Losing Patience With "The Event"

I don't watch a lot of serialized television shows.  In fact, as I think back over the past 20 years, I can only think of 7 I've stuck with from start to finish:

• "The X-Files" always kept my attention.  The mythology got awfully convoluted but I never lost faith.  I even saw both of the movies.
• "Millenium" was a great show.  It was also created by Chris Carter, of "The X-Files" fame.  I've never seen scarier stuff on regular television.  Unfortunately, it got cancelled after only 3 seasons and the central plot line was never really resolved.
• I loved "Felicity."  I know -- men in their mid-30's (that's what I was at the time) weren't the target audience but what are you gonna do?
• I never missed "24." After season 1, it was never quite as good but I had a soft spot for Jack Bauer and Chloe.
• "Prison Break" was the same way -- a great season 1 but, once they broke out of prison, the writers didn't really know what to do next.  Even so, I never missed an episode.
• I'm slowly but surely still working my way through "Lost" on DVD.  I got started on it a couple of years in and am now about half way through the final season.  I hope the payoff is worthwhile.
• And, of course, I'm hooked on "Glee." It's fun and I like that our whole family watches it together.

Each year, I read the advance billings on all the new series to see if there's something that catches my attention.  This year, I decided to give "The Event" a try.  The show seemed to have it all -- political intrigue, aliens who've been stuck here on Earth for over 60 years, young love on the run.  This has to be good, I thought.  Unfortunatey, I think I was wrong.  Here are a couple of examples from last night's show that explain just how wrong I was:

• In episode 1, the aliens use their advanced technology to thwart an assassination attempt on the President by creating a warp in the space-time continuum and diverting an airliner from Florida to Arizona in an instant.  Pretty cool, right?  Not so fast.  In last night's episode, the aliens are now trying to kill the President.  You'd think that they'd use some of that cool technology to handle this.  Nope.  Instead, they decide to switch out his Sweet N Low packet for a poison version.
• The sexy assassin (Vicki) who was trying to kill the hero (Sean) in the first few episodes is now helping him stop the alien conspiracy to take over Earth.  I don't think the writers even know why Vicki's doing this.  Last night, when Sean asked her why she was now helping him, Vicki said something like "If you have to ask, then you wouldn't understand."  News flash -- no one understands.
• The aliens' home planet is dying and they all want to come to Earth to live.  That means about 2.5 billion of us humans need to be "cleared out" to make way.  What's the best way to do that?  I've got it -- let's have the aliens find a frozen body in Siberia of some soldier who had been exposed to the Spanish flu.  Then, let's take out his lungs and use the tissue to spread the disease.  That's a great idea.  Let's get right on it.

Despite all this, I've decided to stick with the show for the rest of this season.  Now it's just fun to see what the writers come up with next.  I'm hoping that it tops the grand finale I've created.  In my version, Sue Sylvester is revealed to be the real alien commander.  Jack Bauer, Agent Scully, and Frank Black all come out of retirement to form a crack team to take her down.  They realize they can't do it alone and have to recruit T-Bag and Julie (why did she leave "Felicity" after season 1?) to help them.  But, the aliens are more powerful than anticipated.  Jack, Agent Scully, Frank, T-Bag, and Julie are sucked through a wormhole and end up on the very island from "Lost."  The way things are progressing on the show, that scenario doesn't seem too unrealistic.