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V: "Siege" - 2/15 on ABC - Grading & Discussion

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That's a comic you know, where luke dies and Leia picks up the slack.

"infinties" a series of "what if" miniseriesies(oddly spelt but I dare you to find the plural of miniseries.)

They were totally ripping on Star Wars for sure.

Maybe it was subconscious and they're idiots?
 
Aragorn said:
So all this time we have Anna and Marcus building up how special Tyler is and how essential he is to their plan, then two episodes ago he leaves and Anna says no big deal because they've got other options, then this last episode Tyler is important again and just like that comes back to them. Does that about sum it up?
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Yeah, it really does. :lol:

It's craptastic writing like this that makes me turn to hubby every Tuesday night and say, "Do we REALLY have to watch this?"

On the bright side, it's made me appreciate the cheesy original a great deal more.
 
auntiehill said:
On the bright side, it's made me appreciate the cheesy original a great deal more.
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Yep, the original miniseries from Kenneth Johnson was definitely the peak of the whole V franchise. The follow-up "Final Battle" (which if I remember correctly Johnson had little to no input on) was pretty good until that ridiculous Starchild saves the world ending, while the weekly series was pretty much an abomination.

If only the network would have let Johnson have creative control over this new series--it may have been pretty decent if he was the showrunner.
 
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It's definitely an average episode.

PROS:
* Erica slaps Tyler.
* Father Jack Ryan is defrocked.
* Erica slaps Tyler.
* Lisa finally meets Diana.
* Erica slaps Tyler.

CONS:

* The whole building invasion/hostage scene was absurd and poorly done.
* Erica's a hypocrite. She stops at nothing to save Tyler, but Ryan's supposed to wait while they find a way to rescue his baby.
* The sudden stop to investigating Erica. Really? Come on.
* Hobbes is working for the Visitors and interfering with Fifth Column efforts (getting people killed in the process), but Ryan's the traitor? Yeah. Makes sense.
* Joe gets into this building by using a schematic known only by the Visitors. Why? Also, did that schematic seem awfully simple to anyone else?
* Tyler loses his father, his mother is in ruins, and so he runs off, being angsty at Erica? This leads me to my final con...
* Erica doesn't slap Tyler hard enough.
 
Apparently stupidity can be so colossal it forms a kind of black hole. If you get close it sucks you in. The nonsense whipsawing the plot back and forth act as tidal forces that will shred the brain in a fraction of a second.

I find I can't listen to the dialogue for very long at any given moment. After skipping a few weeks it seems there's nothing really different, so it doesn't seem to be necessary anyhow. While I was tuning out, I really grasped how good looking these people are. Joel Gretsch is soap opera star handsome but he has rugged good looks on this show.;)

Laura Vandervoort is of course very good looking but when she's next to Logan Huffman, when my mind refuses to hear the words, I notice that a.) she looks to be ten years older than Huffman and b.) she appears to be covered by multiple coats of makeup, or maybe spackle. But Huffman doesn't. Huffman is actually prettier than Vandervoort!:devil: This is obviously what's wrong with the Tyler character! That kind of looks puts the actor into the infamous Uncanny Valley, close to human but not quite there, which creeps everyone out.

I would rate the episode but I can't remember enough of it.
 
Witterquick said:
Also agree that Tyler exists for no reason other than for us to hate. Come on, his dad just died, his mum is heartbroken and he acts like an ass then leaves?
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Not to mention that his mom had supposedly just been beaten and taken hostage by terrorists... I half expect him to a kill a few cute kittens next week...
 
J. Allen said:
TheSeeker said:
Mr. Adventure said:
Man, Scott Wolf is awful...
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No kidding. He's about as believable as a reporter as Pee Wee Herman.
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He reminds me of the reporters I see in movies like "Left Behind", where it's painfully obvious those actors have no idea how a reporter/journalist/anchorman functions.
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His persona is wrong, he's too creepy and off-putting. You can tell he's smarmy, even when he's on camera. His ratings should fall off a cliff immediately, like that awful Piers Morgan. When you exude phoniness, it's the kiss of death.

He should be far more like Anderson Cooper - with that weirdly bland hypnotic quality that convinces you that he cares so very, very much. He should be just a touch full of himself, but not so it's in your face. A convincing news anchor is probably a hard role to pull off. An actor capable of doing that would probably be a news anchor. Very few people can do what Anderson Cooper does.
 
Is it murder or just a mothers god given right if she packs him back into her vagina, because that idiot should not have been let out in the first place.
 
It's obvious why the Visitors are after him. Imagine if you could transform that douchebag's stupidity into energy ...
 
Their master plan is to wipe out all human males besides Tyler, and use him as breeding stock for a new sub-moronic race of human slaves. :rommie:
 
I wonder if the surprise twist will be that Tyler was born the first human with no soul. Something is just not right about that boy...
 
Aragorn said:
So all this time we have Anna and Marcus building up how special Tyler is and how essential he is to their plan, then two episodes ago he leaves and Anna says no big deal because they've got other options, then this last episode Tyler is important again and just like that comes back to them. Does that about sum it up?
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Check out this line from the comcast tv guide description of next week's episode:

"Tyler may be useless to Anna"

And around we go...
 
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