KT thinks it is decidedly so.
V: 1.02 “There Is No Normal Anymore”
Everybody seems a little bit wishy-washy this week as they try to figure out how to react to all of last week’s bombshells. The episodes gives us more questions than answers — as it should at this point. I’ll tell my guesses and I’d love to hear yours in the comments!
Journalist Chad Decker is beating himself up over letting Anna walk all over him during the big interview, so he decides to get all investigative. That actually just turns out to be a pro and con panel, but even that ticks off the Visitors. They give him some ground when he points out that they went up in the polls after his segment and that public opinion is massively important, but Frowny Second-in-Command Guy is still very frowny. Anna favors Chad with a very brief personal phone call, though. Is she seducing him for her own purposes? My magic eight ball says “Signs point to yes.”
This week undercover alien Ryan is presented with the dilemma faced by all superheroes and mob targets: should he stay with his girlfriend so he can protect her, or must he leave her so that she won’t get caught in the crossfire? Will he? All I’ve got here is “Reply hazy, try again.” Plenty of room for drama either way. And who is Cyrus? We’ve got Angelo, who wants no part in this, and Georgie, who re-recruited Ryan last week; I don’t think we know a Cyrus yet. Creepy breaking-and-entering act with the note behind the photo, though.
Meanwhile, Father Jack proves to be the most undecided of anybody — fair enough, I suppose. I mean, dammit, he’s a priest not a freedom fighter! (…Wait, wrong show, sorry.) He’s kind of boring to me at the moment, though. I think there’s an inevitable relationship with Erica coming at some point, probably after or at the same time as he goes through a huge crisis of faith. Is that just me? I’d rather it were, I don’t really want to see that storyline, actually.
Erica, meanwhile, is walking on thin ice in her probably-infiltrated workplace, and having to pretend that she doesn’t know why Dale has disappeared is making things twice as hard. Her boss is naturally suspicious as hell, but it’s hard to tell yet whether that because (A) everything’s fishy and she’s clearly lying or (B) he’s a Visitor. (Also high on my Probably an Alien list is an agent played by Rekha Sharma, but I admit that may have something to do with her role as Tory on BSG.) I’ll be interested to see what he does with Erica’s proof that Dale kept calling to tip off the terrorist cell they were tracking.
Deceit seems to be a theme in the Evans family right now. Tyler makes his mom a promise regarding the Visitors that he clearly has no intention of keeping. Then he makes a bid to stay on my Idiot List by decking a guy on his first day as a Peace Ambassador. And then he wonders why the V’s want to kick him out of the program. My money says they’ll keep him on once they figure out that his mother his rebooting the resistance.
And hey… the Visitors have patched up Dale! I’m thrilled. Evil alien or not, more Alan Tudyk is never a bad thing.
This article cracked me up.
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Yay!