# "V" Pilot Tonight — \[Open Spoilers after it airs\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169 "2009-11-03T16:09:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/61 "2009-11-04T12:55:59Z")
> [@Rich\_Mann](#): > > I’m wondering how they made that giant spaceship microwave-transparent. > > Or did I miss the part where all of New York and LA lost their satellite TV and all the network uplinks were blacked-out? > > Maybe that’s what all the protests were about. Really? Humanoid lizard from another star? That’s believable. Walking around with a slick coating of human skin & no one can tell? I’ll buy it. To the point that they’ve infilitrated the FBI and other givernement jobs that require things like medical exams, urine tests, etc? No problemo! Massive city-cized space ship spits in gravitys eye? Gotcha! Insterllar travel? Hey, they’re ALIENS, of course they can do it! But…but…but - The TVs not out??? Now wait just a damn minute!! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![BKReporter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@BKReporter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BKReporter)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/62 "2009-11-04T13:43:28Z")
> [@Fir\_na\_tine](#): > > So are you going to be the one to give them a parking ticket and tell them to move along? Exactly. Also in the movie they mentioned the ships were a big tourist draw, so the city governments probably didn’t mind them hovering overhead seeing as how they were providing a boom in a down economy. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/63 "2009-11-04T13:44:01Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > A lot of the stupid stuff didn’t bother me. Hot aliens arriving over all our major cities didn’t bother me. You know what bothered me? How did wheelchair guy get to the top of all those church steps?! 🙂 I wondered that too. Please help me…I think the guy who played Erica’s partner (actually a V in disguise) played Watt in _A Knight’s Tale_. It took me a second because he didn’t have red hair and an English accent, but the eyes are the same. Off to IMDB… Wow, I was right. Alan Tudyk was born in Texas. I thought he was British. Huh. ---
**Author:** ![Paintcharge](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/paintcharge/32/7946_2.png) [@Paintcharge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paintcharge)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/64 "2009-11-04T14:04:32Z")
> [@BKReporter](#): > > Exactly. Also in the movie they mentioned the ships were a big tourist draw, so the city governments probably didn’t mind them hovering overhead seeing as how they were providing a boom in a down economy. I dunno, I’d be a bit miffed if I had this huge thing blocking out the sun for weeks on end. I mean, cripes, all my plants would die. Can’t they move the things around a little? ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/65 "2009-11-04T14:36:31Z")
> [@Sage\_Rat](#): > > 1. There’s a barricade to stop people from going into a particular area. Yet…the number of regular civilians is just as populous on the far side of the barricade. 😕 I wondered about that too, but there was a fighter jet that crashed mere moments before. I’d guess they were trying to keep folks away from that area, which was already pretty populated. I kind of liked it, but I found myself hoping for a 2 hour first episode. I just didn’t feel the magnitude of everything that the original gave you in the beginning. Acting & clunk dialogue criticism aside, (and there’s lot’s of that to go around) Morena Baccarin was awesome. I may have low expectations, but I’m on board. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/66 "2009-11-04T14:40:08Z")
Pass. After sleeping on it, I’ve decided that Inara and Wash aren’t enough to get me past the stupid, inane and lazy. I have the original on DVD, so I can always watch that and remember what **good** cheesy TV SciFi is. I don’t think it will come back from hiatus. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/67 "2009-11-04T15:01:54Z")
> [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](#): > > The other thing was the reporter gushing over how gorgeous all the Visitors are, when the ugly second-in-command guy was standing right there. Maybe my hawtness meter is miscalibrated, but he seemed at best average to me. > > . You just know there’s a group of hairy chested gold chain wearing men betting who will be the first to tap that alien bootie. And a group of desperate housewives plotting the same. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/68 "2009-11-04T15:08:10Z")
The scheduling for this show sucks. I read somewhere that there will be four episodes shown this month, then we have to wait until March 2010 to get the rest of the 13 episodes for the season. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/69 "2009-11-04T15:14:52Z")
> [@Leiko](#): > > **vivalostwages** , yes. As an “Anna” myself, it’s awesome to have an actress that pretty playing someone with my name. > snip At first I wasn’t sure about her; Morena seemed more petite on **Firefly**. Gotta be those heels. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/70 "2009-11-04T15:16:52Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow, I was right. Alan Tudyk was born in Texas. I thought he was British. Huh. IIRC, he spent some of his youth in Britain. Lucky bastard. ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/71 "2009-11-04T15:18:05Z")
Loved it! All we need is Nathan Fillion for a cameo. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Controvert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@The\_Controvert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Controvert)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/72 "2009-11-04T15:20:08Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > At first I wasn’t sure about her; Morena seemed more petite on **Firefly**. > Gotta be those heels. She looks like she is consciously stretching her neck in all her scenes to make herself look more lizardy. Also, all the nitpicks in this thread can be easily explained: It’s all part of an as-yet-unrevealed **V** isitor conspiracy! House plants not getting enough sun? (say it with me) _It’s all part of an as-yet-unrevealed **V** isitor conspiracy!_ ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/73 "2009-11-04T15:30:30Z")
> [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](#): > > I’d sign up with some Peace Ambassadors just to hit that. Yeah, and just wait until she buries an egg clutch in the sand and claims it’s _yours_! ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/74 "2009-11-04T15:30:34Z")
I thought the pilot was badly rushed - they should have taken two or three hours to set this up. Otherwise it wasn’t quite as bad as I was expecting. > [@ivylass](#): > > Please help me…I think the guy who played Erica’s partner (actually a V in disguise) played Watt in _A Knight’s Tale_. It took me a second because he didn’t have red hair and an English accent, but the eyes are the same. Off to IMDB… > > Wow, I was right. Alan Tudyk was born in Texas. I thought he was British. Huh. Yes, he played Watt (I love that movie). But he’s more famous (around here, anyway) for playing a character named Wash on the short-lived TV show _Firefly_. Hence the references above to “Wash-lizard”. The actress who plays Anna was also on _Firefly_. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/75 "2009-11-04T15:42:34Z")
I never saw _Firefly_. Does that mean I have to turn in my Doper membership card? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/76 "2009-11-04T15:46:50Z")
It’s available on Hulu and DVD. We’ll just put you probationary status until you get this fixed. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/77 "2009-11-04T15:56:47Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I never saw _Firefly_. > > Does that mean I have to turn in my Doper membership card? I’m afraid so. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/78 "2009-11-04T16:00:21Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I wondered that too. > > Please help me…I think the guy who played Erica’s partner (actually a V in disguise) played Watt in _A Knight’s Tale_. It took me a second because he didn’t have red hair and an English accent, but the eyes are the same. Off to IMDB… > > Wow, I was right. Alan Tudyk was born in Texas. I thought he was British. Huh. He plays a gay German in _28 Days_. Dude has range. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/79 "2009-11-04T16:09:12Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > It’s available on Hulu and DVD. We’ll just put you probationary status until you get this fixed. I already got my heart broken from _Pushing Daisies_. Must I fall in love with another show that didn’t make it because of heartless networks? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/80 "2009-11-04T16:11:02Z")
> [@Lute Skywatcher](#): > > He plays a gay German in _28 Days_. Dude has range. Everytime I saw him in a scene, I kept thinking he looked like Kevin McKidd (Lucius Vorenus in _Rome_, the titular _Journeyman_). And I was waiting for Hugo to come around the corner with a funny line while Juliet, I mean Erica, was in a scene. Guess this means no Juliet on Lost this year…I guess that atomic bomb was big enough to kill at least one character… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169.md?page=5)