So The Event joins The Invaders, Invasion, and, currently V, as a prime-time network alien story. It occurs to me that all of these series have the letter "v" in them, so The Event is in an apt as well as good company.
These aliens got here in 1944. Their DNA is only one-percent different from ours. But as was pointed out last night, chimps have DNA less than two percent different from ours, and look at all the difference that has made. (Mozart, Shakespeare, trips to the Moon, and television shows about aliens all reside in that difference.)
You might think that the President, grateful to the aliens for saving his life, would be that much more determined to free them from their fortress of solitude up north. But now that he's glimpsed the awesome power of their technology, just the reverse is the case.
And there's the question of who was behind the assassination attempt? A group of humans who wanted to stop the President from freeing the aliens, or another group of aliens, antagonistic to the Alaskans?
The action, the answers, and new questions continue to flow at a fast pace on The Event, which makes it good science fiction television.
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It's not clear that they are aliens. Speculation includes time travelers, mutants, etc.
What does "not of terrestrial origin" mean to you? :)
The character who said that could be wrong, he had nothing to go on except the DNA analysis. Surfing the blogs, the most popular theory seems to be time travelers.
The show is interesting, but they will probably lose me unless they come up with credible explanations for a couple of things. Like, why would a group powerful enough to transport a jet from Florida to Arizona allow themselves to be held captive in Alaska for 60 years? Why would the pilot have believed the kidnappers when they told him they would release his family if he would kill himself, the president, and scores of people by crashing the plane?
In general, unless we have reason to believe that a character like that is lying or incompetent, the most reasonable interpretation is that he or she is conveying the truth.
Also, time travel is a less likely explanation than aliens for the difference in DNA.
But I agree that there's a lot more we need to learn about these aliens (or whatever they are).
Hi Paul,
I DVR'd Hawaii I'll let you know what I think. As for them being Aliens I think they are sometype of hybrid maybe even an experment that went wrong(possibly time travel). I find the 1% fascinating and cann't wait to read theorys on this.
Make this my vote for them not being Aliens. I just think they have been misidentified as of "not of terrestrial origin", but who knows for what purpose.
The other thing I am wondering is how many people will stick with this show, because of the Aliens. I hope they continue giving it a try. So far we have not been given any real believable "Heroes" or people we can follow or even Anti-Heroes. These need to develop by the 3rd episode if the show will survive. Shawn is a likely candidate, but they are putting too many obstacles in front of him every episode. They need to give him a more cohesive storyline.
If these aliens or whatever have the ability to take a plane out of the sky and transport it to another place entirely in the blink of an eye, how is it that they could be held in a US facility for over 60 years - especially with the primitive technology we had in the 1940s?
Do you think they allowed themselves to be captured as some sort of long term plan or something. Seems to me they could have simply transported themselves out of jail.
I am still on the fence about The Event. The show has me somewhat hooked but I also can't handle how all over the board it is.
I think we are going to find out that the government was behind the assassination attempt. I think I am going to give this one another two weeks.
The easy choice would be for them to be alien, but my wife and I were hoping that they would be "something else." I think the episode left the possibility open for it to be something else, something more original. I'm hoping for a future plot twist along the lines of "you assume too much." :) I still hate the nonlinear storytelling -- it worked for Lost but so far all the flashbacks have been annoying and distracting.
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