we know...

So this is the reason why Firefly got cancelled :P

Just kidding, ladies. ;)

Source: tv.com

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The Fringe altverse: Walter, Peter, and... Walter

I recently watched episode 2x16, "Peter", which sheds some light into the dark Fringe past. We get to see how Peter died, and how Walter managed to open a gate between both universes.

One thing I've been thinking about since we get to see Peter's tomb in episode 1x20 is, what happened in the alternate universe after Peter was kidnapped? You know, Walter from this side walks into Walternate's house, and the wife thinks he's her Walter, but... what happened later, when the actual Walternate returns home and his wife thinks he took Peter to the lab, but he didn't? And what happened, or better yet, didn't happen during all those years since Peter disappeared from the other side?

We see that Walter, his wife and their son Peter, all of them exist on both sides; they live in the same house; Walter works in the same lab; both Peters have got the same deadly medical condition; both Walters are trying to find a cure. But... looks like only the Walter Bishop from this side has been involved in the discovery of an alternate universe. If everything else seems to be the same way except for little details, why isn't the "Walternate" also on the same track, being this not a "little detail" but a big one?

Well, we don't see what was he doing beyond trying to find a cure for his son; but as Peter is now an adult and looks like the alternate Walter didn't make any attempts to get his son back, it is safe to assume he has nothing to do with alternate universes. Or it isn't?

Or maybe I am going too fast, and Walternate is the bad guy who's trying to get into this side to make justice on his own hands because our Walter took his son away?