Why didn't it work?

Not a bad critique of the series. I must commend you on bringing some sound reasons to the table for why the show failed instead of just saying it sucked. I kind of disagree about the characters not being interesting. I actually found them all amusing in one way or the other. I really enjoyed Monahagn's character. I think that part of the reason why it failed was it lost direction mid way through the season. It wasn't clear where the writers were taking the series. It wasn't until the last few episodes that it regained some of its focus, and by that time it was to late. Also, the writers overly embraced the idea of being the Lost successor by directly taking story telling devices from lost and using it on the show (flashbacks, episodes focusing on one character). They also took some things from 24. But the main reason the show failed is because of peoples poor attention span. Today people have no patience. They are not willing to allow a show to work out its problems. They expect it to be perfect from the start. For a show like Flashforward (or even the Event) that isn't possible.

I really, really enjoyed it and Idk why it didn't work, because there are other shows that IMO are not as good and they are still doing fine.

I'm sad it got canceled.

Your arguments and pseudo-analysis is ridiculous.

1. May not have worked for you. But the characters were well played and easy to connect to emotionally

2. ludicrous argument; A flashforward of 4 weeks would work just as well as one of 52 weeks

3. FF is fully scripted-serialized. There is not a shred of police-procedural in it

4. FF does take a global approach a'la heroes et al

5. WTF

Opinions where opinions are due, but dazfiddy is a moron. If this post wasn't that lengthy I would have judged it to be a troll-post

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1. LOST eclipsed this show..I was watching this at the same time as Lost and it got pushed to the side.
2. It was a great show but it didnt get good until the second half
3. Was underpromoted after the hiatus...I remember watching the first 10 episodes and then being like where did this show go?
4. Not enough strong leads. Courtney B vance was excellent and sonya fogler but I think they could have had 2-3 strong supportng male/feamle actors to carry the side stories.

I agree with much of your analysis. I loved the idea of the show but along the way things just weren't clicking.

First, I found it odd that out of the whole world it would be the LA FBI office that is leading the investigation. Shouldn't the main FBI office in Langley take up the lead? Did the Brits, Russians and Chinese have nothing to contribute?

Yes, most of the main characters I didn't really care about. The marriage difficulties of Mark and Olivia seemed small potatoes and inconsequencial compared to what had just happened.
I liked the Ricky Jay character, he seemed poised to be an intriguing baddie but then he dies after 3 episodes. Bad mistake I thought.
Similarly the Shoreh Aghdashloo character could have been interesting but was underdeveloped.

It was silly that if Mark knew a team of bad guys was going to break into the building and attack the office, why wasn't a team of SWAT guys waiting around the corner?

I think in a show like this the writers needed to know before hand exactly what was going to happen in every episode before any shooting began. Map it all out precisely. Maybe they did, but it didn't feel that way, usually it just felt haphazard.

As someone else said, many of the episodes just had too much filler with maybe 5 minutes of plot advancement. I don't mind some red herrings and dead ends but that ratio of filler:plot should have been better. They could have taken a couple lessons from the writers of 24 (or even looked at Babylon 5.)

In the end, a sad waste. I think it deserved a second season and I would have liked to see what developed. But, now we never will.

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Characters are of course important, but otherwise I don't the other points really matter. I think the most crucial flaw is that the whole series became a description of a self-fullfilling prophecy. Almost none of the events would have occurred if they hadn't seen them in the flashforwards. This was the ultimate flaw in my view.


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