Is ABC’s Flashforward going to be the new Lost? Everyone seems to be asking this question, but they mean it in the good way. Yet, when I ask this question, it is with great trepidation.

As a writer of speculative fiction, as well as a fan, I can appreciate a great premise. Like the shiny new Joseph Fiennes show, Lost started out with a bang, and was compulsively watchable…at first.

Within a few seasons, it had meandered so far away from any central theme or coherent plotline that I only continued watching it for comedic value. Lost sucked a legion of fans into a byzantine labyrinth of clues and complexity, promising that it would all make sense in the end, only to continually let viewers down with long delays and laughable plot twists.

Flashforward is supposedly based upon a novel of the same name by Robert J. Sawyer, so presumably the writers actually have an end in mind. A blueprint, if you will. And I find that comforting. But then I saw a kangaroo on my screen hopping past a very serious looking FBI agent while an annoying voice over told me that this might just be an important clue and instead of being intrigued, I winced because this isn’t a game I want to play!

If Lost was the devlishly handsome ex-boyfriend who cheated on you, Flashforward looks enough like him to make you wary. But maybe he’s a grown-up version that you could actually take home to meet the family. Let’s hope!

OMG, how did I miss this rumor? Apparently, Ray Stevenson (aka Pullo from HBO’s Rome) has confirmed that a movie is in the works to bring the awesome show to the big screen.

Oh, writers of Rome, I will overlook the travesty you made of Cleopatra. I will pretend you did not get many things wrong about Egypt. And I will even forgive you for presenting the Battle of Actium as a plume of smoke in the background of Mark Antony’s rowboat. Come back to me, my love. I have missed you so…

Oh swoon! You know that HBO’s Rome was my very favorite series evah! And I never doubted for a minute that a guy like Kevin McKidd was a minor sex god of some sort, but as it turns out, he’s switching from the Latin team to the Hellenes.

He’s signed on to play Poseidon in the forthcoming Percy Jackson and the Olympians movie, and this gives me even bigger incentive to be excited about this movie. It’s a kid’s film, but I assure you, some part of me will only be going to see Kevin McKidd’s big shiny trident…

When I heard that Clash of the Titans was going to be remade, I said that I like to think that this is going to be a good year for Greek Myth inspired fiction. Now that HBO’s True Blood is getting in on the act, I’m even more hopeful.

In addition to my two Nocturne Bites, MIDNIGHT MEDUSA (a retelling of the gorgon myth) and WILD, TETHERED, BOUND (a new way to look at ancient dryads and chimeras), I have two forthcoming Myth-inspired novels and to top it off, HBO’s True Blood is apparently exploring some of the oldest stories about Psyche, Cupid, Aphrodite and others.

I’m not much of a vampire girl, but if they’re pulling from primordial roots like this for their storytelling, perhaps I ought to start watching True Blood.