…and the complaints about them staring at a plane bearing down on them. Like no one would ever do that if they realized they couldn't get away? What is with this desire to nitpick a show to death before it has even had two episodes? Are you guys all FOX executives?

The show definitely had a LOST feel to it, but mixed in with parts from other shows.

In the Pilot, the secret service knows that there is a danger to the president from a suicidal jet.

The SS leaps into action, gets the president and his family into a armored car... and then lets them sit there. A moving target would be far harder for even an experienced pilot

Plot device? A indication that the SS is in on the plot to kill the president? Or just bad TV that has no effect on the plot?

so, besides aliens, what else could "they" be?

...nobody is here...

When I heard the line, 'That was before they took away my site, that they hacked it out of existence', I couldn't take any more.

Writers, please hire a tech consultant to go over your scripts before they go on the air.

...when I saw a couple in my room, I would at least ask "were you here all along, or did you just get moved here?"

If they claim to be there all along I know they are in on it, and I can try to press that advantage.

If they claim they were just moved there it gives me more leverage with ship security to investigate why they were moved there and who was responsible for the move.

If I just stare blankly and don't say anything, I'm going to get kicked off the ship.

I still have no way to explain how I got from a cruise ship to the US with no passport in 11 days.

Edit: With the multiple "Wat" comments, I can only assume that some people didn't pay much attention to Jason Ritter's adventure in the Pilot episode. They disappeared his girlfriend and his room on the cruise ship had all his stuff removed and had a new couple occupying it... in the middle of the cruise.

So I think the main plot is starting to gel, and it was nice to see fewer flashbacks this week.

The plot, as I see it, is shaping up like this:

Three forces involved.

• Government

• Super-humans

• Group X

Figurehead for the Government is the President and Vice President, who seem to be working fairly well together at this point. Government does not seem to have infiltrated either of the other two groups.

Figurehead for Super-Humans is Sophia. This group is split in two, those detained and those not. The two groups seem to work fairly well together. They have infiltrated The Government possibly extensively. Do not know if they have infiltrated Group X

Group X... not much known here. Unknown if they have infiltrated either of the other two groups.

How does this apply to the events in episode two?

Group X wants to stop the reveal of the Super-Humans by the Government. They attempt an assassination to stop the reveal. The assassination doesn't work, but they succeed with their goal anyway, no information is revealed.

The Super-Humans saved the Government, but did not know where the plane would end up going, or they would have been on the scene first.

Group X must have infiltrated the Super-Humans, then, to either know where the plane would end up, or to get the information as soon as the Super-Humans knew it.

Group X gets to the plane first, and kills all the passengers... so they can't report their experiences? Group X is blind to John Ritter running away from the scene.

Super-Humans are in control of covering up the crash, and must have been in control of the blockade on the highway.

In comparison with Lost where we could identify with the survivors who were discovering the mysteries of the island there is no character in TheEvent we the viewers can identify with. Instead it is like a Wheel of Fortune puzzle where the producers are deliberately and arbitrarily withholding information in order for there to be a mystery.

What character on the show are we supposed to be identifying with? What character doesn't have more relavant information than has been shown to the viewers. The president knows alot about the mystery we don't since he visited the facility. The guy who lost his girlfriend and is trying to stop the hijacking on the plane knows a whole lot about the hijacking that we don't know about. The person trying to stop the plane in the SUV knows more than we do.

ok so i may be high on adrenaline after watching the final 5 episodes in a row but...THAT WAS IT!? is there going to be a second season? are they going to explain the evolutionary event? wtf? and omgomg.

Is Sophia in Alaska with the rest of the detainees? Is the president and his staff also in Alaska? I'm very confused by this.

I think the writers are trying to make us care about the characters, but I'd much rather they use Sean and Leila as a MacGuffin to advance the plot about the assassination attempt. The characters I care about are Sophie, Leila's dad, the president, and the director.

I'm personally wondering if the revivies are going to come back changed.

Sean was definitely having a big mindfuck moment when his room was replaced so it is understandable as to why he wouldn't have thought about it at the time, but what do you guys think is going to happen with the safe?

A story that isn't told in chronological order sometimes isn't that good. They used several moments multiple times throughout the pilot to get several suspenseful moments out of it. Lets say the show was 40 minutes without commercials. I would bet that 5 of those 40 minutes were repeats of previously shown clips from earlier in the show as time jumped around.

Am I the only one who was super annoyed by this?

Maybe the meaning of the title isn't about an incident, like flying a plane into a president, but rather refers to an Event Horizon. From what Thomas and Sophia discussed after their escape, they have the technology to pinch space-time. Maybe that's the namesake.