FlashForward itself is loosely based on Sawyer’s 1999 novel of the same title, where the entire world loses two minutes and seventeen seconds and gives a glimpse of the future six months from the current time frame. In just catching the season premiere of ABC’s FlashForward and have to say that it definitely is one of the more intriguing shows on air right now when compared to your primetime soap opera type of things (sorry Grey’s Anatomy *gack*).
So far, one of the reasons that I actually wanted to see this was because of Cho. Knowing that he’s sparked his career as of late coming from Harold and Kumar and as of late did a wonderful job in the new remake of Star Trek, I have to say that his acting has surpassed many of the yawners that I usually get to watch.
One small pet peeve though? Both Benford and Noh are field FBI agents which is actually shown not only in the pilot but also the plot summary. However, if you watch their actions, it’s almost like watching Reno 911 when it comes to law enforcement action. Maybe this show has had law enforcement advisors, maybe not, but it looked a little out of place with how the actors reacted. Also, the explosions were just a little bit on the fake side which being a big fan of CG, I picked up on it right away. These were not very huge distractions but it did bug me for the.. first ten minutes. Outside of that, I was drawn into the science fiction thriller storyline and am already impatiently waiting for the next episode next Thursday.
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6 Comments to “John Cho Flashes Forward”
Tristan Dewar wrote:
I've been meaning to check this out. Like you, John Cho is the big draw here for me.
Posted on 24-Sep-09 at 9:11 pm | Permalink
johnklin wrote:
I saw the premier and enjoyed it. I didn't notice the explosions were too fake, but I definitely noticed the helicopters flying overhead as fake…
I thought it was odd that Cho's character wasn't in the SUV after the whole world woke up from its FlashForward, like his partner was. Overall, I thought Cho's performance was fine. I hope they don't kill off his character.
Posted on 24-Sep-09 at 10:27 pm | Permalink
moye wrote:
<3 john cho. that's all i have to say.
Posted on 25-Sep-09 at 10:25 am | Permalink
Tristan Dewar wrote:
Hmm. The ham-fisted deliveries were more distracting than the fake explosions. But I get that they had to deliver a lot of clunky exposition in just forty-five minutes, so hopefully the show will even out over the next few episodes.
John Cho looks good bruised and bloodied. Get this man an action movie.
Posted on 25-Sep-09 at 11:45 am | Permalink
jeesuh wrote:
I heart him too!
Should we wrestle for him?
Posted on 25-Sep-09 at 2:15 pm | Permalink
raiju wrote:
It was a fairly entertaining pilot episode, clunky exposition and all (the chase scene was Michael Bay-ish idiocy; I'm fairly sure there are rules and regulations regarding criminal pursuits, and the actor reactions didn't really help either, including Cho's, sadly). My main concern is that the writers seemed to have already set their sights on killing off Cho's POC character even before the first episode has even finished! Hopefully his plot twist is better than some melodramatic death for his white partner to angst over. It should be interesting to see how Noh's interracial relationship pans out (engaged to a black woman; pretty darn rare given Hollywood's crappy track record of featuring mixed couples much less an Asian male in a major role). At any rate, it's much more promising than what they've been doing with the Asian characters over on Heroes (which I've dropped completely).
Posted on 25-Sep-09 at 10:48 pm | Permalink
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