http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/nbc-series-the-event-even-confuses-its-cast/19609981
Well, that's one way to keep a secret.
Anybody interested in this show...? It's not really grabbing me so far (based on the trailers).
'The Event' Cast Completely Confused by Own Show
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Well, that's one way to keep a secret.
Anybody interested in this show...? It's not really grabbing me so far (based on the trailers).
I'm interested. It's got the right cast and an intriguing sounding setup, so it's theirs to lose, I guess. But I've seen so many Lost wannabees fall on their faces, that I'm not going to underestimate how difficult it will be for them to pull this off.
Rather than get paranoid about spoilers, they should just institute a vigorous foiler campaign. Throw every possible scenario out there and if the right answers are floating around, they'll be lost in the noise.
After all, some folks did guess Lost's ending during the final season but since it was just one of many popular options, it still came as a surprise. (It was actually one of my top two favorites, but I picked the other one FTW.
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Rather than get paranoid about spoilers, they should just institute a vigorous foiler campaign. Throw every possible scenario out there and if the right answers are floating around, they'll be lost in the noise.
After all, some folks did guess Lost's ending during the final season but since it was just one of many popular options, it still came as a surprise. (It was actually one of my top two favorites, but I picked the other one FTW.
)Yeah because Lost never fell on its face at all. I'm sick of everything being compared to Lost and The X Files and this and that.
Lost was a success for serialized storytelling. There had really been nothing like it for a long time. You can't help but compare television shows with intricate story arcs to Lost, just like it can't be helped that Fringe is X-Files for a new generation.
For the most part, I think that 24 was being made up as it went along.
Well in this case, "fall on its face" means "gets cancelled within ten episodes or less."
That's the only objective measure of a show falling on its face that matters in the TV biz.Quality-wise, I was happy with Lost overall, but what I really loved about it was the gutsiness and imagination, regardless of whether it came together coherently. To quote a great line from a TV critic, what was valuable about Lost is that "it shot for the moon in an industry that usually shoots for Encino." Even if I thought Lost was a failure in the end (and I don't), I'd be very happy to see another ambitious failure on TV instead of yet another cop show or reality TV that doesn't even try.
I don't think there's ever been anything like it, and the closest comparisons are on premium cable. Sure, The Sopranos is probably the gold standard for serialization, but Lost brought an element of sci fi craziness, frakking around with the space-time continuum, that added a whole other level of difficulty to what is already a very difficult undertaking, especially on broadcast, which is hostile territory to anything ambitious, less than fast-paced, or confusing for the common herd.
Yeah and it had its share of silliness, too (a magic gizmo designed to melt down nuclear power plants???) I know a serialized show on broadcast has got six or seven strikes against it right off the bat - all I ask is that it at least look like they're trying, and that they don't get themselves cancelled.
With the exception of the first 13 episodes of season one and a large chunk of season 7 that's true. They generally never planned the show out for more than 4 episodes ahead.
I think there's a possibility of the whole secretness backfiring on them. You at least want to give an inkling of what the show will be about in order for viewers to tune in. I'm hoping it won't be another "FlashForward", in the sense that it got cancelled before they were able to reveal anything pivotal. Both shows are similar in that something big happens, and they revolve around this, and I'd say there's a danger in doing that as the writers will be exhausting their topic. So, I don't think a show like this can last long.
The funny thing is, this sounds like a sale event, as there's a local electronics store and every year they have this big tent sale they call "The Event". "Hurry now and experience prices like you've never seen! Prices so ridiculously low they can only be found during 'The Event'."
The funny thing is, this sounds like a sale event, as there's a local electronics store and every year they have this big tent sale they call "The Event". "Hurry now and experience prices like you've never seen! Prices so ridiculously low they can only be found during 'The Event'."
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Yeah, title creation may not have been very high on their list.
I think I'll make my own TV show and call it "TV Show".
I think I'll make my own TV show and call it "TV Show".
Yeah, title creation may not have been very high on their list.
I think I'll make my own TV show and call it "TV Show".
Can we name the characters "Protagonist," "Antagonist," "Quippy Side-Kick," etc.?
How about a show called Joe Everyman about a guy named Joe Everyman?
That was a Chris Rock joke when he hosted the Oscars about how white people make movies with cool titles like Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can, while black people make movies called Barbershop. And Check Cashing Place would be coming next.
That was a Chris Rock joke when he hosted the Oscars about how white people make movies with cool titles like Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can, while black people make movies called Barbershop. And Check Cashing Place would be coming next.
Don't feel bad, Chris. White people also make movies called Attack of the Clones.
Anybody know whatever happened to that Alien-Invasion miniseries that NBC was going to air? Did they air it yet or is it still sitting on the shelf?
It'll probably be webisodes and a graphic novel before too long.
At two years into its run, The X-Files also seemed to have a planned storyline that made sense. As much as I am enjoying Fringe, I'm always going to be wary that it will all fall apart at some point.
Except that Fringe has even me more answers to the overall mystery of the show in two seasons than The X Files did in 9 years and two movies.
Yes, which is exactly why I compared the state of the shows based on where Fringe currently stands: at the end of season 2, preparing for season 3. It makes no sense to compare a show as mythology-heavy as Fringe to an entirely finished franchise. In my opinion, at the end of each season 2, Fringe and The X-Files stand comparatively similar in terms of their respective mythologies.
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