I have been pretty critical of V. I had incredibly high hopes as the show began, only to be disappointed again and again. Now that there’s only one episode left this season ever, you would think that we would be getting some mythology-building going on. Instead, it is more of the same. Erica and her merry band of mischievous meddlers attempt a worthless mission; Anna yells and screams about not being able to control Human Emotion; and we don’t learn anything about the plan of the. … OH WAIT, yeah we sorta did.
Other than the destruction of humanity meaning something good for the Vs, very little has been done to explicitly state their motivations. Why is it so important to overcome Human Emotion? I’ve always thought it meant that the humans would be easier to control. Anna can’t control the Vs that acquire the emotions, nor (until the tonight) humans because of the emotions. But controlling the humans apparently isn’t the problem.
“All of your plans rest on eliminating human emotion. Unless we do so, a new generation of Visitors will be born with them,” shared Marcus. Either I’ve missed a very important piece of information shared before this week, or he just clued us in to why Anna has been efforting desperately to quash Human Emotion everywhere. I get that she’s been scared of it spreading through her flock, but a whole generation? That’s a much, much bigger thing. Instant lack of control. Why don’t we ask Mubarak how that feels?
And what was the point of the Fifth Column’s plan? Erica specifically referenced Three Mile Island in the planning stages. Exactly what kind of catastrophic event did she have in mind that would scare the world into submission? What would frighten people enough to be return Anna’s “greatest gift to humanity?” Certainly whatever event would rate changing the world’s mind would have to be paid for in human life. So what was the point if, when faced with actually accomplishing their goal, they wimp out? Oh, yeah, I forgot … that’s just how the Fifth Column rolls. At the end of each episode, we get the “no more Mr. Nice Fifth Column” routine.
At least we got a clear answer as to where the fleet we saw at the end of last season has been all this time. And the answer to that question does not bode well for the boys and girls of Earth.
Notes & Quotes
Clacked by Ivey West 
on Mar 08, 2011 @ 22:50 EST5EDT
Well hopefully there will be some surprises next week. Perhaps Lisa could bite off Tyler’s head or somesuch?
That would be awesome.
*POST AUTHOR*
Seconded
I’m still a V fan, and I hope ABC, or someone else, will give it another shot (and let’s blame Warner Brothers for the lousy ratings for not streaming the show online or through ABC On Demand – they’re not giving newly interested viewers a way to catch up). There most definitely has been a slow build to learn exactly what the V plan is. They want us to help evolve their race, but for what? And what happens after the invasion (that, I think would be where the show would move into the classic series storyline of occupation).
Marcus’ line about a new generation (the hybrids) being born with human emotions seemed more like a way to nudge Anna to gauge her reaction after his meeting with Diana. I think he wants to see if Anna herself is being consumed by human emotions. I don’t know that there’s any real proof that the hybrids would have human emotions. So far, Amy doesn’t seem to but that could be because she’s blissed out all the time.
I do have to agree that the Fifth Column is pretty useless in carrying out a plan. The Blue Energy accident that they were trying to cause wasn’t meant to kill anyone, just scare people. No one died at Three Mile Island but it freaked out enough people that no new nuclear plants were built for 30 years. That was the plan with the Blue Energy. Make it look like something bad had happened but without taking any lives. They just didn’t know that there was a possibility of the B.E. being weaponized and had the plan gone on and it had been, then Erica and the rest of her crew and part of Manhattan would have been destroyed.
My biggest question was why did they have to go through all of that stuff to get Miller into the B.E. facility when they could have all just gone through the fence and stomped noisily through metal tubes without anyone taking notice?!?!
I’m glad they finally remembered that there had been a fleet on its way to earth at the end of last season. This was the first mention of it all season! I thought that was a plot point that had been dropped and we were all supposed to forget about it. Well, I obviously enjoy the show more than you do – and I watched the original when it first aired – and I am looking forward to Diana getting out of her dungeon and an appearance by another familiar face from the original series next week! And another season!
That emotion stuff makes me want to watch “Equilibrium” instead.
To be honest I still want to
love>like V. Such a great production value, such great actors but so uninteresting characters and such a non-compelling story *sigh*I mean it could’ve been worse and they could’ve added more gushy stupid love stories but those were most likely also not in because the bland-ness took over that aspect as well.
Let’s hope they make a movie for the big screen some day “Independence Day” style. That would be kinda great I think. But then again you kinda sorta expect Uwe Boll to direct and we all know that he’s been the second worst thing to come out of germany in the last century after the Nazis. *sigh*
HAHAHAAHAHA Uwe Boll! Good one!