Manipulators
Just watched the first episode of the new V and am pretty disappointed.
In the course of ~42 minutes of TV:
The V arrive. There’s maybe 3 minutes of wonder. They fail miserably at addressing the implications for religion (though they make a half-assed try). (Also, a guy in a wheelchair starts *halfway* up some stairs then manages to get up down and back up…)
They show that there is a resistance. A surprisingly ineffective and poorly connected one considering how much they know.
The resistance is already somewhat established because the Vs have been here for a while already (the only new aspect I noticed in the setup).
The Vs are indoctrinating people (not as heavy-handed with the Nazi overtones this time).
They do the lizard face-rip reveal (and Alan Tudyk gets impaled in the chest!).
They reveal that there are Vs who are resisting.
What is the point of fast-forwarding through all that great stuff? To get to where?
I don’t really need to see another season of Cylon-occupied New Caprica… Especially when I haven’t the slightest reason to give two shits about the characters in it. They spent as much time on ‘why is the glass shaking?, what’s happening?’ (is it a T-Rex?) as they did developing any single character.