# NBC's "The Event" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 21, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494 "2010-09-21T02:05:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/1 "2010-09-21T02:05:30Z")
Okay, I’m watching next weeks episode. I don’t have the any better idea of what the “Event” is than from the previews. Any theories? ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/2 "2010-09-21T02:06:26Z")
**NBC** would be none to pleased at your title. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/3 "2010-09-21T02:08:15Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > **NBC** would be none to pleased at your title. A network shift is part of the mystery of The Event. So, are the owls what they seem? ---
**Author:** ![newcrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b3f665/32.png) [@newcrasher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/newcrasher)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/4 "2010-09-21T02:09:15Z")
I liked it better when it was called “ **Lost** ” airplanes, obviouse numerical clues, impossibly beautiful people in tropical locales, electromagnetic phenomina ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/5 "2010-09-21T02:14:00Z")
I think the aliens did it. That vortex was a surprise. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/6 "2010-09-21T02:14:30Z")
Owls? The Ending of Episode 1 : Yeah, it was going to be sucked up. Deus Ex Machina. I mean, Yeah, it’s 24 Redux, but they aren’t going to kill everyone in the first episode. Although, I half expected a Clock Countdown to start at the 2 minute warning. – LCD, Bio Hazard Orange. The pilot Was the pilot the Father? And I gues the Time Shifting is part and parcel LOST, correct? \*\*They had better get a reign on the time shifting, or this thing is gonna tank faster than Heroes. \*\* Oh crap, that was NBC too, wasn’t ? :smack: :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Rusalka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecd19e/32.png) [@Rusalka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rusalka)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/7 "2010-09-21T02:15:22Z")
The aliens obviously did it. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/8 "2010-09-21T02:19:22Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > **NBC** would be none to pleased at your title. > > A network shift is part of the mystery of The Event. I would pay to see this. ABC gets the show for a week, then FOX, then CSPAN, then QVC, then Nickelodeon… Next Week, the Event, now with " Mouse Ears " for all the actors! ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/9 "2010-09-21T02:22:52Z")
When CBS gets the show, it will be filmed with Rasins wearing Toupees. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/10 "2010-09-21T02:25:14Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > > [@Meeko](#): > > > > **NBC** would be none to pleased at your title. > > A network shift is part of the mystery of The Event. > > So, are the owls what they seem? The owls are _never_ what they seem. Meeko: Twin Peaks reference. ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/11 "2010-09-21T02:25:16Z")
Yeah, my theory: Aliens abducted a group of people, who, once returned, were held by the CIA in a hidden location. The aliens are still protecting those people. ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/12 "2010-09-21T02:28:50Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > The owls are _never_ what they seem. > > Meeko: Twin Peaks reference. It, as well as many, many other things are on my Netflix Queue. It has a very long wait, last time I saw the status of it. Twin Peaks was what, late 80s, early 90s? I’m 27. And I only caught the first four episodes of LOST. Behind is an understatement. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/13 "2010-09-21T02:29:17Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > **NBC** would be none to pleased at your title. Whoops! :smack: I just asked a mod to fix the title. :o ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/14 "2010-09-21T02:30:01Z")
But, as can be witnessed by how many people are responding here, I think I already want my money back. 24 this is not. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/15 "2010-09-21T02:31:04Z")
Changed “ABC” to “NBC” in the thread title, thereby making half the jokes in the thread unintelligible. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/16 "2010-09-21T02:33:02Z")
> [@Meeko](#): > > And I only caught the first four episodes of LOST. But you will always be Sawyer to me. \*LOST mafia reference ---
**Author:** ![Meeko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e495f1/32.png) [@Meeko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meeko)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/17 "2010-09-21T02:36:13Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Changed “ABC” to “NBC” in the thread title, thereby making half the jokes in the thread unintelligible. Twicks calls what I do Humor. \*\* You like me, you really like me!\*\* * * * \*\* Maha\*\* : That game did cause me to watch those 4 episodes of lost. On Netflix. But as I said, I’ve got tons of stuff on Netflix as is. This is sad, Are we the only 4-5 people that watched? Yeah, east cost time zones and what not , but still, for all the Advertising NBC did you would have thought there would be more people in here complaining. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/18 "2010-09-21T02:54:53Z")
I’m recording it. Is it worth watching? ---
**Author:** ![Onomatopoeia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/onomatopoeia/32/4145_2.png) [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/19 "2010-09-21T02:55:25Z")
People still watch NBC? Seriously, the only reason I entered this thread is because there’s another one about the same show in Cafe Society. I haven’t even heard of this show, hence my question above. From the comments, however, I take it we’re talking about yet another NBC show running on fumes? ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/20 "2010-09-21T03:05:47Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > Okay, I’m watching next weeks episode. I don’t have the any better idea of what the “Event” is than from the previews. Any theories? It’s complicated. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494.md?page=2)