I'm gonna go with the seven objects were placed on the different planets ages ago by some advanced lifeforms as sort of a test / task that humans must complete ( the gathering of them ) to prove their worthiness to be included in some sort of advanced intergalactic alien community. Getting the objects in mankind's golden ticket to the universe's big boy's club if you will. That's my guess.
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I think that would be too much like 2001 A Space Odyssey. (In that movie and book, once humans locate the monolith on the moon, the much larger one orbiting near Jupiter emits a signal. When David Bowman approaches it, he's transported across millions of light years where he ends up in a spooky bedroom, ages quickly, and is eventually turned into a "starchild" and sent floating as a fetus to Earth, destined to do something great).
I only hope that we can find out about what happens in DG because I really like the show. But it doesn't look too hopeful right now that it will go past the gathering of the second entity.
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Are you saying its the cosmic "Prime Directive" and this is humanities warp capability?
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It's not just weather humanity has the technology to gather these things up, it's weather they are ( also ) spiritually advanced enough, thus all the weird mind games they put the humans through? Can they overcome themselves ( their greed, fear, lust, guilt, whatever ) & the distance they need to travel to get these things in a way that shows humans are worthy of inclusion in some higher universal U.N. type of deal?
This show had potential but the story dragged out too long. The spiritual advancement of man kind to join as a member of some galactic/universal UN story line through the collection of the beta objects, testing of faith setting aside their differences such as religion, and as NatSec stated greed fear and lust is spot on.
Good shows such as Carnivale, didn't make it and TSSC fans are still fighting for the continuation of the show. As a SciFi fan, I don't really have high hopes these days with all that crap reality tv shows getting renewed season after season. I'm wondering why so many people watch those crap and cares about the people who are in the shows. It's even in the headlines eg. googlenews.
With all that said, I am going to enjoy watching Flashforward and also V (the new one) and see they will make it.
There is definitely an undercurrent throughout season 1 of facing one's fears and dealing with personal demons, courage in the face of great adversity and serious consequences, and certainly that was still the case in episode 13 for at least four of the characters: Donner, Zoe and Paula on the ship, and Rollie back home. To a lesser extent, the episode also hinged on Ajay and Poe making key decisions at critical junctures -- Ajay telling Donner something he needed to know, and Poe deciding to let something slip that will have serious, very public repercussions shortly for the entire program. Eve and Goss will have a lot of explaining to do because of it when the crap hits the fan, and it will. Just at the moment even more crap hits regarding Rollie. It's going to be a radioactive mess. And I can't understand why anyone would want to cancel this how just when it's getting this good.
shareAnd I can't understand why anyone would want to cancel this how just when it's getting this good.
I dont mean to be patronising with this comment but if a show doesnt pull in enough viewers [and lets face it, most of the tv watching public dont like to be challenged too much on the mental front, so good shows tend to fall by the wayside], then its not going to do too well with advertisers, which in turn is the revenue for the show.
Not enough viewers = not enough advertisers = not enough revenue = no show.
Its a shame that so much of TV is ruled by this instead of being about making good art. Even the BBC, which is state funded, has fallen back onto cheap, crass reality based tv shows, which have minimal production costs and an additional revenue stream of the 'vote for your favourite imbecile on the show' premium rate call lines.
"And Im thinking you weren't burdened with an overabundance of schooling"