"V" just lost all credibility

[rocketeer25]

Ok, you're a handful of people trying to start a resistance movement against an alien race bent on your destruction. Only you and a few others know the truth. The odds are stacked against you...

Then you manage to kill one of the aliens in your own home. All the proof you will ever need to convince the world that the aliens are evil is laying on your living room floor, and what do you do? Tell your buddy "let's get rid of the body".

Within 5 minutes of the start of the episode, the producers of this show lost all credibility with me. :unsure

 

[protokev DMD]

i think it was mentioned in the show itself, and it made sense to me at the time, that if they did that the humans use to the V would be less than the threat and the v would just wipe most of us out and try again elsewhere

 

[Kerr Avon]

All I know is that mating with Morena Baccarin even with that result would still be worth it.

 

[exoray]

Or...

Spoiler

Why all the sudden do the V's need the FBI to take out a person that could be a threat to them? They used the little flying things to wipe out an entire resistance gathering and then cleaned it up immaculately but they can't take care of public enemy #1 when they have his hideout address? Makes no logical sense, if there is one person they could kill and no body on the human side would miss him or asked many questions it would be public enemy #1...

 

[monolith21]

They should have torn its fake face off on national television! Oh wait...
I love the original, and this new one is not really living up to it's potential at all.

 

[lingarn]

Or...

Spoiler

Why all the sudden do the V's need the FBI to take out a person that could be a threat to them? They used the little flying things to wipe out an entire resistance gathering and then cleaned it up immaculately but they can't take care of public enemy #1 when they have his hideout address? Makes no logical sense, if there is one person they could kill and no body on the human side would miss him or asked many questions it would be public enemy #1...

I think...

Spoiler

The V's didn't know who did the bombing, but they needed to blame someone so that those rumors of V involvement (especially considering the rather extreme sterilization of the blast site) would go away. By giving the FBI the evidence they need to take down their most wanted terrorist, they divert suspicion from themselves AND ingratiate themselves further with the humans.

I think the fact that he can "organize a resistance" is just a bonus -- prior to this, there was no reason to believe he was even interested in them.

 

[lingarn]

Then you manage to kill one of the aliens in your own home. All the proof you will ever need to convince the world that the aliens are evil is laying on your living room floor, and what do you do? Tell your buddy "let's get rid of the body".

Even if people take at face value the reptile under the skin as a genuine example of a V, there are two important points...

First, under what circumstances was the V killed? With only two people present and only one person alive afterward, it is a he-said she-said situation, and the V are very able manipulators. It would not be hard to be shocked and appalled by the vicious murder of a V by a federal agent who has secretly hated them all along, which brings me to my next point.

That wasn't a random V, that was the guard from the warehouse. If he shows up dead, having assaulted the fed, it isn't going to take Anna two seconds to figure out why he would attack her given the recent explosion. In exposing the murder attempt and body, the fed would be accomplishing the dead V's goal -- exposing the resistance to Anna.

So the result of parading a murdered V around is at best to excite popular xenophobia without the proof of violent intent required to gain real political backing, and at worst to lead to the imprisonment/punishment of the fed and the exposure of the resistance.

It must have been bitter to destroy the body, but I think it was necessary.

 

[Beechy McFly]

It was all for a reason..

 

[CTF]

...to make money!

 

[Beechy McFly]

You know it's funny how people reacted this way to BSG when it first appeared.. Look where that went.. Give it time and questions will be answered..

 

[Mechamaniac]

Anybody catch the end? When "Anna" mates with the soldier and then says her eggs must have nourishment, and opens her yap to reveal these long jagged translucent teeth?

They referred to her as "The Queen" a few minutes earlier in the episode but I wasn't aware she was a Xenomorph.

 

[blewis17]

This has all happened begore... it will happen again...

 

[propologist]

it took you that long...any remake to me is terrible...This and Female Cylons..please

 

[reaper63]

it took you that long...any remake to me is terrible...This and Female Cylons..please

God did it! That's why!

 

[defstartrooper]

It's nothing groundbreaking or amazing but i find it at least watchable, i can't say the same for SGU or Caprica.

 

[Treadwell]

I'm watching, but I always find "if only" screenwriting irritable.

IF ONLY she'd shared with her son the evidence she has about the V's in any of the numerous opportunities she's had...

IF ONLY they would show the world the dead V body...

IF ONLY the news anchor had said, during their live interview, "why did you ask me just before airtime not to ask you anything that would put the V's in a bad light?"

There are too many contrivances necessary to keep the story going.

 

[Gary Weaver II]

I was going to mention that. It didn't make a lick of difference in the original series either.

What suprised me was just how damn gulliable the FBI was when they came up with fingerprints from a surveillance video. No one thought to say - "seriously?"

Still watching. I just enjoy it.

-Gary

They should have torn its fake face off on national television! Oh wait...
I love the original, and this new one is not really living up to it's potential at all.

 

[Treadwell]

Yeah, they were all about "now we have proof"...as defined by what law or legal precedent? How is "because someone from outer space said so" going to hold up in court?

 

[Gary Weaver II]

Exactly. I've just been watching to much Law and Order: Insert random name here.

 

[exoray]

Yeah, they were all about "now we have proof"...as defined by what law or legal precedent? How is "because someone from outer space said so" going to hold up in court?

DNA isn't even solid proof yet by many jury's in todays world and there is a complete laid down scientific method, and they are going to try and convince someone that they reconstructed of a fingerprint from literally thin air? I would ask since you could reconstruct a finger print you should have no problem reconstructing the people that did it, just rewind that thin air clock a few more seconds zoom out and they should be standing right there next to the bomb...