Dammit! What the hell? “the Event” and “V” have both been cancelled! I’m not saying they were great shows, they weren’t. BUT I WAS WATCHING! The last time we saw V, the alien queen had managed to mindfuck all of humanity! So that’s how it ends???
And “The Event” isn’t done for this season yet, but I think they have SHOT it all, meaning the end will be some messed up non-ending that we will never get satisfaction on!
DAMMIT!
Someone tell SyFy it needs to at least give some kind of wrap-up movie to these shows! This is just cruel!
I’m pretty sure both shows knew they were gasping their last breaths when they finished their seasons. The writers of The Event may have tried to be optimistic for a next season when they wrote and filmed the closing, but more likely they wrapped most of it up.
I thought “The Event” was the original crash-landing of the aliens in Alaska back in the 1940s. All the original promos said that the President was going to tell the people about “the Event”, and that was where the series started.
I stopped watching with episode 5 but returned for the finale of V. The show ends with
some deaths and a world-wide bliss generated by the queen and her youngest daughter that seemed to have subdued everyone on the planet except members of a newly unveiled well-organized underground movement who, at that time, were underground.
This is not an ending that resolves the conflict but aggravates it, so I do understand discontent.
But I don’t think that
sentence (a) necessarily leads to (b). Quite to the contrary, in most cases of alien invasions it’s simply inconceivable that they do not win. And if they wanted to trigger any sympathy for the alien point of view, the first and final episode should just show them watching our reality tv. Hard to ignore the validity of an urge to remake us or simply wipe us out when you are confronted with evidence of such deprivation.
I think I watched 5 episodes of The Event before I couldn’t take the mind-numbing stupidity anymore. They could have wrapped that show up after two episodes and you wouldn’t have missed a thing. I couldn’t possibly care less about Leila and whatsisface, and the rest of the show was just nonsensical. They’re human, they’re not human, they’re from the future, they’re from an alternate timeline (or am I confusing that with FlashForward? …another disaster). Anyway, who cares?
I only made it through 2 episodes of V before I cashed in my chips. The show was terrible, although not quite as bad as The Event which, inexplicably, I stuck with longer.
What is wrong with TV writers today? Do they wait until one episode is filmed before writing the next one? I don’t remember TV series being this disjointed and with such unintentionally laughable plots, if you can call them plots, when I was younger.
There are three ways a TV series can be structured: have each episode be nearly a stand-alone story; have a planned series with a beginning, a middle and an end; or have an open-ended plot line that can keep going on and on for as long as the series is renewed. The latter is the basic formula of soap operas,which are not renowned for their logic or plausibility. I suspect some of these shows’ writers are literally former soap opera hacks, with no familiarity with science fiction above the comic book level.
I was still watching both, for some crazy reason. I’m actually sort of glad they’ve been canceled, so I don’t end up wasting more of my time on them. We are at peace, always!
I was in the same boat. Bored to death after a few episodes, but picked up the show again later on and, to my surprise, it improved quite a bit IMO. The intrigue inside the White House (poisoning the President, etc.) and various characters dying off along the way actually made the show more interesting. I don’t think it’s very hard to resolve most open plot elements in a final show, but I suspect that won’t happen. It would’ve been better if they had done this show as a mini-series.
I watched the first four episodes of Season 1 of V. It was pretty mediocre, but i might have stuck with it, except that after those first four episodes, the network then took a five-month break before Episode 5.
I’m sick of this sort of shit from networks, and i decided i wasn’t going to reward that sort of behavior.
The writing was on the wall for these two shows. I stuck with them all the way through. Despite some of the mediocrity of The Event, I was fairly hooked. I wish it could’ve survived at least another season.
“V” on the other hand, started straining my eye-rolling muscle.
Anyway, I hope this doesn’t hurt the chances for more sci-fi dramas from getting green-lit. I love the genre, and now that VFX are easier to pull off for television than they used to be, I’d hate to see the networks get too gun-shy. It just seems that every sci-fi drama gets the axe after a season or two (barring Fringe… the last one standing, deservedly so).
I know that Terra Nova and Falling Skies will hit the airwaves this fall, but again, this is really getting tiresome, as they’re set up as huge, sprawling epic stories (the kind I like the most), and if they get cancelled… it’ll just end without resolve (and usually on a cliff hanger).
I am not a huge TV person in general, and specifically sci-fi shows have never done anything for me in the past, but I have watched each and every episode of The Event (a first for me) and even though it was laughable and insultingly unrealistic (and not just the woo-woo stuff, which I was actually happy to suspend disbelief for, but the supposedly more realistic day-to-day political/law-enforcement stuff that they expected the audience to swallow) I really kind of enjoyed it after a fashion.
Now that it’s cancelled, do the writers get a chance to wrap it up, or is that it?
When a show is cancelled, does it simply go away instantly, or does the audience get some sense of closure with a final wrap-up episode or two?
