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Originally Posted by octothorp
To me, the writing was a bit weak: it seemed to eager to quickly lay down exactly where all the lines of who the groups involved are. It could have more effectively taken three or four episodes to get to where it is now. There was too much of a feeling of not wanting to confuse the viewer or give them too much uncertainty to deal with.
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And to me that was exactly what I liked about this. The show assumes you have seen the other series(es) from the 80's, and this is a re-write. The story moved more in one episode than 4 episodes of Lost.
I just don't like some of the plot oversights:
- the expectation of pulling back a chunk of skin to determine lizard or not? Why not use a $25 drug store thermometer? Or something less intrusive.
- In the 80's version it was just a bunch of people in the resistance. Here we have an FBI agent; who has access to a Visitor's corpse. Couldn't she find a higher up she can trust, take it to him, and he goes to the President?
- The briefing about "no hard questions" comes with seconds before they go live?
- The fact that the Visitors never want to name their species? Or that nobody asks? Even in the 60's the writers for Star Trek come up with the idea that Spock's first name could not be pronounced by humans.
- No outrage about the Vs coming in and wrecking the place. They caused millions of dollars damage to each of 30 cities; killing people in the process. Why not bring down 1 ship; introduce yourselves, and then tell everybody to lock up the valuables as they bring down the other 29.