# The Event. Who's side are you on? (possible spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585 "2011-05-11T23:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2011, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/1 "2011-05-11T23:38:32Z")
Tittle says it all. Am I a sadistic bastard for being on the aliens side? (probably) poll to follow. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/2 "2011-05-12T00:00:11Z")
Shouldn’t there be a third option “both sides are complete douches, so I hope everyone dies”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/3 "2011-05-12T00:06:35Z")
I can’t believe I started watching this show again. It’s beyond stupid. I guess I just want to find out the backstory of the aliens. I assume they are some sort of time travelers, but maybe the writers don’t even know. But I’m with **Shakes**. I don’t care who wins, as long as we find out who the aliens are. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/4 "2011-05-13T15:06:01Z")
Do we know yet if the show has been cancelled or picked up for another season? Agreed that the writing could be better, but I love me some sci-fi drama, and just want _something_ to stick. But yeh, I voted “aliens”… but the “good” aliens that are on our side. Even though I think they’re our pre-historic, space-farring ancestors who’ve returned after several millennia. ---
**Author:** ![Seamack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/46a35a/32.png) [@Seamack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seamack)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/5 "2011-05-13T16:03:40Z")
I want them all to die. I’m continuing to watch this show only because I invested my time in watching it at the outset - when it seemed interesting. Now, it irritates me as the plot just gets more and more ludicrous. I’m presuming it won’t get a 2nd season pick up and I wouldn’t complain about that. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/6 "2011-05-13T19:33:12Z")
The aliens have never been truthful with us. I could just believe the “we’re only keeping secrets for your own good because of the Prime Directive, blah blah” line until they were forced to make a hard choice. And I’m really getting sick of Sophia’s crocodile tears about how much she regrets ordering people’s deaths. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/7 "2011-05-13T20:01:50Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > And I’m really getting sick of Sophia’s crocodile tears about how much she regrets ordering people’s deaths. ## I never watched more than a couple of E.R. episodes, but the woman who plays Sophia is apparently quite excellent at playing a stone-cold bitch, and in certain shots with the right lighting, is extremely attractive, even though I would guess she is 20+ years older than I am. That said, The Event is beyond ludicrous, but it has me played like a fiddle, as I have watched each and every episode, which is something I don’t think I have ever done before in my life (never been a Sci-Fi person, and with the handful of sit-coms I have gotten into over the years, skipping an episode here or there makes no real difference) although I pray it’s cancelled and wrapped up here in the next few weeks, as I feel dumber by the episode for having watched it…:smack: ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/8 "2011-05-13T20:13:30Z")
Just read on AICN… it’s officially cancelled. They’ll air the rest of the season. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2011, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/9 "2011-05-13T20:53:59Z")
I wonder if we’ll ever actually see the titular Event. So far all we’ve seen is a bunch of stuff that is not the Event. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2011, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/10 "2011-05-14T01:26:12Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > I wonder if we’ll ever actually see the titular Event. So far all we’ve seen is a bunch of stuff that is not the Event. I’d be happy if they explained how that one guy went from being on a cruise and having his girlfriend kidnapped to being a guy who knew all about a plot to crash an airplane. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2011, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-event-whos-side-are-you-on-possible-spoilers/581585/11 "2011-05-15T23:59:51Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I’d be happy if they explained how that one guy went from being on a cruise and having his girlfriend kidnapped to being a guy who knew all about a plot to crash an airplane. Yeah, that bugged me too. I figured they’d just explain it as they were filling in the back stories, but then they never did.