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The Event was the failed Lost. The promos were dumb fun. Characters on white backgrounds explaining what their deal is to the camera, with Blair Underwood looking at a camera saying “I am the President of the United States  ” and “Hey, a crazy thing is going to happen in the pilot, but it’s not The Event. Man, is your mind gonna be blown when we get there  ”The plot involved some ancient aliens who may have been ancient astronauts. They were basically humans with minor genetic differences making them much longer lived, returning to Earth as their star was going to go supernova, some held in government facilities and some hiding among humans. The humans and aliens each had factions who were duking it out over whether to coexist. It had some fun moments. -The not-The-Event-event of the pilot was someone trying to 9/11 not-President Obama before he could reveal the aliens to the public and plea for coexistence, only for a wormhole to appear and transport the plane to the desert. Lots of drama about War on Terror debating. -Dopey Everyman Protagonist gets the upper hand on some thug who was injecting a little alien girl prisoner with something. He demands to know what the substance was, and then stabs him with it, causing the thug to instantly age to death. -Evil Templar-esque conspiracy leader explains to Dopey Everyman Protagonist why his organization wants to keep the aliens in check, passes on some info or MacGuffin to him, then just immediately shoots himself. -The Event is the opening of a portal to the alien world, and from last shots of the show it appears they teleported their whole-rear end planet into our solar system. Apparently it was 22 episodes? It didn’t feel like that many.
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I’d never heard of Kindred: The Embraced before now. I’m marveling about how bad the title is. It can only work as a cheeky self-reference within the universe of Vampire: The Masquerade, and seems completely inscrutable to anyone unfamiliar with it.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned The Cape yet! A campy and dumb show about a city's one honest cop framed for murder, who falls in with a circus/group of bank robbers lead by Keith David and becomes the Cape! Using a specially treated cape as a whip-like weapon and learning stage magician skills that allow him to basically teleport, he fights to save the city from the clutches of evil industrialist Peter Fleming and his eviler supervillain split personality, Chess. The main dude was bland and clichés abounded, but it could be goofy fun. There was a scene where a raccoon robs a bank. Will he get to see his wife and wide-eyed, Cape-loving son again? What is the mysterious secret behind the corruption-exposing blogger, Orwell? (She's Fleming's daughter) Will the Cape defeat such memorable baddies as Scales (who was basically just Killer Croc), Razer, the Lich, and Dice? Community had a a fake clip show episode, aired the same season but after The Cape finished its run, with a subplot about tracking a character's journey from enthusiasm, to denial of its impending cancellation, to acceptance. It's where the "Six seasons and a movie!" running joke comes from, which probably had a greater cultural footprint than the show itself. They riffed Keith David for it when he guest starred in a later episode. They had a contest where viewers could design a villain, and they actually aired the winner in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it bumper with the final episode. It was a guy called Firebug, who had a gas mask and flamethrower and he's Firefly from Batman. Literally just Firefly from Batman without a jetpack.
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