dominic monaghan Archive
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Flashback to FlashForward (finale recap)
Posted on May 31, 2010 | No CommentsDespite all the hype as a potential successor to ABC’s cult science fiction drama LOST, the infant FlashForward ended up airing its series finale just days after LOST’s own. Irony’s a bitch. Like LOST, FlashForward presented viewers with a Byzantine plot, philosophical puzzles, and Dominic Monaghan. Unlike LOST—and the reason why, I’m convinced, FlashForward didn’t... -
God’s Little Finger (FlashForward 1.11, 1.12)
Posted on March 21, 2010 | No CommentsYes it’s true that, at least while ABC’s cult hit finishes up its final 8 hours, FlashFoward will remain LOST’s less cool, less popular little sister who didn’t get asked to prom because no one on FlashForward has a contract with L’Oreal yet. Still, last week’s double episode (“Revelation... -
Making Science Cool Again (FlashForward 1.10)
Posted on December 4, 2009 | No CommentsScience, we’re taught, can both improve and destroy our lives. Â Today, we hear a lot more about the destruction. But science and its products, astronomer and popularizer of science Carl Sagan comments, aren’t inherently anything, good or bad: they’re morally neutral, ethically ambiguous, and, ultimately,...