NBC's "The Event" (open spoilers)

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???

Every TV series involving aliens is the same?

That logic means that “greys Anatomy” is just a repackaging of “ER” is just a repackaging of Chicago Hope" is just a repackaging of “St Elsewhere”…

etc.

Capturing 97 aliens and hiding them in Alaska for 66 years while another hundred or whatever continue to live undetected among us is hardly the same as unbelievably gigantic alien ships showing up in every major city across the planet, an impossibly beautiful alien leader projecting herself in the sky and announcing they are here to help us and be friends, all while tens of thousands of them, maybe millions, have already infiltrated and plot to take over the planet.

At least no more the “same” than stories about doctors in hospitals are the same.

82

I miss “The 4400”. That was a damned good show.

Hollywood (or wherever tv comes from) - I’m begging you, on bended knees - stop with the shakycam! I know it’s supposed to make drama seem realer and immediater - it doesn’t. It just makes it look like your cameramen suck.

Uh, the actual show - I saw the first ep and part of the second, and I’m not in love with it yet. I hate the time jumping - if you’re going to make your show complicated and convoluted, also having it frantically jumping around in time is too much.

83

I think I’ve got it so far.

The Langoliers saved the Losties from killing the 4400 led by the leader from V and the main character is being chased by the people from The Net. The only thing I’m confused about is that I thought it all took place in a bank and not a cruise ship.

84

Saw the second episode, so many flashbacks including a truly pointless one where we so how Ritter and his girlfriend met and all that. Another protagonist in the hospital when the police come to get them, hospital chase ensues.

I want to like it but this show is wearing me out.

85

I lasted 15 or 20 minutes, it just didn’t grab me. I may go back for another look later if it’s still around. (The pilot got pretty decent ratings but those fell considerably for the second show. Apparently NBC would be happy if the figures leveled out there but if they keep going south the show will be in trouble).

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Aliens arrive. They say they are here to help, but we don’t know. Some of them have disappeared into the general population and have a way of avoiding detection. The ones that are being detained… do we really know that they are actually detained, or are they just playing along?

There are enough similarities for me.

87

I flipped it off as soon as he said “of extra-terrestrial origin” or whatever.

At least they had the honesty to say aliens did it up front so I wouldn’t be wasting my time.

88

Easily enough explained: the Millennium Group knows a good travel agent, got a Millennium Group rate on tickets.

89

THIS.

I said it once, and I will say it again, the time skips will tank this thing. I was hoping it was in the pilot to set the scene. I would like to think that the third Ep will have even fewer, and that it will die out.

Or they could go the PrisonBreak route. Granted the Tattoos would have taken years to get, but Schofield took one Tatt per episode, and it was done well. The Tatts showed the premeditation and had some flashbacks. But it was forced to maintain a one per episode clip.

**Why on earth did we need to see Alpha Couple at the pool? What on earth did that do for us? **

Theory 1 regarding Alpha Couple

Forget saying that Walker is one of them, I bet it’s the Girl.

It would be better if it was :

The Girl was of a Third alien race, or as such had privileged knowledge of the Aliens.

But apparently NBC has too many problems with the show as is, to hail mary THAT.

But, there was one second, one part of the show last night, where I could start to attempt to figure out the story. It’s like NBC got rid of the training wheels for a second, and the 24-ness of this Admitedly 24/Lost Hybrid broke through.

I hate to say it, but I think I am the type of person, to watch this show die a death of a thousand cuts. I would still be watching it once the tree grows from the spot where NBC buried it.

Then I would complain mildly about it.
Are we going to keep to this one thread for the entire run* or are going to separate per week, like the good shows?

*Still not saying this show is going to make.

90

That was Last Week. Wow. scary.

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That flashback was exactly as relevant and important as all the Lost backstory flashbacks during the first couple seasons. Tons of people defended their awesomeness tooth and nail, babbling about how they gave the characters depth or some shit. I’m with you guys, flashbacks like this are worthless.

In fact, I think instead of adding depth, flashbacks like this will soon be seen as a cheap crutch on par with having a narrator. Just time-wasting “character development” to cover the fact that all your characters are one-dimensional automatons. It’s like the writers are saying “Yeah, we know these characters are cardboard cutouts that do stupid things just to serve our silly plot, but they used to have believable motivation, I swear!”

92

I’m rapidly losing what interest I had in this show. Two glaring mistakes I noticed tonight were; a character goes to Hong Kong to study Mandarin :smack:, and the final scene in the tempory morgue. All the bodies were uncovered. So the cleanup crew just moved several hundred dead bodies without putting them in body bags?

93

I’m interested in the Stubble-boy Searches For Fiancee storyline, but the Dr. Carrie Weaver’s Aliens plotline bores me. I think I’m done with this show.

94

I totally called the passengers waking up… although I expected it to happen when they were still out in the desert.

I don’t know what to think about this show. Well, okay, I think one thing: The 4400 did it better.

95

Yeah, that was pretty weak, but no worse than the female FBI agent with the bloody chest wound forgoing any medical treatment after her rescue from the hotel room, or a protracted gun battle in an FBI field office in which no other agents rush in to help, allowing the participants to head down to the parking garage to continue the shoot-out.

I am not versed in Sci-Fi or TV cop dramas, but The Event is making FlashForward look like a BBC documentary in comparison…

96

Is it just me, or was that the most convenient traffic accident ever? I mean, everybody except our hero gets killed or seriously injured, for no reason at all, and he even gets a car out of the whole ordeal.

Yet even so, I fear I’ve been suckered in – I want to know who the others turn out to be, and who’re the good and who’re the bad guys, and what’s at stake.

97

Yeah, that shootout in the FBI building made absolutely no sense. They are trying to confirm with the DC field office, and instead of redirecting the call or something, they disconnect it (which they can apparently do in real-time, less than 60 seconds from the time Denko notifies his rogue agents) and then pull a shoot-em-up in the office, practically guaranteeing that some of this is going to come to light.

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My guess is that it’s sloppy writing, but if the writers were clever, the accident would have been deliberate.

99

Prior to 9/11, I would have said that, but now. I think the reason the writers choose hijacking a plane and crashing it would be because whatever government conspiracy council is running things in the story line would logically believe the American public would automatically think Bin Laden and would be distracted immediately by a renewal of interest in the “war on terrorism.”

100

At this point, I am cheering for the bad guys, that Sean guy is soooooo annoying. I wanted him to get killed in the gunfight. Since he is still alive, I’m not watching anymore.