You know this already.

OK. Back. See FlashForward last night? Everybody in the world blacks out and falls over for two minutes and dreams of next April 10th. The world of inanimate objects takes over and many things crash into other things being devoid of pilots, drivers and general bounciness. Which raises a serious design issue; should we be building in far more bounciness into our products. I mean trees sway, frogs jump, salmon leap and even elephants dump about and rebound off each other. But you can’t play squash with an iPod or let a 747 loose on its own without it trashing itself against a building. Unfortunately nothing was made of this important aspect in a supposedly cutting edge drama even though it will require three series and eighteen episodes to cover the same story line as a single 45 minute Doctor Who. Because Americans can spin things out like Rapunzle. Why? Because it takes on average a $2million advertising budget to insert a two word phrase into the American consciousness enough for them to physically respond. So it’s important that the two words thus implanted should cover as much product as possible. That plus in the time it takes to switch a machine on and off again it’ll have produced 10,000 of whatever you asked it to make. So anyway FlashForward is equivalent to reading the last two pages of a book first. You know the denouement, you just don’t know how the book got to it. Except a caught on CCTV man in black, unrecognisable as they always are…I hope I’m not spoiling it for you… is seen walking about during this two minutes silence. Which as everyone knows is just not on. I’m guessing the story will unravel like Lost and the audience, if not lost along the way themselves, will find in the final episode what they knew at the beginning and thus be non the wiser but considerably older. So there we have it, the subtext of TV. It will make you older but no wiser. But I guess you knew that already.