Flash Forward - Free falling

I've come down a little bit off the "HOLY FUCKING SHIT!" feeling that I got at the end of last nights episode. Thank goodness there is another show that is willing to kick some ass and take names by not being afraid to show that it has some balls. I love Lost how you never never know what is going to happen, even after 5 years it has me guessing, a little too much at times, but at least I never know what I'm going to get. Flashforward last night showed that it can play with the big boys.

So last week I was discussing if the future could be changed per Simons explanation, oh and the show has earned it's characters names, Penny and Charlie can be put to rest. I still have my eye on you over there in Vland Juliet, but you kick ass anyway so I might let you slide... So it looks like that yes you sure as heck can change the future, which opens up even that much more potential for the show, "How the show is about knowing the future?" Ah but here is the great part now all the characters get to second guess themselves as they try to either create or cancel out the potential future. For example if Mark starts drinking now, it's no longer, "Well I guess I'm just screwed and I'm going to start drinking no matter what, fate has me by the balls." (I'm cursing a lot today) Not so fast Mark, now if you drink it means that it was all your fault all along, making you a alcoholic loser, awesome! If Olivia does Mr. Evil British dude then it's because she's a saucy English tart, oh wait I forgot she's an American on the show...

Best of all though, Demetri might not be dead after all, duh! Knew that was coming, I mean really he's one of the main main characters and he's good so it's not like they are going to kill him off, right Boone, Shannon, Anna, Libby, Mr. Eko, Locke, Juliet, Daniel, etc.. Nope I really can't go more than 2 sentences without bringing up Lost (January 29th). Getting back to my point, now there is a reason why him and his wife are seeing two different things, or maybe she just gets over it really quick and has her wedding anyway, or she's crazy in the future... But the possibility is there for Demetri to survive because the future isn't written in stone, sounds good huh? Not so fast again! Now he knows that he's going to be killed on March 15th if everything plays out according to plan (no saying if that is still possible because of our little skydiver friend) but if he's on the clock and now knows that he can catch the killer before he gets a chance to kill him, wouldn't that make him oh I don't know a little obsessive? (I think I see Jason Stathum [sp] "cranking" by as I type) So really he could just take on a "killem all attitude" and hope that he gets the right one, "I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure" - Aliens At the same time, such a rampage could bring about his death via revenge.

Which is the crux of everything now, how do you know if you're actually preventing or causing the future to happen? Al sure knew a way to change things... And what about our only other black actor on the show (I mean really if you're going to kill off someone did it have to be a black guy, the diversity school bus just got that much shorter, but we still meet our quotas [1 women for every 3 guys, 1 black guy, 1 Asian guy, 1 gay character bonus for being a women, a kid or two] just saying...) When they went to the blue hand club, (oh there is such a joke here I want to make) Al without fear grabs the gun and pulls the trigger, the others are amazed that he did it, but like he says, "he has a future." so based on what we knew up until that point, he couldn't be killed, none of them could for that matter. Al though might have been trying to actually do himself there though, because we're shown him looking up the the women that he accidentlly killed in the future. But because fate had a plan for him, there was no way that some random event was going to change the future for him, everything that was going to happen would be part of that script up until the fateful day. Unless he took out all shadow of a doubt that he could survive, hence the building base jumping without a paracuhe. So the future that he saw can never happen because he's dead. That doesn't mean that the women won't die anyway, but what you going to do?

It's like the British agent said, "Maybe the bird will just fly into another window." Meaning you're dead regardless, it's just that it might change how it happens, kind of a final destination thing there. But the women did go and tape up the window just in case, I mean, you might as well try.

And that's where we are, who can and will do what, and what effect will it have? My guess is that the women will live, I guess we're led to assume that is the case. So people without flashforwards the way it stands today, they are going to die, but that can be changed, it should get interesting.