We’re all dead to anyone from the future, no cataclysm necessary. Just like if you and I travelled back to the 1800s, every single person we see would be long dead before we were ever born.
So, there’s a third party at play here, right?
The old bio-engineering dude with the million dollar orchids. He’s running aging experiments on little girls, or something?
Yeah, we’ve got the government, the aliens, and the guys who tried to kill the president. Which I always assumed there was another party at play, because why would the aliens try to kill the president and then stop themselves?
I’m guessing the little girls aging thing is probably them trying to figure out how to counteract the whole “aliens not aging” thing. Also, the fact that they the journalist lady said they were aliens makes me very well think that they aren’t aliens.
Man, this show is half good and half completely stupid. Like the “we know we have a mole and the aliens can move entire airplanes, but lets leave this very important blood sample unguarded.” Or the boyfriends, “I can crack this code, as long as you get me to someone who has access to very powerful code cracking software.”
I’m surprised this show is still on. I watch a few other things on NBC and was inundated with promos for “The Event”. But now? Not a whisper.
Have they ever said what The Event is, or was? 'Cause all we ever heard when the series started was, “*X *is not The Event.” Well, then, what the hell *was *The Event? Have we even seen it at this point?
At every commercial during the show, my wife and I look at each other and say, “The previous ten minutes were not The Event.”
I’m assuming The Event is something in humanity’s future that gives motive to the “EBE’s” arrival and mission. What that is is the central mystery of the show right now.
Was it just me or was there one of those orchids in the room when Sophia was giving Thomas the business?
Hrmmm… Not sure TBG, I didn’t catch that. If so, it means Thomas is in cahoots with ancient old rich dude. Perhaps Thomas is trying to accelerate bioengineering science too (as I believe the EBEs to be engineered humans, hence the slight difference in their DNA.)
I was out of town this week and just watched this week’s episode a few minutes ago—I actually think the show is getting better, and although no one would call it great television, the most glaring, ludicrous, get-the-mollyfock-outta-here elements seem to have been done away with.
That said, the Hott Brunette Super-Assassin is apparently not the most reliable hitwoman around, especially when it is a plotpoint crucial to drive the story forward, (afterall, we have seen her murder about 20 people since the show started, but she screws up the big ones each time) but I suppose with aliens, time travelers and doctors who are able to successfully perform lifesaving surgery in a dark alley it is just another drop in the bucket.
Anyone else still hanging in here?
I was but I fear the latest episode may have been the last straw. I can take the incompetent super hitwoman with a heart of gold, the kidnapped surgeon who can take a man from dying to okay with the tying off of a single artery, the ridiculously extended effort of the president digging through phone records when there were only five people in the meeting and they knew exactly when the phone call was placed… All that I can take.
But as soon as they started in on the old “I am going to reveal who the big baddie is, but first I must delay and hem and haw” routine I was talking to the screen. “Oh, come on! You cannot possibly be going there! Please, please let there be a twist. Please–” BOOM.
That is soooo old and sooooo lame.
I’m still watching, but losing interest fast. What are the ratings like? After being 'burned" by the cancellation of other similar shows (FlashForward, Journeyman, Life on Mars), I am getting gunshy about investing my time in these shows.
Whatever ultimately happened in FlashForward anyway? I stopped watching after the fourth episode.
The exact same thing that will almost surely happen to The Event. First it was put on hiatus for like four months, got retooled, came back to half its former audience and petered out over a month or so until it got cancelled.
It was just announced that The Event will go on a four month hiatus. For those gunshy about long-form arc dramas that get cancelled, watch next week’s “Fall Finale” and then walk away for good.
I like all the hokey cliches in a MST3000 kind of way, but even I groaned this week. The old “girl being chased falls down and twists her ankle” cliche is orders of magnitude worse than last week’s “guy delays the big reveal just long enough to get killed” from last week. And they even undid that by letting him live this week, so “chased girl falls down” is currently the reigning champ.
We’ve had the latest episode sitting on our DVR for a few days now, and finally sat down last night to watch it. We didn’t even make it through the credits before we realized that we just didn’t care, and deleted it from our schedule.
I guess removing it from our lineup was The Event.
There was another FF, this time several years hence, IIRC.
I almost think you should have watched it, just so you would know that the show (as of this week’s episode) has become truly laughable, a trainwreck no longer attempting any pretense of realism, even for a Sci-Fi series.
Two weeks ago Sophia was the most wanted “person” on the face of the Earth, someone to be hunted down by the US Government at all costs. This week, with no explanation, she is now apparently free to travel the country, meeting with the other “Others” in hotel conference rooms and airport lounges at will.
Also, it looks like after watching her partner getting murdered, and then seeing a FBI Field Office being shot all to hell, and next discovering a small town Texas police department where all the officers have been killed by a professional hit squad (most of whom were also killed) the natural thing for the Hottie Brunette FBI Agent to do is to feed info to the 20-something kid at the heart of the Big Conspiracy information so that HE can go off on his own to investigate------:rolleyes:
This Federal Agent has witnessed a dozen murders in the last week (including her own partner) and has first-hand evidence of a Global Conspiracy, and so naturally she then promptly forgets about all of it and instead helps a wanted fugitive (even though she knows he is innocent) stay on the run…:smack:
Not to mention the president who apparently has absolutely nothing else requiring his attention, to such a degree that he can personally conduct interviews, interrogations, and even fly out to the desert Southwest to personally view hundreds of bodies that will shortly be covered up.
Apparently he doesn’t have the same press corps that Obama has. The one that gets out of sorts when he goes to play golf without bringing them along.
Sophia’s voice is like fingernails on a blackboard for me. She has the personality of a turnip.
Compare and contrast with Ben Linus on Lost. Producers/writers take note.
A lot things about this show bother me but not that LOL. If a group of rogue aliens started pulling planes out of the sky and blowing up buildings, I can’t think of anything else that would be a higher priority.