Maybe she’s part of Hal Holbrook’s sentinels thing.
Might explain not wanting genetic testing, and could explain how she’d know who to marry to end up first lady since Holbrook seems to have some “lifelines” type understanding of how things will play out.
On the other hand, being an alien would explain how the phone got in the kid’s school bag earlier this season.
As for the testing, President Underwood should have just said “don’t worry about it, we don’t need her participation I can bring you a sample easily enough.”
So, whatever became of the little kid sister that had been abducted by Holbrook’s serum-of-youth farming dudes? Have I just forgotten where they put her?
She is with that alien family Leila is supposed to be with. We can probably assume the mom at least stayed away from the alien congregation to take care of her and is still hanging out at their place in southern California.
It’s a good thing the writers realized that storyline needed to die fast since it was going nowhere.
Yes, yes, yes, I know that the show is still beyond ridiculous, but it has genuinely captured my interest, as by this point, I would like to see how the writers attempt to tie it all together, even if it all end in hoots of unbelieving, astonished derision, with me shit-sassing a blank TV screen, sobbing uncontrollably in an angel-dust induced stupor…
Any ideas on how this mollyfocker is gonna wrap up?
Still watching here. Despite its many flaws, I’m a sucker for high-production sci-fi on television that tries to take itself seriously. It’s a fun ride if you don’t think too hard. But I am getting a bit restless in that I’m not sure the plot is moving fast enough to keep viewers around.
@Stoid: I believe “V” has been picked up for another season.
It’s really starting to look like they’re making it up as they go along. I started out really liking this show, but when it becomes apparent that anything could happen simply because the writers are flipping a coin, the plot becomes as relevent as the script of a professional wrestling match.
I wonder if their attempting to cut the budget of this show by getting rid of some of the main characters like Thomas and Dempsey. It wraps up their storylines rather nicely. It would be nice if they just wrapped up the whole thing with one more season.
Still would beat what NBC did with Persons Unknown, where they commissioned it as a series, then canceled it before ever airing it, but then aired it anyway as a mini-series promising “by the end of summer, all will be revealed” only to have the finale end on a cliffhanger revealing next to nothing about what was going on.
I have to say I won’t complain in the slightest when this is cancelled. I had high hopes when the series premiered of seeing some real sci-fi drama where the tension is in unraveling the aliens’ story. That is at least how it started but they completely botched it by the extremely slow pace and utter stupidity.
Now, apparently in an effort to reinterest people, they’ve ramped up the action and adrenaline to ridiculous levels. Except now the aliens are not aliens at all but just standard anti-american hollywood bad guys and the tension is now focused on things like how can we prove the vice-president is in on it. It looks unlikely that we will ever get any sort of substantial back story to the aliens since it is always imperative that no one ever talk about it.
And of course, even with the increased action, the stupidity is still there. Really, the alien secret weapon that will wipe out billions is a century old influenza virus? I’m no disease expert but I also feel confident in thinking the flu doesn’t kill you in a matter of minutes before you even have the chance to leave the room you are in.
I think the Wikipedia ratings chart for the show is pretty funny. How many of those remaining four million viewers are, like me, only sticking around out of inertia?
I hoped that I wasn’t the only one who was thinking that…
I was also touched and comforted that Sophia, who has ordered the murder of several billion humans, was quick to rebuke one of her alien brood when he happened to dare mention that the plan to kill the POTUS was coming along nicely…
Well, if the preview of next week’s season finale (which apparently is actually the series finale) is any indication, there will be a hell of a lot more questions than answers at the end of this fucking trainwreck.
What a colossal waste of time, and may this be a lesson to an old idiot like myself to not get sucked into a similar show ever again.
Well, I suppose I can now say that I have watched two television series from the very start to the bitter end in my lifetime (The Event and FlashForward) and been played for a fool by both of them.
Yes, FlashForward ended with no answers, but I think The Event is answering stuff.
For example, they now claim that they got to Earth before us, and I can easily see how they twist that into their right to kill us off. (There will be questions about why they left, but something to do with Dempsey And The Scroll will explain that annoying little detail.)
Ya know, stories don’t have to end nicely, as long as they do end. Suppose all the earthlings die next week, and the aliens arrive just in time before their world goes Krypton on them, and they all live happy ever after. Would that be a bad end to the series?
By the way, NBC cancelled the show, but there are reports that the producers are trying to take it elsewhere. Original Programming for Netflix, perhaps.
Of all the ludicrous, eye-rolling, you-have-got-to-be-fucking-kidding-me things that the writers of The Event have asked the viewers to swallow, this may have been the most incredible one of all.
An alien (albeit one who has decided to defect from his own race to save mankind) is in a car with a CIA assassin, the ex head of National Security, and a kid who is in love with a girl who is 1/2 alien herself, and when the “good” alien casually mentions that his people are the original inhabitants of Earth, and teases them with the Truth about the Big Picture, (Life, The Universe & Everything) none of them bother to ask him for the details of the most pressing mystery in the history of humankind?
In the future, I wish they would at least have the decency to film a real series finale of these shows before airing a single one…just in case it gets canceled.
I am sure the last episode will resolve a few issues, but leave far more unanswered.
Why do I bother watching shows like this with a huge story arc?
Geez - at least they could do a montage at the end, with a voice-over, saying"…and it was years before the new settlers integrated into society, bringing with them new technologies to save our planet and…"
At least give the viewers some indication of how this series was supposed to end!
Next time NBC tries this crap, I intend to write them and remind them of their past flops that ended in the middle of nothing, and suggest they at least let people know in a press release that a series finale is completed “just in case”.
What? Flashforward was a self contained one season story arc. It ended with a short introduction of a second season storyline, but everything in the first season was answered.
That was a slow-moving, tell-no-secrets, loads-of-flashbacks, keep-changing-the-rules waste of time. The Event was heading in that direction, but halfway through the season they wised up.
