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** The guy on the toilet was FBI agent. He had more important stuff to worry about than a countdown and when a man gotta go, he has to go.

** As the finale turned out, most of the major flashforwards: Mark, Lloyd, Olivia, Stan, Janis, Bryce, Keiko, Vogel, Aaron, and Nicole's, all turned out to be true anyway, though there was a [[Prophecy Twist]] involved in most of them. Simon and Dem, who didn't have flashes, spent the time doing something completely unforeseen by the [[F Fs]]. It's implied that many of them did not come true if the person took specific action to avert it and weren't overwhelmed by causality.

** Never took a major flight? Hundreds of people, everywhere. She is also short so she wouldn't be able to see properly and wouldn't be seen properly either. Completely plausible.

* The Blackout happened a) world-wide and b) everywhere at exactly the same moment. Okay? Now consider the time zones. Wouldn't that mean that in large parts of the world, [[Captain Obvious|because it was in the middle of the night]], ''most people were asleep'' during the Blackout? Wouldn't they mistake their visions, if they had them at all, for just unusually realistic dreams? (At least until the point where they hear about the Blackout in the news or from people who happened to be awake at night.)

** This is actually brought up in one episode. China suffered few deaths because most people were asleep. A idiot assumes that this means that the Chinese were behind the blackout. The dream issue has yet to be brought up yet, though.

* Why is Flosso built up to be such a [[Magnificent Bastard]]? He gets all (but one) of the rings, yes. He kidnaps both Simon and Lloyd, yes. He has Lloyd's prof killed, yes. But he is such a wooden liar that it's (for me) a giant [[Wall Banger]] as to why anyone trusts him. Also, he can't even claim the right of orchestrating Annabelle's capture/the Suspect 0 footage, as we clearly see D. Gibbons' involvement in the latter, and Flosso describes himself as a "middleman", implying that he wasn't entirely behind the Annabelle's kidnap either. Not to mention his clear breaches of [[Genre Savvy]]. He invokes [[Good Smoking, Evil Smoking]], but doesn't see that by doing so, he is violating [[Evil Overlord List Cellblock B|Evil Overlord List #222]]: always misdirect your opponent as to what exactly your one weakness is. And again with [[Evil Overlord List Cellblock A|#187:]] once one's [[Evil Plan]] is complete, do not laugh at the [[Unwitting Pawn|Unwitting Pawns]] and leave them alive. And don't, under any circumstances, allow yourself to be incapacitated and killed by said pawns. Especially if they are normally lightweights. He would have a hard time misdirecting Simon as to his weakness - Simon didn't figure out that he had a weak heart from his smoking, he already knew since they had known each other since Simon was a child. He also had no choice but to leave them alive, Flosso was still trying to blackmail Simon at the end so obviously they have more use for him.

** I'm not sure if it was a parody, but it was clearly intentional.

** [[Magnificent Bastard]]? Ha! He is actually a [[Smug Snake]], who may be talented and/or intelligent, but his ego is so big that he makes stupid mistakes like you would not believe. That, and it makes him so detestable that his death is totally a [[Karmic Death]]. Go, Simon!

** The series goes into [[Timey-Wimey Ball]] territory a bit, but this was a pretty straightforward [[Stable Time Loop]].

*** There were people who saw thousands of flashforwards and each one of them was different. Gabriel for example. It's not like he took any action to change them, and yet, he saw any number of possible futures. I'd say it was pretty clear by the end that the flashforwards weren't sure things and may even have been glimpses of timelines that could never happen, or that might have happened, but for want of a nail.

* When Janis gets shot? Note to the writers/director/producers: women don't have uteruses or ovaries in their stomachs. Just thought I'd mention that.

* Zoe tells Demetri that she picked up plane tickets to Hawaii dirt cheap because "evidently no one wants to fly on April 29th", however.. when Demetri meets Zoe at the airport, and also when Keiko is at the airport ''near the flash forward time'', the airports are crowded and busy.

* The flashforward obviously happened - so why doesn't anyone remember the wild party?

** Nope. Or, to put it a bit better, no one proved ''beyond a shadow of a doubt'' that they had averted their flashforward. Maybe they weren't public enough or didn't interact with enough people in their flashforward, or whatever.

 

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