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Originally Posted by Cowperson
I guess I'm just not understanding why a technologically advanced race with sinister motives is dancing around the maypole with spies, disguises and media containment instead of just annihilating us all or enslaving us, whichever they prefer.
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The oldest saying in the book in terms of war of any kind is "First you pacify them, then you murder them" While the Visitors are highly advanced we all know that its the board with the nail in it that kills you. I'm betting if this series carried on there would be all kinds of visitor peace initiatives like:
1) Hey guys our society got rid of weapons of mass destruction there's no need for you to have it so lets help you get rid of all the nukes, and chemical weapons etc that might harm you
2) Then, we'll eliminate all diseases for you, so really do you need doctors, let us help you.
3) Then hey its hard for us to work with all of these governments, in the name of global efficiency we're forming a committee of world leaders to speak as one to the visitors.
Essentially the V's are looking at a way to pacify the population against them, a attack and land invasion has to many ways to go wrong and too big of a possibility for alien casualties. In essence this is the fattening the cattle stage.
Then and we've seen it tested they manufacturer a terrorist attack that allows them to get permission from earths government to arrest those that are the biggest threat to them. In the original series it was a created conspiracy by scientists, in this case it could be a created plot by law enforcement agencies, or military leaders etc, which would allow them to lop the head off of the leaders that could prevent an apocalypse.
The recruiting of young people that they're doing is brilliant because young people are suckers.
They want a peacefull transition of humanity from potential threat to light salty snack, and a guy like Cowperson because he's smart, a little older and wiser and can cause trouble will be the first on the buffet table and nobody will care because they've bought into it.
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I think they need to rationalize that pretty quickly or this series is going to disappear.
Secondly, I can't imagine Planet Earth and all of its corners of paranoia content with gigantic, menacing ships hovering over every major city.
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The first thing that the aliens did was pretty efficient when they downed the fighter. It put the fear of technology into people.
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Hasn't at least one city mayor somewhere, anywhere, come out and said, "Hey, frak off, you're blocking the sun!!!" or at least one President, somewhere, anywhere, said, "You know, we'd all be more happy and less trigger happy if you took that thing and hovered outside the 12 mile limit instead of over Central Park."
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If the aliens were smart they'd broadcast a constant stream of monday night football and soft core porn off of the bottom of their ships, that way they would ensure that the majority of mankind stayed constantly in the kill zone.
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Love Anna, however, as one of the better menacing presences in the history of Sci-fi television.
Cowperson
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But do we really believe that she's the supreme leader?
Did love her practicing her speech with the tear. It reminded me of a mass murderer practicing for a parole hearing.