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** 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.

** I just assumed they thought their flashes were dreams until they heard about the GBO, at which point they try to figure out what they were dreaming about during those times. Or it could be something obvious like a vivid dream that completely vanishes the next morning, except for the flash. Because everyone remembers their flashforwards with the utmost clarity, except for cases such as future drunkenness/brain damage, it doesn't make sense to think that the flash would vanish with their dreams.

* 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.

* 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.

** He clearly ''thinks'' he's a [[Magnificent Bastard]], but the writers ({{spoiler|and Simon}}) clearly disagree. I think it's supposed to be some kind of weird parody of other TV villains... For example, [[Heroes (TV)|Arthur Petrelli]].

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

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*** I know they hinted at it but I must of missed the part of that episode where it was confirmed so was just trying to find out.

* So the second blackout was predicted by Gabriel's modifications to the board, who modified the board because he modified the board, because he modified the board, because he modified the board? Come again?

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

** 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.

* Why wasn't Demetri Noh the main character? He was so much more sane, pro-active, funny and less [[Wangst|Wangsty]] than Mark. Too bad he was also less white.