Re: The Event.
I speak as someone who actually quite enjoyed last season's panned FlashForward.
But even for me, the Event was......lame and tired. The title is pretentious enough, and it just didn't deliver. I left the TV on for the whole hour, but I was tuned out and surfing the interwebs by the 15 minute mark. The final moment made me go "huh, that's different" but that's about it. Strained my disbelief that the fucking F-16s shadowed the airliner for the whole gawdamned flight and were content to let the plane nosedive within half a kilometre of the President.
Pilot: "oh, what? We're actually supposed to shoot down the plane?"
The worst part is that I've had to put up with radio ads for the show over the past week that consist simply of a douchy lady ranting about how incredible and amazing the pilot was. And I'm thinking "darling, if you watched the same pilot I did, you must have been high as a kite while doing so."