The Event: For the Good of Our Country

Is it wrong that I was rooting for Sean to die? The way he got shot literally made me laugh out loud. The assassin somehow survived the explosion inside the house, crawled out to the roof top, climbed down to street level, and managed to shoot Sean in the shoulder. Sean then must have been eating the same spinach that his would be killer had consumed because with a bullet wound the managed to bait and disarm his attacker. All while his girlfriend cried and threw a rock.

Layla got her, strong character moment when she kidnapped a doctor and forced him to perform emergency surgery on Sean in an alley that was bisected by a river of urine. The sad thing is that this storyline was by far the strongest part of the episode.

I guess I should be happy that I called the Vice President’s involvement in the plot to kill Martinez in my thoughts on “Protect them from the Truth”. That noted, I simply employed the “he who smelt it dealt it” theorem of television prognosticating which as any TV snob can tell you is only slightly more respected than the, “never trust a man with a mustache, who is not Tom Selleck” theorem.

Sadly, as the VP had his “come to Jesus” moment, he also had a “diarrhea of the mouth moment” and managed to get himself killed before spilling the beans. On a side not I’ll try not to include the words diarrhea and beans in the same sentence again in the future. Why would the VP not have exited the building using the same secure means he used when entering?

The disappearing plane gag in the first episode was pretty cool looking and the building being sucked into a black hole was not a terrible effect either. However, every time they attempt to do something to people, make them look sick, age them prematurely or allow them to find the fountain of youth, I feel like the special effects wizards were all downgraded to house elves.