David Goyer's science fiction series hasn't been without its own set of road bumps. While a holiday break was to be expected, ABC's decision to postpone future episodes of "FlashForward" came as a complete shock to viewers everywhere. But not everybody is disappointed in the schedule blip for "FlashForward." In fact, the decision is getting support from an unlikely source — Robert J. Sawyer, the author of the novel which "FlashForward" is based upon. According to the writer, the move to break up the back half of the season is likely a show of confidence on ABC's part.

"I suspect the announcing of the scheduling change could have been handled better, but, in fact, it's a very good thing overall," Sawyer wrote on his official website. "I like the idea very much of us letting our last half of the season unroll like the juggernaut it is without interruptions."

Sawyer raises an intriguing point — given the current schedule, "FlashForward" will air new episodes uninterrupted all the way from March through the season finale. Still, there could be some unintended side effects of the scheduling revamp.

So far, "FlashForward" has done an excellent job at keeping the show's events in line with the episode's actual calendar date, give or take a few days. With the delay, however, will important events such as the date of the flash-forward actually fall on April 29th as originally intended? This particular date is called into question as Sawyer himself will pen April 29th's nineteenth episode, though that wasn't always the plan — in the initial schedule, he was writing episode seventeen.

"[Because] of some calendar dates we want to reference in-story, and the availability of one of the actors we want to use, the episode I'm writing has been moved from #17 to #19," explained Sawyer. "I'm still doing the same episode storywise as before — it's just fitting into the sequence at a different spot."

It sounds to me like the flash-forward event won't occur on the April 29th airing as was the original plan, but I could be wrong. Either way, I'm not looking at the "FlashForward" schedule change as cheerfully as Sawyer is — it's not necessarily doom and gloom, either, but I have my fair share of skepticism regarding ABC's decision to stall subsequent episodes of the series.

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