Anna the leader of the V’s uses the popular TV anchor Chad Decker to deliver her messages to the Humans but suspicion arises from FBI investigator Erica who believes that the V’s have different intentions to what they claim. Erica and Father Jack find themselves being tracked down by a seeker.
And so we’re off. The pilot wasted no time in setting up what us humans are up against. We do indeed have lizard overlords coming in the guise of peace, but so far, no rodent ingesting yet. We’ve established a V traitor by the name of Ryan Nichols who plans on helping organize the resistance. From there, all bets are off. Who will live, who will die? Who will fight, and for which side? And will we see some frikkin’ laser guns?
It’s my hope the next three episodes build some real tension and tighten up the plausibility of some of the action the characters take. We shall see…
Spoiler boxes until Thursday morning. That should be enough leeway for most participants of this thread to get caught up.
Nice shout-out to A Knight’s Tale…Dale’s wife’s name…is Jocelyn.
I like how after the crash bang beginning they’re taking it a bit slower now, establishing more of the story line. And I want Anna’s mirror (when she was “trying on” different clothes.) I did also get a very good sense of not being able to trust anyone…I’m wondering about the older priest, Agent Evans boss…heck, maybe even Tyler’s friend!
Yeah, it’s nice now that we’re seeing that the general public isn’t uniformly enarmored by the Visitors. I still find the Visitors way too human. They even dress the same as us. I know it’s mostly a holdover from the original, but why are they trying so hard to be exactly like us when they clearly don’t want us to know they’ve been infiltrating human society? Damn it, we need scientists as main characters.
Yeh, the fun of the original is now coming back to me. This episode felt more natural and indicative of how the rest of the series will go. I can’t wait for the shit to hit the fan.
So, are they going to use the giant sky TVs for any announcement they’re gonna make? I can see how that might piss folks off – people have been shot by their neighbours for not keeping the volume down… Really, though, something like that is going to go from ‘wow, aliens speaking to us from the skies!’ to ‘for Christ’s sake, not again…’ awfully fast. Also, those people who live right below the ships and had their homes go from ‘prime real estate’ to ‘plunged into perpetual darkness’ (except when there’s yet another announcement on V TV) are probably where I’d look first in establishing a resistance…
That said, though, I’m really enjoying this so far. But, what was that line about ‘another resistance is unacceptable’ the male V second in command kinda guy threw out when reviewing the seeker footage? Any idea what that could refer to?
Could that be a reference to the earlier series? I never really watched the V television show, so I don’t know if they’re trying to tie into that, but there was an earlier resistance about 20-odd years ago.
