What's the Difference between Flashforward the Book and Flashforward the TV Show?
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Flashforward Book vs TV Show
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The story is centered on Dr. Lloyd Simcoe. |
While Dr. Lloyd Simcoe is part of the story, the main character is FBI Special Agent Mark Benford. |
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Simcoe works at CERN in Switzerland. |
He works at Stanford.
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Dr. Simcoe's research partner, Theo Procopides, doesn't have a flashforward and assumes that he will be dead in the future. |
This character doesn't appear. Benford's parter, Demetri Fordis Noh doesn't have a flashforward. |
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The world blacks out for less than 2 minutes. |
The blackout last 137 seconds.
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During the flashforward people saw 21 years into the future. |
They only saw 6 months in the future. |
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Simcoe is enganged to Michiko who also works at CERN. |
He is not engaged, but sees the future where he has a relationship with Benford's wife.
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The flashforward was created because of an experiment at CERN coinciding with a burst of neutrinos from a supernova. It was a coincidence. |
The flashforward was engineered and had been tested before. |
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Lloyd works at CERN. |
He works at NLAP.
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During the blackout nothing was recorded by any cameras. |
Recordings were made and the FBI uses them to find Suspect Zero. |
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A second flashforward occurs 21 years later, and this time it lasts for an hour. No one sees anything this time. |
The second flashforward occurs 6 months later, and everyone sees about 10 years into the future.
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CERN attempts to duplicate their experiment 6 months later, but no blackout occurs. |
They don't duplicate the experiment. |
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Lloyd is childless, but his Fiance has a daughter, Timiko who is killed during the blackout. |
Lloyd was divorced, and his ex wife was killed in the blackout. He has a son with Autism who survives.
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