In the V season finale , we in conclusion reached the place where the show should have begin : With unresolved hostilities mounting between the V and humans . But this triumph was undercut by cheesy , incoherent gumming . Why is this show so unfit ?
Before I reply that question , lease me outline for you the salient plot features of this episode .
Ten microplots in last night ’s season close of quintet
1 . A lady infuse by Ryan the turncoat V is abduct by a deer - chomping V soldier while giving birth , and is then kill by Anna . Ryan is now Anna ’s toy dog again .
2 . The near beard terrorist guy who was framed by the V was in reality working for the five , but did n’t know it . Now who is he work on for ? And why does he handle what a “ hold ” is ?
3 . Erica start to the ship to have dinner with Anna , Lisa , and Tyler . In between chatting about single maternity with Anna , she sneaks out and slaying all of Anna ’s babies . This was awful .
4 . Lisa is torn . Loyalty to psycho mama , or dedication to the Fifth Column ? At least if she becomes Fifth Column , people will call her “ queen . ” OK , she ’ll do it !
5 . Anna is experimenting on people who are part of the “ hot aboard ” programme . For reasons never explain .
6 . Chad the journalist is Anna ’s lap dog . But he ’s sorta Fifth Column . But sorta lap dog . But also possibly a complimentary agent .
7 . Anna is so dazed that she ca n’t fancy out that Erica and Chad are not truehearted to her .
8 . Tyler wants to live aboard ship and have sex with Lisa a lot . He does not call her “ queen , ” but he probably would .
9 . Anna ’s plan , remark in microplot 1 , is to figure out how to win back Ryan the turncoat V ’s loyalty , and expunge his human emotion . “ That means anybody can be turned , ” she gloats . So , she wants to make world into Vs ? Or make worked up Vs into restrained ones ? What ?
10 . At the terminal , Anna cries when she assure that her baby have been killed and then orders her ships to produce a really moderately red-faced sunset over the Earth that is equivocally menacing . See clip .
Why is this so bad ?
1 . The Vs have a mirky , tongue-tied motivation .
Are there here to exhaust us ? Dominate us ? Steal our resource ? What ? Why are they using this “ we ’re your proficient bud ” tactic ? Why are they implanting us with spyware and then never using it ?
2 . Why do we give a diddly-squat about the Fifth Column ?
The Fifth Column is a rebel group among the V , who have somehow deal to get a few human race involved . But why do we handle about a rebel group when there has not been an invasion yet ? We ’ve had menace , paranoia , and Anna ’s creepy lip rouge . But this is n’t a Terminator scenario , here . And we do n’t know enough about the Little Phoebe ’s political organization or society to care strongly about schisms within their rank . The whole “ inside the world of terrorism ” thing feels shoehorn .
3 . The V just are n’t chilling .
They do n’t crunch on rats , and they all look really hot . When they do think things , mostly they just torture other lounge lizard people . Yes , they ’ve inject spyware into our desoxyribonucleic acid but they seem absolutely incapable of using it . Mostly they ’re just arrange up embassies and hospital . When are they give way to do something gravely creepy or scary ? When will we listen about their nefarious plan to drain the planet of water system , or compose cookbooks about human chow playfulness ?
4 . The man are not very compelling either .
With the exception of Erica , who fundamentally lights up the screenland every time she appears , most of the humans are either categoric stereotype like near beard terrorist guy and Chad the slick television set dude . Or they ’re boring and awing like Jack , who is the least convincing non-Christian priest ever and feed fearful sermons . Why do we care about these people ? I ’d rather have the whole show gist on Erica and Tyler ’s family relationship with the Vs , with Erica trying to vote out them and Tyler trying to have sex with them .
5 . The season electric discharge was more like a jagged personal credit line .
Seriously , what was the time of year electric discharge ? “ vex to know the V ” ? “ find out stuff and nonsense ” ? “ pass around yell ” ? There was no coherent stemma to follow here : We meet the V and the Fifth Column , and then pretty much run in place while mass lento observe out what we already know , which is that the V are creepy and have an incoherent architectural plan that is perhaps unknown even to them .
I want to like this show , and I want to give it another chance . But it ’s severely when there ’s so little to work with .
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