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    Image of The Curse of Millhaven The Curse of Millhaven
    11/27/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    The world's sexiest lizard basking on the world's most awesome heat lamp. What is not to love?
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    OK, so there is a lot of negative comments and over-analyzing here (no really, I'm always surprised how much people on this site are unable to relax and appreciate the movie/show without nit-picking on every plot hole), so I'm gonna do a kind of counter-balance and do a big post about why I love the show:

    - Morena Baccarin is excellent Anna is a calculative, intelligent, scary, charming, dangerous, predatory and inspiring, all at the same time. She's giving Satan a run for his money for the title of best evil overlord.

    - The Lisa character and her real relationship with Tyler is shrouded in mystery. Does she love him? Can she love him? What will happen when Erica find out Lisa is a V? What's Anna planning to do with him?

    - Ryan's baby. Is it really his? Is it implanted by the V? Is it an hybrid? Why did the V didn't see it was an hybrid. Or maybe they did and they'll come down on her and Ryan very soon.

    - By neglecting Tyler, Erika is sowing the seeds of her own destruction. She's s obsessed by her crusade, she forgot to protect her son. Why didn't she tell him who the V really where? Isn't a priest credible enough as a witness for Tyler?

    - Chad Decker and the V uses of the media. I work in the media myself, and this is the best allegory for the power of the media I've ever seen. Great job.

    So all in all, I'm disapointed the show doesn't come back before March. But there's no way in hell I won't be there in March. Can't wait.
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    Image of snarklenyc snarklenyc
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    As the viewer's prospective began whooshing past our solar system I think I actually saw the Fonz ski over a shark on Titania. Why V? Why?
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    Image of milesteg milesteg
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    The thing that irks me about this series is that *no one* seems to be asking pertinent questions.

    Whatsername finds out Whatshisname is a V (side note: that's *annoying*), and her first question ISN'T "Okay, what's Anna's *real* plan?" WTF? Isn't she supposed to be an FBI agent? What, they're going to spend a few episodes piecing together what one guy could easily spell out for them?
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    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    That promo is hilarious.
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    Image of snookums018 snookums018
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    One of the nice little touches that I didn't notice until episode three is the way Anna blinks. She does this thing where she doesn't blink for a long time, and then she does a triple blink. At first, I though they were just trying to make her look odd, and then I hit me. That's the way lizards blink.
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    11/25/09

    @snookums018: seriously? If that's true that's a very well-placed subtle detail.
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/26/09

    @snookums018: Oh, I noticed that right away. Crazy creepy.
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    Image of Al Swearengen Al Swearengen
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    Just watched the lastest episode on Hulu. My question - how exactly does skinning the Vs hurt them? I assume they mean "skinning" as in taking the human skin off of them and not taking their lizard skin off. How would that hurt? Wouldn't it be like a Terminator not feeling its covering? Perhaps their lizard neurons are somehow interfaced with their fleshy coverings?

    Most people probably thinks that Chestnut is concerned that he knocked his girlfriend up and she'll find out he's a lizard. I'm guessing he's really concerned because he's had a lizard vasectomy and knows he can't knock her up, and therefore he knows the Vs are artificially inseminating human women at the health centers.
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    11/25/09

    @Al Swearengen: When Ryan got cut it hurt like hell... he had to go to his old V friend to get it sealed up.

    I'm assuming that the idea was to peel away the human skin... they cut away though, unless I missed something, we don't know if he actually skinned the guy or not, or if that screaming was meant to fake out the other Vs.
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    11/25/09

    @Al Swearengen: i was wondering that myself. Along with the question of how can he knock someone up while wearing a suit of skin....or how lizard physiology would work with a human being.

    ...i mean biology not how could they have sex....it's Morris Chestnut, of course she had sex with him.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Edited by jp182 at 11/25/09 6:26 PM jp182 was starred jp182 was unstarred
    Image of omnibus_spiritus omnibus_spiritus
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    I like the show and think that Morena is pulling off a good job making Anna a little creepy. Some of the plot points are lame, like Tyler, but maybe he has been chosen to be the appetizer, a taste test if you will before the slaughter begins!
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    Image of cylon_conspiracy cylon_conspiracy
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    One thing that would make this show more realistic to me is if the teenage son was riding his bike down the street, then stopped at a red light for a few minutes. He'd look around at the people on the street and stuff, maybe clear his throat, then the light would turn green and he'd go to the next light. They could show the entire journey that he took from home, to the mothership.

    And while he's on this journey, if he's anything like me, he'd be making up nonsense songs to keep himself entertained. "Fucking shit fuck, gonna fuck the V girl, maybe her mom... mAYBE her moommmmm, yeah", then of course there's that next red light coming up.

    That's maybe 35 minutes of screentime, give or take? But at least it's realistic. Actually to make it even more realistic, just get rid of the spaceships. And, the Visitors. I'm not buying that this could happen in real life.

    And did you notice how they never use Mac software, when they are using macs? What am I supposed to think, that right now in NYC there's this whole other OS that I've never even heard of, that's way more polished than Mac OSX? That is fucking insulting.

    On top of that, the V technology... don't even get me started. It just floats there? And it's all in RED? Why, because red is the "evil" color? Yeah I really believe that.

    Oh and one more thing. You mean to tell me, that on some distant planet, a species of life evolved that is the EXACT size, and shape, of the human body, works the same way, is a freaking lizard species nonetheless... yet, all they have to do to blend in is create some synthetic skin that makes them look human? HELLO? This shows how LAZY the writers are.

    So, obviously this show is a huge failure. I hope it bombs.

    But, don't get me wrong, I'm a HUGE fan of science fiction, and I definitely want to support the genre, but THIS garbage? Hell to the no.
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    Edited by cylon_conspiracy at 11/25/09 12:45 PM cylon_conspiracy was starred cylon_conspiracy was unstarred
    Image of missjulied001 missjulied001
    11/25/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: You left out the part where they're supposedly in NYC but everyone seems to live in Craftsman houses.
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    Image of EdificeComplex EdificeComplex
    11/25/09

    @cylon_conspiracy: Obviously Steve Jobs and Jonathan Ive are Vs. OS X is actually a derivative of V technology. However, their technology was deemed too advanced for the human brain so it was dumbed down and the final result was Snow Leopard.
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    11/25/09

    @missjulied001: I know right? Hello, no one films in NYC anymore, and everyone knows it. Again, lazy writing.
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    11/25/09

    @EdificeComplex: Don't make excuses for the show. The writers were just lazy, the term "hacks" comes to mind.
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    Edited by cylon_conspiracy at 11/25/09 1:24 PM cylon_conspiracy was starred cylon_conspiracy was unstarred
    Image of Presidentpez Presidentpez
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    This show isn't bad, more like frustrating. The producers wasted Alan Tudyk and are wasting Elizabeth Mitchell. The dialogue is awkward, and every time the son is on screen I lose interest. Despite that, Morena Baccarin is great as Anna, and I like the dynamic between her and the reporter. I hope they use the break the clever up the dialogue and make the plot more coherent.
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    Image of snookums018 snookums018
    11/25/09

    @Presidentpez: How can you waste Alan Tudyk. The guys not some great actor. If he hadn't been on Firefly, no one would know he exists or obsess about him.
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    TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment snookums018 was starred snookums018 was unstarred
    Image of Presidentpez Presidentpez
    11/25/09

    @snookums018: He was fantastic in Death at a Funeral, Dollhouse, and of course Firefly. You should watch more things.
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    Image of TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H. TheLostVikings R.O.A.C.H.
    11/26/09

    @snookums018: Steve the Pirate ...
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    Image of snookums018 snookums018
    11/26/09

    @Presidentpez: I've seen Dollhouse and Firefly, and the guy is forgettable in my opinion. On Firefly, he was the one character that I never warmed up to, and on Dollhouse, well Dollhouse sucked, but I still didn't like him. I suppose everyone's tastes are different, but there's something about the guy that reminds me of tapioca.
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    Image of 0kami 0kami
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    Wow, this might be the first time I have heard Sigur Ros used in a TV show...
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    Image of Wookie1972 Wookie1972
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    Okay, Every time I try to watch this show, it's just some boring teenager and his mom, so I turn it off. How am I missing the nekkid chick?
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    Image of bookling bookling
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    Everyone's hating this episode, but I really liked it, especially compared to the lameness that was the last episode. Also, Morena Baccarin is wonderfully lizardy. Did anyone else notice when she said "Skin him" there was a little hiss at the beginning? It was a little creepy.
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    11/25/09

    @bookling: I really liked it too. And the way she delivered the "skin him" line was creepy.

    I also like that the scale has been ramped up from the original mini-series. The whole invasion fleet seems so much more menacing.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    I wish they would have aired the "skinning". Maybe in the DVD version.
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    11/25/09

    @FrankenPC: Mm. Bad idea. Scenes like that are much more satisfyingly scary precisely because our voyeurism isn't satisfied. It's the Psycho effect. You want more of what you can't have and when it's implied rather than explicitly shown, the mind wonders how frakked up it must've been, making it even MORE scary.

    Plus if they'd shown it, we'd probably get a dose of sub-par ABC special effects which would totally ruin the mystique...
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    Image of moifauxmail moifauxmail
    11/25/09

    In reply to Do Some Naked Yoga And Let The Lizard Queen Soothe Your Worries
    Anyone else get the creepy crawlies when they started talking about vaccines? It was getting very Glenn Beck there for a minute.

    The show already had the weird Obama comparisons, now it's kind of anti-vaxx?

    I'm sure it's all just hackneyed story-telling, but man, I can see the crazies just glomming on to that.

    "See Martha, I tolds you, the vaccines are attempts by the Reploids to poison and control us."
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    11/26/09

    @moifauxmail: Yeah, that gave me the same angry twitchy feeling that the universal healthcare line from the pilot did.
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