I give up.

I am totally, 100% no longer interested in the nonsense that is The Event. I say I'll give up, but I won't. I'll just moan about how I have to watch it every week. Due to work and the fact that University doesn't allocate television watching time like selfish idiots, I got behind. 2 weeks behind. I'm not even through the first catch up episode, I'm watching it as I write, and I don't care. As soon as Jason Ritter started to get involved with the aliens I decided that all hope was lost.

Slash, he's her son!? Ew. Thomas is Sophia's son!? Gross, they are so totally incestuous. Unless that's cool with the aliens. What would I know? I'm also enjoying that the FBI agents are all like, "No, we can't prosecute Simon, even though he tried to ruin everyone's lives, coz he's our friend." AS IF! Oh God, all of this is so ludicrous. Mainly that the Director of National Intelligence is called Blake.

If they had just kept everything separate, at least for a bit longer, I think I would have had more interest. I really enjoyed the bit about why they kidnapped his girlfriend, who was doing it blah blah blah, and I knew it would have to coincide with the alien crap eventually, but he found her way too quickly and now they've found out about the aliens I'm suicidal about the whole thing. So, I give up. Official. After I've caught up you understand.

On the plus side, I've also got 2 episodes of The Mentalist to watch which means lots of Simon Baker. Excellent.


OH MY GOD. I JUST FINISHED WATCHING IT! Was there really any need for that ending. I will now not be sleeping for about 25 years as those little girl's faces are truly hilarious but also terrifying. What, in the name of all that is holy, is going on?! I don't even care, but now I feel as though I've been scared into watching. Slash, if the acting gets any more terrible, I may be forced to shoot myself.

What...?

I love The Event. I mean, I think, technically, it's awful, but I am truly hooked. The worst thing about it is that about 30 seconds before something's about to happen, I predict it, and am them so overcome with sheer anticipation, I go into some sort of nervous meltdown that results in involuntary spasms and a lot of arm flapping. It's so tense! But I hate hate HATE it in conspiracy shows when no one believes the person we all know is right. It's beyond frustrating. Here are a list of moments in tonight's episode of The Event that nearly sent me into anaphylactic shock

• When they 'tried to kill' Leila - with Jason Ritter on the way to save her, I was literally on my hands and knees begging the television to make him drive faster. And when they got there and couldn't see into the house so waited by the front door just as one of the bad men was opening the door to come out, but it turns out that they had gotten the wrong house... Oh. My. God. All I wanted was for them to stop him! But no. Instead that creepy old woman came to the door...
• The creepy old woman - I knew it would be Vicky Robert's mother. And then Jason Ritter was rooting through her stuff and the little boy came out and was all like, "Are you a friend of my mommy?" and Jason Ritter was like, "Yeah," and then he got his iPhone out and was all like, "Is this your mommy?" and showed him the picture of him with Vicky Roberts (not quite sure why he has that on his phone... but still) and the little ginger kid was like, "Yeah, but I haven't seen my mommy in ages. Will you take a picture of me to show her how big I got?" and Jason Ritter was like, "Yeah... Smile..." and then took the photo and then totally caught out the creepy old woman and was like, "YOU'RE VICKY ROBERT'S MOM BITCH!" Loves it. Although, the little ginger kid with the glasses broke my heart. It was so tragic. But I haven't even gotten to the worst part yet... When Jason Ritter took the picture on his phone and it flashed up low battery... NOOOOOOOO! It was so obvious that Leila was going to escape and try and call him and then when she did and it turned out the police were in on it and Vicky Roberts had actually let her escape to trick Jason Ritter into her evil web of lies. What a bitch. When she was on the phone crying I was screaming, "ANSWER YOUR PHONE! ANSWER!" But to no avail. It's so frustrating it makes me clench my fists so hard that my nails start to dig into my palms and my hands swell so as they begin to resemble big fat steaks, but I love it. 
• The phone call - Now, I'm pretty sure that the President isn't allowed to have a mobile phone due to security. Barack was far from impressed about giving up his Blackberry, but apparently, if you're the President AND you are also Blair Underwood, none of this matters. So when they could hear a phone ringing and the First Lady checked hers and it wasn't hers, and then Blair Underwood checked his and it wasn't his, and the little boy had a mysterious phone in his bag... I was convinced it was some sort of bomb. Thankfully it wasn't, it was better. A phone call from the man who made the plane disappear... Thomas... Eerie. I don't trust him, and Dr Weaver from ER kept telling Blair Underwood not to trust him, but I don't trust her either. She spent years in ER with crutches and now, all of a sudden, she doesn't need them? Something looks suspicious to me... Plus, she keeps going on about being an alien, so I think that should be a cause of concern as well.

At the moment, I'm struggling to see where the two aspects of the narrative really connect. I mean, I know that Dr Weaver's Alien Force helped the plane disappear, but I feel like I'm watching two different shows when it flicks between the Presidential side and then the woes of Sean Walker. If I'm honest, I'd much rather just watch the Sean Walker show, it's much more tense and much more realistic. But, obviously, the two will start interlinking more soon, and hopefully we'll understand what the hell the alien conspiracy has got to do with poor old Jason Ritter. It's probably completely irrelevant. 

Slash, it was so tragic when he was talking about his parents. It was obvious that he was going to have some sort of difficult childhood, all good heroes do. I feel like it could have been more dramatic, like they'd both been killed in a freak accident when he was young, but I think, hopefully, they're being clever, and using the 'I haven't spoken to him in years' to allow for his dad to make some sort of surprise appearance and be the leader of the conspiracy or something. That would be excellent.

I just don't feel like it's on long enough. I'm always shocked when it ends, ALWAYS ON A CLIFFHANGER! I mean, seriously, WHAT'S THE DEAL! TELL ME NOW! I NEED TO KNOW! It's like Lost, a lot, but just not as good. And not as random. Except when Dr Kim from The OC makes an appearance as a scientist. That's random.

The Event

This show is seriously messed up. Like, seriously. But I love it.

Firstly, Jason Ritter is v v cute and I love him. Secondly, Luke Danes of Gilmore Girls fame is a weirdo. Thirdly, Blair Underwood isn't as good a President as I imagined him to be.

I missed it on Friday and so caught up with it over the weekend and am now so totally confused but completely hooked. I think it wants to be the new Lost, which, of course, is a highly unrealistic aim. It's Lost mixed with Invasion, a show that I adored but most people seem to think I made up. I didn't. I swear to you it existed and it was about aliens. And it had Eddie Cibrian in it, before he went and whored it up with Leann Rimes. I'm getting off point. It's no where near as good as Lost, because for some reason, the more unrealistic Lost became, the more I believed it. You follow? I have already failed to suspend my disbelief with The Event. But it keeps coming back.

I kinda wish this show had jibbed the aliens. I feel they are largely unnecessary. It's totally believable until they're all like, "Mr President, these people are not of terrestrial origin." Erm... why not? Why do they have to be aliens. I might just ignore that part of the show. Although, it has put me on edge a bit. How do we know that there aren't aliens wandering down the street, living next door to us? For all we know, they sit around Downing Street panicking that the aliens are going to start some sort of revolution and kill us all. I sincerely hope that this is not the case. I don't like the idea of aliens. I don't even like the word 'alien'. Thank God it's just a TV show.

The idea of it is is that Jason Ritter takes his very pretty girlfriend who happens to be Luke Danes' daughter on a cruise where he plans to propose. Whilst on this cruise, Jason Ritter who plays Sean Walker, saves a woman's life because her 'boyfriend' has a broken arm and can't swim. Then they totally geg in on Sean Walker's holiday and then, all of a sudden, whilst Sean Walker is off snorkling with the girl he saved, his girlfriend is kidnapped and all traces of him are removed from the ship. Now he has to try and find her. Then there is some sort of plane crash, where the plane is aimed at the President's party house and then, just before it hits, vanishes into thin air. This is because President Blair Underwood was about to announce his knowledge of the aliens on earth and attempt to integrate them into society, and they somehow stopped the plane by absorbing it in some sort of electromagnetic field and crashing it in the Arizona desert instead.

Jason Ritter/Sean Walker knows most of this, but now, he has been arrested for a murder he didn't commit, and no one even believes he has a girlfriend. To prove that she is real, he announces, "We were going to get married." If that's not cold hard evidence, I don't know what is. But I love a good conspiracy, and even though this one has disappointed me with the inclusion of aliens, when I watch it, I feel almost claustrophobic, trapped, much how I imagine Sean Walker to feel. It stresses me out. They've managed to very cleverly make Sean Walker a very empathetic character, I want him to solve it now. It ruins my life that no one believes him, and I now feel like I can't trust anyone ever again. For all I know, they're part of a real alien conspiracy. Jason Ritter is the only one who can help me. Much like Dennis Quaid is the only one who will save us when the earth begins to freeze over.

It's tense though. Really tense, and even though you know that everything is going to continually go wrong for Sean Walker, it still makes you go, "NOOOO!" when it happens. Poor, Sean Walker. He's so pretty and all he wants to do is find his girlfriend and get his identity back. Why won't they let him!? Why!?

Oh, and I'm almost certain that they're using the West Wing set for President Blair Underwood's scenes. Loves it.