Good episode but I can already tell the stuff at the hospital is going to become tired quickly. I hope this show is more 24 then ER in what it chooses to focus on. Norrington err i mean Lloyd did get alot more interesting after his phone call from Simon. It will be interesting to see what the computer hacker is able to uncover.

Flashforward is still a little off to me.  It seems the show wants to be 3 or 4 different shows at once.  ER, 24, and some X-Files for good measure.  It's still a great concept, but the execution so far hasn't lived up to the concept in my opinion.  However, the first scene of this latest episode was wonderful...all the slow motion and carnage and the music in the background....I wish the whole show was more like that in tone.  I guess my main problem with the show is that the global disaster doesn't look like much of a disaster.  After 14 days, it seems that life is starting to get back to normal.  I don't know, it just seems that the show is giving the short end to the implications of such a disaster.  Wouldn't the hospitals still being overflowing from the highway injured?  Wouldn't people still be trapped in various dangerous situations?  What about the missing?  What about the mass funerals?  This should be like 9/11 times a million...and it just doesn't seem like the writers on the show understand that.

Obsidian, i tend to agree about the clean up. unfortunately i think the constant rescuing of people from things still going on would also get tiring each week. its too bad they "cleaned up" so quickly though.

i thought the episode was pretty solid. i dont think we can easily compare this show to any other. the concept and story lines the writers have set up are way beyond comparision. i think that this show is on a very good track, and this episode proves it. the sequence at the beginning is just awesome. it reminds me of the begining of the first episode of Lost. and if they can keep doing stuff like that in episodes to come, then this show is going to rock.
 

A little better than last week but this show is still a mess. It's really a shame to see such a good premise go to waste like this. I don't have much hope left for it at this point. I'm sure it won't be cancelled (after all, even a show as awful as Fringe got a second season and Stargate has like 2 or three spinoffs now...) but I have very little hope that it will ever be good. 

Here's a few tips for the writers: 

1) You've got a great mystery already, don't go inventing CSI B.S. like "how could this white guy become black in 6 months?" Stick to the story, it's the reason we're watching.

2) You have enough characters, stop throwing in a guest of the week (muffin lady, dead cop, old nazi, black/white guy) who has nothing to do with the main story, you already have enough trouble keeping up with the main cast.

3) Make each episode about something. Was this one about Agent Noh trying to save his own life? Was it about the "hot" terrorist suspect they have in custody (this is a really dumb subplot and needs to go away)? Was it about Dr Benford trying to avoid her future love interest? Was it about the babysitter? Was it about some white/black guy who will never appear on the show again? Focus!

 9/11 times a million?  That's...that's...I don't even know what that is!

I've been pretty satisfied with how the mystery has unfolded so far.  I do agree that upon repeated viewings, the worldwide scope of the story has been largely ignored.  There was a blink-and-you-missed it moment in the pilot of how the blackout affected nations across the globe, but the storyline has largely been confined to Los Angeles.  The handling of this story element has Goyer stamped all over it, given how quickly he likes to keep his story moving along.

As for the rest of the one-shot characters who have appeared so far, I suspect they will fit into Roger Ebert's Law of the Unnecessary Character.  I expect the Nazi to be an important character further down the line, so I can't imagine we've seen the last of him.

And as for Dominic's appearence (FINALLY!), I think he's going to make for an awesome villain.  Anyone else suspect he was the figure who was walking around in the baseball game video?  

Overall, I'm confident the show will pay off long term.  I recall reading an interview over the summer before the show premiered that Goyer and Braga have storylines planned out for future seasons, so they clearly have a direction in mind.  They're not just making this up as they go along, unlike, say, Heroes.

 I think you mean "Law of Economy of Characters" and if you understand what it's really about, you know that it doesn't apply to weekly television series. Its basis is in the cost of hiring actors to play roles and on TV you can hire someone for just one episode. In fact, if you want them to come back again later for more episodes, you have to pay them again. So it actually works against your argument here.