The Event

[Soapy]

Eh, even with delaying all the answers, Lost's pilot was still far more engaging than that. This one's definitely designed to string us along. I'm not biting.

Lost's pilot was also two hours...

Anyway The Event's pilot was more interesting to me than V's and Flash Forward's, so I'll give this series a shot.

 

[SuperT]

Not completely spectacular, but certainly interesting. I'll be tuning in again next week.

Of course Blair Underwood and Laura Innes being in this helps out a lot.

 

[John Locke]

Lost's pilot was also two hours...

Not really. Yes it did have two parts but Part 2 didn't air until the next week.

 

[Dr. Evil]

there were two ER people in there: Laura Innes and The First Lady.

 

[marvelrobbins]

A new TV Obsession.This pilot was actully better than V's.

I did see Scott Patterson's character being the plane's pilot coming.

I do think future episodes are going to be hurt by constant time jumping.They
need to look at how Lost went from present to past.

It will be Intresting to see how Jason Ritter's character goes from running
from boat to being on the plane trying to stop the plane assassination.

This has one of the best conspiracy storys since The X-files was still
Intresting.Both the VP and CIA Director may have been Involved In the
assassination Plot.

And great twist with the ending with the plane.

 

[alexdunn]

Not bad but not great. I'll watch for a little longer, hopefully it grows on me. And it's time travel. No doubt. The people being locked up? From the future.

 

[Warhammer]

Not a bad finale. I am genuinely interested to see the next episode. For now, it's a keeper.

 

[marvelrobbins]

The detainees being from the future Is defently a strong possabilty.

 

[alexdunn]

Not really. Yes it did have two parts but Part 2 didn't air until the next week.

Are you sure?

 

[Golgo-13]

This show reminds me of the Fox show Vanished. That show was canned after i believe 7-8 eps, and i'm still pissed about it, because they never revealed why the wife had vanished, etc. I hope this show sticks around. There's going to be many questions that need answering...

 

[John Locke]

Are you sure?

Well Wikipedia, Tv.com, and Lostpeida say one week after Part One but Abc.com says Part 2 aired two days later on that Friday. But they all agree that Part 1 and 2 aired on different nights.

 

[alexdunn]

oh...

 

[chaseter]

Some of you guys are a tough crowd. I was entertained by it all.



it looked great in HD.

I have HD and it looked terribly fake to me.

The only character I had the least amount of interest for was the creepy lady that looks like she is smiling when she talks and the main young kid. Nobody else was engaging. Maybe that was because 3/4 of this episode was loud noises and a lot of colors.

 

[Shifty]

This show reminds me of the Fox show Vanished. That show was canned after i believe 7-8 eps, and i'm still pissed about it, because they never revealed why the wife had vanished, etc. I hope this show sticks around. There's going to be many questions that need answering...

Fox put it on Fridays and then Hulu to wrap up the 13 episode season. It may still be there.

 

[XBRoughneck]

Well, I thought this episode was below average.

If I hadn't seen the 4-5 minute trailer I would have thought this was average.


But, to be fair...I thought the V premier episode was worse, and i thought the first Spartacus episode sucked as well.

12 episodes later and I love Spartacus, and while I don't love V..they've improved the show quite a bit in one season.

I'll be along until the show gets canned.

 

[flickchick85]

Lost's pilot was also two hours...

As has been noted by others, only one hour aired on its "premiere night," and that was more than enough to hook me.

Anyway The Event's pilot was more interesting to me than V's and Flash Forward's

That much I agree with. But I didn't stick with those series beyond their pilots either, so that's not exactly high praise to me.

 

[Sawyer]

I hope this is the case of there just being kind of a weak premiere and then getting significantly better as the episodes go on. There was some stuff I liked, but overall it was pretty uneventful awesome and the weird, choppy non-linear timeline of the episode was kind of off-putting... I hope future episodes arent quite so "Forward 30 minutes... back 4 months!... forward five days... back seven years!!!" I can put up with mixed up timelines. I mean, ****, I watched all six seasons of LOST and loved the crap out of it, but this...... eh. I have no problems dropping this at a moments notice.

 

[chaseter]

If a show is advertising that it is the next LOST...chances are it isn't. I will give this a few eps like I gave V.

 

[Neverless]

If a show is advertising that it is the next LOST...chances are it isn't. I will give this a few eps like I gave V.

didnt they call flashforward the next lost as well?

and flashforward was an utter failiure. I hate it when promos do that. Tbh Ive never seen a single advertisement for the event (and havent watched it yet either, gonna later tonight) but if they're calling this show the next lost as well..then *le sigh*

 

[Dr Lee]

having watched the pilot...... it's interesting... will watch next week.... hope it keeps my interest.

 

[kguillou]

didnt they call flashforward the next lost as well?

and flashforward was an utter failiure. I hate it when promos do that. Tbh Ive never seen a single advertisement for the event (and havent watched it yet either, gonna later tonight) but if they're calling this show the next lost as well..then *le sigh*

This is why i have no interest in this show. I HATE it when new shows say "This is going to be the next ____", anytime a new show does that, it NEVER ends up being as good as the show they're comparing it to and it ends up getting canceled. Just do your own thing and the audience will judge.

 

[MadVillainy]

Just watched the pilot. It's....meh

THe almost plane crash was pretty lame especially [BLACKOUT]the teleportation thing. Is it confirmed that aliens are in this show?[/BLACKOUT]

I didnt like the structure it was too jumpy. I probably wont tune in again unless I start to hear great things about where the show is going

 

[Donut]

I think another reason why most does not seem wowed by the episode is because everything was spoiled in all of those previews. I say give it the next few episodes

 

[Crockett]

Looks like a interesting show, after reading some of the reactions here I think I'm going to give the pilot a shot.

 

[Shifty]

Shows never market themselves as the next _______ in advertisements. People in the media do that.

It was third in its timeslot which was expected. The number maybe could've been a bit higher but Fox bombed with Lone Star with almost under 4 million viewers.

CBS Two and a Half Men 4.8/12 14.50
ABC Dancing With the Stars 4.2/13 21.87
NBC The Event (Series Premiere) 3.7/9 11.19
FOX Lone Star (Series Premiere) 1.3/3 04.06