It was advertised that The Event was a fix for LOSTies undergoing withdrawal. So, of course I gave it a try. Sadly, predictably, it wasn’t even close. In a supposed tip of the hat to LOST, the story was set up in fits and starts. After the initial scene, they backed up and told the precursor story starting some minutes earlier. Then they did it again, backing up several days, then again, months. The pacing was frenetic, the story wildly confusing, until the end, when it made semi-sense. Of course, there were huge mysterious holes, to be filled in coming weeks, presumably. It was sort of irritating, but the worst part was the lack of character development. The beauty of the LOST pilot was the ingenious way it presented a few of the mysteries of the island in short intense scenes, almost as side events. They introduced the characters in such a way that we loved them or hated them but we cared about them, while hinting at their interesting back stories. Unfortunately, The Event did exactly the opposite, using cardboard characters to introduce a full-blown apocalyptic mystery in a choppy narrative style. I predict this will last about as long as Flashforward did.
I’ll probably tune in next week anyway.
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