So the V are the Wraith with better orthodontia and skin care?

And I'm not sure whether I trust that - I mean - did you think it was awfully convenient to have Chad in their debt re: the aneurysm?

Oh yeah, I was definitely calling shenanigans on that.

I wonder what walking around in human suits does to the Vs' sense of identity. Have they forgotten what they really look like? Who they really are?

Ana didn't seem all that upset about the warehouse

Her henchman did, or was that more about the effect the explosion and the message would have on their people?

I wonder what walking around in human suits does to the Vs' sense of identity

Well, skinning seems to be a pretty horrible thing. I wonder how they get back to looking normal. In the original, couldn't they just peel off their skinsuits?

I don't watch V. Have any xenophobic right-wingers taken a shot at them yet? I can only imagine if something like this happened today that there's be privately-held munitions coming out of the woodwork.

Well, skinning seems to be a pretty horrible thing.

Yeah, I wondered whether "skinning" meant both layers or just the one. The way Dale talked about humans and how smelly they were, it didn't seem like wearing human suits was really that fun, so I assumed that they would skin down to the bone. Because just removing the human layer would almost be a gift. Except for all the pain, I assume.

I did like how they set up Ryan's (I just learned his name too!) extreme distaste of skinning and then explained it later.

Connie, my point exactly after seeing the pilot. Human beings are portrayed as much too passive.

You wouldn't just have to be right wing to object. They're proposing taking a great deal of control over the species, and no one is shown objecting other than a few individual picketing and an upset wife who quickly recanted. It can be posited that the sleepers have seeded society successfully, but that's ridiculous.

I also saw an interview with Morris Chestnut (which is why I now remember his character's name--Ryan Nichols) where he said the universal healthcare thing was just a fluke. The pilot was written long before it was a political hot button.

I so very far behind in watching everything, and completely spoiled from keeping up in here.

So I'll just point up toward ita's shiny post number.

Just rewatched Turn Left. That may be one of my bestest hours of television ever.

The trailer and a sneak peek of the Christmas special and a trailer for the next movie at the BBCA website. It looks like we'll be getting the 2nd to last special and the Christmas specials on consecutive Saturdays - Dec 19th, Dec 26th and January 2nd.