The original miniseries had a Visitor 5th Column that was a remnant of the Visitors original democratic government (before The Leader established a fascist dictatorship).
But he specifically asked the guy leading the resistance if all the deaths from the last time he attempted it hadn’t been enough.
The Leader of the V ship or the Leader of the V planet?
The Leader of the entire Sirian race. The Supreme Commander of the Visitor Fleet assigned to Earth was named John.
Right, there are animals that have so much diversity, it’s easy to tell, and I can conceede that us humans might have enough superficial diversity to tell us apart pretty easily for the aliens.
However, When it comes to lizards, insects, fish, birds, and yes, even some mammals, among their same respective species, it can be very hard to tell individuals apart unless you come up with some recognition system.
I imagine us humans might encounter a group of unskinned Vs and get ‘Sleestak Syndrome.’
If, however, you spend enough time around certain types of animals, you get an eye for telling them apart – even if their have only very, very minor physical difference.
Excellent use of images, to which I can only add this.
Hmm. Could Georgie be a traitor-lizard too?
I think people are making too many assumptions about how things work with the Vs. As for telling us apart, maybe their visual systems are just more advanced, so that even the most minute differences in facial structure are glaringly obvious to them? Maybe they don’t rely on sight as much as on smell? Or detecting the electromagnetic field of a human body? Or something else entirely.
And maybe their romantic attraction isn’t triggered so much by physical traits as by, I don’t know, pheromones humans just happen to produce as well? Perhaps it’s completely volitional – or they’ll just do anything available? Heck, there’s humans who get off on fucking trees, so it’s not really like we’re all that discriminating. Or hey, maybe it’s true with them, and they really just go for a nice personality! Not to mention we don’t have the foggiest (and I hesitate to speculate) how the act itself is actually accomplished when you’re a reptile (or rather, a reptile-looking alien) wearing a man-suit – aliens on Star Trek generally had compatible plug-and-play equipment, I doubt that’s the case here, so maybe he’s just got some gadget built in, and perhaps it’s wired up to his cloaca so he gets something out of the deal, too. Might be useful to be ‘fully functional’ when undercover in the field, sometimes.
Damn, now I did speculate. Point being, there’s numerous possibilities to have it work just smoothly, though most of them are possibly not especially appetizing when considered in depth. And well, just ask yourself, if we were the technologically advanced species arriving on some backwater planet and encountering another sentient species – don’t you think we’d find a way to get busy with them? Heck, three weeks and there’s porn involving their farm animals somewhere on the galactic hypernet!
I think the poster who brought up Furries has an excellent point. Furries and Vs wear a big bulky suit. Except the V’s suit is far more advanced. If a Furry suit were sufficiently advanced and had working genitalia, there would be a non-zero number of humans who would go to a planet of sentient fur-covered creatures to get action.
You want to know what we need around here? I’ll tell you what we need around here. We need some gawddam name tags around here!
I have to say, I’ve been vastly underwhelmed by this series so far. Yeah, it’s only been two episodes (one of which was a terrible mess cut together from bits of two or three individual episodes) but it just feels incredibly bland somehow. Even the set design has too much off-white to it. Everything in the entire series seems just washed out and colorless, including the characters.
Really the only thing holding my interest is my curiosity about how the show is going to do things differently from the original.
open spoilers beyond this point —>
Okay, I’m waiting…
Where are they?!?
(just kidding. being a smart @ss & subscribing, all at the same time)
Well, here’s some spoiler tidbits to tide you over, Kath94:
Vs can apparently return from “death” like Cylons, but without the tub-o-goo.
Tyler lied to his mother about quiting the Hitler Youth
The Vs have Ryan (think that’s his name) and are torturing him, possibly with illusion/hallucination powers/tech.
(a) Maybe not; we don’t know he was dead. She beaned him pretty good and went all Buffy-on-a-vampire on him, but we can’t know until we’re told that any of what she did to him was fatal to a V.
(b) Not “like Cylons,” at any rate. This is the same [del]Wash[/del] Dale, not a copy with the same memory. You can see the scar on his head from where she tried to unzip his dude suit.
Exactly. Who’s to say where an alien space lizard’s heart is located? She might have given him the V equivalent of a TV shoulder wound.
-Joe
Erica seeing her partner again was a dream.
Ryan is the black good-lizard guy. The one getting waterboarded (um, Diana called it “conversion” in the old series, IIRC) is some random they grabbed at the Maquis meeting.
Yes, she was. But we also saw him on the ‘operating’ table at the end of the episode.