The Event channel4 9pm friday

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orb69killer

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Well, I'm new to this type of drama and I quite enjoyed the first two episodes.

It's not entirely original - there were scenes that I thought were reminiscent of Planet of the Apes and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, but it's quite fun.

I got completely wrong-footed by the scene with Leila, Greg and the two security guarRAB. :eek:

Edit: How come the electromagnetic pulse weapon thingy that interfered with the jet fighter didn't also interfere with the Secret Service agents' radios while they were running around the President's villa trying to protect the President, eh?
 
This is way too much like Lost, I followed that for 6 years and there`s no way I am falling for that crap again.
 
It all gets revealed in later episodes. I would say by episode 4 the story is easy to follow and you start to see what is going on.
 
Has anybody watched in the USA yet?
The name has so many connotations that originally i thought channel4 were doing something with jimmy carr or derren brown lol
 
It's mildly enjoyable but you have to take it for what it is - hokum. There's nothing at all original philosophical or cerebral in this. For that reason it would better be on Sky than on Channel 4 which was once a channel of innovative, experimental and more upmarket TV.

Every single shot, plot concept and spoken line exists in something else, and not even in something from long ago or obscure. It's just mainstream easy-viewing commercial TV dressed up as something clever and interesting. Non-Event would be a better title.

If the plot is genuinely new or well twisted or at least well written there's absolutely no reason to jump around in time from the word go. We had 'hours, days, weeks, months, years and decades earlier' sequences in the first two episodes, most of which did very little to illustrate anything that couldn't be told in sequence. It's covering weak plotting and lazy writing.

It was very popular to do this 3 years ago, for example in Damages in Series 1, where it genuinely led to shocks and turns in the plot, but in those cases they jumped forward to show you an unpredictable ending that you couldn't imagine could come out of the beginning and then led you back to the start and on toward that.

They haven't done that here, there's been absolutely no reason for a time jump at all, actually and unless it jumps forward then there never really is a point. It's a gimmick rather than a narrative device.

I think these dramas bring in larger audiences if the narrative was contained in one series. The fact that this is a continuing series is going to mean that all the ideas and storylines will be stretched on and ultimately never resolved. IMO it's better to fully resolve in each series, it's more satisfying and I don't feel from Ep 1 that I have to think about whether I want to commit myself for the next several years to find out what happens.
 
That's a very silly statement. It obviously takes more attention to follow a narrative that is out of chronological sequence than it does one that is "conventional," i.e., the linear narrative structure that people are used to. Just note how many people are complaining that they were confused.:) And by the way, conventional narratives have "short, episodic scenes" too. The only difference is the order in which they are shown.
 
Its been a long time that a us sci fi series has really captured my attention. I for instance couldn't care less when Lost finished but I am interested in this. I will likely watch it on Friday to see what it is like but I don't really know what to expect.
 
Agree with the last poster and far too much forward and back flashes. You would think the writers would be aware that that sort of thing puts off audiences - surely American audeinces as well as UK ones?

Entertaining, but no need for all that and if after the series we still dont know the answers then it's all a bit of a waste of time.
 
Do you not watch many US shows?

Pretty much all US '1 hour' shows run for 42 minutes. You have to fill the remaining 18 minutes with something, and that something is adverts and programme trailers.

Why not record it and skip the adverts?
 
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