The Event: I Know Who You Are

As I was watching this episode I could not help but be put off by the back story of Blake Sterling. He is the man he is because he had daddy issues, shocker (unless you watched Lost and then you know that all television characters have complicated issues with their fathers). We got the point that Blake and his old man had a strained relationship because he referred to Sterling Sr. as “Father”. Of course then to drive the point home we saw “Father” assassinate Blake’s wife in a move that felt absolutely nutty as a plot point.

How could they do such a wonderful job with Simon’s flashback and then go on to completely miss the ball with Blake the very next episode? While I’m complaining, did anyone else think the Martinez/Sterling “Beer Summit” was way too on the nose? I wish the creative forces of the show had the nerve to call the President character Obama.

Sophia as “mother” may be the most intriguing aspect brought up in this episode. Is she only Thomas’ mother or is she the mother of all of the 1%’ers? If she is the mother of all the aliens “The Event” seems to be borrowing liberally from the ABC series “V”. I would prefer Thomas to be her only child, it would make their relationship more important.

I was effectively creeped out by the little girls at the end of the episode. That is until they showed us their faces. It was at that point I realized that “The Event” is a terrible B movie masquerading as a slick modern television series. While on the subject of creepy, I guess we have to assume that the 1%ers are connected to the creepy old man. The flowers he was gushing about to his security officer happened to be in Thomas’ fortress of solitude as well. I doubt even Thomas would approve of the old man’s methods (or agree with his goals) so I am going to guess that he is the “man in the Midwest” Thomas did his investing through.

Sean and Layla had their own B movie moment as they ran out of a building as it exploded. Of course that was only moments after they met “exposition man” and seconds before they realized he and “crazy not stupid reporter woman” left them for dead on the rooftop. I officially hate their story line completely and have decided to start a “Kill off Sean and Layla” campaign. Of course considering the readership of this blog I’ll have to assume that the campaign will be a little lonely but I will persist, unless I forget I started it when I write about “The Event” next week.