# 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:** 9
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2010, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/161 "2010-11-29T00:03:11Z")
> [@DarrenS](#): > > [The Firefly effect.](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFireflyEffect) Unfortunate, but true. I like its corrolary, [The Chris Carter Effect](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheChrisCarterEffect). ---
**Author:** ![Saganist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Saganist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saganist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/162 "2010-12-01T03:41:52Z")
The realism level of the show is still highly laughable but at least something that looked like a plot development actually happened this week. Not sure if it made up for those horribly painful scenes in the hospital between the terribly acted fake aunt scene and creeping around after hours when it was seemingly chock full of night staff. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/163 "2010-12-01T03:56:47Z")
> [@Saganist](#): > > Not sure if it made up for those horribly painful scenes in the hospital between the terribly acted fake aunt scene and creeping around after hours when it was seemingly chock full of night staff. That couple (Sean and Leila) has personally witnessed twenty or thirty-odd people murdered in front of their eyes over the past week or so, (or whatever the time frame that the show has supposedly covered since the first episode; with all the flashbacks I have a hard time knowing how much time has passed since the start) so naturally they decide to break into the heart of the Dark Lair, alone and unarmed (where the mollyfock was the gun that they took off of the cornfield assassin who they injected with the insta-Senior Citizen juice) to wander around under the noses of the staff, (at one point even yelling at the top of their lungs–:rolleyes:) the very same staff which includes the very same people who are trying to murder them… I don’t know why I am still watching, but I am afraid that I must get some sort of sick kick from picking the show apart. (Yeah, I know, I need a girlfriend) ---
**Author:** ![Saganist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Saganist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saganist)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2010, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/164 "2010-12-01T04:08:48Z")
Yeah, even if they weren’t so fortunate to have the elevator open onto a deserted basement, I’m sure there would have only been one guard who was in the bathroom and left his keys in plain view on a desk. As a side note, it would be a lot easier to care about this little sister story if we actually saw her and wanted her to get out of there. Has she even had a single line of dialog in like the 45 seconds of screen time we’ve had of her? ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2010, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/165 "2010-12-02T05:31:51Z")
> [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](#): > > I don’t know why I am still watching, but I am afraid that I must get some sort of sick kick from picking the show apart. (Yeah, I know, I need a girlfriend) Do you really think a gf would appreciate being picked apart? d & r ---
**Author:** ![ouryL](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ouryl/32/6067_2.png) [@ouryL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouryL)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/166 "2010-12-03T01:18:35Z")
So what was in this episode that was supposed to keep me interested until February? Did my dvr mysteriously skip something? ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/167 "2010-12-03T01:32:18Z")
The aliens contacted their homeworld. Not saying you should find it compelling, but that’s what the writers thought would be. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/168 "2010-12-03T02:50:00Z")
With that plot element, the series looks like a retread of V. But that show is already being remade on ABC. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/169 "2010-12-03T14:49:06Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > The aliens contacted their homeworld. > > Not saying you should find it compelling, but that’s what the writers thought would be. That and the discovery that Leila’s pilot father is possibly one of the aliens. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/170 "2010-12-03T15:02:51Z")
OR… or… (or)… the “EBEs” are sending a message into the future? Yes, I hold firmly like a madman stuck to the notion that perpetual motion is possible to the idea that these EBEs are really time-travelers. Why else the aging experiments, and the ability for Leila’s dad (whom we now suspect to be an EBE), to be able to procreate with humans. Unless the mom was an EBE too? I force my will upon NBC to not cancel The Event. I dunno why, but I love this kind of programming. It’s like a serialized Twilight Zone. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/171 "2010-12-03T16:56:10Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > OR… or… (or)… the “EBEs” are sending a message into the future? > > Yes, I hold firmly like a madman stuck to the notion that perpetual motion is possible to the idea that these EBEs are really time-travelers. > > Why else the aging experiments, and the ability for Leila’s dad (whom we now suspect to be an EBE), to be able to procreate with humans. Unless the mom was an EBE too? > > I force my will upon NBC to not cancel The Event. I dunno why, but I love this kind of programming. It’s like a serialized Twilight Zone. Yeah, the way this show keeps pushing the fact that these guys are aliens makes me think they definitely aren’t aliens (at least in the traditional sense). You know there’s gonna be a twist in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/172 "2010-12-04T02:17:39Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Why else the aging experiments, and the ability for Leila’s dad (whom we now suspect to be an EBE), to be able to procreate with humans. Unless the mom was an EBE too? Huh. I jumped to a much simpler explanation: The aliens live a really long time. Hal Holbrook’s character is super rich, super powerful, super evil…and OLD. I think that story thread is just about him trying to find a Fountain of Youth for himself. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/173 "2010-12-04T03:10:36Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > The aliens contacted their homeworld. > > Not saying you should find it compelling, but that’s what the writers thought would be. No, Thomas sent a message to the _ **other** _ aliens; you remember when Sophia said that they never interfered with other worlds unless they were a threat. So who out there is a threat? ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2010, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/174 "2010-12-04T04:02:14Z")
Does anyone know how the mollyfock Sophia went from being the most wanted “person” on the face of the Earth to someone who can now apparently walk around downtown Washington DC (where there just may be a couple of security cameras around somewhere) with obviously NO attempt at disguising her appearance, then hold a huge meeting in some Raddison Hotel conference room, where she freely addresses 100’s of other “others” like she was merely leading a meeting of Amway reps? ---
**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:** [March 8, 2011, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/175 "2011-03-08T21:24:57Z")
Anybody else watch the 2-hour return last night? I missed the first half-hour (didn’t know it was on), got bored after another half-hour, and channeled surfed. Did anything important happen besides Thomas breaking out the rest of the detainees and that random widow being appointed a senator and backing down from exposing the Mt Inostranka facility? I heard on the radio that it managed to lose viewers every half hour it was on the air. Doesn’t surprise me a bit. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/176 "2011-03-08T21:42:22Z")
I didn’t see the show last night, but the previews for it basically explained the central mystery of who the aliens were. ---
**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:** [March 8, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/177 "2011-03-08T22:08:27Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I didn’t see the show last night, but the previews for it basically explained the central mystery of who the aliens were. Coud you please explain it to me? 😕 All I got from the previews is the general idea that they’re ripping off Erich von Däniken. Was I right? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/178 "2011-03-08T22:17:14Z")
As I said, I haven’t seen last night’s episode (although it’s on my DVR and I haven’t yet decided if I will watch it, but What I gathered from the previews NBC aired extensively before last night’s episode was that the aliens “weren’t taking over Earth, but instead were taking it back.” I think one of the previews implied that they built many of the ancient monuments, such as the pyramids. So yes, it does appear that they’re copying the theories of Erich von Däniken. I think one of the previews listed the death totals for various disasters and ended with the death total for one listed as seven billion. Since the human population of Earth isn’t that large yet, presumably this is meant to be a future event and is perhaps “The Event” of the title. NBC was trying for an involving serial drama that would capture our attention much as Lost did, but I’m fairly sure that they did not succeed. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2011, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/179 "2011-03-08T23:01:17Z")
I watched last night, and really wanted to see The Event finally get it’s act together, but it is clear that the writers don’t care about putting out an even semi-plausible plotline or story arc. It’s bullshit TV thru and thru, but I guess it’s free, and I have already stuck with it this far… I was surprised to see Virginia Madsen, and while she is certainly still a good looking woman, she seems to have aged 20 years since her role in “Sideways”. (didn’t someone around here mention that Ms. Madsen was in a movie several years back where she showed off a LOT of skin? Anyone remember what it was called?) ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2011, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494/180 "2011-03-09T03:03:47Z")
I remember hearing reviews before the episode saying that the show was starting to hit it’s stride. If this is it’s stride, I’m probably about done with it, especially since the Chicago Code is on at the same time. Annoying couple really need to be killed off, fast. And the show goes through annoying lengths to stay mysterious. “You should talk to him.” “No, I won’t talk to him. Not since he did that thing at that one time at the place that we’re from.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nbcs-the-event-open-spoilers/554494.md?page=10)