The flashforwards were definitely different times this time around. Charlie was significantly older than just a year after current events, yet someone saw April 2011 in their flashfoward. I liked the Janice storyline. Would have liked to have seen what happened to her after she was grabbed at the end by Hellinger's chick. Anyway, if they were going to do some convoluted storyline about how Mark Benford survived an entire building exploding, maybe it's for the best that the show ended.
me too, a 2011 image, etc...great f'n finale...I forgot it got cancelled so I was like, wtf! to me, Mark was jumping toward the helicopter right when the second flash forward was happening, but there was no way he would survive the fall, let alone the explosion...but then his daughter flash forward, many years later makes you assume he's been gone, now he's back...freaky... I too missed the Olivia/Mark break-up...definitely could use another season and of all the crap that's on tv, this is the one show, IMHO, that should have survived...
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/5431256/flashforward_season_2_blackout_unsolved.html?cat=2 Flashforward Season 2 Blackout Unsolved After Finale Flashforward Season 2 is something that will not happen. Without a Flashforward Season 2 to resolve last night's finale, it means the show's big mysteries will not be answered. The finale did answer if the future came true for the main characters, but now they have a new future to look forward to. Or they would, if the ratings didn't plummet and ABC didn't decide to black the show out for good. For the remaining fans, the Flashforward finale would have made a great cliffhanger for Season 2 - but instead, it has to serve as the ultimate tease. Warning: Major spoilers follow. When the show began, it was positioned as the next Lost for ABC. That is what it turned out to be, but for different reasons. Like Lost, the Flashforward finale answered little, but they had the excuse of the show being cancelled after filming. There was a five-year plan in place for the series, so they expected that Flashforward Season 2 would answer the finale cliffhanger, and peel the next layers in the conspiracy. Instead, the remaining 5 million or so viewers merely got to see if the cast's first visions came true - with little answers to anything else. But off-the-wagon Mark Benford changed his future, and unlike in his vision, was well enough to discover when the next blackout was coming. Since it came 14 minutes after everyone caught up to the future, it was the clear setup for a Flashforward Season 2. Most of the others had their future come true exactly as they saw it - but with a few surprises or two, and with some new context. If there was a Flashforward Season 2, they would have gone forward knowing that the future may be unavoidable, but not everything is set in stone. The last images of the Flashforward finale are all the clues fans got for what might have been. It appears the second blackout sent everyone ahead in years, not months, with one image wishing a Happy New Year 2015. Dyson Frost's Garden of Forking Paths map hinted that "The End" would be in December 2016, so perhaps it was all to find out how to stop, or cause, the apocalypse. But they were probably saving an explanation until Season 4 or 5. Perhaps with no Flashforward Season 2 to prepare for, the producers will disclose what they were planning in a future interview, or DVD feature. Until then, the finale left their remaining loyal fans hanging with another blackout, a final explosion, and one more look at that weird kangaroo. Having now burned off the remaining episodes, ABC goes on with the futile search for the next Lost. Meanwhile, Flashforward Season 2 possibilities are now up to the fans to fill in.
One other thing I thought about concerning the poor execution on the Olivia/Mark break-up: I believe they cut like 2-3 episodes out in the middle of the season after they came back from the hiatus. I would assume some further character development with Olivia/Mark/Lloyd probably would have taken place during the cut episodes.
I get that ABC's been trying to push another series to Lost level popularity, but they've been trying to do this for 4-5 years now. Creating a show with the very ambitious thought/assumption of lasting 5 years is nothing but arrogant. I'm glad it closed the main questions about the first flashforwards, but I wish more shows went about concluding seasons like 24 or the Wire. And Mark Benford was turning into something of a CIA Jack Bauer, he took on like 5 guys who basically had him surrounded. He was tracking counter agents while fighting alcoholism. His lumberjack sponsor was a bad dude too.
His lumberjack sponsor took out a covert military operative, infiltrated the home of the head of an international paramilitary force operating under the orders of the President of the United States and then journeyed to Afghanistan where he coordinated with a resistance group to rescue his daughter from armed soldiers. And he was only half as talented as Mark Benford.
I also love how you guys call him a lumberjack when his real profession is a tech for his city's Water/Electricity provider. They could have easily had him working in a sawmill for one of the episodes and I doubt I would have thought anything was amiss.
