Over the last month or so, ABC created a lot of hype about their new primetime show, “V.” I have seen quite a few ads in magazines as well as on TV promoting the new show. “V” premiered on Tues., Nov. 3 and proved that it was worth all of the hype.
When I heard the show was about an alien invasion, I was not impressed. Normally, I am not very fond of science fiction. I decided since nothing else comes on television on Tuesday nights, I would give this new show a shot, and I was pleasantly surprised. “V” proved to be intriguing and good enough to follow this season.
The show began with a large spacecraft hovering over New York City. People crowded below and the audience was introduced to the main characters. This was the world’s first encounter with the visitors, or so you thought. The opening scene was eerily similar to the opening sequences of “Independence Day” and I thought lacked originality.
The leader of the visitors made an announcement that reassured that they meant no harm and were here to help. Throughout the beginning of the show the visitors seem like exceptional beings by healing the sick and teaching humans some of the things they know.
This is now reminiscent of a few “Twilight Zone” episodes were the aliens arrive and first assure the scared humans that they are here to serve and help them, only to have it backfire in the end.
However, not too far into the show, Homeland Security Agent Erica Evans (Juliet from “Lost”) discovered that the visitors might not be as peaceful as they say. While investigating what she thought was a terrorist sect, she discovers that the visitors have been living among the people of Earth for many years.
There has been a resistance group who has known about the visitors’ plan. The visitors have been planning the takeover of Earth for many years. Revealing themselves as they did was the final step in their plan.
By the end of the pilot episode, it is revealed that the visitors, who appear to look exactly like humans, are actually wearing human skins over their lizard-like bodies. The characters were very dynamic and interesting.
Erica’s partner in the FBI turns out to be a visitor who killed some of the members of the resistance group. Another character, Ryan Nichols (Morris Chestnut), is a businessman who turns out to be a visitor. However, he is a traitor of the visitors and is on the side of the resistance. He has a conscience that the visitors seem to lack.
The limited commercials of the first episode made it easier to watch as well as gave more time to create the opening story line. Next week will not have limited commercials, but I am looking forward to next Tuesday’s episode and how the series progresses. Hopefully the show will continue to be as entertaining as the pilot episode was.
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