So If I hear what you guys [and others] are saying here, you are saying that FlashForward did it better, and they had one hand tied behind their back*.
Ok, admittedly the “We have all seen the future, and that future is NOT us.” plot device was half baked, but I will hand it to ABC [Flash was an ABC production IIRC] they attempted it. NBC can’t do twice as much with half. :dubious:
Each marginal episode of Flash by premise had less and less to work with. Either by the flash forwards painting the writers into more corners, or the approaching black out date.
Yet it’s still getting the ratings right?
I guess the
Insider Cop aligned to Sofia’s team
or the
Shivving your lover means never having to say “you messed up bad”
When all the bodies started sitting up, and the guard was reassuring that one woman, I wanted her to moan “Braaaaaaaains…” and tear his throat out.
Aw, c’mon. Wouldn’t a zombie tv series be MUCH cooler than a bunch of muddled conspiracies?
Anyway, do we know how Sean/Shawn/Shaun Walker knew he had to stop the pilot yet or is that a flashback yet to be seen? I mean, how does he go from “girlfriend’s missing, cruise ship says we don’t exist” to “I gotta sneak on the plane and stop him”?
For me, while the many ludicrous details of The Event are a distraction, I imagine I will keep watching for a while, unless it gets so cartoonish that I can’t take it anymore.
It’s free, I am already somewhat invested in finding out what is going on, there is nothing else on that I am remotely interested in and maybe I will finally be able to crack into the world of Sci-Fi and/or cop dramas.
I’m still watching, but I can’t help but think about another NBC sci-fi ensemble show featuring various separate groups of people connected by a mysterious phenomenon with regular ludicrous plot points.
If we get an amazing Emmy level episode near the end of the season, I’ll make sure to stop watching once the second season starts.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I knew that I was about to be murdered, but I had managed to secretly cut thru the rope that my wrists were bound with, I think I might make my move to attack my would-be assassin BEFORE she had her pistol pressed to the back of my head…:dubious:
I don’t want to be a snarky wannabe TV critic for those who are really into The Event—I am actually quite enjoying it to a point, but stuff like this really takes me out of the show.
What’s bugging me about the show so far is that no one seems interested in actually finding out who these people are and where they came from. It’s all just “what’s their secret agenda?” and “oh, I’m sure our peoples can learn to live together.”
It’s the same gripe I have with ‘V’. No one seems to care that they are aliens, but rather just how they dramatically interact with the humans. And they even have an alien in their core group of good guys. But of course the show just treats him as another human character and nobody even bothers to ask even the most trivial questions about his alien nature.
She hadn’t finished cutting through the rope until that moment. As soon as she was through she spun around and knocked away the pistol. However, if I had managed to get upstairs and turn around and shoot my captor, I would have followed her back down the stairs and put a couple more behind her ear, just to be sure. Of course, that would have made it obvious that they were blanks, but that’s just one more plot hole that they could have ignored.
At this point I’m only watching when my wife has control of the remote and I can’t convince her to watch MNF.
:dubious: I really don’t think the realistic scenario there is for the twenty-something girl to stay at the place she was kidnapped and calmly make sure her kidnapper is dead.
Just throwing this out there and following the time travellers theory: I’m wondering if the reason the “others” can’t say anything to the President is because the President swore them to secrecy before they went back in time. Kinda like that Star Trek: TNG episode where Picard did the same thing with Data.
Also, she was probably concerned that the other kidnapper (the one played by D.B. Sweeney) would recapture or kill her if she didn’t get out of there as soon as possible.
If they cut out the unnecessary flashbacks, which is almost all of them, and played the important ones in chronological order, then cut out all the scenes where the plot doesn’t progress, the last four episodes would be two episodes long.
Anyone else not give a crap about the alien time traveller/presidential drama and only find the show interesting when Jason Ritter/girlfriend plot is the focus?
I mean, I’m sure they’ll interconnect better eventually but for now, I’m like “just shut up already obviously not Cuban Blair Underwood and you too Dr. Weaver!” and “go away guy that was hunting mutants on Heroes”.
