The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discussion

[Aragorn]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

^ The dead RV driver went through the windshield and was hanging out from it.

This episode showed they don't need their flashback to a flashback to a flashback gimmick. In fact, there didn't even need to be the one they had.

 

[FreezeC77]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

^ The dead RV driver went through the windshield and was hanging out from it.

This episode showed they don't need their flashback to a flashback to a flashback gimmick. In fact, there didn't even need to be the one they had.

guess I wasn't paying much attention to miss that then. Too bad there was a little kid in a stroller in the back of the RV who burned to death because dude never bothered to check on it tho....

 

[bigdaddy]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Yes. Shoddy editing.

Or a plot point.

If this show were Lost, it would either be a plot point or something meaningless we'd argue about for the next five years.

By the looks of the ratings free fall NBC will put The Event out of the way by May, something that should have been done with Lost.

 

[Aragorn]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

So what's the purpose of the frame job if they just want to kill him two episodes later?

 

[propita]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

^ The dead RV driver went through the windshield and was hanging out from it.

This episode showed they don't need their flashback to a flashback to a flashback gimmick. In fact, there didn't even need to be the one they had.

I wondered about that, then saw the guy hanging out. But there was no one else? OTOH, the rv driver was an idiot and sean thought everything was going to blow up, so why take the time.

A former co-worker saw someone just like--through the front windshield. But she only saw half because the glass literally sliced him in two. Guess that doesn't always happen.

 

[Peter the Younger]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Didn't they drive a lot further away at the end of episode two? Episode three has them barely turning around before getting smashed by the RV.

Jeff Jensen noted last week that The Event plays best if you compare it to the old Saturday matinee serials of the 40s, and man was he right. They were notorious for cliffhanger endings that were re-shot in the next episode, to build false suspense.

So what's the purpose of the frame job if they just want to kill him two episodes later?

I assumed it was a stopgap measure to make sure he wouldn't get help from the authorities before they got to him.

Speaking of which, is it just me, or do D.B. Sweeny's crew of killers seem pretty sloppy, shooting up a whole FBI office? Or is this going to be the pattern of the show, with increasingly insane things happening and getting covered up? (Episode 13: "I'm telling you, there was a town called Hoboken, and it was right here! I'm not crazy!")

 

[Vendikarr]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

I also called that cop from the moment he pulled her over. You got to feel for the uniforms in every show; they always get the short end of the stick.

As soon as he turned down the bribe, I thought to myself 'An honest cop. He's dead.'

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

So far nobody has mentioned the absurdity of FBI Cat Lady taking the time to explain to Our Hero how to hack into the FBI database (go to the field office in Yuma, walk down the hall, turn left at the candy machine...)

Couldn't she just tell the guy "forget it douchebag, you can't hack into the FBI that way" or "you can't hack into the FBI any way" or just say nothing and let him try passwords till he's blue in the face? I'd tell him he has to go to the FBI field office in Bangor, Maine. That's a nice long trip from Yuma.

 

[stj]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Somebody, somebody needs to tattoo on writers' foreheads that ambiguity is a BAD Thing. They're so busy getting coy with Ivanek and Innes that these characters are just blobs. Jason Ritter is cute as a button but this is very much like Fringe, there's just not much else there.

I fell asleep again. I gather it was the plane victims who suddenly came back to life.

If I watch this show it'll be because I'm too bored to do nothing and too tired to concentrate on reading. This is not appointment TV.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Oh yeah, that RV. It just came out of nowhere didn't it?

And as for the flashback, I was a bit confused at first when they showed Sean patching up the FBI agent in the motel. I thought I missed something and didn't remember that this is what the show does.

 

[Sheep]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

This ep was a gigantic improvement over last week's thanks in no small part to the lack of incoherent, hard-to-follow flashbacks. Hopefully this lack of crappy flashbacks will become the norm rather than the exception.

There's still a large number of moments in place solely to make the plot work that make zero sense in reality (e.g., the FBI server room that's not under lock and key, no one noticing Walker climbing into the trunk of an FBI vehicle), but I guess I'll stick around to see how it plays out as long as they don't re-introduce the convoluted flashbacks.

 

[Agent Richard07]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

^ I wondered why he'd even get in the trunk. What if someone looked in there?

 

[Checkmate]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

For me, this show is stupid just for the sake of being stupid. Puzzling mysteries only make sense if 1) they actually make sense (ie, framing a guy for something that didn't need to be framed, then trying to kill him ten minutes later) and 2) involve things that the audience gives a flying fuck about. A tease isn't a tease if no one knows what the hell the teasing is.

 

[Vendikarr]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Puzzling mysteries only make sense if 1) they actually make sense (ie, framing a guy for something that didn't need to be framed, then trying to kill him ten minutes later)

Actually this makes a lot of sense. They lost their guy. One of the quickest ways to find him is to get law enforcement looking for him. Which is what happened. He was brought in without any work from the baddies.

All they had to do was flash their fake badges, pick him up and dispose of him in peace and quiet. When the lady fed called to verify their story, the had to fall back on plan b, and shoot the shit outta the place.

 

[Checkmate]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

No, it's still stupid, and you have your facts wrong.

He was framed way before anything happened, by the people who are now trying to kill him for no discernible reason. They had him in their possession on the boat, with no way for him to escape. They just tried to convince him (for whatever stupid reason) that he was never there. Which still hasn't been explained, nor will ever make any fucking sense.

If they wanted him dead, there's no reason at all to have framed him. Nothing's actually changed since then, except that he magically got off the boat and wound up learning about his would-be father-in-law hijacking the plane and somehow managing to get onboard to try and stop it. Which makes fuck-all sense in and of itself, especially since it's the same people who tried to frame him that set him up (so clearly they wouldn't have given him the information).

It's just... stupid. There's no sense in it whatsoever. Everything is moving at the speed of hand-waving and faux-mystery.

 

[bigdaddy]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

I think the girl he went scuba diving with was supposed to kill him and she failed, that's why he was erased from the computer. You can't kill someone on a boat that he was never on. So once he got away they framed him for something.

 

[Checkmate]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Yeah... no. There was no indication of that whatsoever. She had plenty of opportunities to kill him while they were out diving. Their goal was clearly to kidnap the girl to use her to manipulate her father. The whole framing thing was just random stupidity on the writer's part and makes no sense. Even if he "got away from her," there's no reason to go through the elaborate frame job. When they were escorting him to the room, they could have taken him out at any point then, too.

Crap writing, crap show.

 

[propita]

Re: The Event: "Protect Them From the Truth" - Oct. 4 - Grading/Discus

Any chance Sean's an offspring of those who weren't interned in Alaska? That's why they're not killing him. But then, that fake US Agent-whatever sure looked ready to kill him at the FBI.

No sense.

I'll go with the flow for awhile, but I'm already having to pare my watch list. I've dropped Nikita despite enjoying it as part of shortening the list.