Posted: 9/20/2010 8:08:30 PM EDT
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Thoughts? Impressions? I think the V transported the plane to an island somewhen in the ocean... |
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Not one character stuck out at me, except for maybe that ER lesbian's.
In fact, nothing stuck out at me. It's like someone described the X-Files to the least imaginative guy in the world, that guy described it to the second least imaginative guy in the world, and that guy wrote up a screenplay and cast some actors and then washed both through 8 weeks of intense focus groups using cherry picked best-of-the-best soap opera moms, hollywood extras, and screenwriter wannabes, each vying to make the least interesting contribution ever in the hopes of lowering the bar so far that the lowest common denominator has to dig to find it. There's a reason that people with an IQ over 85 don't watch network television any more. (Let's rehash the episode, shall we? "Beach! Sex! Great looking people! Unexplained events! Unanswered questions! More sex! Air marshals are cool! No really, look how cool they are! They even have, like, guns! Look how daring we are for referencing a deliberate plane crash like the lone gunmen did in their pilot episode 87 years ago! We're ON THE EDGE! And don't worry, tune in for a year's worth of episodes and we promise to spoonfeed you some random nonsense answers in a few more years! It'll be worth it, trust us!") (The fucking show's not even about anything. Compare that Lost wannabe POS's events with those of Surface or the first half of Deep Impact. Both involved slowly unravelled conspiracies, but the conspiracies were kind of plausible and interesting. This one is just make-stuff-up. Other dimensions! Aliens! Taken! The 4400! Fucking manatees wrote this.) |
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I didn't really care for all the symbolism... Alaskan Guantanamo Bay (probably run by Palin herself) Pious black president from a foreign country (yes, apparently the President in this show is from Cuba) Thinly veiled 9/11 This part especially was  .
not just that a plane was used as a weapon, i can deal with that, but how it was done by some sketchy, dishonorable consortium of conspirators to hide a government cover-up by killing their annointed black president before he could stop their heinous activity and strike a blow for world peace and human rights.. sounds like a troofers wet dream in fiction or yah, spoiler alert 
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Quoted: I didn't really care for all the symbolism... Alaskan Guantanamo Bay (probably run by Palin herself) Pious black president from a foreign country (yes, apparently the President in this show is from Cuba) Thinly veiled 9/11 I noticed that too. Then there was this from Mattsd: 13 days earlier 6 months earlier 2 hours earlier 1 year earlier The flashback crap is becoming the latest trend in TV. One time and it was unique. Now it's boring and becoming a pain. |
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Not one character stuck out at me, except for maybe that ER lesbian's. In fact, nothing stuck out at me. It's like someone described the X-Files to the least imaginative guy in the world, that guy described it to the second least imaginative guy in the world, and that guy wrote up a screenplay and cast some actors and then washed both through 8 weeks of intense focus groups using cherry picked best-of-the-best soap opera moms, hollywood extras, and screenwriter wannabes, each vying to make the least interesting contribution ever in the hopes of lowering the bar so far that the lowest common denominator has to dig to find it. There's a reason that people with an IQ over 85 don't watch network television any more. (Let's rehash the episode, shall we? "Beach! Sex! Great looking people! Unexplained events! Unanswered questions! More sex! Air marshals are cool! No really, look how cool they are! They even have, like, guns! Look how daring we are for referencing a deliberate plane crash like the lone gunmen did in their pilot episode 87 years ago! We're ON THE EDGE! And don't worry, tune in for a year's worth of episodes and we promise to spoonfeed you some random nonsense answers in a few more years! It'll be worth it, trust us!") (The fucking show's not even about anything. Compare that Lost wannabe POS's events with those of Surface or the first half of Deep Impact. Both involved slowly unravelled conspiracies, but the conspiracies were kind of plausible and interesting. This one is just make-stuff-up. Other dimensions! Aliens! Taken! The 4400! Fucking manatees wrote this.) Something vexes thee? |
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Just watched it....I really can't stand NBC and how the network's politics always presents itself in their programming. The Event is disappointingly no different is this regard. Having said that, the plot looks interesting and the show has some promise. I think the aliens did it.
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So what is the ER chick the leader of?
Alien people (or kidnapped humans representing them) in the internment camp? Cuban Obama Blair Underwood was going to announce her and the others to the world at the Miami press conference, and the VP and CIA try to kill him/prevent the announcement with the hijacked plane? Then the aliens space-warp away the plane to save everyone? |
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Not one character stuck out at me, except for maybe that ER lesbian's. In fact, nothing stuck out at me. It's like someone described the X-Files to the least imaginative guy in the world, that guy described it to the second least imaginative guy in the world, and that guy wrote up a screenplay and cast some actors and then washed both through 8 weeks of intense focus groups using cherry picked best-of-the-best soap opera moms, hollywood extras, and screenwriter wannabes, each vying to make the least interesting contribution ever in the hopes of lowering the bar so far that the lowest common denominator has to dig to find it. There's a reason that people with an IQ over 85 don't watch network television any more. (Let's rehash the episode, shall we? "Beach! Sex! Great looking people! Unexplained events! Unanswered questions! More sex! Air marshals are cool! No really, look how cool they are! They even have, like, guns! Look how daring we are for referencing a deliberate plane crash like the lone gunmen did in their pilot episode 87 years ago! We're ON THE EDGE! And don't worry, tune in for a year's worth of episodes and we promise to spoonfeed you some random nonsense answers in a few more years! It'll be worth it, trust us!") (The fucking show's not even about anything. Compare that Lost wannabe POS's events with those of Surface or the first half of Deep Impact. Both involved slowly unravelled conspiracies, but the conspiracies were kind of plausible and interesting. This one is just make-stuff-up. Other dimensions! Aliens! Taken! The 4400! Fucking manatees wrote this.) Something vexes thee? I hate wasted potential. |
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Quoted: I didn't really care for all the symbolism... Alaskan Guantanamo Bay (probably run by Palin herself) Pious black president from a foreign country (yes, apparently the President in this show is from Cuba) Thinly veiled 9/11 yeah all that really pissed me off too. i didn't care for how the first episode was shot jumping back and forth in time too. They should have just done it in order. Whatever the fuck the people are in the Alaska place better be good or im ejecting.And i better know something solid about "the event" that these people wont tell us about by the third episode. Three strikes is all ou get in a show for me. |
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13 days earlier 6 months earlier 2 hours earlier 1 year earlier fuck that noise Yup, if they can't make a show with a continuous timeline I'm not watching it. back and forth in time I can't follow The skipping back and forth has killed it for me. I'm done. |
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13 days earlier 6 months earlier 2 hours earlier 1 year earlier fuck that noise Yup, if they can't make a show with a continuous timeline I'm not watching it. back and forth in time I can't follow The skipping back and forth has killed it for me. I'm done. Is it even still on? |