Not sure if I'm ready for another weird, serialized drama after "Lost", "Flash Forward", etc. But this looks intriguing.
The Event - Preview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4vumb8J-x8#ws)
When does this start?
Quote from: Blackride on September 06, 2010, 04:14:59 PM
When does this start?
Two weeks - on Sept. 20th. NBC.
http://www.tvcountdown.com/?c375=1 (http://www.tvcountdown.com/?c375=1)
Cool. I will give it a try. I hate missing the first couple of episodes and it ends up being good :)
Been hearing mixed things about this series.. but I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows.. so I'll be watching.
Quote from: Geekyfanboy on September 06, 2010, 04:25:57 PM
Been hearing mixed things about this series.. but I'm a sucker for these kinds of shows.. so I'll be watching.
I am too but Heros and LOST, "LOST" me. BSG is still my favorite show of all time though, yes, even more and Star Trek :)
I'll give it a go too probably.
I LOVED Lost, so...guess I'll give this one a shot too...
Starting tonight on NBC.
Did anyone else watch this...
I really liked it.. not sure about the bouncing around in time but I did like how all the stories kind of lead to the opening scene and I kept telling myself.. this is suppose to be sci fi... and then we get the end.. and I was like WOW.. that was pretty cool and now I can't wait to see where this goes.
I saw it and I kinda liked it. Time will tell if it has staying power.
Watched the first Episode. Was a bit hard to follow at times since they were all over the place with the story. Guess will see how it goes. To be honest, I thought it was ok, but did not really leave me in suspense like the first Episode of Flashforward from Last year.
I'm pretty so-so on it after the first episode. One problem I have is the characters are not really grabbing me. Not like they did in "Lost" or even "Flash Forward" at the start. Also, this jumping around in time was annoying and felt kind of like a cheap trick. I really hope they don't continue to use that format. I'll give it another episode or two, but I'm sort of "mehh" on it so far.
Watched it last night. It's OK but it does feel that somebody has gone out of their way to try to fill the 'Lost' void with this show. The mystery, the time jumping etc. Just not as good.
I'll keep watching, hopefully they will come up with something original.
Still not sure if I want to be teased again for multiple episodes or even seasons of a TV show.
yeah, I tried it, but wasn't hooked. We will see.
It surprises me after Lost, Flash Forward and to a degree Heroes that NBC would try this. I saw bits of the first episode and it was watching mini-cliffhangers every 5 minutes. Very annoying. 1-3 season long story arcs is ok but any more than that you will lose your audience.
This episode was better. I'm kind of digging it now.
Yes episode 2 was much better, and Rico was right about who some of the people were!
Well, it's been announced that NBC is giving this series at least one full season. Maybe I should get caught up?
Yeah...not so sure about this one. I've watched all episodes so far and I gotta be honest...I'm not feeling it much! It's ok, but I wouldn't say I'd be horribly upset if it weren't there anymore. Just my opinion. Please, don't base your viewing choices based on my word. I am not a professional critic or anything! :)
I'm not all that pulled into either, I'm giving it another episode, maybe two, then cutting it from Hulu's feed unless it gets better. I have no investment into the characters, the jumping around is down right annoying. It feels like they are trying to be LOST, but without interesting characters, it's just bland. LOST won with good solid characters, The Event is winning on............idk what.
King
Wow, a full season, that is a bit of a surprise to be honest. It is has been ok, but I have the same sentiments as the others, in that it is not really grabbing me. But on the flip side, it has not really driven me off, so I will keep with it since there are parts of the show I don't mind, even if I don't really care about the Characters.
Again it all makes me wonder who the target this show is aimed at? Especially when geeks like us are not really grabbed by it.
viewed 2 episodes and 2 episodes sitting in my DVR waiting.. very unmotivated to watch.. may drop it.
OK, well just about enough of this "Ole Yeller, it was time to let her go" stuff. I am very much liking this show (note Vartok is trying to be the one who is liking it on this thread compared to all of the "take it or leave its"). The Event started out with the great ending of the jet disappearing into a wormhole of sorts and is accelerating each week.
[spoiler]I really like the "common man can win over bad people motif" and especially when "Vicky" caught a bullet from the heroine, only to find out it was setup to let her escape and lead the aliens to Sean Walker. At this point the "event" is not revealed but hey who can hate a good alien invasion plot when we have so many to choose from. Oh wait, we only have V when it restarts. Let's hope we get an entire season, meanwhile there are enough other decent shows to watch as well. [/spoiler]
I have given up on the Event. After 6 episodes, the characters are two dimensional, predictable and the plot is very uninteresting. What really bites this series is the constant time-travel that is both random and confusing. If your going to jump around the timeline, at least have rules. LOST had rules, this show does not and is nothing but a muddled mess of flashbacks, broken stories and vagueness for vagueness sake. Government-conspiracies gets old fast, especially when you keep adding onto them. Maybe for some that's great, but for me...no.
At least with LOST (and yes, I'm going to keep referencing it), we were both intrigued by the Island and the characters were enjoyable. This has neither. All it is, is some massive cover-up, I'm not sure what the "Event" is at all, is it the Plane, the attempted assassination attempt, what?? Idk! If the "Event" is at the end of the season, the show isn't worth watching. Sorry, but that is a massive amount of buildup for something that may not pay off at all, is not worth a season of TV.
It failed. Put simply. The torture scenes, everyone in pain during that whole disease episode, the struggles of the characters didn't even tug at my heartstrings. All I learned is that there is something more powerful than our Government, that the government covers everything weird up and that have some of the biggest security holes in the world. Woohoo.
I sound harsh, but for a show that won't be cancelled within a season, it should be better than this. It feels like the show had some interesting premise, but the execution was poorly done, much like Heroes. So I've cut it from my Hulu queue. Chuck, No Ordinary Family and others have been more fun, more engaging and entertaining than this show. I knew I had issues when I had to force myself to watch this episode.
Soooo yeah, what did other people think? ;)
King
I thought I'd posted in this thread. I found this on over here by accident on Friday night last week, watched the back half of the first episode and the beginnin of the second before therest k the night took priority.
I haven't given it a fair shot but as nothing grabbed me oarticularly in that period I didn't DVR it for later either so I guess I'm skipping it.
I have been watching the show since it aired. While I still believe it has good potential, I have to agree with some of the other posters here that it is moving too slowly and is not capturing my imagination. It is not really suspenseful and the threat of these aliens/metahumans is too vague to really be engaging. So far, all we know is that they age very slowly and can generate wormholes.
I need more to keep me watching. Next Monday is the last chance for the show to hook me in. Otherwise, it disappears from my DVR schedule.
The first few episode were on uk tv. I didnt get into it as I thought I would.....Ill keep with it because you guys are further ahead than us
Anyone still watching this?? NBC has put it on hiatus until Feb/March of next year.. not sure that's a good sign.
Sounds like they are retooling it. I am pretty much up to date but have not watched the latest Episode. I still don't really have any care for the characters, but the story is moderately interesting. I suspect that it will go the same way Flash forward did, come back to finish the season and then get canceled.
I've started getting into it and I'm up to date.
They seem to be using the flashbacks a lot better now although they are identical to the way Lost did them now. Saying that it is character building.
I can't believe it's on hiatus now. This is NOT GOOD FOR SHOWS!! At least not for new shows that need to build an audience.
I have watched every episode. I kind of like it.
Glad I gave up on it. I'm not getting sucked in like I did with "Flash Forward" last season. These networks are so unreliable anymore.
Yesh, I gave up on it too. Just couldn't wrap around it at all. I tried, I really, really tried! Rico, you're so right. Especially NBC (sorry, don't want to offend anyone). They've been pretty disappointing lately.
Just saw the new two hour episodes and DAMN! They did a great job retooling the show and it looks like it's getting a lot better a lot faster!
I agree, MUCH better. Kind of cool now.
Watching now, yep it's better already! :)
I've got to say, whatever they did, change writers or something, it's like a different show now.
Really enjoying this.