YMMV / The Event

• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Simon and Blake Sterling are quite well-loved by fans.
  • 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 Heel–Face Turn and more or less taken up position as the female lead. Being Ms. Fanservice probably helps too.
• Foe Yay Shipping: As of "A Message Back". Combine Sean and Vicky's alliance with Vicky's flirtatious demeanor and the fact that Leila is out of the picture for the time being, and it was inevitable. Quickly became canonical as of "Face Off".
• Fridge Logic: If Sophia's people were able to 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?
  • The planet appears to be in pretty bad shape. The real question is why they think they need to 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.
• Growing the Beard: 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.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: 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.
• Memetic Badass: Blake.
• Memetic Mutation: Joking about what "The Event" is is fairly popular online.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Dempsey's experimentation on little girls.
  • Most everything Thomas does in Episode 12.
  • Everything Martinez does in Episode 15.
  • And everything Sophia does in Episode 16. In Episode 20 she orders 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.
• The Scrappy: Leila. She is frequently kidnapped and her acts of heroism are less successful than Sean's. And let's not even mention those who want her out of the way for Sean and Vicky.

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