The Event Season 1.5 *Spoilers*

[propita]

So the “aliens” are actually Terran (not sure what to call them). Not sure if they’re humans, but they can produce hybrids, so they’re pretty damn close. Are the hybrids mules? Can they reproduce with each other, with humans, and/or with these Terrans

Going by their own “rules”--what happens to the human-whatever hybrids during the event? Are they safe? Was the answer really to just cross-breed humans with these Terrans, and now it’s too late because Martinez killed most of them?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

...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.

So, we were right all along: cancellation is The Event.

 

[throwback]

Frankly, I am tired of conspiracies in sci-fi shows. Too many shows nowadays have a conspiracy at the heart of the story. I know Americans love conspiracies, but this is getting very tedious.

 

[Ganja Tea]

I have to agree. I'd love to see a scifi drama without a conspiracy at the center of it. What I'd really love is a serialized version of Gattaca or something similar. A series set in the future dealing with the tension between people who are trying to hold on to their humanity in a world dominated by people who've modified themselves so much by technology as to make those who haven't obsolete. I think something like that would be refreshing.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I said to a friend that if they had stripped all the scifi from this show and called it the fugitive, it would have been a success. The show was about running. They did running well, but the running got in the way of the flying saucers and the anal probing, which is what we expect from aliens summering on Earth.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Frankly, I am tired of conspiracies in sci-fi shows. Too many shows nowadays have a conspiracy at the heart of the story. I know Americans love conspiracies, but this is getting very tedious.

Do Americans love conspiracies? The ones I know are all pretty sick of conspiracies in TV shows, largely because they are so damn cookie cutter. I think TV writers are the ones who love conspiracies because they offer a simplistic way to invest a story with mystery and dramatic tension. But it's too easy and in the end the cheapness shows.

What I'd really love is a serialized version of Gattaca or something similar. A series set in the future dealing with the tension between people who are trying to hold on to their humanity in a world dominated by people who've modified themselves so much by technology as to make those who haven't obsolete. I think something like that would be refreshing.

And difficult to write well. Just look at Caprica, which is one of the few sci fi shows I can think of that has ever tackled such a complex and tricky topic. So much easier just to whomp up another lame-ass conspiracy instead of making an effort.

 

[Noname Given]

Moving a planet through space to avoid extinction...oh, no, they're Pupeteers (Larry Niven should sue )

 

[AviTrek]

Deadline is now reporting that SyFy is exploring bringing The Event back as a mini-series and possibly a season after that. They're also exploring picking up Locke and Key.

Of all the shows to rescue SyFy picks The Event? I have less and less faith in the executives there every day.

Also, how about picking up 17th Precinct, another Universal Production(and by their gold boy Moore too) instead of Locke and Key?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Of all the shows to rescue SyFy picks The Event? I have less and less faith in the executives there every day.

No kidding, it's like they're deliberately trying to make syfy as sucky as possible.

Also, how about picking up 17th Precinct, another Universal Production(and by their gold boy Moore too) instead of Locke and Key?

Scuttlebutt is that 17th Precinct was "a mess" (no doubt a fascinating, imaginative mess, but still) and Locke & Key has gotten nothing but praise and sounds like it's far more solid of a series that can survive in the long run. I don't want a timeslot wasted on another unfocused mess like Caprica when it can go to something that's better pulled together.

 

[startrekwatcher]

The Event was crap--let it die. It had 23 episodes to prove itself and it was an utter bore. Nick Wauters is a hack.

 

[Noname Given]

Deadline is now reporting that SyFy is exploring bringing The Event back as a mini-series and possibly a season after that. They're also exploring picking up Locke and Key.

Of all the shows to rescue SyFy picks The Event? I have less and less faith in the executives there every day.

Also, how about picking up 17th Precinct, another Universal Production(and by their gold boy Moore too) instead of Locke and Key?

Rmember that SyFy is owned by NBC/Universal; so that probably factors into the decision alot. Personally, I'm with yiou in that I hope they rethink and DON'T go that route.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i think it'd be nice for SyFy to have movies that are contiuations of something -- since they show repeats of these shows, wouldn't create buzz for a continuation movie or mini-series (instead of the creature of the week).

As for the new planet -- Sophia had no idea that things had gotten so dire...she thought they had a couple of centuries at least , so playing nice in the prison for 60 years seemed logical. With Martinez, Sophia seemed at the verge of creating a workable peace. But then her son went crazy, and THEN the twist of their planet in IMMEDIATE danger. ("Far out" twists -- reminescent of 24, whose producers were a part of this show).

My wife & i were disappointed with the cancellation -- so at least WE would be watching a continuation...

 

[hyzmarca]

Frankly, I am tired of conspiracies in sci-fi shows. Too many shows nowadays have a conspiracy at the heart of the story. I know Americans love conspiracies, but this is getting very tedious.

Do Americans love conspiracies? The ones I know are all pretty sick of conspiracies in TV shows, largely because they are so damn cookie cutter. I think TV writers are the ones who love conspiracies because they offer a simplistic way to invest a story with mystery and dramatic tension. But it's too easy and in the end the cheapness shows.

In order to have a sci-fi series set in the modern world you need a Masquerade, which is nothing more than a conspiracy to hide the truth. If your protagonists are in on it they you've got SG-1 or MIB. If your protagonists are outside of it then you've got the X-Files or First Wave.

Now if you've got a plucky protagonist fighting a secret alien invasion you need some mechanism to explain why he doesn't shout the truth from the rafters. That means either giving the bad guys implausibly perfect means of destroying evidence (as in First Wave) or making him work hard for the truth throughout the series (as with the X-Files).

The X-Files demonstrated the big flaw with that type of storytelling. Resolving the conspiracy necessarily meant destroying the setting and ending the show.

The Event certainly learned from this. World-Shaking resolutions were always part of the plan as evidenced by the finale. But the need to keep the audience in the dark (and thus helping them relate to the viewpoint protagonists who had their world pulled out from under them) kind of made the whole thing look like a series of incoherent asspulls.