Line #17 YMMV/TheEvent

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1	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
2	** Simon and Blake Sterling are quite well-loved by fans.
3	** 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 MsFanservice probably helps too.
4	* 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 as of "Face Off".
5	* 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?]]
6	** The planet appears to be in pretty bad shape. The real question is why they think they need to [[spoiler:kill most of the humans to make room for a billion aliens? That's less than two decades of human population growth. Just put them in Central Asia or Canada.]]
7	* GrowingTheBeard: The two-part Inostranka breakout episodes, which saw the end of the show's tendency to show dozens of flashbacks per episode. After the hiatus, many viewers who had given up on the show beforehand flocked back to it in droves. Unfortunately, not enough of them came back to save the show's plummeting ratings.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: In the episode "Face Off", Sophia's people use their portaling technology to cause a massive earthquake which destroys the Washington monument. In August 2011, just a few months after this episode aired, there was an earthquake in Virginia - the first of its magnitude to hit the East Coast in over a century - that caused cracks to appear in the Washington Monument.
9	* MemeticBadass: Blake.
10	* MemeticMutation: Joking about what "The Event" is is fairly popular online.
11	* MoralEventHorizon:
12	** [[spoiler:Dempsey]]'s experimentation on little girls.
13	** Most everything [[spoiler:Thomas]] does in Episode 12.
14	** Everything ''Martinez'' does in Episode 15.
15	** And everything Sophia does in Episode 16. 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.]]
16	* TheScrappy: Leila. She is [[DesignatedVictim frequently]] [[DamselInDistress 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]].

Context YMMV / TheEvent