V: "Welcome to the War" 3/30/10 - Grading & Discussion
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Tyler would be sympathetic played by a different actor. The guy they got is such an off-putting goober.
Tyler should be a cute but scrawny nerdy kid who's been ignored by girls all his life. He should come off as a loser, and not look like the captain of the football team. Suddenly a drop-dead ALIEN chick gloms onto him. It's a young nerd's dream come true!
I can forgive a teenage kid for being kinda dumb. He wants to believe the aliens are benign, and they are doing their best to put on a big show for him, plus of course Mom is going to be freaked out about her baby boy leaving home.
Tyler should be a cute but scrawny nerdy kid who's been ignored by girls all his life. He should come off as a loser, and not look like the captain of the football team. Suddenly a drop-dead ALIEN chick gloms onto him. It's a young nerd's dream come true!
I can forgive a teenage kid for being kinda dumb. He wants to believe the aliens are benign, and they are doing their best to put on a big show for him, plus of course Mom is going to be freaked out about her baby boy leaving home.
The point is not for us to love Tyler, but for Erica to love Tyler. No Tyler means less depth to Erica. And this show is nowhere well written enough to start sacrificing depth because a juvenile lead isn't cool enough.
If the alien eye has a pigmented strip as light detector, why ever does it have an eyeball shape? Human eyeballs work a lot like cameras, which need that empty space to project an image.
If the alien eye has a pigmented strip as light detector, why ever does it have an eyeball shape? Human eyeballs work a lot like cameras, which need that empty space to project an image.
you know something that I just noticed, b/c I was thinking about hive mentality in nature as well as how it was portrayed with the borg on Star Trek & how the worker/drones are always willing to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of their species. Well the scene were Anna is mating with the alien male she chose to make the army... the guy didnt look too happy. You'd think he'd be in bliss b/c their glorious queen has just chosen him to be the one to mate with her and create their mighty army but he seemed more horrified abou what was gonna happen after they completed the deed . Maybe thats why there are aliens that want to rebel, cuz theyre sick of the being lowly expendable worker drones. Yeah I know thats putting waaay too much thought into this silly written show, just thought it was interesting.
We should sympathize at least to some extent with every character on the show. Tyler's problem is that he's engendering loathing in a signficant portion of the audience, judging from the continuing complaints. And it's not how the character is written. His behavior seems normal for a teenage boy who is both hormonal and naive. The V's may be fooling him, but they're fooling practically the whole human race! Why pick on poor Tyler? How about picking on the President instead? He/she is sure falling down on the job!
I think it's the casting. Tyler looks like a high school jock, not a relatable nerd. He's very good looking, the kind of guy who could get a hot girlfriend without there being any nefarious motives. But he acts like a goober, as though the writers intended the character to be more nerdy. They should have found a teenage Zach Levi to cast in the role.
But how did they get such a humanoid attitude, if they presumably started off as insectoid types, who wouldn't think to rebel against the hive? Maybe putting them into human skins necessitated re-wiring of the brain to some extent, which "corrupted" their alien nature and made them more individualistic? I'd like this show to attempt some kind of explanation. I know it won't.
Maybe it's a Big Secret to most of the V's where they came from? We hew-mons can guess the V's are insectoid and that Anna is probably the queen mother of all of them (I assume Lisa is special among all of Anna's offspring because she has the potential to become a queen and start her own hive*) but that doesn't mean the V's can guess. It could have been that all of them are the result of Anna's last litter. Except maybe the guys she was thinking of mating with...I hope...
*OMG! The reason the V's are on Earth is because of Lisa. Anna is prepping the planet to be Lisa's hive. Every time a new incipient queen is born, Anna takes off to find a planet for her. After all, you don't want two queens back there on the V's home planet - one queen per planet is the rule.
But the V's have to acclimate their species to each new planet. And that is where Tyler comes in (well, that and providing lunch).
*OMG! The reason the V's are on Earth is because of Lisa. Anna is prepping the planet to be Lisa's hive. Every time a new incipient queen is born, Anna takes off to find a planet for her. After all, you don't want two queens back there on the V's home planet - one queen per planet is the rule.
But the V's have to acclimate their species to each new planet. And that is where Tyler comes in (well, that and providing lunch).