FF - Over the top

You know what is hard? It's sitting here for the last couple weeks saying, "This show is great, you have to watch this show." and then seeing an episode like the one last night. Maybe it's just me but I felt it was way to over the top and trying way to hard to squeeze everything in for the mid season stopping point. Even better is that the show returns in March, which means that Demetri is going to bite it in like episode 2 of the return if they keep the show somewhat in sync with actual time. And I know they are trying to because it was near Christmas in last nights episode, and they are going to have an episode on the actual date of the black out. But those are just minor gripes.

So let's start off with the craziness of announcing that you might have killed 20 million people in a very open and less than secure press conference, yeah that was a brilliant move for three guys that work quantum physics, you don't think that one of them would have at least said, "You know some people might have a bad reaction to this." Sure Simon didn't want to come forward but after losing the poker game you'd think that he could have at least said, "Well let's be smart about this." Nope. As a side note, the experiments that they were talking about doing are actually taking place in Europe right now at CREN. So Symcoe just thinks that he's going to go on with normal life after coming forward, seriously can you be that stupid? Not to mention when the FBI agent shows up and wants to talk to him about what happen, "Just leave us alone." Ok now you're retarded. No matter how you slice it, that's some pretty shitty story telling, right up to the point where the fake ambulance people showed up, duh! Again, seriously, you didn't know that they weren't fake ambulance guys, that was as predictable as you can get, very very disappointing. But now we know how his son came to live with Olivia.

And let me go one further with the Oliva / Symcoe storyline, could she have fallen over herself anymore for the guy in the episode. What is up with all the commitment that she has supposedly shown to Mark only to have Mr. Physics accept some uncertified credit for a mass murder. I guess the old line from some evil person is true. "If you kill one, you're a murderer, if you kill a thousand you're a conqueror" Or something like that. Either way, what is her deal? It's bugging me. And how about his "Many Worlds" theory. While I have to admit I love the theory itself, harkens back to watching Star Trek TNG all those years, but man did he use that as a pick up line. And excuse me, don't brush back her hair. You do that to my wife and I'll very well do what his buddy Simon suggested, "Give his testicles a squeeze." FYI there were a lot of fairly over the top references like that in this episode, just wait until I get to Janis and wanting a baby, pure blogging gold!!!! Ok ok I'll keep it clean. mostly.

Since I brought up Simon let's talk about Simon and his super cool theoretical antenna that actually exist. He thought it up in 92 and the picture was taken in 91, seems like some scientist had the EXACT SAME IDEA HE DID. Ok now I don't know much about quantum physics and I don't really understand how the whole innovation process works, but I'm guessing that two different scientists coming up with EXACTLY THE SAME IDEA AT ROUGHLY THE SAME TIME is just a little too coincidental. Better guess is that, Simon at some point in the future is going to have a flashback and imprint the idea of that creation on himself previous to inventing those things in 92. I'm also going to guess that we're going to find out that the black out event had to take place for some unknown reason and that too will be messaged back in time.

Before I get to Mark and D, just a quick, OH SNAP to D's future wife. I think I remember somewhere hearing that in Korea that you were white at a funeral, I think it was MASH, but it hit me the other week what was really going on, heck I even told my wife last night that I thought it was a funeral before the actual revelation, score a point for me! woohoo!!! Anyway that's pretty F'd up but that's the sort of stuff that I really love.

Ok so on to Mark and D and their crazy adventure in Hong Kong. You know if I've learned anything from the media and movies and other stuff it's this... DON'T F WITH CHINA! I guess Mark and D don't watch tv very much and didn't get the memo and went all American cowboys over there. I'm still trying to figure out how they didn't end up dead out of all that, I mean seriously you had what I'm going to guess is a Chinese spy (oh wait she can't be, she's not Chinese) at gun point surrounded by Chinese police. I'm sorry but I don't think that some CIA agent is going to talk his way out of that, but alas it happened. And also what is the deal with Mark getting all crazy in the restaurant with a table full of armed guys that were just looking for an excuse to shoot you. Was this part of the, "I had a flashforward so I know I'm going to live bit?" I don't know it just seemed WAY over the top for me and forced. I'm not sure what else there is to say with these guys, I mean they went to China and went crazy then got sent home. Sure they found out that Mark's gun is the gun that kills D, but that hardly means that it was Mark that pulled the trigger, maybe he lost his gun in a fight with a bad guy, bad guy gets gun, D comes up from behind, bad guy turns and fires 3 times killing D. Just going to say that sounds a lot more likely, and pretty obvious.

And that leaves us with Janis and her quest to find *****. I'll keep it clean, but the first thing that popped in my head when she was asking if he knew of a good bank to get some, I was instantly thinking, "Yeah I know a place, my bedroom." But I'm a pig. But come on, wasn't that whole conversation a bit much for 8pm 7 central TV? I mean really you could have gotten around half of that if they wanted to, but it went along with the whole theme of the episode, "Over the top" The whole episode was over the top, it was trying to hard to be super cool, and in my opinion it tripped over itself. But that's it until March so maybe it will all work out.

But you know what that means that FF is now on break... My next write up will be about LOST (boom, lost sound) 2/2/2010 I have heard some stuff about the up coming season so I'll drop some spoilers in another post next week, nothing too big, but expect to see a lot of dead people return.