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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[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.