After that depressing end to the Steeler game today, Katie and I caught up on the last couple FlashForward episodes that we missed. While the show itself is a nice LOST replacement until 2010 rolls around, I find the premise pretty intriguing.<\/p>\n
Barring all the grisly death and disaster that the blackout caused, what would life be like if we had a brief flash of our future? What if we saw a relatively true vision of what we were doing for a little over 2 minutes on April 29th?<\/p>\n
There\u2019s an interesting facet of human nature that the show portrays through several characters, and that\u2019s the fact that by even being given a small glimpse of the future, the future has already changed. There are people throwing parties on April 29th because the date was significant due to the flash forwards. There are chance meetings that are already written because of the flash forwards.<\/p>\n
There is a set of future events that are opened up as possibilities by the simple fact that the future has been seen. This idea is fascinating to think about.<\/p>\n
Of course, equally interesting is the simple question of what I personally would expect to see in my flash forward. Most of our lives are relatively simple; I assume my flash forward wouldn\u2019t involve people trying to kill me or seeing people I had presumed dead. But I would get to see my baby, which would be rewarding enough for me.<\/p>\n
Would seeing that future change my daily actions? Would I try to drive towards that future? Let it manifest itself? See if I could change it? It\u2019d certainly be a fascinating conversation topic for the next six months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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