V 3/8/2011 "Devil In A Blue Dress"

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cheesesteak

Discussion Starter · Mar 9, 2011

This show is dumb.

What reporter throws out the scripted text and opens the broadcast with an unsubstantiated rumor? Not only did Whatshername deserve to get fired but the news director should have punched her in the face a couple of times.

Ryan Nichols knows how to shut down a runaway reactor.

There are Fifth Column members who have daily contact with Anna. Kill her then. Erica probably could have killed Anna a half dozen time already.

Since they can see them with the special binoculars, why not post footage of the invading fleet on youtube or some other site so everybody can see?

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Crow159

· #2 · Mar 9, 2011

cheesesteak said:
Since they can see them with the special binoculars, why not post footage of the invading fleet on youtube or some other site so everybody can see?

This, This, This, Good God This!!!

If you're trying to get the public to back away from the Blue Energy reactor, nothing says "Let's slow down a minute" than a fleet of invisible spaceships that the visitors are hiding.

sieglinde

· #3 · Mar 9, 2011

Right. Everything should have been on the internet. Skinned Vs, space ships, evil plans, everything.

Johnny Dancing

· #4 · Mar 9, 2011

I haven't seen this episode yet but it sounds like another winner. You can't watch this show with an active mind, just accept everything they do and say (like 99.9% of people in the V universe).

I like pretend I am Tyler when I am watching it and have a toy starship I play with while watching.

Shaunnick

· #5 · Mar 9, 2011

I thought Tyler was about to get him self some queen love when Anna got up on him.

Speaking of, at least now there is an excuse for his stupid behavior.

RGM1138

· #6 · Mar 9, 2011

Huh. Next week's ep is the season finale? That doesn't bode well.

Numb And Number2

· #7 · Mar 9, 2011

sieglinde said:
Right. Everything should have been on the internet. Skinned Vs, space ships, evil plans, everything.

There would already be a reality show and people would be posting about it on the TiVo TV Talk forum.

john4200

· #8 · Mar 10, 2011

While I completely agree about the absurdity of the show on multiple levels, there could be a valid strategic reason for not exposing the aliens yet -- sort of a lose-lose scenario. The aliens may be strong enough to cause a global holocaust even if they were exposed now. But the aliens would prefer to minimize their own losses that would occur in such a scenario by keeping most of the humans in the dark as long as possible. Meanwhile, the human resistance might think they can come up with a superweapon that will defeat the aliens, if only they have a little more time, and thus they can defeat the aliens with less death and destruction around the world than would occur if an all-out war were started now.

Of course, if that were the case, you would expect at least a short discussion of that strategy. Since the characters in this show seem like they would have trouble with tic-tac-toe strategy, I doubt they are thinking on that strategic level.

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Rob Helmerichs

· #9 · Mar 10, 2011

Did you know how many people live within 100 square miles of New York City?

TENS of THOUSANDS!

That's right, if you obliterate a 100-square mile area around New York City, you'll kill TENS of THOUSANDS of PEOPLE!!!

RGM1138

· #10 · Mar 10, 2011

Well, there's a 50/50 chance of killing that many at one time. Though, there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

cwerdna

· #11 · Mar 10, 2011

cheesesteak said:
This show is dumb.

What reporter throws out the scripted text and opens the broadcast with an unsubstantiated rumor? Not only did Whatshername deserve to get fired but the news director should have punched her in the face a couple of times.

Ryan Nichols knows how to shut down a runaway reactor.

There are Fifth Column members who have daily contact with Anna. Kill her then. Erica probably could have killed Anna a half dozen time already.

Since they can see them with the special binoculars, why not post footage of the invading fleet on youtube or some other site so everybody can see?

Totally agree w/all of the above.

Side note: At http://forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/index.php?showtopic=3203143&st=15&p=13721518&#entry13721518, there were some good points about what Chad did which I hadn't thought of.

RGM1138 said:
Huh. Next week's ep is the season finale? That doesn't bode well.

I wonder if it'll end up being the series finale too...

Rob Helmerichs

· #12 · Mar 10, 2011

RGM1138 said:
Well, there's a 50/50 chance of killing that many at one time. Though, there's only a 10 percent chance of that.

You sure know your numbers!

Ever thought about writing for television?

crazywater

· #13 · Mar 10, 2011

cheesesteak said:
This show is dumb.

What reporter throws out the scripted text and opens the broadcast with an unsubstantiated rumor?

I guess you never watch MSNBC...

Shaunnick

· #14 · Mar 10, 2011

crazywater said:
I guess you never watch MSNBC...

Oh, oh, oh, I can play this game.

Eh-hmm, I guess you never watch cable news.

Steveknj

· #15 · Mar 10, 2011

crazywater said:
I guess you never watch MSNBC...

Or Fox....actually Fox just makes stuff up, I guess that's a bit different

Anyway, as someone said, I watch this show with blinders on. It's really gotten so absurd that even for me, that's getting hard to do, and I'd said many times that if the show is entertaining, I could forgive the dumbness of the writing.

The whole news thing is so stupid. Why doesn't secret Fifth Column reporter simply pull in the other reporter and let her know what he's doing? She's obviously gung ho against the V's so why not clue her in? Then she'll understand where he's coming from.

You'd think and ace scientist like Bret Harrison's character would kind of understand that the qualities of Blue Energy seem similar to that of a nuclear reactor. At least think about what might happen if you cause a crash of the system.

Erica as a bad-a$$ is hard to buy after she spent the whole series NOT being one.

They change the rules on what all the V "powers" can do on a whim. Bliss doesn't work on humans, then it does. Tyler is the ALL important human, than, oh, there's others we could use, then....we NEED Tyler.

And here's the burning question I have been having for weeks. If Anna can make thousands of eggs (or is it millions?) as she did earlier in the series and the only thing that prevented her from making thousands of V babies, why is Lisa so important? You'd think she has thousands of kids by now.

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cheesesteak

Discussion Starter · #16 · Mar 10, 2011

I still don't understand why the Vs don't just kick our butts, enslave us and make do with us as they want. We have no defense against them.

Rob Helmerichs

· #17 · Mar 10, 2011

Steveknj said:
The whole news thing is so stupid. Why doesn't secret Fifth Column reporter simply pull in the other reporter and let her know what he's doing? She's obviously gung ho against the V's so why not clue her in? Then she'll understand where he's coming from.

Of course, if he did that the next news-cycle-dominating story would be NEWS ANCHOR COLLABORATES WITH FIFTH COLUMN! She'd be a star and he'd be in Anna's gunsights.

Steveknj said:
And here's the burning question I have been having for weeks. If Anna can make thousands of eggs (or is it millions?) as she did earlier in the series and the only thing that prevented her from making thousands of V babies, why is Lisa so important? You'd think she has thousands of kids by now.

Those were soldiers, not queens. I guess it's like ants, where the Queen is the mommy to all, but she has different kinds of offspring to serve different functions.

Steveknj

· #18 · Mar 10, 2011

Rob Helmerichs said:
Of course, if he did that the next news-cycle-dominating story would be NEWS ANCHOR COLLABORATES WITH FIFTH COLUMN! She'd be a star and he'd be in Anna's gunsights.

Well, I think you tell her and just have her in on the rouse. She goes with "unnamed sources" that he's feeding her, but he still continues to report all the positive V news. There's no reason that she'd have to out him.

Those were soldiers, not queens. I guess it's like ants, where the Queen is the mommy to all, but she has different kinds of offspring to serve different functions.

I'm sure you're right. I wonder how a V goes about making a Queen

cheesesteak

Discussion Starter · #19 · Mar 10, 2011

The eye bleeding thing was different at least. Every other show does nose bleeds under stressful conditions.

Shaunnick

· #20 · Mar 10, 2011

Steveknj said:
And here's the burning question I have been having for weeks. If Anna can make thousands of eggs (or is it millions?) as she did earlier in the series and the only thing that prevented her from making thousands of V babies, why is Lisa so important? You'd think she has thousands of kids by now.

I think because Anna is out of eggs. She made some comment about the last batch of soldiers being her last.

cheesesteak said:
I still don't understand why the Vs don't just kick our butts, enslave us and make do with us as they want. We have no defense against them.

And I think the reasoning here was that if they tried to subjugate the humans by force they would destroy some genetic potential that they could use to better themselves. By coming in bearing gifts they can slowly sift through our populace for those with traits they want to insert into Tyler and then he can give Lisa his super powered baby batter.

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