Posted on 09/13/2010 5:36:18 AM PDT by rvoitier
The pilot script for NBC’s The Event (premieres next Monday, Sept. 20th) is nothing more than leftist wish fulfillment, a smarmy progressive wet dream that somehow was approved by teams of executives, marketing research firms, focus groups, and Fortune 500 companies looking to advertise their services. It’s a Big Dumb Action Movie wannabe (no doubt they’re gonna make it “hip” and “edgy” with shaky-cam non-cinematography) propelled by a hyper-partisan political premise so preposterous, paranoid, and childish, it will make your head explode. Who, besides surgeons who fix botched lobotomies, would advertise for that?
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When Tony Romo promised an explosive offense, I didn’t think he meant a suicide bomb
They were screwed last night!.............
Both are frauds, but Even looks more so. Our local station’s hype borders on hysteria, trying to set up “watching parties” and contests. Then there’s this whole Obama comparison thing. No thanks.
A VORTEX IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OPENS UP AND SWALLOWS UP THE PLANE
I am not kidding.
There aren't words.
That happens around here all the time.
“...The Dallas Cowboys is the next “Lost”....”
The Dallas Cowboys is the next Super Bowl Champion.
I can wish, can’t I?
It’s only one game. Many a change between September and December. Of course, this morning in Washington they’re already talking about the Super Bowl.
The ‘skins didn’t play much better
The space/time vortex sounds like something out of Donnie Darko.
Our TV is used to view; Big Brother (although after this last season this may be scrubbed), Survivor (same as BB it is on the possible exclusion list), Antiques Roadshow and DVD’s. Seems that more often after watching a DVD from our collection, we end up putting it in the ‘for sale’ pile.
We now have a large collection of books, mostly westerns, and these are consistently good. No commercials, no left leaning agendas, low power consumption. All that is required is for me to read ‘out loud,’ so my husband can enjoy them with me. :-) If the author uses words that I choose not to hear/say it is simple to on-the-spot edit. It is easy to pause the story to discuss what is happening without the need for expensive equipment (TIVO)
We encourage more folks to try it. It can bring two people closer, too. Whereas TV isolates people.
TL
I’m going to go out on a limb and do a 180 from everyone else thinking.
This won’t be aimed at the left, it will be aimed at the lefts idea of what they believe about the right.
It’s a takeoff of THE OMEN’.
How about that... 30 Rock is actually a documentary.
After watching the trailer (yeah, I know, but I was curious), I don't think 'The Omen' has anything to do with it.
Here's my guess at what this is all about...
The people being tortured aren't political detainees. Given the info about the rupture in the space-time continuum, my guess is that they're either time-travelers or aliens. The interruption of the assassination attempt was to prevent the disruption of the start of a 'paradigm shift' of the evolution of mankind, which this President seems to be the catalyst for.
It may be a sci-fi tie-in to the whole leftist "Obama is Messiah" idea with the not-so-subtle message that 'to get rid of him is a HUGE mistake, because he'll save us all".
If this show is an alien thing, I'd much rather see a show about aliens who come to Earth who eat garbage, poop solid gold, and piss super-unleaded premium gasoline.
Imagine you are an NBC bigwig. Wait a minute... Ok, drink a fifth of Vodka in thirty minutes to shave off enough IQ points and then imagine that you are an NBC bigwig....
You have an extremely expensive and ambitious program coming out, but you have lost control of the process. The producers have presented you with an absolute disaster, uninteresting and offensive at the same time, completely unwatchable.
Whatchagonnado?
You can't just round-file the project. It's gone too far. Millions of dollars has been invested, and the Network's future is tied to this thing as their big Prestige Product. If you just killed it, the network would look even worse than if you went forward with the project.
You can't fix it. It is fundamentally flawed. So stupid in concept and execution that there is literally nothing there to fix.
But you can't let anybody see this turkey. So you schedule the pilot to air a week after the start of the football season, and put it up against Monday Night Football.
Then when people get disgusted and tune the thing out halfway through the first 15 minute segment, you can blame it all on the MNF ratings juggernaught. It's not your fault at all that the project failed, etc...
And if that doesn’t work, start playing Time Slot Bingo to make sure that nobody can find the program. Be sure to tell people to “Check their local listings”...
Only if A VORTEX IN THE SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM OPENS UP AND SWALLOWS UP THE REST OF THE LEAGUE!!! (except the Lions)
They have to produce something new, something that no one has produced before.
Presenting a left wing president as good is nothing new.
Presenting a left wing president as appearing to be good when in fact he is evil hasn't been done.
Being able to portray anyone that objects to BO’s and the lefts agenda as a bunch of loons that believes a television show is real, is also to their advantage.
“If this show is an alien thing, I’d much rather see a show about aliens who come to Earth who eat garbage, poop solid gold, and piss super-unleaded premium gasoline.”
We have a winnah! Now that show would be interesting - what if these aliens landed in say, Iran? Russia? South Philly?
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