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.

Comments

[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.