FlashForward: Believe

In an example of terrible writing I've got to point out a glaring weakness in the character of Bryce.  He was concerned about making his death difficult for his family and believed that suicide was the only viable option.  Pretending that makes sense logically (obviously it does not) why would he kill himself so publicly on a pier in the middle of the day with literally hundreds of witnesses?  How would the media coverage that followed his death be dealt with by his family?  Either he's an idiot not worth rooting for or this is yet another example of the writers/producers dropping the ball big time.

Are Bryce and Keiko the new Penny and Desmond?  Peripheral characters that you can pin all the hope for the future on in a series that otherwise is devoid of hope and happiness?  How's that going to work if Nicole is slowly falling in love with Bryce?  How blind is Bryce that he can't see the girl of his dreams when she's on the same fraking plane as him? Did neither of them get up to pee on the flight from Tokyo to LA?  

As a viewer in order to buy into this series, I must accept that Mark and Demetri are going to fly to Hong Kong defy Stan's order and yet no one has gone to Somalia to follow up on the only true lead they've had in this entire series?  Also, Mark has still not asked his daughter why she knows the name D. Gibbons.

I'm glad they started to follow up on the cryptic text message that Olivia got regarding Mark's flash.  Olivia's not stupid, why wouldn't she think that was relevant information to her husband?  Mark is stupid but could he have gone about questioning his friends anymore boneheadedly then he actually did?  What's worse after his questioning of Aaron went so poorly he did the same exact act when he tried Stan, with exactly the same results.  

I am starting to worry that Stan is just as idiotic as Mark.  If he didn't text that to Olivia and Aaron didn't text that to Olivia shouldn't Stan be concerned about who did?  More importantly what else does this person/the NSA know?

While we are on the subject of the NSA, when the agent revealed to the group that she had information on Demetri's phone call and was subsequently pressed by the males in the room to "make the call" did anyone else laugh out loud when they cut to Mark and his "somebody fart?" face? 

I really do like Bryce and Keiko and I hope they can put Bryce's suicide behind him and move on. I also like Olivia, Nicole, Demetri, and Janis (who didn't show up this episode).  If Mark, Stan, or Aaron have to pull an Al and I don't think I'll be too broken up about it.   

No Simon or Lloyd either this time around.  Didn't miss them too much but I don't wish death upon them so take that for what you will.