Finally got around to watching the first two episodes of "The Event". I wasn't expecting much. Every review/article about it I read dismissed it as nothing more than a "Lost" rip off. I don't think it's even possible to read something about this show without "Lost" being brought up.
So anyway, I watched it...and I really, really enjoyed it. And I didn't think about "Lost" one time.
What? No show can have an airplane now? Is that where we're at? I'm very sensitive to unoriginal ideas on TV, probably because everyone is always telling me how unoriginal my ideas are. And I get why people would bring up "Lost", but it feels lazy to toss it into the "Lost" rip off bin and not watch it for that reason.
Didn't these people like "Lost"? Well, "Lost" is gone, so how about a show that has a mystery and isn't the same every week, a la House and Hawaii Five-0 and every other show on CBS. Being similar to one of the greatest shows of all time doesn't feel like the worst thing in the world.
I don't know how The Event going to turn out. These types of shows have a hard time sustaining themselves - I weep for you, Flash Forward and The Nine. But for right now, I'm on board, and I'm not gonna cry about it having the gall to steal the brilliant "plane crash" idea.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
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