David Goyer, perhaps best known as the writer of such gems as Dark City, Blade, and Batman Begins, is also the guy responsible for TV's FlashForward. He's been the series showrunner since it's inception but now he, much like a lot of us, has better things to do.

THR says he's leaving the series to pursue other projects. Here's the statement he issued this week:

"As my feature projects have started ramping up again, I felt I was being pulled in too many directions. I'm proud of the show and excited about the relaunch. It's in great hands."

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I first tuned in to FlashForward, mostly out of desperation. With Battlestar Galactica gone, Doctor Who soon to lose the greatest doctor ever in David Tennant, and Lost becoming increasingly stupid, we need something to carry the sci-fi fire on television.

This past week FlashForward resorted to its first lesbian makeout session. It was also the first time I really remember enjoying the show since I first started watching it and, of course, I was enjoying it for utterly juvenile reasons. Once the frenching was over Flash Forward went right back to being the bore it's always been. It's a brain-dead science fiction show, it's time travel for 2-year-olds, a playschool version of Lost and it's time to let it go.

The mysteries are, plainly stated, a bore. In its very first episodes Lost gave us a mysterious plane crash, an insane monster lurking in the jungle, and the magical healing of a cripple. In Flash Forward the entire world took a brief nap and, though theoretically this caused global problems, a few days later everyone feels pretty much fine with it and everything goes on as normal. A few FBI agents still seem kind of hung up on it, but mostly the world seems to have moved on so why shouldn't the show's audience? more...