Influence ans Exploitarion

There has only been one new show this television season that my wife and I have gotten hooked on: Flash Forward.
I love sci-fi dramas so this show was a no brainer. The fact that it was created by some writers from Lost, had lots of Lost references, and major Lost actors played title roles helped a lot as well.
The show follows several FBI agents and characters related to them trying to put their lives together after the entire world experienced a 2 minute long black-out. In the black-out every person on earth saw into their futures several months in advance- everyone having their vision of the same date and time in the future.
The leading female’s character is the reason I am writing this post. In her ‘flash-forward’ she has a vision of herself pregnant with a baby girl. She makes a big deal about this to everyone she tells her vision to because she ‘doesn’t even have a boyfriend’. So what’s the big deal?
Well after the first episode the network shows a preview for upcoming episodes of the show to get viewers hooked on tuning in next week. During this preview the audience is shown a girl-on-girl makeout scene involving two beautiful women.
It was as if the network was saying,” If you didn’t like the show enough to tune in next week, stick around, we’ve got some hot girl-on-girl action coming up!”
Several weeks passed and the show only got better, only there was no lesbian scenes to be, well, seen.
But each week the female lead role made a bigger and bigger deal about how she was going to be pregnant, but didn’t even have a boyfriend.
In this lasts week’s episode, the female lead is asked out by a man in her martial arts class. She awkwardly turned the man down. After the man walks off, she talks to an attractive woman in the class about the man’s failed attempt and they laugh it off. It is implied that this is the first time these two woman have met.
The next time we see the female lead, she is dressed nicely at a fancy restaurant with the attractive woman from the martial arts class: on a date (gasp!). My wife and I knew this was coming…
During these women’s first date they talk about how much they care about each other (?), their future together, and marriage (?).
They discuss how people who don’t support gay marriage were unenlightened; and give each other a sexual-passionate-open-mouthed kiss right in front of everyone in the restaurant.
A few scenes with other characters come and go, and the next time we see the two women is at the female lead’s apartment getting ready for their days after a night of ‘hot lesbian sex’- which they talk about and imply very strongly. And then more passionate kissing ensues for the viewer to watch after the new girlfriend trashily talks about how great she is in bed.
The final time that we see this new couple during the episode is when the female lead goes to visit her new girlfriend at an art showing. The new girlfriend asks the female lead a personal question about whether she’s bisexual or not. The female lead is so infuriated that she marches out of the museum and calls off the ‘relationship’.
I have some major problems with this show, the scenarios that played out, the values that were promoted, and the network who ran it all. I will discuss these reasons in detail tomorrow.