I’m thinking stubble boy is one of them. Maybe the kid of one of them.
Edit: That would explain the super stubble!
I like how five years in the past, he still had that exact amount of stubble. Seems like a long time to stick with a particularly douchebaggy grooming style.
And also why he looked exactly the same in the pool scene, six years before present day scenes.
ETA: Oops- didn’t see **Brian’**s comment…
Anyone else bothered by the scene in which the nurse told the cop that Stubble Boy (aka Jason Ritter) was named Sean Walker and he immediately types it in as Sean Walker, rather than Shawn Walker or at least asking her which way it’s spelled?
Actually, stubble-boy’s subplot is effectively done, isn’t it? D.B. Sweeney kidnapped the girlfriend to blackmail the pilot into attempting a truly ridiculous assassination - it failed, the pilot’s dead, by any logic the girlfriend would have been eliminated immediately… so who cares what stubble boy does at this point? He’s just some crazy guy running around yapping about planes and girlfriends that don’t exist.
By the way, I guarantee that NBC is now going to run teaser ads saying that the plane crash in 1944 in the second episode is not The Event of the title, but that The Event is yet to come and you’re all going to be pissing your pants in excitement when it comes. In other words, please keep watching our show.
The time jumping deal really bugged me in this episode. I was OK with it for the pilot, but if every episode is going to be like this, I’m going to lose interest fast.
I have to say that most of the plot “twists” were pretty predictable. Interesting how they’re dribbling out info quickly, unlike Lost. But that doesn’t mean they won’t pull all kinds of rabbits out of their writers hats in the future.
That assassination attempt has got to be one of the weirdest in TV history, no? I mean, not sharpshooters with high powered military rifles on some building across the river. No suicide bombers. Nothing that would make any sort of sense.
It’s like they sat around and asked themselves: “What would be the most absurd way to attempt to assassinate someone?”
Sleep Deprived Intern: “I know! Have them black mail a pilot into crashing a passenger plane into the guy!”
High fives all around.
Promo for Season 6 of The Event: The arrival of the Human/Balrog hybrid, time traveling wizard prince is **NOT **the event.
I want to play fuckups during flashbacks, like people talking about stuff they don’t find out until three months from four months ago, but I keep getting confused. Is that three years ago from now or from 23 minutes ago?
Also, my vote is for alternate Homo line, living in secrecy from our society, perhaps at the poles or so. Maybe they’re Neanderthals, having been nearly driven to extinction by mainline mankind…
Oh, and that massacre at the crash site is going to undercut the ‘we mean you no harm’-defense by Sophia a bit, I think.
I’m wondering if this is just a repackaging of V.
I am betting that the passengers and crew are not actually dead, but in a suspended animation state, as to me it looks like the aliens/time travellers are going to be the actual heroes of this show, (not mass murderers of innocent airline passengers) probably eventually saving mankind from ourselves and our fearful, self-destructive human nature.
Yeah, but if they look dead to our technology, then they will soon enough be dead. Premature burial here we come!
And of course there’s the whole clueless(to put it charitably) attitude of the government towards the aliens. I mean really, “Why don’t they show themselves?” Because, numbnuts, they’ve been around and seen what happens to those who take the government at their word. Were I an alien humanoid enough to pass on this rock, the last thing I’d do is call attention to myself.
As to the disposition of the aliens towards us, I’d say that however much they may have liked us to begin with, that attitude would be adjusted seriously after being locked in a hole for sixty years. Some sort of vengeance is understandable and maybe even likely.
Sixty-six years? Yeah, our government would’ve subjected the detainees to every painful, degrading, and humilating form of torture they could think off to get them to talk. Stuff that the network would be reluctant to even mention in dialuge, let alone show onscreen. I wouldn’t rule out vivesections either.
“Our past actions coming back to bite us in the ass is not The Event.”
I’ve got a pretty good feeling that it wasn’t really an assassination attempt at all. Instead it was to force the “aliens” to use their powers and reveal themselves. Head alien guy mentioned that disappearing the plane drained them in some way.
Couldn’t they just teleport Dr. Weaver out of danger? I mean, seriously… fuck the president…
Ooh! I am so glad I’m not the only one. Sean. Shawn. Shaun. And “Walker”? Come on. It’s a very generic name, with many spelling variations. Sure… it’s going to pop up immediately.
If any Hollywood types are out there, they can use “Bryan Ekers” as a character name. It’s unique. Quite possibly only used by one person on Earth.