An observation on neo-V

[dvandom]

While I may be reading too much into Morena Baccarin's performance as Anna, it seems like she brings a sort of "Wait, I thought I debugged that?" confusion to scenes where people don't swallow her "I'm a friendly alien here to help" act. Where John in the original series brought a sort of blustering politician's BS to things, underlying it was a fairly human set of emotional responses. With Anna, it feels like she's running a human emotion emulator instead, leading to mild confusion and internal bugfixing when it misfires, rather than to an intensification of blathering. A brief pause where she's not quite there in the conversation before she patches her script and starts running it.

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[querldox.livejournal.com]

Changing the subject slightly, if I were humanity, and the Vs were claiming we were the first other intelligent species they'd ever met, I'd be wondering 1) why the bottoms of these giant, atmosphere capable, ships, are a mass of flat panel video displays. 'Cause what's that for other than addressing huge numbers of sentients? 2) How they so quickly came up with a universal human language translator that so far has been perfect in operation. Along with other things that indicate they either have met other sentient species before or have no freakin' idea how to do a first contact (free hint; parking giant ships over major cities instead of orbiting and sending down representatives is silly...which all should make people think that they must have already had reps on Earth since otherwise they're complete idiots).

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"Our computer models show that hovering our motherships over their cities and projecting welcoming messages across the bottoms will be well-received."

"Are these the same models that generated agents 'Michael Moore' and 'Glenn Beck?'"

"Um, yes?"

"Good, good...they've clearly been successes. I predict only good things for this mission!"

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Actually, the broadcast screens are just bug zappers...

Add to the questions: Why are they wasting fuel in this perpetual hovering? Why not find a nice open area, or barring that, some water (this is New York, if the ships can float the harbor's right OVER THERE, it's not hard to find...) or if landing is impossible, just get back into orbit and quit freaking people out.

Plus, what happens when it rains...?

[richardx1.livejournal.com]

If they have VERY efficient solar panels on the dorsal surfaces of their ships, they might be able to power a repulsorlift system indefinitely.

Also, keeping the ships hovering over major cities keeps the people constantly aware of their presence, which is useful whether you're trying to be assimilated into their day-to-day paradigm OR trying to become Big Brother.