fLasH fOrwaRD

While surfing the web, I came across a title of a series named ‘FlashForward’. It caught my attention, and I started downloading it right away. The series mainly revolves of a fictional incident of a global blackout. Everyone on the planet, every human being, lose consciousness for 2 minutes and 17 seconds. Well, that’s not all. While they blackout – every single man and woman and child caught a glimpse of the future exactly 6 months ahead prior to the event they called GBO; The Global Blackout – the single most disastrous event in the human history.

The GBO event results in the towering global death rate. Pilots lose consciousness while piloting aircrafts. Doctors lose consciousness during surgeries. Pile ups, traffic accident tolls up.

The tagline of the series is “What did you see?”. The entire human race lives in fear after the GBO event. Dead people are everywhere, but that’s not the most terrifying thing they have to deal with. It’s the 2 minutes and 17 seconds FlashForward to the future they’re most afraid of.

What if you saw your daughter who’d been dead for the past 2 years in your vision?

What if you saw you’re sleeping with another person, and he’s not your spouse?

What if you saw yourself happily walking down your wedding aisle?

What if you saw yourself being drowned by an unknown man?

What if you saw yourself strangling a stranger to death?

What if you saw NOTHING?

Some are afraid that their haunting visions come true. Some are afraid their happy vision won’t. The others have to deal with the possibility of not being able to survive the next 6 months for they did not see anything? Just darkness and emptiness. They cannot be sure why they did not have a vision of future like everyone else. They’re future unlike others are even darker, and scarier.

People begin to live with the awfully little knowledge of their own future. People began to lose trust that they should ‘live for today’ like they already did all their life. There are some who refused to believe the future is definite. Or is it not? Can they fight ‘fate’?

The story takes off with FBI agents trying to find out what actually causes GBO, and who’s behind it. Their investigation is ironically based on an agent’s FlashForward. Slowly, everything he saw in the future falls into place, causing the agents to believe that the future they’d seen in their vision are inevitable.

It’s a very interesting series to catch. I think it’s really worth the watch. Just one episode and it already took my breath away. It’s a thriller, but at certain scene, I find myself deeply touched. You guys should really watch this.