"V" Pilot Tonight — [Open Spoilers after it airs]

[Earthworm_Jim]

@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:

[BKReporter]

@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.

[ivylass]

@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.

[Paintcharge]

@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?

[AndyPolley]

@Sage_Rat

3. 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.

[silenus]

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.

[billfish678]

@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.

[Oakminster]

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.

[vivalostwages]

@Leiko

vivalostwages, yes. As an “Anna” myself, it’s awesome to have an actress that pretty playing someone with my name.
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At first I wasn’t sure about her; Morena seemed more petite on Firefly.
Gotta be those heels.

[Smeghead]

@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.

[Glory]

Loved it! All we need is Nathan Fillion for a cameo.

[The_Controvert]

@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 Visitor conspiracy!

House plants not getting enough sun? (say it with me) It’s all part of an as-yet-unrevealed Visitor conspiracy!

[carnivorousplant]

@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!

[Eleanor_of_Aquitaine]

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.

[ivylass]

I never saw Firefly.

Does that mean I have to turn in my Doper membership card?

[silenus]

It’s available on Hulu and DVD. We’ll just put you probationary status until you get this fixed.

[carnivorousplant]

@ivylass

I never saw Firefly.

Does that mean I have to turn in my Doper membership card?

I’m afraid so.

[Skywatcher]

@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.

[ivylass]

@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?

[fiddlesticks]

@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…