What can I say about V? The premise was decent – aliens arrive on Earth, proclaiming love and friendship and oh by the way we can heal all your diseases. And all they ask in return is water and some “common minerals”. Whatever that means. (An Anonymous Coward on Slashdot wrote an interesting post on whether aliens would actually be interested in Earth; read it here. Try to ignore the how-many-calories-in-a-baby speculation. Short version? No, they’d probably have no reason to care about Earth.)
The biggest problem with the new show is that the plot moves too fast. Some shows need to move a little faster – Stargate Universe is one of them, I think – but V needs to slow way down. They should not have told us about the Visitors so early – instead they should have been dropping subtle hints for two or three more episodes that Things Are Not As They Seem.
Agreed. They tried to pull a BSG but ended up with a Kyle XY.
I don’t expect this show will go very far as a scifi drama (maybe a teen soap opera?)