History YMMV / TheEvent

** Vicky also appears to have become one, seeing that Creator/TaylorCole is drop dead gorgeous and her character is fairly complex. She evolves from a fairly flat evil character, to a {{Dark Action Girl}} with some sympathetic traits, and after the hiatus and retool has undergone a HeelFaceTurn and more or less taken up position as the female lead. Being {{Ms Fanservice}} probably helps too.
* FoeYayShipping: As of "A Message Back". Combine Sean and [[DarkActionGirl Vicky]]'s [[EnemyMine alliance]] with Vicky's [[FemmeFatale flirtatious demeanor]] and the fact that [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy Leila is out of the picture]] for the time being, and it was inevitable. Quickly became canonical FoeYay as of "Face Off".

** Jason Ritter starring in a MythArc-heavy sci-fi series of intrigue? [[WesternAnimation/GravityFalls Yeah, like that would ever work...]]

* FanPreferredCouple: Vicky and Sean.

** Vicky also appears to have become one, seeing that Taylor Cole is drop dead gorgeous and her character is fairly complex. She evolves from a fairly flat evil character, to a {{Dark Action Girl}} with some sympathetic traits, and after the hiatus and retool has undergone a HeelFaceTurn and more or less taken up position as the female lead. Being {{Ms Fanservice}} probably helps too.

** Jason Ritter starring in a complex, MythArc-heavy sci-fi series? [[WesternAnimation/Gravity Falls Yeah, like that would ever work...]]

* TheScrappy: Leila. She is [[DesignatedVictim frequently kidnapped]] and [[FailureHero her acts of heroism are less successful]] than Sean's. And let's not even mention those who want her [[DieForOurShip out of the way]] for [[FanPreferredCouple Sean and Vicky]].

* TooSoon:
** Jetliner SuicideAttack as a weapon in the United States complete with screaming passengers. Obviously NBC's is hoping that nine years was enough for this to just be a credible dramatic threat and not stomach-turning to most of the audience.
** The old warehouse collapsing in 1x6.
** The episode "Turnabout", in which the threat of a nuclear incident in Southern California is a major plot point, aired a few days after the massive Sendai earthquake in Japan that led to major incidents at several nuclear reactors. In a moment before the President gets updated on the situation, we see him in a meeting with a foreign dignitary... from Japan.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Simon and Blake Sterling are quite well-loved at this point.

** Although many people feel the show "shaved" the beard off when it started the Spanish Flu storyline a few episodes later, as the few people left watching generally agree this was the worst part of the show.

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Dempsey]]'s experimentation on little girls.

** And everything Sophia does in Episode 16.
*** If that doesn't qualify Sophia, in Episode 20 she [[spoiler: orders [[HalfHumanHybrid Leila]] infected with a virus that kills humans quickly and is harmless to her people, in order to mutate it into a form that can be widely dispersed among the human population.]]

* DamselScrappy: Leila seems to get kidnapped, tied up, or abducted... ''a lot''.

* TheScrappy: Leila seems to be quite far on the road to Scrappydom.

* TooDumbToLive: How did Sophia's civilisation survive this long without wiping themselves out, they're ''clearly'' all insane! Given some of the plans they come up with, you have to seriously wonder if the supernova threatening their planet wasn't ''their'' fault?!

* FridgeLogic: If Sophia's people were able to [[spoiler: transport their entire planet away from the supernova and near Earth without simply destroying both planets, why did they have to rid earth of its population? Why not simply live permanently alongside earth?]]

* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Dempsey's experimentation on little girls]].
** [[spoiler: Most everything Thomas does in Episode 12.]]

* FridgeLogic: If Sophia's people were able to [[spoiler: transport their entire planet away from the supernova and near earth without simply destroying both planets, why did they have to rid earth of its population? Why not simply live permanently alongside earth?]]

* AffablyEvil: Dempsey
* CompleteMonster: Dempsey

* RousseauWasRight: The tragedy is that Sophia and Martinez both genuinely have the best interests of not just their own species at heart, but would have been willing to work together peacefully in the beginning. The escalation of hostility between them is a result of both sides' increasing fear and desperation caused by an inability to be open with one another, as well as the radicals in both species.

* VillainProtagonist: Wait, we're supposed to root for the ''[[HumansAreBastards humans]]'' in this show? Thus far, the aliens' bad acts are all in response to the ''humans''' 66-year-long preemptive viciousness.
** The preemptive move was imprisonment, which is hardly the most vicious act ever. Which took place after the aliens refused to explain why or how they arrived or ''why they look exactly like us''. Whether that justifies prison is up for discussion, but it's suspicious and threatening at the least.
*** "Surrender and be locked up in Alaska again, or be massacred" isn't vicious? See ep. 15. See Martinez morph into President Evil. See my point.
*** A caveat: at the time Martinez had all the reasons in the world to believe that there was an alien invasion on the way, plus he was lied to at every step. You say that what the aliens did was in response to what humans did to them, but what Martinez did was in response to what Thomas did, and planed to do to humans, by now it became a full blown vicious circle, and [[GrayAndGreyMorality neither side is more nor less to blame]].
* WhamEpisode: At the end of "For the Good of the Country", [[spoiler:Dempsey looks in a mirror and morphs into a younger version of himself]]
** [[spoiler: Episode 15- Sophia is forced to blow up the Washington Monument, and Thomas turns out to have been a good guy after all and sacrifices himself to keep her around.]]
** Episode 18 - [[spoiler:Dempsey notes that Sean is TheHero and calmly shoots himself. Christina is almost certainly a sleeper, and the Vice President is trying to kill off Martinez]].