Boyhood? Birdman? Nightcrawler? Even if you stuck to more intimate features like these, this year had some incredibly remarkable and memorable features.

I liked "are these the same people from before?"

"Hey man! I was saving those for later!"

Also I can't help but think that the fact it's a non-tx (non-transmission) pilot means that they may not be too confident with the show as it is.

So are you saying that Van Gogh could see magnetic fields!?

Did you miss the part a couple episodes ago where Samaritan rigs a whole bunch of elections? Or the part at the end of last week where Samaritan's agent (I never remember her name. The woman with the gun) blows Shaw's cover and discovers Samaritan's blind spots in the process? The random cameras dropping out last…

"All of this happened, more or less." — Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun.

It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.

Totally pointless comment incoming:

As far as I understand it, pretty much everywhere has plenty of rare earths. They're not rare in the sense of being sparse, but of being diffusely spread - there are no (or rather, very few) high-concentration deposits. Some places obviously have higher concentrations than others, but I hadn't heard that Afghanistan…

I wanted to like Flash Forward so bad. It was an interesting premise and had actors I liked. But it was so uneven and a lot of times super boring. It reminded me of how like once a week I say "That SNL skit was a great idea, poorly executed." Welcome to SNL skit territory, Flash Forward.