Basic Trope: The plot goes everywhere and often times ends up nowhere.
- Straight: The TV show The Event has several main characters, each with their own arcs running parallel to one another, resulting in a very complicated plot.
- Exaggerated: The Event has at least twenty major characters and dozens of side characters, most of which don't interact with each other, all of which have their own specific sub-stories, even rivalling Kingdom Hearts in terms of complicated plot.
- Downplayed: The showrunners pair characters up into contingents, and consequences and occurences from one arc bleed over into the next, resulting in a strong continuity for the show and a definite direction in terms of arcs.
- Justified: The point of the show is how the titular Event brings a number of disseparate people together and their reaction to it.
- The details of The Event are meant to be parceled out in a haphazard manner for the audience to piece together.
- Inverted:
- A previously underutilized plot point in The Event becomes more important over time until it commands the attention of nearly everyone on the show.
- Excuse Plot
- Subverted: At first, it looks like The Event will have a lot going on, but after the first few episodes most of the outlying story threads are quickly resolved and the show begins to focus on a single set of characters.
- Parodied: The plot of The Event isn't the point. You're just supposed to just sit back and watch the chaos unfold.
- Zig Zagged: While most of the show's story is straightforward, certain parts of it refuse to be nailed down, complicating the narrative.
- Averted: The Event focuses on a single character and is tightly plotted from start to finish.
- Enforced: The main story of The Event is all over the place by design.
- Lampshaded: No one watching The Event has any idea what's going on.
- Invoked: The writers have the notion that the show should be "challenging".
- Exploited: The network takes advantage of the show's inscrutibility by painting it as part of the show's mystique, which of course helps up the cost for ad space during airings.
- Defied: The writers go out of their way to plan the story beforehand, ensuring that there are few to no loose ends.
- Discussed: Critics take the show to task for its lack of cohesion.
- Conversed: The characters complain that they're totally in the dark about what's going on.
- Implied: Ratings for The Event take a nosedive after the first few episodes fail to establish a solid progression of events.
- Deconstructed: The more details a story contains, the more time has to be spent explaining them. Eventually, The Event suffers from so much baggage that it becomes unwieldy, unfinished and unable to maintain its narrative for the audience.
- Reconstructed: While the overall plot of The Event is terrible, individual parts range from decent to pretty damn good. Fans of the show pick their favorites to follow and disregard the rest.
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