The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
That uber douche planned a romantic getaway to propose to his girlfriend, asked his girlfriend's father for his blessing to marry her, jumped off a cliff to save a girl from drowning, recoiled when said girl later started getting a little too friendly, and hopped onto a plane he knew was going to plow into the ground. Yeah, what a tool.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
That uber douche planned a romantic getaway to propose to his girlfriend, asked his girlfriend's father for his blessing to marry her, jumped off a cliff to save a girl from drowning, recoiled when said girl later started getting a little too friendly, and hopped onto a plane he knew was going to plow into the ground. Yeah, what a tool.
I was just saying that in real life, hot chicks go out with dudes that are seemingly complete tools and many times other guys are completely baffled as to why such a hot chick would go out with such a douche. People get together for all kinds of reasons.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
He kinda looked like a young Cornell.
And yeah, it felt like the FlashForward pilot. I was annoyed by the flash forwards too. The quality was below average in general, but I'll give it a couple of episodes.
I read somewhere that this is supposed to be the anti-Lost show. They'll answer a lot of questions every episode. In the second episode they'll answer why the girlfriend and what happened to her.
I think they concentrated too much in the "anti" and forgot to create their own show...
And yeah, it felt like the FlashForward pilot. I was annoyed by the flash forwards too. The quality was below average in general, but I'll give it a couple of episodes.
I read somewhere that this is supposed to be the anti-Lost show. They'll answer a lot of questions every episode. In the second episode they'll answer why the girlfriend and what happened to her.
I think they concentrated too much in the "anti" and forgot to create their own show...
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
I hope that poster upthread with the time travel theory is dead wrong. Please be wrong. I am so done with time travel. Screw time travel.
So, my theory: The cruise ship is actually a spaceship with a wormhole connection to the airplane and...bah, I got nothing.
All in all, an ok start IMO. Certainly enough to keep me around.
So, my theory: The cruise ship is actually a spaceship with a wormhole connection to the airplane and...bah, I got nothing.
All in all, an ok start IMO. Certainly enough to keep me around.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
And yes, to the above poster, for the love of god, no time travel because even Lost annoyed me with it. Leave that to the Babylon 5s and Star Treks....saving whales to tell probes what to go do with themselves, Enterprise-C, and Kirk telling a 1967 Air Force officer that his starfleet uniform is just a little something that he slipped on.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
I hope that poster upthread with the time travel theory is dead wrong. Please be wrong. I am so done with time travel. Screw time travel.
So, my theory: The cruise ship is actually a spaceship with a wormhole connection to the airplane and...bah, I got nothing.
All in all, an ok start IMO. Certainly enough to keep me around.
So, my theory: The cruise ship is actually a spaceship with a wormhole connection to the airplane and...bah, I got nothing.
All in all, an ok start IMO. Certainly enough to keep me around.
I kept waiting for Chris Cornell to check the safe to see if the ring was still in it. I don't think we're done with that ship yet.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
My theory is the plane crash was meant to kill Sofia and NOT the President.
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I don't quite understand why someone would plan such an elaborate kidnapping of the young woman (changing room keys, canceling cell service, planting new occupants in the room, etc.) in order to get the father to fly the plane when simply nabbing the little girl when she went to get her bike would have sufficed.
My theory is the plane crash was meant to kill Sofia and NOT the President.
My theory is the plane crash was meant to kill Sofia and NOT the President.
At somepoint the time line is altered in that the guy and his girlfriend were never on the cruise ship. Somehow he is outside the timeline because his timeline didn't change. He also knows the future and was trying to prevent the plane attack. The government agent guy also knows the future and was trying to stop the plane.
If this show is about people from the future, the people in the prison may be from the future, the govt. agent is one of them we don't know about, the guy on the cruise is one but doesn't know he's one.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
Enjoyed the premiere and I'll stick with it. It's possible that the crash was meant to take them both out. My question is, why did the VP and CIA guy and the military brass all conveniently leave right before all hell broke loose.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
I would bet money the plot boils down to time travel just among humans, possibly different factions fighting over the time line. The major networks learned years ago advertising any show as science fiction beforehand severely limits the ratings, as many people and particularly women simply ignore that genre. So they hide the core concept as long as possible until a show builds an audience. Listen to how the ABC executives handled the first year of Lost.
The flashback structure will be incorporated to show different perspectives of a changing timeline is my guess. The pilot felt like Flashforward more than Lost, which is not a good sign.
The flashback structure will be incorporated to show different perspectives of a changing timeline is my guess. The pilot felt like Flashforward more than Lost, which is not a good sign.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
Tough premier to follow with all the "time jumps". Not a great premier (unlike Lost which was fantastic) but I'm willing to give it a few episodes to see where it goes.
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I'm starting to think that in this separate story line, the scuba girl is going to say she's Chris Cornell's girlfriend. They definitely made a point to show her taking that photo on the boat. If this thing is as fully worked out as they claim it is, those fluff scenes have to mean something.
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I'm starting to think that in this separate story line, the scuba girl is going to say she's Chris Cornell's girlfriend. They definitely made a point to show her taking that photo on the boat. If this thing is as fully worked out as they claim it is, those fluff scenes have to mean something.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
Just watched it now, pretty good not great I have to say I don't know what to think of the ending. I get sort of a Langoliers vibe which isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
This episode is now available for free download through iTunes.
They also have the pilots of Lone Star and Outlaw, and Season 3/Episode 1 of Castle for free download.
They also have the pilots of Lone Star and Outlaw, and Season 3/Episode 1 of Castle for free download.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
Watched it on Itunes and I thought it was a pretty decent show. Dont really care much for the timeline bouncing around but its a well produced show with some pretty good visuals and set extensions. It has me wanting to stick with it to see what happens. Cast was pretty good too. From the pilot I think its one of the better "lost" type shows that have came.
I liked it quite a bit.
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Re: The Event -- New Series -- "Pilot" -- 09/20/10
Back to my time travel theory. The president was going to announce something about the secret prison and the release of the prisoners. Somebody in the future doesn't want that to happen. To prevent it they travel back in time to get the pilot of a plane to crash the plane into the news conference. Other people in the future open a time portal, transporting the plane, saving the president.
At somepoint the time line is altered in that the guy and his girlfriend were never on the cruise ship. Somehow he is outside the timeline because his timeline didn't change. He also knows the future and was trying to prevent the plane attack. The government agent guy also knows the future and was trying to stop the plane.
If this show is about people from the future, the people in the prison may be from the future, the govt. agent is one of them we don't know about, the guy on the cruise is one but doesn't know he's one.
At somepoint the time line is altered in that the guy and his girlfriend were never on the cruise ship. Somehow he is outside the timeline because his timeline didn't change. He also knows the future and was trying to prevent the plane attack. The government agent guy also knows the future and was trying to stop the plane.
If this show is about people from the future, the people in the prison may be from the future, the govt. agent is one of them we don't know about, the guy on the cruise is one but doesn't know he's one.
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I propose we make The Event threads non-linear as well. In order to comment on response 127 you have to go back to comment 14 and then comment 291.