# V: 1.05 "Welcome to the War" (open spoilers) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 31, 2010, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413 "2010-03-31T02:02:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/21 "2010-04-01T09:03:05Z")
I loved the V anatomy stuff - the pregnancy, the eye, the eating your mate. I worry about the ability of the resistance to stay a secret - it seems like they are always on the verge of being caught, if not for the assassin guy not reporting in before going on his stabbing spree, or if not for the spike throwing bot having an IR camera instead of a regular one, etc. > [@mhendo](#): > > But showing four episodes and then taking a break of almost five months is bullshit, and i’m not going to reward that sort of shit from the networks. i guess i’ll never find out if it was worth watching the rest. FWIW, this was just a side effect of it filming in Vancouver and having to deal with a filming break because of the Olympics there. > [@fiddlesticks](#): > > It stuck me as a little false that the FBI guys accepted the V’s magic explosion playback software (with bonus fingerprint detection/analysis feature, for free!) without some much as a second thought, except for our heroine, naturally. But then again, that demo I saw of the new Photoshop looked just about as magical. 🙂 Yeah… I would hope that although they might embrace this tool for finding the supposed culprit, the particular method of evidence wouldn’t be supported in court for a conviction - they’d have to find additional evidence. ---
**Author:** ![Xan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@Xan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xan)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/22 "2010-04-01T12:41:52Z")
I think Hobbs is a Visitor. The Visitors led the resistance right to him. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/23 "2010-04-01T14:46:37Z")
Assuming male Visitors have the same dental arrangement…Do we _really_ believe that woman married to the Fifth Column guy doesn’t know he isn’t human??? ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/24 "2010-04-01T14:57:43Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Assuming male Visitors have the same dental arrangement…Do we _really_ believe that woman married to the Fifth Column guy doesn’t know he isn’t human??? It’s the forked tongue. Drives the women wild! ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/25 "2010-04-01T20:27:31Z")
Is it just me or does it seem like Visitor males vastly outnumber females? There’s Anna, her daughter Lisa, the FBI plant, and the new 5th Column doctor. I don’t recall any other female Vs except maybe in the background. And all the ship captains are male. This fits in with their society being matriarchal and Anna being a queen in more ways then one; the drones do double duty as workers. Is there even any reason why the sex of the human suit needs to match up with the Visitor’s actual sex? Anna & Lisa could be the only actual females in the fleet; all the other “females” (including undercover spies) are really males “crossdressing” to fit in with humans. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/26 "2010-04-01T20:51:38Z")
So is Anna going to deploy an entire army out of her V?:dubious: ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/27 "2010-04-01T21:22:11Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > So is Anna going to deploy an entire army out of her V?:dubious: Maybe she’ll morph into something like the Alien queen. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/28 "2010-04-01T22:21:52Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Assuming male Visitors have the same dental arrangement…Do we _really_ believe that woman married to the Fifth Column guy doesn’t know he isn’t human??? It looked to me like her teeth were hidden behind the human disguise, in a way similar to the 5th Column guy was able to roll up his fake eye to reveal his real one underneath… ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/29 "2010-04-01T22:28:43Z")
> [@jackdavinci](#): > > I worry about the ability of the resistance to stay a secret - it seems like they are always on the verge of being caught, if not for the assassin guy not reporting in before going on his stabbing spree, or if not for the spike throwing bot having an IR camera instead of a regular one, etc. All I know is, they’d better figure out a way in the next episode to “fix” the priest, since he’s now on a screen in the room full of people they monitor. Seems to me like they’ll get caught instantly then next time they even have a conversation with him. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2010, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/30 "2010-04-01T23:15:30Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > All I know is, they’d better figure out a way in the next episode to “fix” the priest, since he’s now on a screen in the room full of people they monitor. Seems to me like they’ll get caught instantly then next time they even have a conversation with him. It looked like unlike Travis’ uniform, the r6 injection is just a GPS tracker and DNA profiler, and not visual or audio surveillance. Of course if he’s involved in some mission they can identify him as being one of the people in that area at the time… ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2010, 7:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413/31 "2010-04-03T07:09:04Z")
I’m looking forward to seeing where the show goes from here. I loved The Shield, so seeing that as of this episode Scott Rosenbaum has taken the helm as show-runner has me a lot more interested in where the show will be headed now. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-1-05-welcome-to-the-war-open-spoilers/534413.md?page=1)