04-09-2011, 21:20
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Re: Did anyone watch ‘The Event’ (sadly now cancelled)
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I think that's all most people want is some kind of closure.
A mini-series, perhaps picked up by SyFy, would be ideal.
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There is talk of a tv movie
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04-09-2011, 21:33
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Re: Did anyone watch ‘The Event’ (sadly now cancelled)
It's obvious not a lot of people watched it, or it would never have been cancelled
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04-09-2011, 22:28
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Re: Did anyone watch ‘The Event’ (sadly now cancelled)
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It's obvious not a lot of people watched it, or it would never have been cancelled
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A lot of people watched it, just not enough.
Its problem was exactly the same as Flash Forward - they dragged it out too long, and by the time it actually got really good, most people had given up.
Shame, I enjoyed both it and FF.
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05-09-2011, 09:49
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Re: Did anyone watch ‘The Event’ (sadly now cancelled)
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There is talk of a tv movie
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Yeah I heard about that. Let's hope they do something.
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A lot of people watched it, just not enough.
Its problem was exactly the same as Flash Forward - they dragged it out too long, and by the time it actually got really good, most people had given up.
Shame, I enjoyed both it and FF.
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They milk the shows too much. With 'The Event' I felt they threw in a lot of mysteries and just didn't give enough answers until too late. Too many viewers had already jumped ship.
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05-09-2011, 12:28
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Re: The Event
Slowly, slowly, might catchy Monkey.
But............
Slowly, slowly, losey too many viewers.
The prime example for me being "Lost" IIRC I gave up following E03S01
The interminal flashbacks.......OMG...like Chinese water torture.
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05-09-2011, 16:12
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Re: The Event
Lost should have been a 3 part mini series instead
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05-09-2011, 17:38
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Re: The Event
I watched the first 3 eps. Thought it actually had potential, then I realised that it was going so slowly that I lost interest. It made the same mistake they made with Lost. It asked a lot of questions, but answered very few.
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05-09-2011, 20:04
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Re: The Event
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They milk the shows too much. With 'The Event' I felt they threw in a lot of mysteries and just didn't give enough answers until too late. Too many viewers had already jumped ship.
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I watched the first 3 eps. Thought it actually had potential, then I realised that it was going so slowly that I lost interest. It made the same mistake they made with Lost. It asked a lot of questions, but answered very few.
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Yup: Too many questions, not enough answers.
It started off badly, by using a non-linear narrative even more annoyingly than Lost, and moved too slowly while posing question after question.
After it was re-jigged during its excessively long hiatus, the pace was ramped right up, and it became more interesting... But by then it had haemorrhaged even more viewers, plus the increase in pace came at the expense of previous story elements being forgotten, and some of the characters behaving differently, plus again added more questions and failed to answer previous ones.
One of the things which really bugged me was that they never answered how/why Sean knew about the plane at the very start. Ditto for Agent Lee. That was but one of many things.
I very much doubt that anything will come of the "TV movie". This sort of thing always does the rounds. There's been nothing remotely concrete about it, and I doubt that Syfy would really be interested (& NBC has already said it wouldn't show one if it happened).
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05-09-2011, 21:26
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Re: The Event
SyFy won't be interested unless they can work a sharktopus or a RockSalmonPiranha into the mix somehow.
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05-09-2011, 21:39
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Re: The Event
Yup. The humans & the aliens have to put aside their differences to battle a bigger foe: a giant sharktopusosaur! Then Debbie Gibson & Tiffany turn up to help.
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06-09-2011, 16:35
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Re: The Event
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SyFy won't be interested unless they can work a sharktopus or a RockSalmonPiranha into the mix somehow.
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