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'V' episode 1 pilot brings space aliens to Earth
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‘V’ Episode 1 of the rebooted series, based on the 1980s TV series about alien invasion, premiered on ABC. What Episode 1 of ‘V’ proved that perhaps even more than stories about human beings going to explore the universe, people like stories about aliens from space coming to Earth.
Some spoilers may follow.
Sometimes the alien visitors are cute and cuddly, such as the being that wanted to phone home in 'ET'. Sometimes the alien visitors are very irate, such as the aliens in' War of the Worlds' and 'Independence Day'. The aliens in 'V' are pretending to be the former but apparently just the latter, albeit more subtle.
The Visitors, or Vs as they are called, seem to be very attractive humanoids who come in giant space ships preaching a gospel of peace, love, hope, and change. The Earth they come to is a troubled one, with war, terrorism, and economic turmoil. The Vs have come to help us out of that. The allegory of the Second Coming of Christ (along with his angels) bringing about the new golden age could not be more clear. Others have suggested the Obama campaign as a parallel.
It’s convenient that the Visitors are led by Anna (why the human names?), beautiful and ever smiling, even when she is laying down the law on a journalist. Most humans welcome the Vs with open arms. Some, however, are cranky enough to be suspicious.
Why be suspicious of beautiful aliens who want to shower humans with cool stuff like universal health care? Maybe the phrase, “Too good to be true” has resonance here.
Chad, a TV reporter, seems to be in the former category. Chad very quickly jettison’s his journalistic ethics for career advancement when, at the beginning of a live interview, Anna informs him that only soft ball questions are allowed.
Father Jack finds that the advent of the Vs has caused a crisis of faith; why this is so is not certain. But Father Jack preaches caution when dealing with the Visitors. This sermon will lead him to the heart of a conspiracy so immense that—but we get ahead of ourselves.
Erica is an FBI counter terrorism agent who uncovers the truth. The Vs mean us no good after all. In fact underneath an exo-skin of beautiful humanity, they are flesh eating reptiles bent on the annihilation of the human race. Their agents have been here for years, infiltrating centers of power, stirring of terrorism, “unnecessary wars”, and economic turmoil, in effect fattening us up for the arrival of the fleet. That development taps into another deep seated belief, that everything that happens is the result of a conspiracy. The X Files played with that concept for nine seasons.
Erica’s son Tyler is all for the aliens, mainly because of a cutey named Lisa and his own raging hormones. Tyler joins the human auxiliary supporting the Vs, with a uniform and everything.
The Vs are not all unfriendly. There is a group of dissidents. That group includes Ryan, who has apparently been living as a human for so long that he has become sympathetic to our race. He even proposes to marry a human woman.
Mind, there are some glaring holes in ‘V’. New Yorkers cheering the Visitors instead of giving them the finger is one that has been pointed out. Tyler apparently not having seen the Twilight Zone episode, ‘To Serve Man’, is another. It would also be interesting to find out why the Vs feel that they must use subterfuge to conquer us. Surely those space ships could lay our planet waste.
Still episode 1 of ‘V’ seems to be a good beginning for the latest aliens come to Earth story. How it will differ from the 1980s ‘V’ besides in its less campy tone remains to be seen.
'V' Trailer
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