The Event Comic-Con Wrap Up

There's all sorts of information out there right about NBC's The Event. We still don't what the Event is, but none the less, we know more about the show it's stars and the producers. I'm going to include a few posts from various sources below on The Event Comic-Con experience without spoilers. If you were there, I would love to hear from you. Email us at whatistheeventpodcast@gmail, @reply or direct message us at twitter.com/eventpodcast or call The Event Line at (773) 41EVENT.

The TVSquad has a great post about The Event Preimere and Panel on their website. Here's an excerpt.

Most of the panel for the NBC series that's best described as part 'Lost' and part '24' was taken up by the screening of the show's pilot. Fans had only about 15 minutes for a moderator-conducted Q&A with the ensemble show's cast, which is headlined by Jason Ritter, Blair Underwood and Laura Innes.

But the good news is that If the crowd reaction was any indication, THIS is the must-see series of the fall. If you're still going through Jack Bauer and Jack Shephard withdrawal, trust us -- Ritter's Sean Walker is your new hero.

Each act break ended on a compelling cliffhanger, the biggest one was saved for the end of the show. Kudos to producers for informing viewers as to when a scene was set by starting each one off with "eight days ago" or "13 hours ago." It would be nice if 'Lost' had done that all shows with big casts and lots of flashbacks would do that.

Read More

Many are already comparing The Event to LOST, and this post at nymag.com has some interesting information about the show:

NBC's seemingly Lost-like upcoming series The Event features interconnected story lines, frequent time jumps, and twists within the pilot, but "everything is designed to answer questions so you're not frustrated or feeling like we're making it up as we go along,” said Evan Katz, an executive producer. Two of the first episode's crucial mysteries — involving detainees and an airplane — "will be answered in the second episode," he said. “There are people in LA right now carefully crafting what we hope will be twenty-two hours that keeps people guessing in a fair way." Creator Nick Wauters added that the series has "an element of science fiction," but doesn't rest on that genre. So what is the titular event, anyway? Oh, well, that much they can't say yet! “We can't ruin our surprises,” Katz said. He did say that, thankfully, "the event" is not this very Comic-Con panel, and it's also not our second guess, Blair Underwood's noted salsa-dancing ability.

Full Article

I thought the security during the pilot showing was interesting. Luke De Smet at hitfix.com wrote about that here:

On a somewhat more positive note, Comic-Con did provide a surprisingly apt viewing experience for this kind of show. As the on-screen action centered around various attempts to either suppress or expose the truth about the “event,” real-life, dark-suited NBC security officers did their part to heighten the experience by patrolling the aisles in search of any recording equipment that might prematurely reveal the truth to the masses.

Read More

I also thought that this post from buzzfocus.com was informative and funny:

Just like Anchorman Ron Burgundy, NBC’s highly mysterious new show The Event was “kind of a big deal” at Comic-Con this past weekend. While we did see the pilot and did a few interviews with the cast, we still don’t know just exactly what The Event is.

But we did get a seemingly useless “Top Secret” file at the Con that seemed to be a cryptic note about the secret prison in Alaska that’s part of a cover-up in the pilot. As a random shot in the dark, we decided to search Google for “Mount Inostranka” from the doc and were surprised to see a special website as one of the results, theeventiscoming.com, that has some documents, images, a search bar and a map for the new show.

Thanks,
Jimmy in GA