I'm not sure that guy really knows what the problems truly are. I'd say they're:
Casting/Acting - Much as I love Elizabeth Mitchell, she's playing Erica too chilly and ethereal. Erica should be the audience identification character, who we sympathize with, so that the audience enters the story via her struggles. She should come of as a basically very nice, relatable person, who is being dragged around emotionally by the horrible situation she's in: She knows the whole planet is in danger and nobody will listen!
Mitchell just needs better direction on the role. Morris Chestnut and the kid who plays Tyler just have to go. Totally mis-cast.
Misused Characters - What exactly are the roles of Chad and Father Jack in the context of the story? Are they needed? I like both the actors, so I hope they are needed, but the story needs to support that.
Tone - There's something too bland and vanilla about the show. Maybe it's production values. Maybe it's the overly simplistic moral universe. V's are bad, humans are good, end of story. I'd like there to be a bit more mystery about the V's intentions being good or evil but I guess it's too late for that. The writers have bwahaha'ed themselves into a corner.
Plot Logic - Let's say your planet were threatened by aliens. What would YOU do? I'm not sure I'd do what Erica & crew are doing - it seems knee-jerk and pointless. But I doubt a press conference would do much good. If the V's have any sense at all, they've already made the right connections in the corridors of power that will allow them to cast doubt about the "terrorists'" intentions.
There would be actual anti-alien, bigotry-driven terrorists all over the planet by now (why haven't they been part of the story? they should be introduced) and it would be impossible for Erica & gang to separate themselves from the "bad" kind of resistance people. Handled correctly, this might be a story angle that could solve the "tone" problem.
There are good lizards with emotion, and the bad lizards want them stopped. Sooooo hard to follow.
Yeah, it's not too complicated, it's too simplistic! The producers need to be asking themselves more questions so they can create a story that is more believable and has its own identity and internal logic. Don't have characters answer the questions for us; just know what the answers are, so we see them emerge naturally within the story.
If V's have no emotion, then what's the glue that holds their society together? Bliss? Then why is Bliss being treated as if it were a bad thing? How do V's jump from being Bliss-dependent to emotion-dependent? Is there any real difference in how Bliss and emotions work, and if so, what is it?
From day one, it doesn't seem like they've known what kind of story they want to tell. No one asks the obvious questions. Friendly Vs are never pressed for information. It makes no sense. It makes no fucking sense.
