The Event: To Keep Us Safe

Aliens? Some people hear “extra terrestrials” and check out. I however just got a lot more interested in this series. I guess the question at this point is, what the marketing material has been pointing us towards all along, “what is the event”? A disappearing plane, the existence of aliens, the fact that they are genetically 1% different than humans, the odd detail that the President of the United States seems to be Cuban, I doubt that any of these are the event.

I believe the event is something that will happen in the future of this series. In fact I think the event will be the revelation that the people who landed in Alaska in 1944 are humans from the future of planet earth. I know that seems to be the exact storyline of the USA show “The 4400”, but I also know you didn’t watch that show and NBC is banking on that.

The 1% people on the outside seem to be radicalized, while the 1%ers that have been imprisoned for 60 years apparently value life. Why kill everyone on that plane, were they responsible for the hijacking to begin with? The man in the middle is their man on the inside officer Simon Lee. While it was clear he was involved with the 1%ers after his conversation with Sophia in the pilot, the scene where he pulled the tube out of his arm was pretty cool.

I thought Sean and Leila were the weakest part of the first episode, and while I am not completely warmed up to them as a couple the scene they shared in the pool five years ago brought me to a place where I was almost in their corner.

I hate to compare “The Event” to “Lost” because it is kind of like comparing Alexander the Great to Ulysses S. Grant. They operate on different economies of scale. That said, why does this show feel the need to tell us the exact time and date of every flashback. “Lost” kept us guessing and that was half the fun.