"The Event": NBC Premieres UFO Disclosure Series
The first episode of NBC's The Event wrapped up last night as a hijacked commercial airliner was seconds from crashing into the president's Florida compound.
Then the airliner vanished. Poof. Assassination attempt thwarted.
President Martinez (Blair Underwood) had been about to hold a press conference at which he was going to make an announcement. We assume that the announcement had to do with the true nature of the 97 prisoners being held at a secret prison in Alaska. We further assume that the prisoners are extraterrestrial.
Hence the announcement.
Hence the opposition to the announcement.
Hence the assassination attempt.
The sudden disappearance of the airliner moments before impact leads us to believe that, while the forces opposed to the announcement may be powerful, the forces in favor of it are considerably moreso.
What The Event is has yet to be revealed, though advance publicity for the series has gone to some pains to eliminate possibilities ... it isn't the hijacking or the assassination attempt ... it isn't the murder of the airline captain's wife or the kidnapping of his daughter. Odds are that it isn't even the announcement (yet to occur) that the U.S. military has been running a Club Med for extraterrestrials in Alaska.
Is it something transformational, in the vein of Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End? Or is it an extinction-level event?
And when will Hal Holbrook's character be introduced?
Maybe that's the event ... Mark Twain returns triumphant as a Plejaran warlord.
Follow Technorati