Is ABC ’s new drama Flash Forward going to turn out to be less like Lost and more like NBC ’s Heroes ? Its creator ’s explanation of how they contrive to keep the show sassy makes us wonder .
Flash Forward , which is being worked on for a evenfall 2009 introduction , is establish around Robert J. Sawyer ’s 1999 novel Flashforward and heart around a mystifying event that makes everyone around the human race at the same time black out for two minutes – and see their lives in precisely the same stop of time five months in the futurity . But show creator Brannon Braga knows that television shows ideally last longer than five month , and has planned for that eventuality :
[ W]e want to reset the show at the end of each yr , where we ’ll do another flash ahead at the end of the first season , and then potentially another flash forward at the end of the second season , each one kind of resetting the core characters ’ visions of the futurity and insert new characters … The essence concept is very much the same as Robert Sawyer ’s novel [ but ] to do a TV show , you have to sustain potentially — and God willing—100 installment or more ; you ’ve contract to change the concept a little spot . His novel had people have imagination of the future 20 year from now . We change that to five month from now and kind of narrowed down the range a petty chip and made it a fiddling bit more of an inner epic .
The idea of “ resetting ” the show with unexampled glance of the future at the end of each season puddle us more than a minuscule nervous , because it prompt us of the continual succeeding visions that made Heroes so insistent and dim . While we can translate the desire to restate the show ’s gimmick every season , a continual resetting of “ the future ” sounds less like the over - arc design of Lost , and more like the audio of people who ’re progress to it up as they go along .
Brannon Braga Says Flash Forward Will Reset , A La 24[Scifi Wire ]
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