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The panel for NBC’s The Event often evoked 24 and Lost and understandably so as the new NBC serialized thriller about a government conspiracy is touted as a potential successor to the iconic dramas that bowed out in May. It also has 24 veteran Evan Katz as showrunner. “The show won’t be as dark (as 24) but there will be the same intensity, the same roller-coaster ride that provokes visceral response to what you watch.”
Producers fielded a lot of questions about how they will sustain viewers’ interest in a dense serialized drama. The biggest questions in the pilot will be answered in the second episode, Katz said. (The Event received strong reaction at Comic-Con last week.) Creator Nick Wauters, who admitted to being influenced by Lost and 24, stressed that “we will try and reveal as many answers as we can as we go and set up more mysteries. “But you have to go on faith that we know what we’re doing,” he said. “As a viewer myself and a fan of Lost, I ask for people’s trust.”
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You can have my trust … but, don’t burn it!
Remember FLASH FORWARD? How about THE NINE; the first season of HEROES … and, INVASION.
Take your time … but, don’t take half the season … get it up … and, moving!
Actually, the spots look rather good … but, so did the ones for the above.
Have you learned ‘yer lessons well? Time will tell!
The pilot got a great response at Comic Con according to several news sources. It looks like the premiere could debut to big ratings. But, can it hold?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…
I ain’t watching no more serialized shows. It’s not worth it. You’ll always be disappointed. The shows creators get too caught up in themselves and write themselves into a corner and aren’t smart enough to get out of it with a worthy finale. I’ve never seen a finale to any show that was worthy. Maybe Mary Tyler Moore. Not MASH. Not Seinfeld. Not Sopranos. Not Six Feet Under. These people are not good at finishing things. Maybe they should just hire their most rabid fans to come up with an ending. That would have to be better.
‘Lost’ was like catching lightning in a bottle – and it won’t be replicated any time soon. All these new serialized, mythology driven shows, are revealing themselves before they’ve even aired. The genius of Lost was it started as a character driven drama with some fringe weirdness. It revealed it’s true roots AFTER hooking everyone. Say what you will about the show, but ‘Lost’ was driven by it’s characters, not its mythology
The Event, like Flash Forward and others, will most likely fail because they are doing the opposite. Big plots, twists, mythology, etc – selling all that crap first
Viewers “trusted” Lost and got burned in the end…
Series needs to be more about the characters, and less about the everything’s-been-done-already mystery that writing staff’s continue to get tangled in.
And NBC needs to fire whoever is doing those mobisode-like teasers for the The Event.
Nothing will ever replace Lost and if that’s their prority, they will fail, but if they’d like to tell another compelling original story to the samea audience base, that sounds good to me. I’ll give this a shot, and as long as it seems like they’re heading in a definate direction, they can have my trust for the time being. This kind of thoughtful serialized TV is something that should be on TV when it works well (aforementioned Lost and Damages come to mind) so I’m willing to give these guys the benefit of the doubt unless they start squandering it.
It wasn’t a GREAT reception at Comic Con. It wasn’t even screened in one of the bigger rooms. The E! reporter told the audience she thought it was a great response. And the producers announced that you do not learn what The Event is in the pilot. If you compare this pilot to all of the 24 and Lost knockoffs of the past decade, it barely registers alongside those that tanked in 13.
Didn’t Flashforward also get a good response at last year’s comic con?
Then, how come sites like IGN reported that the pilot received a positive response from the crowd. James Hibberd said the same thing.
The genius of Lost was it started as a character driven drama with some fringe weirdness. It revealed it’s true roots AFTER hooking everyone.
No, the genius of Lost was in selling itself as a mystery for six years to keep people hooked, and then in the end it revealed … well, nothing.
And although The Event appeals to me, I don’t want to go through that again.
I disagree, Cat. It was the characters that drew me into Lost. When it started getting too tangled in myriad mysteries, I checked out.
Color it dead. Heroes tanked because after some great initial excitement (Superheroes! On TV!) the producers blew it — lacking money to have effects/action, and any idea of a coherent plot with all those characters, they wrote soap-opera storylines instead of more action.
Can Network TV produce action any more? I don’t know. I don’t even know if there is an audience, its natural audience (men) having left TV long ago for cable, other places.
“A massive, Government conspiracy?” Ho hum. X Files, 24, just about every show around has tread that water. Considering the clowns running government since … well, forever, that’s laughable as well as cliched.
Yawn. Don’t forget, it’s NBC. 6 and out!
Hoping for Lost II, but from the clips, it looks more like FlashForward’s younger sister.