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JakeSully's "V" Reviews
« Thread Started on Nov 3, 2009, 9:10pm »

"PILOT" - V

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Now this is what I'm talking about.

This is the PILOT I have been waiting for. It has adventure, it has eerie moments, it has those moments that make you feel paranoid and just amazed at the same time.

This is a perfect example of how a story should be structured; how characters should be fleshed out. By the time some of the characters meet, you realize: "Oh my God, you know them. You know why they're there."

Leading the many characters is the beautiful Elizabeth Mitchell as Erica Evans, a FBI mother. Her son, Tyler Evans, isn't the typical run-of-the-mill son stock character. He had feelings. He had problems. He felt that the Visitors mean something. That it was his calling. The scene between him and Erica, confronting, was true and real.

The show opens with small segments of each character and what happened to them prior the arrival of "The Visitors."

We join Ryan Nichols, a man whose ready to propose to his girlfriend and gets calls from a strange man about how "he needs to go back." Ryan, coldly, responds "no, that he doesn't want to go back and that she doesn't know his past." Mystery. But don't worry, they answer. And they answer good. I did not see his story coming.

Following Erica is my second --and, to some extent, most thoughtful-- favorite character: Father Jack Landry. He poses some interesting and theologically thoughtful questions: can he exist knowing that God and aliens exist in the same universe? Something sends him on a journey.

The special effects are top-notch. You'd swear they're from a film. The space craft is crafted amazingly.

But that doesn't get in the way from the storytelling, which destroys some shows like "Flashforward" and the recently decreasing-in-quality "Heroes." By the time they arrive to a meeting (which I won't describe HOW they got there, that's part of the magic of this PILOT ... but I will tell you it has something to do about THE RESISTANCE), the story comes to its culminating --and cultivating-- point.

This scene is intervened with an interview between the creepy Visitor-leader ANA and the go-lucky news reporter CHAD DECKER. The irony, set up, atmosphere, dialogue between those scenes are INSANE. I felt so invested, I knew I was watching an instant classic.

This is an amazing start to what is about to be amazing show.

Tune in, suit up and get ready.

The Visitors are here. And they're here to stay.

Will you join the resistance?

GRADE: A+

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Re: JakeSully's "V" Reviews
« Reply #1 on Nov 3, 2009, 9:22pm »

I will the resistance. (lol)

Anyways, I thought it was good too... except it felt more like a really amazing 2 part premiere that cut trimmed down to a just good 1-hour pilot. Things felt kind of rushed.

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Re: JakeSully's "V" Reviews
« Reply #2 on Nov 3, 2009, 9:36pm »

I wouldn't have mind if they extended the meeting into the second part, actually.

A long introduction and the realization of the meeting would have been good. But still, I felt that it was good. I keep on stressing how amazing those two scenes were intervened. The positive (the interview) and the negative (the resistance meet).

Loved it.

And Elizabeth Mitchell gets hotter with the years passing.