If you’ve read any of my other reviews you know by now I’m a huge Firefly fan. So you probably know what drew me to V in the first place, Morena Baccarin as Anna and Alan Tudyk as Dale Maddox, or as they will always be known in my household, Inara and Wash. The creators of the show have done a good job of choosing a cast of actors and actresses that have great experience on other popular TV shows, which certainly lends to the overall quality of V. The first episodes looked promising, however since the show returned from a four month hiatus, my initial interest has started to fade. I have heard the same sentiment from other viewers; that the show feels like it is missing something.
So on to tonight’s episode “We Can’t Win”.
We’ve got Ryan Nichols frantically trying to locate his pregnant and angry girlfriend who has taken off after breaking into his safe and finding an ultra sound of their unusually large baby. She calls Ryan insisting it must be someone else’s baby, not wanting to believe that it could be hers.
On the ship we see Lisa failing a mandatory empathy test issued by her mother, Anna. She is told that she is to be eliminated, once the test result is reported to Anna, despite her insistence that the test is being affected by her assignment to get close to Tyler. It would appear that she might be developing feelings for Tyler, regardless of her species intentional lack of emotions.
Meanwhile, a dying father beseeches Jack to help his son, Alex, who is involved in the fifth column. Alex is paranoid and scared to death after watching, what he assumes is a visitor; kill his fellow members of a fifth column group. Alex eventually agrees to help Jack, Erica, and Ryan set a trap for the visitor responsible and attempt to take them alive, to gain more information about the V’s true plans. While coordinating their plan of attack, the V continues to covertly eliminate more members of the fifth column resistance. With Alex’s help they lure the V to an open area, using Alex as bait to try and draw them out. As usual in these situations, the civilian panics and ends up taking a bullet because of it. After capturing the sniper that took down Alex, they are shocked to learn it wasn’t a visitor but a human.
At the U.N. Energy Summit in Geneva, Switzerland, Anna has strategically decided to help the people of Timbale, by giving them the V’s “Blue Energy”, all in efforts to improve her public image with the people of earth. This does not go unnoticed by others who are in question of her true motives. Questions such as, why is she so concerned with her public image if she has no intentions to stay on earth? At this rate she will be running for President before long, or trying to eat everybody, one or the other. Chad attempts to call Anna out on her motives but it is unclear whether he is buying into her lies or not.
Back on the ship, Anna meets with Lisa at the egg pond, where it is revealed that Joshua lied to Anna and told her that Lisa passed the empathy test. Anna proves once again that she won’t be winning the “Mother of the Year” award any time soon. Joshua later tells Lisa he lied to Anna for her, so that she will owe him a favor in the future.
Valerie, Ryan’s girlfriend, has found herself at a V healing center. While there they give her a “vitamin shot” and an ultrasound. The V administering the ultrasound quickly realizes exactly what type of bun is in the oven. The V grabs a medical instrument and before he can follow through on his plans for it, Ryan rushes in to rescue her and kills the V in front of her. Leaving Ryan’s explanation of what just happened to Valerie for next week’s episode.
Next week Anna finds out that there is a human/visitor hybrid in Valerie’s womb and is not pleased. She unleashes a mysterious soldier to hunt down Ryan and Valerie.
Overall it was a good episode, definite story progression. But it still seems to be lacking something that similar shows like Lost and Fringe have perfected. I have a hard getting it to hold my attention, could it be that the characters weren’t established in a way that makes you really care about what happens to them? Lost for example made sure that from the beginning you understood it was about the characters first and the situation second. While it’s a good show, I have doubts about whether or not it will be able to stand the test of time without the story picking up in some way.
You can catch V for yourself on ABC, Tuesdays at 10pm.
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