Red V in the morning.
ABC's space-invasion series V needed to exit with an arresting image — seeing as it's not due back now until January — and it certainly got one. The vengeance-is-mine V leader Anna, enraged because her soldier-eggs had just been destroyed, pushed a button and turned the skies all over the world a weird bright red, as people gaped and more ships gathered.
All right, we don't know what it all means and what we do know doesn't seem to make a lick of sense. But it sure looked good, and if it left you wondering why and wanting more, well, that's pretty much the point.
Granted, Tuesday night's V season finale was more silly than gripping, but that's the show: a basic, stop-the-bad guys, space-visitor version of every behind-enemy-lines, Dirty Dozen war story you've ever seen. First-rate effects mix with cheerfully cheesy ones, just as good performances blend with bad. As Anna likes to say, "The humans won't know what hit them."
What hit you was a lot of plot. Val got kidnapped by the V's, had her baby, and then got murdered by Anna — whose own babies were murdered by Erica. The Fifth Column lost Ryan (Anna turned him back) and gained Chad, who found out the V's were experimenting on their human live-aboard guests.
Like Anna, V doesn't always seem to have the best grasp of rational behavior. One wonders, for example, whether a woman who discovered her boyfriend was an alien who impregnated her with a half-lizard space baby wouldn't be more peeved for just a bit longer, and less trusting of Visitors in general. As for those Visitors, you'd think with all their advanced technology, they'd have learned how to lock a door. And install some security cameras.
Well, maybe they'll put a few in by January. And while they're at it, they might want to give us some idea of what they really want.
Now that would be a good morning.
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