The Event Review: "To Keep Us Safe"
My feelings for The Event did not change from its opening episode through its follow-up: I really like this new drama.
It was nice that the writers showed us within the first 45 seconds where the plane disappeared to in "To Keep Us Safe," and within the hour we found out that the prisoners at Mount Inostranka Detention Facility are not human, but instead are aliens.
Oh, how I love me some good ol' alien TV shows! I've always been a huge fan of 4400, along with the the current remake of the miniseries V, so The Event is right up my alley!
What makes this show different is the fact that half of the aliens that landed here have been trapped in the detention facility for over sixty years. Sophia stated to the President that her people can't wait any longer. They have been patient enough and want out. What do you think this could entail?
I love that Agent Lee is one of them. I knew by the way he would meet with Sophia that there was more to him than his strikingly handsome good looks, but I would have never expected him to be one of them. How clever was he when the lady was taking his fake blood? Who knew you could even put a fake line of blood under the skin like that? I have to admit it was kinda gross watching him pull it out of his arm.
We also learned more about Vicky. The party girl from the cruise is not just a party girl but is working with the people that kidnapped Leila. Why do you think they chose Michael Buchanan out of anyone to fly that plane? Do you think that he has connections to these people... or, even better, is an alien?
I feel so bad for Sean! He seems like a typical guy that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Who knows? Maybe Leila knows more about all of this than she's letting on. Something just doesn't sit well with me and this situation. Hopefully, Sean will escape before they send him to prison for a murder he did not commit!
Whoever these people are, they did not want any one to find out that we have aliens living among us. So much so that they tried to attack the President to divert attention. It worked enough for the President to not go through with the press conference once he realized that Sophia had been lying to them all about how many aliens survived the crash.
Elsewhere, Thomas is a new and very interesting character. He is an alien that lead the others into hiding and, from the looks of it, could be a potential love interest of Sophia's. Something tells me that he is up to no good and is sick and tired playing by human rules.
So the episode ended with Agent Lee being in charge of finding the rogue aliens (go figure, right!?) and going to the scene of the plane crash to find all the people dead outside the plane. Who do you think did this?
Like I said before, I am really loving this show! What did you think of last night's episode? Love it or hate is, let us know!
Until next week, here are a few of The Event quotes from last night:
Blake: Do whatever you have to, to find them. | permalink
Sophia: What I can tell you is that we mean you no harm. | permalink
Thomas: What about you?
Sophia: I can't abandon them. Unless you go there's no hope for any of us. | permalink
Martinez: Why are we holding them?
Blake: Excuse me Mr. President?
Martinez: Why are we holding them?
Blake: We're holding them because they refuse to tell us the truth about who they really are, why they are really here or what they really want. They have a hidden agenda, I know it in my bones. | permalink
Martinez: Right now I'm less concerned with who's trying to kill us than who saved us. | permalink
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October 9th, 2010 2:23 PM
I KNEW it! They brought back to life!!! I wish I didn't know it, but I did. Now I am certain they are us from the future, but then again, i could be wrong LOL!
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September 30th, 2010 7:23 AM
never mind that not one of the flashbacks give us more information then we know from the dialogue...tell me, was it important to place db sweeny on both the ship and where the gf are? did we even need the scene where daddy pilot discovers his daughters are hostages? i mean, he tells facial hair boy everything
did we need to know how the lovebirds met?
oh, and why is facial hair boy allowed to take control on the plane...no one has died...yet we only see one flight attendant and she is in a panic
and im sorry, but agent lee (who we last saw screaming at a plane) being one of the aliens (or whatever) was more than obvious....what would have been cool was if the head of the cia was a whatever
and facial hair boy jabbering away in the back of the fbi car...i was waiting for one of them to shoot him just to shut him up....
dear john ritter....please come back from the dead and slap your son silly for taking this gig....thank you
and lol...here are some trippy aliens who ar
September 28th, 2010 2:34 PM
this has the potential to be something great.
@Mrs. Northman, Sophia's possible love interest,Thomas, he said thaty since they (being the aliens) saved those on the plane, that they should at least "use" them. It is my belief that this guy Thomas is a bad egg.
Sure he hasn't seen his "girl" in sixty plus years, but from the way agent Lee was speaking, it doesn't seem like Sophia wanted them dead. I say it again, Thomas is a bad egg.
Also, the guy who plays the dude who gave agent lee his orders...he is a bad guy on almost every show he has been on (most recently Heroes season 3) I understand that this actor can play "evil" quite well, but come on...if he is as half as predictable as he was in heroes, he is going to be a source of pain to watch.
Poor Sean, for a moment, it looked to me like the female fbi agent was going to believe him about his loosing his girlfriend.
Which brings me to Leila, I have to agree with @Mrs. Northman on this, I think it would be interesting to hav
September 28th, 2010 2:33 PM
Possible Spoiler follows-Only my "possible" deductions:
I really do enjoy the Ev3nt. I would hate to lose it, because tv needs at least one Fall Season Network SciFi other than Fringe.
My take:
I'm still not convinced the detainees are actually aliens. The writers are pushing us that way and the detainees probably are aliens, but at the same time they just maybe us from the future farther up the evolutionary ladder. I felt a "brick to the head" foreshadowing when they were discussing the difference in DNA and then compared it to our differences with chimpanzees. Then again, the plot's subjects could be exactly what the writers have already plainly explained and I could be over complicating. But isn't a show like this suppose to be over complicated? I don't know, it just seems too easy for this type of SciFi show to be just clear cut "aliens." Sophia comes off more "evolved" but also extremely compassionate to humans. Also the plane disappearing at the end of the first