Tv Nibble: Flash Forward Comes Clean

I’ve accused Flash Forward before of remaining completely irrelevant until the last possible moment, but I never realised I was talking about the whole series. This week’s episode “A561984”, the last episode before the hiatus, was a non- stop rollercoaster of information and reveals.

Demetri and Mark head off to China in the hopes of changing the future and preventing Demetri’s ultimate demise by discovering the Iranian woman who rang Demetri 7 episode ago. Meanwhile Myhill, Simcoe and Campos come out and admit that their experiment happened to coincide with the flash forward.  

Tracking down the Iranian woman causes Mark no problems at all, neither does making her talk… and talk she does. She tells Demetri exactly who will kill him and even the serial number of the gun that would be used. To be precise, it would be Mark’s gun!

In an effort to change that very future Mark takes her hostage and ensures that Agent Wedeck has no other option than to can his ass. Off the mosaic team and out of the FBI, Mark believes that he can no longer live out the future he has seen.

Meanwhile the members of the National Linear Accelerator Project (or NLAP) have gone their separate ways. Simon Campos has turned to the FBI, offering to help Wedeck (and presumably replacing Mark as the head of the Mosaic project). Janis shows him the five towers in Somalia. Simon applauds the FBI’s creativity, claiming the towers almost look real. However when Wedeck points out that they are real Simon is angry and claims it is impossible.

It turns out that Simon designed these laser accelerator thingies in 1992, a year after they were built, and they are still only a theory, not an actual reality. Are we therefore looking at another show about time travel? Or is Simon not as clever as he thinks he is?

Also in this episode Zoey finally realises the truth behind her flash forward, she is not at her wedding, but in truth she is at Demetri’s funeral, which resolves that inconsistency.

Meanwhile Lloyd is trying to get his son to a more secure location, helped by the almost flirtatious Olivia, however (as was pretty obvious) the ambulance drivers are phoneys and they bundle Lloyd into the back of the ambulance and drive away.

Doof!

So, a pretty exciting episode, probably the best so far. It certainly looks like when the show returns (February?) we’ll be looking a different format. Simon will be helping the FBI, while Mark will have gone rogue. Unfortunately I still don't really care much about the other characters back stories so I’m still just hoping for answers about the blackout and the flash forward but this episode was enough to keep me hooked until Flash Forward returns in 2010.

Coming Soon

Due to a lack of good Tv this week and an insane 80+ hours of real world work, this space has been a little quiet. However, tomorrow is December, which means we’re that little bit closer to Christmas and the deadly silent period where nothing appears to be on at all.

However, it also means we’re less than a week away from Dollhouse Doubles! A series of articles I’m really looking forward too. And… As is that wasn’t enough, tomorrow sees the start of new Scrubs!

Tv Nibble: V is like the smallest firework in the box… Marginally better than a Sparkler!

I have criticised V no end since it began, but this weeks episode certainly trumps the others, but it wasn’t that hard to do. This week’s episode “It’s Only the Beginning” concludes the first four episode “Pod” and leaves us “wanting more” (more descent Tv!)

It seems then that the first four episodes, which I guess were supposed to tell a story, ended up telling us that the V’s are bad and more are on the way and that if the Human’s are to survive they must stop being predictable and beat the V’s at their own game.

Ok… Did we need 4 episodes to tell us that? Even from the trailer we knew more V’s were coming and lets be honest, we know the formula for an alien invasion show, this weeks ending was no big surprise.

Certainly the Joshua, the Fifth Column and John May are all more interesting to me than a, admittedly nice, CG camera pull out across the milky way. Also, what are Anna’s plans for Tyler and what does “He is the One” really mean? I know V is not scheduled to run for very long, but they could at least put a little more mystery in to keep us interested, to make us speculate on plot twists.

Oh well, I hope the next “pod” delivers at least more action, if not better scripts, acting and intrigue. Until 2010, this is goodbye for V.

Caravans Are Back

Top Gear returned to our screen a couple of weeks ago and this week will see episode 3.

So far the boys have driven across Romania in search of a legendary road built up in the mountains, in a visually beautiful Grand Tour, filled with laughs and fast cars.

Last week they set out to design and build a better electric car for less than you can buy a G-Whizz and as always with Top Gear, they were ambitious but rubbish… but maybe not as rubbish as the G-Whizz.

This week however sees the return of that staple of Top Gear comedy, the caravan. Is there really enough laughs left in caravanning to supply yet another episode of the best comedy to come out of the BBC in years? The answer, probably!

So make sure you tune in this week for the best of British humour!

My Two Cents is 100…

…Posts Old!

Even in the short time that Two Cents has been alive we’ve seen some miraculous events.

We’ve witnessed the birth of Dollhouse, Fringe, Rescue Special Ops, Stargate: Universe, Caprica and Flash Forward. Together we witnessed the miracle renewal of both Dollhouse and Chuck and we were there to witness that spectacle-of-Tv-that-never-was Epitaph One.

But we’ve also had some hard times too. Since Two Cents has arrived on the internet The Unit, Reaper and Dollhouse have all come to an unfortunate end. I’m pretty sure that it’s not my fault though…

As we head into the next 100 posts we have even more excitement to look forward too. The last ever series of Lost, the return of everyone’s favourite spy Chuck, the finale of Supernatural, Bill Adama’s return in Caprica and lots more.

It’s been a rollercoaster of a time and I hope you’ve all enjoyed reading this space just as much as I have enjoyed filling it.

This has been My Two Dollars… Until next time…

Tv Nibble: Heroes Try to Keep it in the Family

This weeks episode of Heroes “Thanksgiving” had some good moments and some corny-as-hell moments too. The focus was very family orientated. Noah and Claire, Samuel and the Circus and Peter and Nathan all had equal air time.

Claire and Noah did little more than fill time. While entertaining enough there was little that was ground breaking. The fact that Noah and Sandra seem to take Claire’s newfound bisexuality in stride speaks volumes about how accepting they have become.

Peter and Nathan confront Angela about the dead body in her lockup. Over dinner she confesses all. We have never seen Angela in such a weak moment before, but the way she tries to justify her actions says so much about how she looks at the world. She tells Nathan (Sylar) that he has his own memories and he looks like he always did and that is what matters. However, it seems that that is not true as Sylar takes over and holds Peter and Angela hostage.

Sylar’s “take over” moment is very pantomime. I’m really enjoying Nathan’s troubled “who am I” personality, but I hate Sylar (I always have) and I don’t doubt that I am in the majority in saying we’d rather have Adrian Pasdar than Zachary Quinto and if someone has to go it has to be Sylar.

However what was really interesting this week was the discovery that we have a new supervillain in Samuel Sullivan. Before this point he has always been ambiguously good in a self serving way. Now, however, we know that he killed his own brother in his pursuit for power and having gone that far, it seems unlikely that he will turn back. However Samuel is not truly evil, he’s inquisitive, he wants to explore his power to it’s fullest extent, unfortunately he doesn’t really care who he might hurt in his pursuit of this goal… And of course that means somebody is going to have to stop him!

I still have high hopes for this season but it has had some terrible moments. I know its not nice to show favouritism but please, get rid of Quinto and give us some new villains. Hopefully next week Heroes will really step up its game and start to bring all the storylines together and deliver some really fantastic action in the run up to the close of season 4.

Tv Nibble: Don’t Blink or You’ll Miss It

Well, after having too much to say last week for a Nibble, this weeks Flash Forward seems a little on the empty side. Sure there is plenty of story, that is, if you are tuning in to see if Bryce manages to find the love of his life.

But if what you are really interested in is, in fact, the blackout and those responsible then you will find this week’s episode severely lacking. Demetri and Mark decide to disobey orders and head off to Hong Kong (something we’ll pick up next week). Under the stress of having his daughter back in his life Aaron falls out with Mark. No sign of Simon or Lloyd or the Three Star gang.

Really very little happens at all. We learn that Bryce has cancer, but the blackout changed his life and made him feel he had something to live for. That something is a girl in Japan. He learns Japanese and heads off for orient but when he is unable to find the girl he returns home, downtrodden. However, as it turns out he has misread his flash forward and they are destined to meet in a Japanese restaurant in LA.

Hopefully next week will reveal a more interesting plot thread as Mark and Demetri set out in search for the woman that told Demetri when he would die!