Yesterday we posted tidbits from FlashForward co-creator David Goyer on what we can expect in the second half of the season, once the show returns from its winter hibernation. Now we have even more information on what is coming, including – more on the Suspect Zero reveal, the role of freewill vs predeterminism, a shocking surprise for Janis Hawk and more.
Continue past the jump to read on (contains spoilers).
“Who Suspect Zero is will be our first episode back,” Goyer said in a group interview on Friday on the show’s set in Burbank, Calif. “Even in that first episode back, we answer a ton of big questions, and pretty much every episode afterwards. I can’t think of a question we don’t answer by the end of the season.”
Actually, the big reveals start even before the show’s March 18 return. A recap show will air before the 18th to summarize the first half of the season, but it will include new footage.
“If you’re a loyal viewer, we’re going to drop a bomb at the end of that one, too,” Goyer said. “If you watch that episode and you’re a loyal viewer, you’re going to get a critical piece of information a lot sooner than you would in the life of the show,” Goyer explained. “If you don’t watch it, you’ll get it in the life of the show anyway.”
Another big question the show plans to answer is the balance between fate and free will. So far, many flash-forwards are on track to fulfillment, while some have been averted by drastic actions, including one character’s suicide.
“What we’re going to answer by the end of the season is ‘How is it that some of these things can be coming true and some of them can’t be coming true?’” Goyer said. “That is sort of the bulk of what we’ll be dealing with in terms of philosophically over the second half of the season. It’s not determinism, and it’s not free will. We never intended it was either/or. There is a philosophical model of the universe that combines them, and we do deal with that head-on in the second half of the season.”
Executive producer Jessica Borsiczky Goyer described the philosophical shift thus: “The first half of the season was ‘What did you see?’, which has now been played out,” she said while paired with David. “We know what everybody saw. Now it’s ‘What will you do?’ I think that’s where the second half of the season is leading us: seeing what everybody does about their vision now that they’ve accepted that, by and large, they’re happening.”
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