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The Official Welcoming of the Visitors Thread - V on ABC, every Tuesday
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SpeedingUptoStop
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Juliet in the shower.
Oh hell yea.
Oh hell yea.
Baron Aloha
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Blader5489 said:
Looks that way. I just turned it on during that scene. Was there anything important during the first 5 minutes besides that?
Marty Chinn
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The visitors are monitoring the phone lines and they cleaned up the bodies from the warehouse.Baron Aloha said:
Marty Chinn
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We're also getting more of the political stuff that people were crying over in the first ep too.
SpeedingUptoStop
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Yea, outside of the opener, this episode is moving along a lot better than the first ep.Marty Chinn said:
Baron Aloha
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I just had a weird thought.... I think the black dude's girlfriend is a visitor too (but a bad one).
Marty Chinn
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Awesome, reminds me of the conversion process from the original.
SpeedingUptoStop
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All that flying technology and they couldn't fit a real hi-def camera in that orb.
Baron Aloha said:
Yeah, seems likely. The real question is will Supergirl be good or evil. I can see her and the son story line
going the way of the hybrid baby from the original. Though I think right now Anna = Diana and Lisa = Lydia
(spoiler tags contains first series spoiler)
SpeedingUptoStop
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There's actual, visual unrest in this episode. finally!
Smiles and Cries
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Milabrega said:
but that spoiler would not work with a male human (without a scared girl and the horror of it)
SpeedingUptoStop
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"What the hell was I supposed to do?!"
Some priest.
Some priest.
SpeedingUptoStop
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Welp, now we know the chief is a V.
SpeedingUptoStop
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aw snap. newsboy just went Fox News on the Vs. Head lizard is not pleased. This means war, Obama!
SpeedingUptoStop
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That lizard is gonna fuck the shit out of Decker.
Baron Aloha
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Rise from your grave!!!
VGChampion
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I actually liked the pilot more than this episode. I'll stick with the show, but something just doesn't sit right with me. I think it's how the main character decided she had to form a resistance right after the warehouse scene. Just seemed off. Other than that, pretty good.
As for the stories, I'd rank reporter > good V > FBI > Son.
As for the stories, I'd rank reporter > good V > FBI > Son.
The Take Out Bandit
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Just watched the first episode.
Glad to see they wasted no time getting to tasty lizard peoples.
I want even moar lizard peoples. Will catch tonight's episode tomorrow on Hulu.
Glad to see they wasted no time getting to tasty lizard peoples.
I want even moar lizard peoples. Will catch tonight's episode tomorrow on Hulu.
bob_arctor
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Holy Fuck is the son annoying. Jebus.
I'm assuming that's a nod to how their reptilian sight works...it would presumably be the default vision mode of their devices as well.SpeedingUptoStop said:
Anyway, okay so far. Pilot felt like Cliff's Notes of the original mini-series, the way it sped through the setup.
Wow, that episode was like a reversed FlashForward episode - greatness overall, but god those last few minutes were disappointing as hell. That cliffhanger...there's no closure at all, it's as if I showed you a movie and decided to cut it halfway through. I can understand they want to get people to come back next week, but damn this felt incomplete.
Keyser Soze
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Liked the Pilot, loved this episode. However, I can't get too excited due to the silly way ABC is handling the airing of the show
Noticed that the warehouse address was 4400, which is a nice nod to the lead writers old show, The 4000
Noticed that the warehouse address was 4400, which is a nice nod to the lead writers old show, The 4000
BenjaminBirdie
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VGChampion said:
Yeah, I thought it was pretty lameesauce. I can't even rank the characters really. The reporter still has the face of an eight year old so I can't take him seriously. (Also, sure, what newscasters DON'T use the office AVID machine, right?!? :lol ) The Good V storyline is so MOR with the engagement crud. Mitchell is totally wasted with this sarcasmo bullshit attitude. The son, of course, is atrocious. The priest is just calamitously dumb. Oh, right, aliens have infiltrated our society, let me talk to this FBI agent who tips off her suspiciousness in THE FIRST ANSWER TO A QUESTION SHE FUCKING GIVES YOU.
Terrible, and stupid. Writing all that out, I have no idea why I watched both episodes. Probably because I loved the original as a kid and there's like nothing else on at 8 on a Tuesday.
Yeah, this episode certainly didn't my opinion.
It had a shot when Chad Decker was doing his report about the pros and cons of diplomatic relations with the Visitors, and then they cut away so as not to let anyone say anything interesting or substantial :lol This show is doing its absolute best to avoid saying anything about everything.
It had a shot when Chad Decker was doing his report about the pros and cons of diplomatic relations with the Visitors, and then they cut away so as not to let anyone say anything interesting or substantial :lol This show is doing its absolute best to avoid saying anything about everything.
BenjaminBirdie
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Solo said:
It's not the performance, it's the writing. Juliet is funny. FBI Agent Whose Name I Can't Even Remember is not.
Cate Blanchett is amazing. Doesn't make her character in Pushing Tin any less forgettable.
Solo said:
In LOST, it worked well, because she was also an Other. She had a bit of mystery. Even when she was a good guy, you could tell she knew more than she let on (or more like she would tell at one time). She was not a wealth of information regarding the Others.
I'm not liking her in this role as much. It would have been nice if she was a V in hiding (maybe her partner's role or Morris Chestnut's)
I do like the show quite a bit. It's not a mysterious type show like LOST, so I don't mind the quick pacing. All of this diplomacy stuff is simply the setup and if it were a move would have been over in 20 minutes. The premise was always setup as an us vs. them. To me, they are taking a long time to get to that part.
My only other complaint is why it's taking so long for people to simply ask the question of whether or not they really look like perfect people or if it's a disguise.
leroy hacker
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Solo said:
It's so obvious I'm hoping it's a red herring. The younger priest will probably do something stupid trying to wrongly expose his superior.
Don't you remember the pilot when the reporters asked Anna silly questions after her first impromptu press junket, and she said the Visitors' science could explain why they look like humans? That's top-notch writing out a problem right there.JGS said:
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