V; episode 2
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hnpccThe new series of V started last week. This reminded me of two things - why I seem to have given up watching commercial television at all (the number of ads is ridiculous), and how much I liked the original cheesy 80s series.
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astrocave and I discussed it on the way to soccer, which lead to the following exchange of text messages during the course of last night's episode. Because it's always more fun sharing the episode!
We started after the seriously incompetent FBI agent lead character did something insanely stupid, which followed on from the earlier discussion of why she didn't enlist the FBI to help her:
hnpcc: Least subtle FBI agent ever!
Dweeby son goes off to pine over the blonde Alien lifeform, Lisa. The FBI agent and the priest run from a flying surveillance camera, eventually killing it with a baseball bat.
astrocave:Least rebellious rebellious youth ever! And least effective flying alien surveillance camera...
The priest fails dismally to lie convincingly.
hnpcc: Fairly incompetent priest too...
FBI agent fails to lie convincingly to her boss.
astrocave: At least her boss is competent. He's gotta die...
hnpcc:He's an alien... Actually the black woman agent was on battlestar!
The black female FBI agent was Tory from Battlestar. She's also competent, which probably means she's an alien. The boss plays a taped phone call (made from a pay phone) to the Incompetent FBI Agent.
hnpcc:Oh ffs, she can't even fake her voice?!?
The GIRAT ponders how badly he screwed up the interview and whether his "journalistic integrity" is now completely shattered by him having not asked any hard questions. Based solely on his hairstyle, I'd say yes. He's looking very ACA Ray Martin.
astrocave: Question the GIRAT didn't ask Anna: Where are you from?
hnpcc: From a planet, duh!
astrocave realises that that's where he'd seen the black female FBI agent before!
astrocave: I knew she was a Cylon!
I decide to sum up where we've seen everyone before:
hnpcc: So so far 1 reptile pilot, 1 robot agent and a GIRAT. Hm, who's the antichrist? The kid?
astrocave decides to sum up the episode:
astrocave: So what have we learned? Form an alien-fighting army with every nutter in the phonebook? Kiss your girlfirnd on the neck to distract her from a home invasion?
hnpcc: And most importantly, the reptiles can regenerate! Duh duh duh!
astrocave: If you hadn't guessed from "Guest starring Alan Tyduk" in the credits.
Which, to be honest, I'd missed. Possibly because I was texting. Although I'd guessed that the reptiles would have regenerating abilities from the first episode - seems a shame to waste the pilot from Firefly on one episode. Heh. I like this series. I hopeastrocave keeps watching, it's way more fun with commentary.
astrocave and I discussed it on the way to soccer, which lead to the following exchange of text messages during the course of last night's episode. Because it's always more fun sharing the episode!We started after the seriously incompetent FBI agent lead character did something insanely stupid, which followed on from the earlier discussion of why she didn't enlist the FBI to help her:
hnpcc: Least subtle FBI agent ever!Dweeby son goes off to pine over the blonde Alien lifeform, Lisa. The FBI agent and the priest run from a flying surveillance camera, eventually killing it with a baseball bat.
astrocave:Least rebellious rebellious youth ever! And least effective flying alien surveillance camera...The priest fails dismally to lie convincingly.
hnpcc: Fairly incompetent priest too...FBI agent fails to lie convincingly to her boss.
astrocave: At least her boss is competent. He's gotta die...hnpcc:He's an alien... Actually the black woman agent was on battlestar!The black female FBI agent was Tory from Battlestar. She's also competent, which probably means she's an alien. The boss plays a taped phone call (made from a pay phone) to the Incompetent FBI Agent.
hnpcc:Oh ffs, she can't even fake her voice?!?The GIRAT ponders how badly he screwed up the interview and whether his "journalistic integrity" is now completely shattered by him having not asked any hard questions. Based solely on his hairstyle, I'd say yes. He's looking very ACA Ray Martin.
astrocave: Question the GIRAT didn't ask Anna: Where are you from?hnpcc: From a planet, duh!astrocave realises that that's where he'd seen the black female FBI agent before!astrocave: I knew she was a Cylon!I decide to sum up where we've seen everyone before:
hnpcc: So so far 1 reptile pilot, 1 robot agent and a GIRAT. Hm, who's the antichrist? The kid?astrocave decides to sum up the episode:astrocave: So what have we learned? Form an alien-fighting army with every nutter in the phonebook? Kiss your girlfirnd on the neck to distract her from a home invasion?hnpcc: And most importantly, the reptiles can regenerate! Duh duh duh!astrocave: If you hadn't guessed from "Guest starring Alan Tyduk" in the credits.Which, to be honest, I'd missed. Possibly because I was texting. Although I'd guessed that the reptiles would have regenerating abilities from the first episode - seems a shame to waste the pilot from Firefly on one episode. Heh. I like this series. I hope
astrocave keeps watching, it's way more fun with commentary.
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Date: 2010-03-15 04:25 am (UTC)And when the FBI agent - whatever her name is - hit it with a stick, did it explode, shooting her with metal shards as it's meant to do when it explodes? No, somehow it vaporised, without leaving a trace. That's a powerful stick.
I can't shut up about that flying camera thing...
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Date: 2010-03-15 10:20 pm (UTC)I did wonder a bit belatedly if the surveillance camera they used wasn't set up properly - "damn, we can't get the pictures because all we're getting is heat!" "They're mammals stupid! They have body heat!"
But yeah, the implosion was kind of stupid and still should have taken them out.
Still laughing at the "we need to be very cautious about setting up this resistance. But when I come running up to you in public acting really weird, that'll be fine" bit, the terrible 911 call - she didn't even try to disguise her voice! She sort of had her hand near her mouth, but you'd think a counterterrorist agent would have some clue about these kind of things! - and her overall complete inability to lie convincingly. *eye roll* Her teenage son was lying better than that! And he sucked!