Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26159109-20160320090443/@comment-5899967-20160320155353

Other shows don't need a fb in every episode because they are more plot focused, Lost and Once are character driven, the flashback is used to unveil new secrets, to discover who the character was in his life before the beginning of the show, to reveal special connections, all the revelations sort of have to matter with whatever is going on in the present, so it's an optional for the other shows, but it's in the basic structure of these 2. However Lost also tried different things, which I would love to see in Once, maybe not the flash-forwards because they are too hard to handle, but I'd love to see an actual parallel timeline.