Someone at the Chicago Tribune figured it out…
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
“V” was certainly worth watching on its own merits. I was a fan of the original “V” back in the day, so I was a bit leery of this new one. But it was well done. One thing that’s unclear is why the Visitors have come… unlike what the Tribune author says, they have not yet made it clear that they are here to eat the humans. It’s just that they’re here with *not* our best interests in mind.
Some interesting features:
1) The V’s offer Universal Healthcare
2) The V’s “are of peace… always”
3) The V’s have infiltrated all levels of society/government
4) The V’s actively court “youth” to be “ambassadors”
5) The kids so seduced by the V’s spread pro-V propaganda via viral videos, tagging, etc.
6) The V’s offer Hope
7) Many humans respond with adoration, devotion and worship
8 ) Reporters who ask tough questions are shouted down by other reporters who want them to “show some respect”
9) The leader of the V’s won’t allow questions that cast the V’s in a bad light, and will find reporters willing to corrupt their journalistic principles to promote their careers in order to get the right sort of positive questions asked
The notion that this new “V” is something of a slap against the Obama administration and the hysterical cult of personality that has surrounded it is unavoidable. But will it last? Since this is Hollywood, I can’t see it… sooner or later, they’ll turn it around and the Obamunists will emerge as the good guys.
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Not having a TV, I haven’t seen the episode yet. But ABC says it will be available online Saturday, so I am planning on watching it then.
Also, despite your fears, I am highly doubtful that anyone can turn “alien lizards in the midst of a world-wide conspiracy to lull humanity into complacency and then eat them” into a “good-guy” scenario.
>I am highly doubtful that anyone can turn “alien lizards in the midst of a world-wide conspiracy to lull humanity into complacency and then eat them” into a “good-guy” scenario.
Actually, I can. I can forsee two possibilities:
1) I read somewhere that there was a big shakeup in the writers or something at “V” sometime after the pilot episode was filmed. If so, what *could* happen is that the V’s will suddenly switch from being obamabot stereotypes to neocon stereotypes.
2) I don;t think they’ve yet suggested that the V’s are here to eat us. So what *could* happen woudl be to completely turn the original miniseries on it’s head… the V’s are here for an actually good purpose, they really do need our help, something like that. That would actually be kinda clever. The hiding under cloned human skin would be explained fairly easily… they’ve watched our broadcasts, and realized that we’d go bonkers if scary reptile-people showed up, so they’re putting on a show.
If it’s something like a black hole is going to plow into the inner solar system, wiping out the Earth, the V’s could be here to spirit away a whole bunch of people to a new colony.
I doubt that highly, though. That’s too much twist for Hollywood.