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rogueslayer452I finished watching the first season of V and let me just say that I'm definitely impressed.
V, Season One Overview and Thoughts
I remember watching the premiere of V and being intrigued, although I didn't catch up with it because after only four episodes they went on a three month hiatus and I forgot about it. I'm finding that is kind of a mistake because after watching all the rest of the episodes one right after the another, I found that I was completely immersed in the story being told. It was like watching a mini-movie of sorts, a mini-movie that would be continued in the next chapter this November in its second season. From the characters to the story, I'm certainly liking what I'm seeing so far.
I like the relationships between the characters, whether banded together for a cause or circling around each other not wanting the other to know their true intentions, have been fascinating to watch. The storyline of the resistance group, the Fifth Column, of Visitors and humans coming together to take down the rest of the Vs has been quite a ride. Wondering who to trust, who to watch out for, who is a Sleeper and who is working for an entirely different agenda altogether. I like it, I like the structure the show is giving on that front. I like the relationships between families also. Erica and her son Tyler, who are having this difficult relationship even before the Visitors arrived, Ryan and his girlfriend Val, and Father Jack and his relationship with his own faith and knowing where to stand in this fight. I find them to be realistic and even though we kind of want to say, "just tell them already!" there's higher risks at stake and we see the internal struggle some of them have with it.
But I think I am more fascinated by the V society. Like with BSG and the Cylons, the Visitors are definitely the fascinating part. More importantly, I am totally mesmerized by Anna (played by Morena Baccarin) and her role as the leader of the Vs and her role she plays in the show.
She is strategic and methodical, and there's lots of dirty politics played on her end by manipulating humanity for her own purposes, she shows compassion one minute and is cold and calculating the next. She seems to know a great deal about how to handle situations when something goes either right or wrong, she knows how to play with emotions of humans, to get underneath their skin, to further manipulate them and twist things around. And she's hardly even human herself, and this is what makes it so fascinating to watch on the screen. Mostly it's because of Morena Baccarin, who I absolutely love and adore, and she does perfectly in this role. I even watch for those little ticks she says she subtly adds in to seem reptile-ish (the way she blinks sometimes, cocks her head, etc) She's utterly captivating to watch and is, in my opinion, the best performance of the entire show because of how well she portrays the character.
Especially that huge scream at the end in the finale. My God that was amazing. Anna's first experience with expressing and feeling human emotion after seeing that her eggs had been destroyed was so shockingly brilliant. I want to learn more about that next season, and if she's gonna display more of that or not, or is going to try and cover it up, or if she'll have an outburst and react like she did in such a way that might blow her cover. It's all very interesting, and I want to know what happens next.
I also have grown to love Lisa, Anna's daughter, as I continued watching the season. Her suddenly developing human emotions for her affections for Tyler have grown and she's suddenly wanting to turn against her mother and possibly join forces with the Fifth Column in the second season because of how she helped Erica in the finale. Plus, I kinda want Erica to become a surrogate mother-figure to Lisa, and judging from some things there is definitely gonna be a reversal of roles between Lisa and Tyler; Lisa is going to be more active with the human society and Tyler with the V society. I think it'll be interesting to see, especially of how protective and territorial both mothers are and how they are willing to use these children for their own purposes. However, I think Erica and Lisa will help each other out more than with Tyler who is still in the dark on many things.
Also, I want Father Jack and Erica to get together somehow next season. I'm glad nothing romantic came out of this season because they were just starting out with trusting and befriending each other, but there's definitely some subtext between them. Am I the only one?
Poor Ryan though, Anna really got to him good in that finale and I severely hope that whatever happens he can snap out of it. Her killing Val was definitely a breaking point because Ryan did say it was because of Val that he started resisting Anna's Bliss in the first place, developing such human emotions and hanging onto that love for a human being. Now he was started to get affected again. I don't know what will happen, whether he'll be turned and become a Sleeper/double-agent or what. :(
I'm interested in what Chad Decker is going to do with the knowledge he learned. I'm glad he finally learned the truth.
Overall: A nice first season. Can't wait for the second.
I honestly think it's better to watch it straight through without having to wait a week to see another episode, because I felt engaged to want to know more about what was happening. Of course when starting the second season I won't have that luxury in doing that. But I'll be with everyone else who has been watching it from the beginning, which will be kinda cool now that I'm all caught up.
I'm also thinking about starting The Vampire Diaries next because I heard great things about it.
V, Season One Overview and Thoughts
I remember watching the premiere of V and being intrigued, although I didn't catch up with it because after only four episodes they went on a three month hiatus and I forgot about it. I'm finding that is kind of a mistake because after watching all the rest of the episodes one right after the another, I found that I was completely immersed in the story being told. It was like watching a mini-movie of sorts, a mini-movie that would be continued in the next chapter this November in its second season. From the characters to the story, I'm certainly liking what I'm seeing so far.
I like the relationships between the characters, whether banded together for a cause or circling around each other not wanting the other to know their true intentions, have been fascinating to watch. The storyline of the resistance group, the Fifth Column, of Visitors and humans coming together to take down the rest of the Vs has been quite a ride. Wondering who to trust, who to watch out for, who is a Sleeper and who is working for an entirely different agenda altogether. I like it, I like the structure the show is giving on that front. I like the relationships between families also. Erica and her son Tyler, who are having this difficult relationship even before the Visitors arrived, Ryan and his girlfriend Val, and Father Jack and his relationship with his own faith and knowing where to stand in this fight. I find them to be realistic and even though we kind of want to say, "just tell them already!" there's higher risks at stake and we see the internal struggle some of them have with it.
But I think I am more fascinated by the V society. Like with BSG and the Cylons, the Visitors are definitely the fascinating part. More importantly, I am totally mesmerized by Anna (played by Morena Baccarin) and her role as the leader of the Vs and her role she plays in the show.
She is strategic and methodical, and there's lots of dirty politics played on her end by manipulating humanity for her own purposes, she shows compassion one minute and is cold and calculating the next. She seems to know a great deal about how to handle situations when something goes either right or wrong, she knows how to play with emotions of humans, to get underneath their skin, to further manipulate them and twist things around. And she's hardly even human herself, and this is what makes it so fascinating to watch on the screen. Mostly it's because of Morena Baccarin, who I absolutely love and adore, and she does perfectly in this role. I even watch for those little ticks she says she subtly adds in to seem reptile-ish (the way she blinks sometimes, cocks her head, etc) She's utterly captivating to watch and is, in my opinion, the best performance of the entire show because of how well she portrays the character.
Especially that huge scream at the end in the finale. My God that was amazing. Anna's first experience with expressing and feeling human emotion after seeing that her eggs had been destroyed was so shockingly brilliant. I want to learn more about that next season, and if she's gonna display more of that or not, or is going to try and cover it up, or if she'll have an outburst and react like she did in such a way that might blow her cover. It's all very interesting, and I want to know what happens next.
I also have grown to love Lisa, Anna's daughter, as I continued watching the season. Her suddenly developing human emotions for her affections for Tyler have grown and she's suddenly wanting to turn against her mother and possibly join forces with the Fifth Column in the second season because of how she helped Erica in the finale. Plus, I kinda want Erica to become a surrogate mother-figure to Lisa, and judging from some things there is definitely gonna be a reversal of roles between Lisa and Tyler; Lisa is going to be more active with the human society and Tyler with the V society. I think it'll be interesting to see, especially of how protective and territorial both mothers are and how they are willing to use these children for their own purposes. However, I think Erica and Lisa will help each other out more than with Tyler who is still in the dark on many things.
Also, I want Father Jack and Erica to get together somehow next season. I'm glad nothing romantic came out of this season because they were just starting out with trusting and befriending each other, but there's definitely some subtext between them. Am I the only one?
Poor Ryan though, Anna really got to him good in that finale and I severely hope that whatever happens he can snap out of it. Her killing Val was definitely a breaking point because Ryan did say it was because of Val that he started resisting Anna's Bliss in the first place, developing such human emotions and hanging onto that love for a human being. Now he was started to get affected again. I don't know what will happen, whether he'll be turned and become a Sleeper/double-agent or what. :(
I'm interested in what Chad Decker is going to do with the knowledge he learned. I'm glad he finally learned the truth.
Overall: A nice first season. Can't wait for the second.
I honestly think it's better to watch it straight through without having to wait a week to see another episode, because I felt engaged to want to know more about what was happening. Of course when starting the second season I won't have that luxury in doing that. But I'll be with everyone else who has been watching it from the beginning, which will be kinda cool now that I'm all caught up.
I'm also thinking about starting The Vampire Diaries next because I heard great things about it.
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Date: 2010-10-04 11:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-10-04 11:55 am (UTC)I would suggest wait and see if you like the pilot, and if you're still unsure then download the next few episodes and watch them. idk, does that sound like a nice course of action? I just download anything anyway, lol.
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Date: 2010-10-04 11:59 am (UTC)It does, I could do that. :D
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:10 pm (UTC)I feel even more bad when a show gets prematurely canceled and had it been released overseas it could have added higher on the ratings chart or something due to international exposure, idk. I don't know much about the laws or statistics of how all this works, it's just something I keep thinking about when a show of mine gets canceled before its time.
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:21 pm (UTC)Indeed. :/ when some shows don't even get a chance oveseas, it's rather frustrating. What's not popular in the US might be popular in Europe and vice versa.
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:28 pm (UTC)I remember from observing what some people have been saying that what you think is mildly popular here, it's 10x more popular overseas like in Asia and the UK and other places. That recent Misha interview the interviewer was talking about how certain shows like Heroes and perhaps even LOST had a huge following in like Japan in whatnot. So this proves that even if a new show doesn't get high ratings in the first few episodes (and really with all the new shows that premiere every year it's understandable), imagine how it would be with combining international ratings and viewers. I mean seriously, when you look at the shows that have just been canceled this premiere season alone it's just ridiculous.
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Date: 2010-10-04 12:39 pm (UTC)Exactly! It's just silly to me that shows get cancelled after a few episodes before they even get distributed oveseas. Like you said, I'm not entirely sure how the whole system works, but from a ordinary person's point of view it just seems stupid. I like how they do things in Asia- shows there usually have 1-2 seasons and a set number of episodes so shows don't get cancelled all of a sudden, no matter how bad the ratings get. Although it does get sad when especially in Japan the shows have 8-13 episodes all in all and you'd love for more but nooo. :(
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:08 pm (UTC)There are some Asian dramas that I've watched that range from three episodes to over thirty depending on how long it takes to tell the story needing to be told. And in the UK I know their system is different from the US because they have limited episodes in a season as opposed to our 22-episode rule (some new shows here get 13 without the added back 9 or however that works, but still 22 all in the same anyway). I keep thinking shows would go over much smoother here if we had more limited episodes in seasons, especially those with heavy plots because I don't like waiting through filler episodes to get to the point each week.
But really yeah, I hate the entire system these days and how shows get canceled at a whim without allowing it time to grow. It's like, the premieres need to be top-notch perfect to grab people's attentions. And judging from this premiere season it's not going over too well for many shows, new or returning....
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Date: 2010-10-04 01:53 pm (UTC)Depends on the country, I've been more into japanese ones and they're usually quite short, so I've gotten quite used to shows that have 8-13/25 episodes instead of 13-22. I agree, there definitely should be a limited number of episodes in each season, so no fillers- since they're usually quite bad too.
Exactly. There are many shows which have a rocky start but then grow better and better with time, it's rarer to find a show with an ~absolutely mindblowing premiere~ than one with a premiere that's just "okay."