Dear "The Event"

Dear The Event,

You're not "Lost". So don't TRY to be provocative in your mystery. You shouldn't want to be "Flash Forward", but apparently you really liked that show.

K. Here's my beef with this show. A majority of the mysteries they introduced in the Pilot, which wasn't a bad pilot, they've ALREADY told us about, and it's only EPISODE 5.

I'm just curious. The show was picked up for a full season yesterday. Clearly the only mystery they really care about is "What is THE EVENT"? But I don't think it can sustain a full 22 episodes, and god forbid it must do it for more than that?

Here's the thing. It's not a terrible show, really. It just doesn't know what it wants to be. It doesn't give the characters enough room to breath, translated "let the audience fall in love with the characters." If it slowed down just a tick each episode to let us go along with the characters instead of showing us an etch-a-sketch of them and then shaking it every two minutes, I'd be more willing to go along with What the %$@ is going on. Think of all the small character moments on "Lost". That's REALLY what made us keep coming back for more, because the plot was absurd, but we went along with it because we wanted to see what would happen to Jack, Kate, Sawyer, Locke, Hurley, Charlie, Jin&Sun, Desmond, Mr. Ecko, Ben, Juliette, Boone, Penny, Daniel Faraday, etc, etc, etc...

I'm just saying.

Sincerely,
A Viewer who needs some great episodes or I'm turning you off for good!