Premise: Lost meets Flash Forward… minus the great plot line
After 6 years of questions with complicated answers or no answers at all of Lost we cannot say we are ready to care about The Event . First and foremost, at least Lost told us in the title what the show was going to be about, people lost on an island. NBC is purposefully trying to spark our interest by getting us to guess what “The Event” could possibly be. How about no NBC… how about we spent 6 years of our lives trying to answer questions that we later realized had no relevance in our actual life. We just spent the last couple of years wondering what was special about the Island, what the Dharma initiative was about , what the smoke monster is, why the plane crashed on the island…etc…etc… etc… In the time we spent trying to answer useless questions that in the end truly did not matter to our lives we could have probably made a significant contribution to mankind but we didn’t because we were too busy wondering about an island that did not exist with people who don’t actually exist. Do we regret it? No. The plot line of Lost was compelling and Daniel Dae Kim and Josh Holloway were good looking enough that we cared about what happened to them. Despite this, six years later we have more questions than answers about Lost. College humor summed our remaining questions really well. See the clip below:
So no, The Event, we will not be sucked in. Listen, we refuse to participate in a show that cannot even tell us what it is about through the title. We refuse. We cannot commit anymore years to trying to figure out questions that we never should have been asking in the first place. We have world peace to achieve and cancer to cure; we cannot worry about what The Event could be. Before we ask what The Event is maybe you should answer this question, why should we even care? Why? Seriously? Please tell us? We refuse to get invested in the answer of what is The Event until you answer our question of why should we care?
Furthermore, NBC we cannot commit ourselves to solving yet another television riddle without a guarantee that this show will be on for more than one season. We cannot have another Flash Forward moment. We actually did get invested into the question of what a Flash Forward was and what happened… right… show cancelled. Another question left unanswered. and now we will never know what to do when the world experiences a simultaneous blackout and cannot figure out what the source is. Seriously, it haunts us at night. So guarantee us three seasons of The Event and maybe, just maybe we will care.
So no NBC, no. We will not take the bait. We will not commit our time to this effort to revitalize your network. Listen NBC, accept your place, the Friends era is over and if you keep producing crap like The Event you will continue to fall behind ABC.
So we refuse to commit to The Event… and by we refuse to commit to The Event we mean we are not going to watch another episode after the first one we watched this week because try as we may we could not keep ourselves away this week.
Oh and by the way NBC, if you want us to commit to another show full of questions without answers at least make a plot that keeps us interested. We were bored so fix it. NO, wait, never mind don’t fix it we are not going to watch anyway. We refuse to commit and by refuse to commit to this show we mean we will only watch it on hulu… or if other shows are on repeat… or if we are bored… but we will not care… ummm… actually… what do you think happened to the plane? Why did it disappear? Damn, it’s too late, we are probably going to get into this show and eat our words by the end of the season… by comic con we will be wearing t-shirts that say “we believe in The Event” and participate in role play groups. We will watch everything. Yes the plot line sucks and the concept is obnoxious but, we are easily amused. We can’t help it, we will watch anything even things that are just mildly interesting. Seriously, we watch The Bad Girls Club…how much worse can our tv time get???
No but seriously what happened to the plane? Does anyone know? Comment below…
