Where to begin? First, in the final scene we learn that First Lady Martinez is a sleeper. If this is the case, why didn’t she learn from Sophia about the plan to poison her husband? Why didn’t she understand and accept it as a necessary evil? Why didn’t she have access to the antidote herself, why did she have to wait for Simon (himself a sleeper, which she didn’t seem to know at all ever) to bring it to her? And what about that whole two or three episode arc where we learn that the big secret she’s hiding is that her family is from Hispaniola, not Cuba. Also, if she *IS* a Sleeper, she had never personally seen her homeworld: remember, her mother came over with Elias’ on the boat from Cuba before either child was born.
Then there’s Sophia. In the beginning she’s a caring, concerned leader. She wants what is best for her people but doesn’t want to violate her “prime directive” of sorts: to do no harm to the indigenous population. In this episode, she’s a crabby old woman, bitter about the death of her son and her friends. Sean Walker manages to talk her out of releasing the pathogen by telling her enough good people have died already and does she really want to kill more; which in the end does absolutely nothing because five minutes later she tells Elias Martinez that she was releasing the pathogen as an act of mercy, the native population will suffer much more now. WTF, then why did she not release the fucking pathogen out of mercy for at least the people she could still “spare”?
How about Sean. He left Leyla, remember? They broke up. A long time ago. Now it looked like he was with Vicky, who is at least kickass and not all kissy and whiny and helpless like Leyla. Also, what the crap is this with Leyla being pregnant? I guess now she and Sean are back together. Wish I could just reach through my computer screen and slash his biosuit and her throat. Where the hell is Samantha? After being the center of all the attention for half the series, she disappeared suddenly with no more concern to her well-being.
2. More sucky story continuity (or lack thereof).
Sean and Leyla meet with her in a containment cell because she’s got a deadly pathogen. They sit and talk about building a new life and a new house together, without mentioning a) the death of Leyla’s FATHER, which had happened since they last met; b) Leyla’s confinement and quite possibly psychological trauma related to it; or c) Leyla’s little sister, who is missing again and could quite possibly be killed by this strain of the pathogen. WTF, writers? WTF?
Jarvis says Martinez doesn’t have evidence of his involvement in the plan to poison Martinez. Remember how that coffee spilled on Blake Sterling’s suit the day that Elias was poisoned? Remember how they tested it? Why didn’t Blake ever bother to GIVE that data to Elias or the First Lady? Speaking of the First Lady, why is the Christina so fucking pissed about Jarvis’ “truce” with Sofia if she herself is a sleeper?
3. Failure to create a “Finale”
It seems like the authors don’t know the meaning of the word “finale”. It’s supposed to be the episode where you wrap up the loose ends and bring the storyline to a neat close, especially if your series is being cancelled. Instead, they tell us new things: “The Event” is the sleeper’s evolution. Lee and Sofia both indicate that it’s gunna kill the humans. We don’t know how or why, just that it’s all in the scroll. Incidentally, the only person who can read it—Demsey—is apparently dead. [Demsey was Blake’s father, back on “story lines the writers carefully constructed then forgot about.” In the past he had stalkerishly checked out those around his son: remember the Russian spy lady? Why hadn’t he told Blake about Simon Lee?] Also, they didn’t seem to find it at all weird to END A SERIES with introducing a new planet orbiting earth. Because that’s not weird at all. Totally brings a sense of conclusion and finality to the series. Also, what will happen to Vicki? Sean and Leyla’s baby? SAMANTHA? The entire population of Earth? Seriously, way to bring your show to a nice conclusion, The Event writers.
4. Suggestions
Because I’m a nice person, I want to offer some helpful advice to the authors. Kill Sean and Leyla. They’re drags and no one will even notice they’re gone. If you won’t kill them both, at least kill Leyla. Sean and Vicki can adopt Samantha and go live somewhere quiet, like with Vicki’s adopted son and mom. Then the other characters—the more interesting characters—can get more screentime. Jarvis has now served his purpose. He has proven time and again that he’s a gullible douche who will believe anyone who kisses his butt a few times. Knock him off and introduce someone more interesting. Sophia is cool, she can stay. So is Elias. Shake it up by introducing some new menace that both groups have to work together to defeat. Then help the Sleepers terraform Mars. Create a new series based on mutual respect and cooperation between the peoples, kinda like Star Trek but different. Then the Sleepers can evolve; do that better then Star Trek, which turned evolved characters into lightbulbs, and you’ll get rave reviews. Also, hire me. I obviously know a thing or two more about script writing than you, and that’s not even a field similar to mine.
