EPISODE REVIEW:FLASHFORWARD "Scary Monsters and Super Creeps" (Season 1, Episode 6)

Ok I think they just hit the fatal flaw in this show, besides the bad accents. If you are going to play the predestination card then also playing the quantum reality card does not make sense.

If the experiment that caused the blackout had something to do with quantum physics than the futures that people saw are only possible futures. Sure our main dysfunctional couple might cause their future to happen because they are both dumb shits. But for most of the world all they have to do if they want to change their flash forward is to change what they are doing right now. Dimitri can just ware a flack vest all day on March 15 or he could take a sabbatical from the FBI.

What Simon was trying to say when he used the dead cat to get layed was that reality does not exist until it is observed. Now the writers of the show can try to say that since the future was observed that reality already exists so you can not change it. But that is not all the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics says. It is also true that the way an event is observed will determine the outcome of the event. Believe it or not this has been verified experimentally on the subatomic level. So then we are back to the future can change making some of the plot of this show pointless.

The Copenhagen interpretation has the most experimental evidence on its side it is also the one that many scientist do not like because it is a possible proof of the existence of a primary observer. Without the primary observer things get really weird or you have to jump through some pretty outrageous logic to get rid of the primary observer. This is because without the primary observer the universal quantum wave does not collapse so there is no reality.

Note to some the primary observer is also called God.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/02/980227055013.htm

http://www.reasons.org/resources/non-staff-papers/the-metaphysics-of-qua...

Are you saying both of the bad guys aren't supposed to have their British accents? I thought it was pretty clear they're British. If they're Brits, it would be MI-6 then wouldn't it?

I'm having a hard time with the male lead. He's a bit too Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm whiney, emotional, wimpy for me.

You know, I'm getting sick and tired of Schroedinger's cat. It's becoming overused and cliched, and like a 'get out of plausibility free' card. Also, substituting a poisoned herring for the decay of an unstable isotope does over-simplify the analogy and undercut the basic premise.

That was the single most anemic version of the Bowie song "Scary Monsters" I ever heard. I'm pretty sure my band could have done better. And once again, we've got a chase scene that turns out to be a total red herring.

Of course we already knew Simon and Lloyd were associated - Simon called Lloyd on the phone two eps back, and we saw him then. This episode didn't add anything about their relationship that the 30 second phone call didn't already establish. Except: It's an experiment. Who's? The CIA, obviously. The CIA is trying to cover that up.

Once again, Dimitri's subplot was the best thing about the show, don't you think? I was ok with the boring main couple's boring main couple problems up until the kitchen conversation which seemed silly and forced and utterly, utterly false to me, a clear case of 'move the conflict forward in order to keep the story on track' rather than 'this would evolve organically from this situation.'

I liked the Kangaroo.

I was wondering why the kids have clearer memories of the future, too. Maybe just 'cuz they're kids?

20 million people is really a fairly small death count, considering. I'd have easily expected five times that. Big world, and half of it is awake and operating heavy machinery at any given moment.

We're less than a month after the blackout, however, and the world appears to be functioning normally again. I don't realy buy that.

I did like the episode, though, I thought it was a bit uneven, not as good as last weeks, but I liked it, and I like the series overall.

I have to wonder about the wisdom of casting so many brits who seem to be fighting with their accents so much. "Obi Wan" is the worst, but the protagonist is nearly as bad. His accent only works in a very narrow range of volume, and if he has to show emotion, it all cracks. "Pen" is good, though.