What's it about?
While the CDC tries to deal with the captive's contagion, Martinez and Blake try to negotiate with Thomas. Meanwhile, Simon talks to Sophia about Thomas, and Collier closes in on Vicky and Carter.
Review
Another bloody good episode of 'The Event' this week, we're riding high on the news that the show has been picked up for the back nine episodes so we're now getting a full twenty-two episode season. YAY!
That being said the ratings for this weeks episode are out and once again there has been a slight leakage from last week but in the wake of the pickup that's nothing to worry about for now.
'The Event' begins in the UK this Friday so I'm hoping to drum up some international interest in the meantime but don't forget to tell at least one person to watch the show each week and lets see if we can get the ratings up and open with some strong international ratings at the same time.
This week we're still on the trail of Vicky to reunite Sean and Leila so we're taking all that character that was introduced last week and packing it out with an absolute bucketload of action, I lost count of the amount of gun shots which took place in this episode.
That, of course, doesn't mean that there isn't even more character development this week. In fact I would go as far as to say that the character scenes this week out do the action by a mile. There are things in this episode that I couldn't have imagined coming in their wildest dreams. There's many a moral guideline blurred in this episode particularly surrounding the character of Vicky who tries to redeem herself both in the present and in one of the past timelines. Still doesn't make me like her but at least there is a heart inside her somewhere.
The spotlight is well and truly on the President this week as he begins to crack under the pressure of the ever increasing situation involving the Inostrankan's and the survivors of the Avias plane crash.
The scenes featuring the survivors take on a very zombie movie-like appearance in this episode and in a pre-halloween warmup I felt quite freaked out and just a little sick after watching them. This episode almost totally dispenses with a recap and teaser and brings us straight in to the quarantine ward and hits us with some really tough to watch content.
There are a lot of very interesting theories floating around the internet regarding the Inostrankans, one of the more interesting being that the reason they are so close in physiology to humans is that in fact they are just that, humans. Only from the future. This theory was very well backed up by one blogger who stated that if time around the plane in the pilot were to be shifted then it could well have landed in the exact desert where it reappeared.
Of course this could just mean that the aliens have the power to move objects in time but there are some hints in this episode which allude to a similar theory. The characters in this episode show at least some knowledge of where humanity is headed in its future. We'll have to watch this space.
I've not yet formed a complete theory of my own and I'm giving myself a headache thinking that maybe the events in the past take place after the events of the present for the Inostrankans if in fact they can travel in time.
We could theorise about this until the cows come home and then possibly go back in time and tell ourselves not to worry about it but for now lets stick to this episode.
With the focus being towards the President there is an added element of politics to this episode, the scenes of all the officials sitting around the big table conjure up images of big alien invasion monster movies and is a nice nod to genre visuals of old.
I'm surprised that the writers reunited Sean and Leila so early in the series, this could be down to the original thirteen episode order or it could be that having them separated was not as larger part of the overall story line as one might originally think.
The same could be said of when they're reunited, it happens in the midst of a very confusing side switching scene which just made me feel all the more conflicted about god damn Vicky. Clearly whoever is behind all of the goings on in this first part of the season won't be letting up any time soon otherwise Sean would not be the focal point of the series.
Taking a moment to heap some more praise on the cast I don't think I could now single out any one of them as a weak point. Despite not really intermixing for lengthly periods of time there's a tightness which outclasses many other ensemble cast shows. I wonder if at some point these people will all come together and be given the chance to spend more time together on screen. It would be interesting to see how they mix directly rather than how their scenes flow throughout each episode.
Now that we have at the very least a full season to look forward to I can't wait to see how this show develops further, I wonder if amongst all the mystery anybody is actually asking: when will we see the titular event?
WHEN?!
Next week...
Martinez and Sterling suspect a traitor when someone within their organization undermines their deal with Thomas. Sean meets up with Madeline, a conspiracy theorist, who is also investigating Leila's disappearance. And Simon must choose when his loyalties to the detainees conflict with his responsibilities as a member of Sterling's team.
Story 4.0
Character 4.0
Weirdness 3.5
Overall 3.5
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