New telly: The Event

Hmmm. I've watched the first two episodes and I'm still on the fence. It seems to be well made, apart from the fake fuzziness around the CGI plane, as if they couldn't quite get the edges right. Various actors I've seen before but none of them are exactly setting the screen alight. Story that's taking the same direction as Lost, in that there are flashbacks, tiny bits of clues given out here, there and everywhere, some obvious bad guys (but who are they?) and few obvious good guys. Some clear morons (aren't there always). And the horribly overused cliche of having women in danger as motivation for the men to take action - the women don't have stories of their own, apparently.

Sadly, I've already started fast-forwarding through various flashbacks, mostly the ones with the bloke and his girlfriend - dull, dull, dull. They seem to be in there just to slow the story down. I'm sure someone would say it's to build characters, make them more 3D, etc, but it's not working for me at all. If it's not moving the story or characters forward, take it out. Also, not impressed by the overt badness of various baddies - it's like they've been to evil henchperson's training and have graduated with dual honours in moustache twirling and stupid threats.

Yeah, okay, so it's possible I'm more on one side of the fence than the other. Will I watch next week? Possibly. Probably. Though at this point I'm only interested in knowing the answer to one question, and beyond that it's all conspiracies and nonsense that doesn't interest me. And there's only one character I actually give a toss about, which is Sophia.

Tell me, fllist - does it get better?