Antithesys wrote:
I'm still standing by my main beef that everyone is just going about their business in their FF, when realistically they would all be huddled around tvs at parties waiting for the moment to happen. Someone did say they were at Times Square, but I have a hard time believing that the President will simply be asleep (even if it is 1am) and the bureau chief will be in the john casually reading a newspaper. Both of these men should be on alert as zero hour approaches.
Another nitpick is that all the characters keep seeming to refer to the FF as April 29th. That's fine for the local characters in Los Angeles. But if it's 10pm in Los Angeles, then Los Angeles is among the only major metropolises for whom it was still April 29th; from Central Time onward it'd be April 30th. Most of the world would have experienced April 30th, and in general that's the date people would refer to, for example in the Congressional hearing.
Finally, I doubt that the Mosaic website would be THE primary gathering place for FF stories. It certainly cannot be the only one - dozens of sites must have been set up in the immediate aftermath of the blackout - so do we really think the one we'd gravitate toward would be a government website?
At any rate, I'm glad they threw in the wrench of the guy killing himself and changing the future. That's worth sticking around for.
I was just thinking about this. The death of Jett Jackson proved that you could change the future, but the fact that no one was aware of the flash fowards IN their flash fowards says that the future can be changed. Wouldn't Joseph Finnes be ready for the invaders since he knows it's going to happen? Wouldn't the President try head off whatever is going to boot him from office? Wouldn't Jett & Dr. Corday have said "The bird just hit the window again, this is it?"
So from the very first episode we knew the future could be changed and we needed a death to let it sink in.
