Bingo! Another reason I won’t be there for the fun of this one. (PS: neither is he a convincing Latino!)
It was about what I expected. So-so. From what I’ve read, the explanation is going to be somewhat
supernatural.
I’m OK with that, although there are good ways and bad ways to handle it. Usually, it’s too tempting to use it as an excuse for lazy scripting.
<Putting on my armor>
I actually thought it was pretty good – good enough to continue watching. I liked the way they told the story, jumping back and forth. Showing some situation that of itself was not yet supported, then jumping back to fill in some of the holes.
As to who the 97 people are in Alaska, I have several theories. Aliens is one theory. The previously mentioned “abductees” ala The 4400 is a decent theory. Time travelers is another theory. Maybe they’re from the future? Perhaps time travel is a one-way trip and these 97 people, for whatever reason, chose to make that trip. And when Sylvia (?) said “They saved us” maybe she was referring to her compatriots in the future?
Anyway, I thought it was pretty good, and I liked it better than Lone Star, which I watched just before The Event (Og bless DVRs). 
<Ducking for cover>
J.
We ditched at around 20 minutes, right after Dr. Weaver showed off her fancy shackles. Too many flashbacks. It is as if the creators looked at Lost and figured, “Hey everyone loves the backstories, so let’s have tons of flashbacks – like constantly.” Uh, NO. Backstory good, random flashbacks Bad.
Me: “I have no idea WTF is going on.”
Hubby: “Me neither, and I don’t care.”
I read this thread to see if we made a mistake.
Great and I was just about to watch Lone Star… maybe I shouldn’t bother:dubious:
I saw the first show…
[Two days earlier]
I am looking forward to the show…
[Three months ago]
Hey, has anybody heard of the show The Event
[4 years ago]
Lost kinda sucks, but I’ll watch a few more…
[1 hour ago]
I hate these damned flashback/time shifts. Whatever happened to story telling in sequence?
We watched and DVR’d Lonestar.
mr ems says aliens I say time travellers. We are going to give it another couple of episodes as it is obviously difficult to set up a series in one episode with commercials every 6 minutes…
We shall see after that as we have no strong feelings either way right now.
Somebody needs to take Lost and this show, and edit the damn shows into the proper chronological order.
Speculations, not spoilers, I try to avoid those.
It’s not aliens, it’s time travellers. That or low vibrational reptillians.
As someone who has watched very little Sci-Fi in my lifetime (movies or TV) I can suspend disbelief for aliens, time travel or even witchcraft dabbling Senate hopefuls but I just expect these shows to be somewhat realistic when it comes to stuff like a Chevy Suburban racing next to a jumbo jet during take-off and keeping up until just before the plane becomes airborne…:dubious:
Also, as I posted earlier, I don’t think that Air Marshalls are trained to negotiate with armed hijackers when they have a clear shot—They would have splattered that kid all over the galley before he had the chance to say a word.
Especially if the Air Marshal has no way of knowing if the kid has accomplices. While he’s playing “drop-the-gun” with stubble-boy, stubble-boy’s buddy sneaks up behind the Air Marshall and paints the cabin a lovely shade of Air Marshal Brain…
Looks like No one else saw it either.
Sources are mixed on this one. But, the fact that there is speculation isn’t a good sign.
Alright, so there were half a dozen bits tonight that were completely unbelievable, but to a Sci-Fi novice like myself it has enough entertainment value (even if for all the wrong reasons) to keep me watching for at least another week.
What was your favorite eye-rolling :rolleyes: scene?
When the plane’s wingtip hit the rock formation and the rocks crumbled, leaving the plane completely intact? (I admidt I am not an expert on aviation engineering, but I didn’t know it worked like that)
When the presidential advisor (the one who looks like James Carville) kept telling the President of the United States that he didn’t need to concern himself with this particular matter of national/global security?
When our young hero was in the hospital and saw the cops running in the door, mere yards from his hospital room, yet still managed to get off his gown and get fully dressed in the 10 seconds that it would have taken the cops and FBI agents to get to him?
ETA—Is that DB Sweeney as the bad guy on the cruise ship?
The only scenes I gave a damn about are the one’s with the President getting briefed; they’ve revealed the most information so far. So in review;[ul]
[li]The 97 detainees were all onboard something that crashed in 1944.[/li][li]Except for Sophia they were all injured too badly to escape.[/li][li]The able bodied ones did escape and have spent the last 66 *infiltrating *society.[/li][li]They are not Homo sapiens, but appear to be a “cousin species” in the same genus.[/li][li]They’re extremely long lived; Sophia has barely aged over the last 6 decades.[/li][li]The free survivors have some kind of plan and access to very advanced technology.[/li][/ul]
So they could be time travelers, though they don’t seem very concerned about corrupting the timeline. They could be “alien” humans who’s ancestors are abducted from Earth millenia ago and gentically modified/evolved differently (ala the Sebaceans of Farscape or inhabitants of Ringworld). Or they could be visitors from a parallel universe.
Agh yes that plane should have been torn to shredds. Hate the stupid pacifist air Marshall too. Now any half competent biologist will tell you that the odds of any alien species being so similar to us are staggeringly low. As in as impossible as it gets in science. So they either posit some super alien race that sprinkles the galaxy with their DNA, a la that star trek episode, or they are time travelers.
The time traveler explanation might explain how they happen to speak english. I REALLY hope they don’t pull the “we’ve been monitoring your television/radio/satellite communications for years” crap.
Was it just me, or did 1944-Sophia have an accent that 2010-Sophia lacked? 
Do you mean while she was talking to the other crashees? Because that could just be the standard shorthand for ‘person is really speaking the language they should be and we’re just rendering it in English because we don’t want to do subtitles.’
I told you it was aliens.
Anyway, I liked tonight’s episode better than the first one. So I will give it a few more goes (until they start moving it around, showing repeats, or it goes on hiatus and I never come back).
Yes, a lot of eye-rolling scenes, but I’d like to have one scripted show to watch this winter. Otherwise, it’ll be nothing but Hoarders/Hoarding: Buried Alive, etc. (I really don’t watch all that much TV, honestly.)
I believe so; I saw the name in the opening credits, I’m sure.
ETA: Agent Lee is disgracefully hot. Whoo!
Well, they age really really slowly, and they’ll have other powers we’ll find out about by and by, and there’s a blood test for them, and they don’t mean any harm…
There’s as yet no explicit link between the aliens and D.B. Sweeney’s crew, or at least that I noticed, but the crew seems to have the power of infinite cover-up, in which they can make people disappear from hotel records and such. That kinda crap always bugs me, actually - super-spies and junk that can erase computer records no matter where.