The Event/YMMV

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  • Damsel Scrappy: Leila seems to get kidnapped, tied up, or abducted... a lot.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Simon and Blake Sterling are quite well-loved at this point.
    • 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.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: Vicky and Sean.
  • 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 Foe Yay 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.
  • 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.
      • If that doesn't qualify Sophia, 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 seems to be quite far on the road to Scrappydom.
  • Too Dumb to Live: How did Sophia's civilisation survive this long without wiping themselves out, they're clearly all insane! Given some of the plans they come up with, you have to seriously wonder if the supernova threatening their planet wasn't their fault?!