The Event Season 1.5 *Spoilers*

[Guy Gardener]

I'm more concerned about how the Atlanteans thought that they had best leave earth as quickly as possible before the "Event" takes root SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO! How do we know that the event isn't really another 6 thousand or maybe 12 thousand years away?

Poncy wankers.

By this reasoning, man should leave earth one day so that the Apes have a show of building a life for themselves.

Was that a planet or a hollowed out asteroid/moon?

 

[sojourner]

The way it was described, the aliens/others being on Earth would lead to the event happening. Not that it was going to happen after a set amount of time. They left so the event wouldn't happen.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Now you're making me think of that stupid space cloud from that awful fantastic four movie... Or Threshhold where the friendly aliens were upgrading mankind to survive an oncoming radiation storm that was going to melt all the baselne humans...

The mining for Spanish flu corpses thing was done before in the 80s in Prey with Debra messing and one of the lads from Brothers and Sisters where Homosuperior was trying to get rid of Homosapiens "Humanely" rather than beat them with rocks for the next 40 years.

Perhaps with out humanity to dominate and subject, the idle Atlanteans didn't have any rock to repel against evolutionarily speaking?

"This isn't over yet, I don't know how, but as far as I know, Sophia is still bringing our peopeol here. Sean, what you need to know is, our people here, we were here before, our people were here first."

"I don't understand"

"This place was our home before it was yours

"Why did you leave?"

"Because my people beleive that if we stay here, something will happen to all of us, we call it the event, it's a rebirth, the next step for our people, we'll change, evolve into something else, something greater, but your peopel will not survive."

"Why not? What happens?"

Well that seems like tosh.

Imagine if when Whitey found the America's they said to themselves, "gosh if we stay we'll rape and plunder the shit out all the savages wandering about naked here... What? They don't have guns? Hells! We'll rape and plunder twice as much four times as fast!... But we shouldn't. It's a real dick move. Lets just turn back and see if all these Indians, Incas and Eskimos can make a go for it by themselves and actually make a decent civilization, and then one day, in maybe a century, we can meet them on the open sea as equals."

All the purely indigenous people are on the brink of extinction, that whitey should think about fobbing off before virtual genocide becomes actual genocide, I mean if millions upon millions of colonists were decent fair minded people that is, who felt guilty about stealing America from a race of once upon a time clearly not ready to deal on a level playing field with a complete cunt like Cortez.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Great story. Compelling and rich.

 

[Brolan]

So, I'm trying to figure out this mess of an ending. We have spent 22 episodes running around vanishing aircraft, doing secret missions, and spreading viruses, but the climatic event of the season is some guy throwing a switch in Nepal who isn't even part of the main story? And Sophia's order to do it is given with the same emotion and drama she might use to order a pizza from Dominos?

If you are going to write a drama, don't you think you might want to have a point to the entire season? That is, if this was the ending they had planned, that the season build up and revolve around this gateway being opened and our heroes attempts to stop it from happening.

But we ended up with a resolution where we thought they won, but then found out it didn't matter anyway because some guy threw a switch 12,000 miles away and they were, for all intents and purposes, nuked from orbit. And the audience that watched all this crap now feel like chumps. What was the point of this show again?

 

[sojourner]

In the end nobody won. anyone who has heard the word "physics" would realize that having a new planet materialize inside the orbit of the moon would doom all three bodies.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Unless perhaps that that moon is supposed to be there.

Imagine perhaps if 6 thousand years ago, that is how they left earthspace.

On that moon.

ZOOM!

And everything on Earth has been shitty since.

With the return of our missing Moon, it might just fix everything wrong with our weather and geological instability... All the earthquakes and Volcanoes can't be "normal" but we've acclimatized to this new shitty state of existence over the last 60 centuries.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I stopped watching around ep 4 or 5 but I popped in here because I read something hysterically funny about "the event" having to do with some crazy alien planet to "put a plan between the Earth and Moon." So it's true???

So, the aliens' plan all along was to bring their entire planet to Earth's vicinity? Didn't they know that doing something like that will simply make both planets uninhabitable and kill everyone? Aren't they supposed to be advanced enough to know something about gravity?

WHY did they want to do such a silly thing?

^It would have been awesome to watch the moon get sucked into the new planet then the whole kit and kaboodle crash into earth.

Aw, they didn't actually show the planet being moved into orbit?

 

[startrekwatcher]

The aliens possessed portal technology that opened up a rift and moved their dying planet in orbit of Earth. We see the point of view of the portal movement similiar to walking through a stargate and then the planet was there.

 

[Shurik]

Aw, they didn't actually show the planet being moved into orbit?

The portal opened in space somewhere between the Earth and the Moon, then it flashed for about an episode, causing floods, earthquakes and volcano eruptions all over the world and then this happened:

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Shouldn't something a lot more interesting be happening with the water in that shot?

And was it ever explained why the aliens felt the need to park their planet in our back yard? Go park next to Saturn, the view is better!

 

[Mr Light]

Hey, they're aliens. Maybe they have a gravity-neutralizing field enveloping their entire planet

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Their sun was about to reach supernova, so Sophia's plan was to transport all her people (homeworld) over. I guess that literally meant the entire planet.

 

[Shurik]

Shouldn't something a lot more interesting be happening with the water in that shot?

If you've seen 2012, you know what should've happened

And was it ever explained why the aliens felt the need to park their planet in our back yard? Go park next to Saturn, the view is better!

It was never explained, but they did it PROBABLY because they still had to transport their people through the portal to Earth, and the portal had limited range or power or something ...

 

[Temis the Vorta]

If they have magical gravity neutralizing technobabble, then they could give Earth a bit more breathing room and still be well within the habitable band. A bit rude of them.

And if they can teleport a planet all over the place, why not find a star system with no planet in the habitable band and go occupy it? I'm sure there are plenty that qualify.

Better yet, start teleporting nice rocky planets of the right size from their current orbits into the habitable bands of various star systems as candidates for terraforming. Then tell the people of Earth that they have whole new planets that they can explore.

The aliens could be the most popular people in history if they play their cards right, instead of being secretive and making everyone suspicious. Oh well they're cancelled anyway.

 

[Obiwanshinobi]

Not enough time to tell that story before cancellation.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

If they'd started with that story, maybe they wouldn't be cancelled.

Why not do an alien-visitor story where it's possible that they're just really nice aliens who are giving away cool stuff for free? Why is that so completely impossible to envision?

Then the dramatic tension is, who are the villains? The aliens, who are hiding something? Or the nasty, suspicious humans who think they are, and who are going to frak things up for everyone?

 

[bigdaddy]

If the writers could write and had an actual plan from the beginning the last episode would have been the 13. It's clear from their messed up pilot that they really had no plan.

 

[cylkoth]

Reposting comments I made from another board...

Hokay....I'm a member of a race that possesses the technology to create portals that can cross vast distances...
My planet is slowly dying....

I know my planet is dying...

I transport myself and a group of Others to our former homeworld...

I waste 60 odd years sitting in jail, and letting my crazy son dither about plotting global conquest...

My crazy son has built a supah™ portal that can transport the entire population of our dying planet to our old new homeworld...

I waste time on a silly plot to unleash a plague on the hew-mons, to avenge the crazy son who tried to kill me and did kill several dozen of our own people who sided with me against him...

Oh, by the way, we can warp our entire planet into the solar system...



Uh...why didn't we do this when we found out that our planet was dying? Just build a portal on our own planet, and ala Ming the Merciless, move that sucker someplace safe? Or zap it in the same orbital plane as Earth, just on the opposite side of the sun where it wouldn't affect Earth? Or a nearby solar system?

Temis said
If they'd started with that story, maybe they wouldn't be cancelled.

Why not do an alien-visitor story where it's possible that they're just really nice aliens who are giving away cool stuff for free? Why is that so completely impossible to envision?

Then the dramatic tension is, who are the villains? The aliens, who are hiding something? Or the nasty, suspicious humans who think they are, and who are going to frak things up for everyone?

Would have been a nice for a change, but this is network tv, and we need them aliens to be up to something...a planet mysteriously appears in our solar system, an advanced society severely damaged from the trip...in need of our help...Earth governments curry favor to secure advanced tech...the Visitors-Taelons-Others have actual spaceships-no freakin wormholes, and we wantz them. Schemes, lying, cheating ensues. Nations pitted against one another in their mad dash to obtain Other super toys...But they're hiding a big Seeecrit™...they miscalulated the jump and their planet will slowly drift towards the sun and burn, so they've got their eyes-all 2 billion of them, on some prime real estate on Earth...
Just don't let'em watch Superman Returns...

And so it ends. Once again, potential abound for a solid action- drama, and once again, we watch it go unfulfilled.

 

[Agent Richard07]

...I read something hysterically funny about "the event" having to do with some crazy alien planet to "put a plan between the Earth and Moon." So it's true???

Actually, that's not the event. The event is something else that's yet to happen. It involves some sort of ascension for the aliens which will the human race won't survive.