Flash Forward 2009/YMMV

""Something happened in your flash that made you believe you were the center of the universe.""
 * Alas, Poor Villain:
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: Practically every other piece of music played in "Revelation Zero" is pure audio bliss.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: Demetri's Big Damn Heroes rescue of
 * Stanford exhibits some Magnificent Bastardry by successfully blackmailing the President of the United States.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: "I know what a bong is."
 * "I'll make you gayer."
 * The scene where Stanford tells Mark exactly what was going on in his flash forward. Both Courtney B. Vance and Joseph Fiennes look like they could barely get through the scene without laughing.
 * Designated Hero: Mark is shaping up to be this way.
 * It's looking more to be Decoy Protagonist, really: seems to be a much better candidate for hero.
 * The Designated Hero thing is actually Lampshaded in a conversation with Mark's federally mandated therapist.

"Mark: Because I was LOADED!"
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: There are a few, but none are more popular than Demetri Noh and Magnificent Bastard Simon Campos.
 * Epileptic Trees: These will inevitably result now that 3 people's flashforwards have been revealed to not match up as neatly as first suspected --
 * ...and what if a flashforward of someone who died in the blackout turns out to be important?
 * But then they wouldn't have had Flash Forwards because they were already dead in 6 months because...you know...they just died and thus they couldn't have been important.
 * Evil Is Sexy: at the end of "Queen Sacrifice."
 * Arguably, Simon.
 * Foe Yay: Demetri and Vogel.
 * Fridge Brilliance: In "The Gift",  In "Course Correction"   If this had never happened,
 * Fridge Logic: In "Queen Sacrifice," it's revealed that
 * It's been shown that the Flash Forwards aren't certain, only possibilities. Things might play out one way or another, and he needs to know which.
 * Plus, your Flash Forward is only about what you will be doing at time X; you can't see or acquire knowledge about anything or anyplace you won't be or don't have access to.
 * Growing the Beard: About the time of Revelation Zero, the beard was fully in play.
 * High Octane Nightmare Fuel: The doll factory and the children singing "Ring Around the Rosie".
 * The whole concept arguably counts. Just imagine being the patient who died during the blackout because his doctors were unconscious. Or one of the people who was in the bus that drove into the lake or the planes that crashed. Just such a random, pointless and helpless way to die...
 * Just try to imagine the mind-bogglingly high number of people just driving in cars at the moment the Blackout strikes - all around the world! Or for that matter, all the people who are swimming, climbing...
 * Ho Yay: The first LINE of the show is Mark bellowing "DEMETRI!" Seriously, waking up after a catastrophe and Demetri is the first thing you think of?
 * Some between Simon and Lloyd. When Lloyd asks Simon is there was anyone he ever truly cared about, Simon looked at him rather shiftily and then changed the subject.
 * One-upped in 1x19, when Simon apologizes to Lloyd for keeping him in the dark re: his sister's kidnapping, and goes on to say he's the only friend Simon's got. Lloyd responds with what looks suspiciously like reluctant fondness and takes him out for a drink.
 * Lloyd and Mark, especially during "Blowback." This may be Foe Yay, however.
 * Holy Shit Quotient: The last minute of every episode, tops, and you have what's called a "Last second plot-twist." Genre Savvy-viewers are instantly alerted to the impending plot point as soon as the camera cuts that last time. The only time the "last-second plot twist" was averted was during "Blowback," which chose to devote the time to a Crowning Moment of Awesome instead.
 * Magnificent Bastard: SIMON. CAMPOS. Seduces cute girls with quantum physics... Habitually breaks into his best friend's house...
 * Narm:
 * Magnificent Bastard: SIMON. CAMPOS. Seduces cute girls with quantum physics... Habitually breaks into his best friend's house...
 * Narm:


 * This resulted in at least one Stupid Statement Dance Mix.


 * Don't forget Janis talking about how her baby is a friend she hasn't met yet.
 * An abandoned doll factory? If you try that hard for creepy, it just becomes silly.
 * Toy Ship: Dylan and Charlie
 * Unfortunate Implications: Janis. See All Lesbians Want Kids.
 * Romantic Plot Tumor
 * What an Idiot!: Olivia spends the entire series being the only sane person who realizes that DUH! You can avert your flash forward by knowing where it happens and making sure you're as far away from there as possible on April 29th. Come April 29th and  for no other reason than Because Destiny Says So, even though it's already been proven multiple times in-universe that despite it being rather difficult, you can fight fate.
 * The Woobies: Bryce and Keiko are a Woobie power couple:
 * Bryce: The poor bastard contemplates suicide, then sees himself in his flash forward meeting a beautiful Japanese girl (Keiko) with whom he is apparently in love, then spends an episode trying to find her in Japan where   and  . And did we mention
 * Keiko: Can't catch a break: she gets a job at a prestigious Japanese company, only to be treated as little more than a waiter to serve tea (she's an engineer) since they won't hire another woman just to serve tea. She quits in disgust, causing a rift with her family who thinks she's being ungrateful. Goes to America, gets a job as a Wrench Wench at an auto garage with a tough-but-friendly guy who tries to make her feel at home,
 * Al Gough. Suffering from guilt  The letter he writes just breaks your heart.