Things We Learned From This Week’s
FlashForward…
—Janis is a lesbian. And for a woman who is still in the closet because of her government job, she is
very open about making out in a restaurant…on the first date! (Granted it was with
Numb3rs’ Navi Rawat, and she
did confess to seeing herself wearing a wedding ring in the future, but still!)
—Peter Coyote makes an awesomely shady President, complete with a secret son, an ex-mistress living in Georgetown, and a penchant for screwing over his old buddy-slash-co-conspirator Wedek.
—Wedek isn’t above blackmail (see above) to protect his Mosaic funding, nor is he all that thrilled with Mark’s admission that he was drunk in his flash-forward.
—Some woman named Senator Clemente is a total hag who hates Wedek, saw herself as President in the future and possibly used Mark’s shoddy testimony in his intelligence hearings on the blackouts to snag herself a Veep nomination. We mentioned the shady Prez, right?
—According to satellite photos, a series of mysterious towers were built in the middle-of-nowhere Somalia back in 1991 during the months leading up to the Great Crow Catastrophe.
—Being shot apparently causes one to re-see your flash-forward, as Janis discovered after being gunned down in L.A. by what appeared to be members of the Yakuza.
—At the same time in D.C., Mark, Wedek, Demetri and some other dude were also attacked by gun-toting Asians, but nobody took a bullet…they just had a slo-mo shootout that went on a tad too long to be tense.
—Having Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” play over too-long slo-mo shootouts doesn’t help, either.
—Olivia needs a new cell phone so she can properly reply to the anonymous texter who filled her in on Mark’s boozy blackout. She also needs to stop asking her husband’s A.A. sponsor to betray his confidence and get herself to a damn Al-Anon meeting.
Did I miss anything? Add your clues to the wall, folks!