The "Event" this fall on NBC - what have you heard

[Temis the Vorta]

I'm not really interested in this series because it is going to be one of those programs that strings the audience along forever and you only will learn a tiny tiny bit of information that might be useful later on.

The producers have bent themselves into pretzels promising that they will not do specifically that thing!

I think the Hollywood people have gotten the message in spades that FANS ARE IMPATIENT ARGH! Everyone is scrambling to say they won't make the audience wait. To the point where I'm worried that they'll overdo it, give away too much too soon, ruin the pacing and have nowhere to take the story.

Most of the Heroes actors are secretly already contracted for guest spots at later points in the season.

If you're talking about Adrian Pasdar, Jack Coleman, Christine Rose and Zachary Quinto, that's fine by me!

Amen, I will not watch anything until it's finished and I've had reliable information that it's not simply spinning it's wheels week after week for seven years.

Psst: It's safe to watch Lost now.

Interesting. I always have fun talking about the latest TV series... not really much fun to go and discuss stuff 10 years after it's been off the air with the exception of a few series.

I still yak about DS9 every so often but you're right...kinda hard to care about dissecting Lost at this point. Maybe when I get the DVD set.

 

[JoeZhang]

Psst: It's safe to watch Lost now.

Never got past the first seven episodes - too slow, too boring.

 

[Aragorn]

The producers are going out of their way to compare The Event to other shows?

So everyone on the planet blacks out for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds, giving them visions of their lives in a parallel universe where fringe science and a special island exist, and this knowledge brings about an alien invasion that can only be stopped by a counter-terrorism agent who happens to be Lucifer's vessel and lives the same day over and over again?

 

[Jack Bauer]

I'm not really interested in this series because it is going to be one of those programs that strings the audience along forever and you only will learn a tiny tiny bit of information that might be useful later on.

The producers have bent themselves into pretzels promising that they will not do specifically that thing!

I think the Hollywood people have gotten the message in spades that FANS ARE IMPATIENT ARGH! Everyone is scrambling to say they won't make the audience wait. To the point where I'm worried that they'll overdo it, give away too much too soon, ruin the pacing and have nowhere to take the story.

I'm worried that they'll have a stellar first season and run out of ideas and the second season will suck. That's kind of what happened with Heroes. They had a number of good ideas in season one and after that they just rehashed the same ideas over and over. I remember Tim Kring saying he wanted to give answers out faster than Lost did and he sort of did that in the first season and things dragged out too slowly in following seasons. They seemed to have run out of ideas.

 

[Starbreaker]

Psst: It's safe to watch Lost now.

Never got past the first seven episodes - too slow, too boring.

You must be hard to please.

 

[Nardpuncher]

Psst: It's safe to watch Lost now.

Never got past the first seven episodes - too slow, too boring.

You must be hard to please.

Well the ending would be a thing that couldn't please very many people.

I used to sing the praises of Lost and would lend out my DVDs of it to any friend who wanted them. Now I've told them not to bother with that bloody show.

 

[LitmusDragon]

They haven't really impressed me with their out-of-focus banner ads and the backwards "E" in their logo. Yes, this is petty I know, but it just comes off as "edgy-bordering-on-stupid" to me. Kind of like the "Syfy" logo.

I will probably watch the pilot just to see what the hubub is about.

I am official hooked on Fringe now (just finished the first season) so I already have my Lost replacement lined up.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

The producers are going out of their way to compare The Event to other shows?

So everyone on the planet blacks out for exactly 2 minutes and 17 seconds, giving them visions of their lives in a parallel universe where fringe science and a special island exist, and this knowledge brings about an alien invasion that can only be stopped by a counter-terrorism agent who happens to be Lucifer's vessel and lives the same day over and over again?

No, they're only claiming to be like successful shows. I think you have a few flops in the mix there.

Here's a nice "logline" type description of it that I found: "What if some guy stumbled across a secret so powerful it could change the course of humanity!!!???!!!" (I might have added some extra punctuation.) Nice humble approach...

I remember Tim Kring saying he wanted to give answers out faster than Lost did and he sort of did that in the first season and things dragged out too slowly in following seasons. They seemed to have run out of ideas.

Yeesh, if Kring ran out of ideas after one season with a wide-open premise like Heroes had, he should give up working in a creative field and switch to accounting. Anyway, the writers on that show had plenty of ideas. They just lacked the ability to tell the good ideas from the lousy ones, and how to implement ideas into a storyline that has good pacing and payoff, without making their characters look stupid or like their personalities, beliefs and goals did a 180 overnight.

Heroes should have been easy to craft into a successful several-season series. It's the Icarus Myth with modern-day humans. They think they can use god-like powers successfully, they can't, but being pig-headed humans, they will never admit that. You can spin an infinite range of stories out of that one theme.

With The Event, they're on dicier turf. A lot will depend on whether their big secret goes over well, or comes off as stupid, not properly set up by the story to that point, or not worth the wait. It's like Lost that way.

 

[Amaris]

I'm hesitant to invest into anything I might like. My television show track record is as follows:


Better Off Ted
Firefly
Arrested Development
Dead Like Me
Dollhouse
Greg the Bunny
4400
Women's Murder Club

So color me unconvinced that this will last.

 

[Australis]

The series is a thriller, love story, and mystery with an element of science fiction. Producers promised timely answers to mysteries, with some answers provided as early as the second episode. Executive producer Evan Katz stated that "everything is designed to answer questions so you're not frustrated or feeling like we're making it up as we go along" and the writers intend to keep the viewers guessing in a "fair way."http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event_(TV_series)#cite_note-nymjuly24-22

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event_(TV_series)

 

[bigdaddy]

I love the AU / PU idea because then the other side could send their presidential person through and all kinds of crazy things. I really hope they aren't aliens.

 

[Crewman Wunline]

Yeah-- I HATE getting invested in a promising new series, and then hearing that it has been canceled after five episodes air! Who's with me? How about a Constitutional Amendment requiring a "Series Finale Episode With All Story Threads Nearty Wrapped Up and Mysteries Explained"?

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I love the AU / PU idea because then the other side could send their presidential person through and all kinds of crazy things. I really hope they aren't aliens.

Now I hope it's not a parallel universe for the same reason I hoped that Lost wasn't purgatory - it's no fun if we're all expecting it!

That would be hilarious if they gave way the big secret in the logo treatment.

 

[Amaris]

Yeah-- I HATE getting invested in a promising new series, and then hearing that it has been canceled after five episodes air! Who's with me? How about a Constitutional Amendment requiring a "Series Finale Episode With All Story Threads Neatly Wrapped Up and Mysteries Explained"?

I'd sign that one right now.

 

[bigdaddy]

They haven't really impressed me with their out-of-focus banner ads and the backwards "E" in their logo. Yes, this is petty I know, but it just comes off as "edgy-bordering-on-stupid" to me. Kind of like the "Syfy" logo.

I will probably watch the pilot just to see what the hubub is about.

I am official hooked on Fringe now (just finished the first season) so I already have my Lost replacement lined up.

Fringe only gets better, the last several episodes of season two are amazing and answer things. Haha

I love the AU / PU idea because then the other side could send their presidential person through and all kinds of crazy things. I really hope they aren't aliens.

Now I hope it's not a parallel universe for the same reason I hoped that Lost wasn't purgatory - it's no fun if we're all expecting it!

That would be hilarious if they gave way the big secret in the logo treatment.

 

[Jack Bauer]

I hope the Event has nothing to do with a parallel universe. Leave that to Fringe. I have faith in those guys to pull it off. The jury's out on this group.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Ok no time travel, no parallel universe, no aliens pretending to be humans. No supernatural elements like heaven or hell or vampires or ghosts. What's left? Clones? Nah, clones always just fall flat. Virtual reality? Maybe everyone in the show has been kidnapped and placed in a holosuite and the "opening to the parallel universe" is actually the holoarch.

 

[Sheep]

I don't know about you guys, but the first thing I thought of seeing the mirrored "E" in the Event's title card was the opening credits for Star Trek Nemesis. That is not a good thing.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Argh! NO CLONES!

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

The clips that I've seen might indicate a combination of the foreknowledge of future events in "FlashForward" and the parallel universe stuff in "Fringe". I hope limited time travel ala "Seven Days" isn't involved -- although the clip of the guy freaking out on the plane might also be consistent with that. It'll be interesting to see if they can avoid running out of ideas before the end of season one.