History Series / FlashForward2009

The series built a nice MythArc with a great [[HolyShitQuotient]]. Based on the 1999 [[TheShowOfTheBooks sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

The series built a nice MythArc with a great [[JustForFun.HolyShitQuotient]]. Based on the 1999 [[TheShowOfTheBooks sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

The series built a nice MythArc with a great JustForFun.HolyShitQuotient. Based on the 1999 [[TheShowOfTheBooks sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

%%* UnfortunateName: Flosso? ''Really''?

%%* TheRainman: Gabriel [=McDow=]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: "Have you heard of the double-slit theory?" "Well, I did a little experimenting in college..."

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%%** Mark's whole RoomFullOfCrazy.
%%** [[spoiler: Frost's whole warehouse wall full of batshit crazy.]]

%%** 12/12/2016.
** And 6th October 2009 - the date of the flashforward).
** And 29th April 2010 - not just the date that people experienced in their flashforwards, but also originally meant to be the airdate for the final episode, until its scheduling was changed.
** And 2 minutes, 17 seconds... keeps getting mentioned moreso even than the others (in the intro voiceover for every episode, as well as being mentioned in-episode multiple times) - 137 seconds, 137 Sekunden (the German - also used as one episode title). A lot of importance was originally attributed to the number by characters early on, but later this stopped being treated as important. One theory is that it is because 137 is very nearly the reciprocal of the universal Fine Structure Constant. (137.0359990...)

* StockUnderwear: Mark buys this as a gift for Olivia. [[spoiler: She throws them away, since [[ScrewDestiny she had been wearing them in her flash forward]].]]

%%* GoodSmokingEvilSmoking: Flosso [[CardCarryingVillain intentionally invokes this.]]

The series built a nice MythArc with a great HolyShitQuotient. Based on the 1999 [[TheShowOfTheBooks sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

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* BuryYourGays: Janis is revealed to be a lesbian, and by the end of the episode [[spoiler: has been shot and left for dead]]. However, this is later partially subverted when [[spoiler: she survives, but is left unable to bear the child she now desperately wants]].

The series built a nice MythArc with a great HolyShitQuotient. Based on the 1999 [[SeriesOfTheBook sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

The series built a nice MythArc with a great HolyShitQuotient. Based on the 1999 [[TheSeriesOfTheBook sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

The series built a nice MythArc with a great HolyShitQuotient. Based on the 1999 [[TheFilmOfTheBook sci-fi novel]] by Canadian author Creator/RobertJSawyer (who gets a blink-and-you-miss-it CreatorCameo in the pilot), though it shared little with the book other than the flashforward concept and a character name or two. This show is not to be confused with ''Series/FlashForward1996'', which is totally (and tonally) different.

** Some of the items on Dyson Frost's [[RoomFullOfCrazy Chalkboard Full of Crazy]] are [[UrsulaKLeGuin "Ansible Theory",]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy "Maestro Di Color",]] and [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles "Strange Things Happen At The One Two Point".]]

** I'm surprised no one has mentioned that Al Gough is played by the guy who played Cyborg on Smallville which was developed by Alfred Gough.

** In the second episode, Mark puts up a picture of the burned doll on the wall. But the doll wouldn't have been burned (and he wouldn't have gone into the doll factory at all) if he hadn't had the vision of the burned doll picture in the first place. [[AustinPowers Oh no, I've gone cross-eyed.]]

* BrickJoke: After the blackout, Mark sees a wild kangaroo show up from nowhere and then disappear. When Mark is taking Charlie trick-or-treating, it briefly reappears. In the finale, [[spoiler:shortly after the blackout]], the kangaroo shows up again...from nowhere...[[BigLippedAlligatorMoment and then disappears]].

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A [[TearJerker truly touching moment]] between Mark and Gabriel in "The Negotiation". (No, [[HoYay not like that!]] ItMakesSenseInContext.)

** Some of the items on Dyson Frost's [[RoomFullOfCrazy Chalkboard Full of Crazy]] are [[UrsulaKLeGuin "Ansible Theory",]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy "Maestro Di Color",]] and [[Series/TheSarahConnorChronicles "Strange Things Happen At The One Two Point".]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler: The Blue Hand group uses Mosaic to track down people who didn't have a Flashforward and convinces them to join a suicide club.]]

* ScienceMarchesOn: In [[http://tinyurl.com/ylgy9bw the 1999 novel on which the television show was based]], the flashforward was caused [[spoiler: partly by the activation of the Large Hadron Collider]].
** In-universe example:

** The Blue Hand,[[spoiler: not having flash forwards, realized they will be dead in six months and begin committing suicide]]. [[WhatAnIdiot Make of that what you will]].

* RememberTheNewGuy: Hey guys, remember Marcie? [[spoiler: You know, the mole?]]
** Done rather well as her motivator was that - as a wallflower - nobody ever paid any attention to her in the first place.

* FlashForward: The entire show is ''built'' around this premise.

* PsychicDreamsForEveryone: The event that kicked off the MythArc.

* RedHerring: Brilliantly {{double subver|sion}}ted in "Queen Sacrifice."
* RedOniBlueOni: Mark and Demetri, respectively.

* RetiredBadass: Aaron Stark, as of "Blowback."

* ShootTheDog: Mark engages in this pretty heavily in "A561984".

* EnhanceButton: Strongly averted and lampshaded - even the NSA couldn't reconstruct a face from a blurred security camera picture under a month.

* EvilerThanThou: [[spoiler:Simon vs. Flosso in Revelation Zero, Part 2. Simon wins.]]

* NoEndorHolocaust: Strongly, ''strongly'' averted. One of the reasons for the investigation into the flash forward is that 20 million people died in the blackout due to car crashes, train derailments, doctors passing out during surgery, and plane crashes.