Tonight’s episode of V ***SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t watched it yet*** was a season finale that did a lot of interesting things, including some of the plots and machinations that had already been underway. But it did more than that – it killed off an incredible number of familiar characters, and offered some surprising new directions for the show to go in, if it gets renewed for another season. http://www.hulu.com/embed/BB2HR7x4_7ujoGUUuGoN6A
I am not sure why there seems to be this trend of ‘rebooting’ a show from a couple of decades ago, and then casting original cast members. But if the tendency to cast them against type is anything to go by, and if V gets renewed for another season, then Lars Tremont is probably not going to be a likeable, trustworthy or heroic sort of guy.
The season finale contained a fair bit of God-talk, with Jack Landry being told by Anna that she hopes to meet this God he trust so confidently (presumably showing once again her cluelessness about human spirituality), then praised by Erica Evans for not having compromised his faith and values, and then facing what may be the ultimate test of his faith: Bliss, offered not by a spiritual deity but by a human-visitor hybrid whom Anna describes as a “miracle.”Which brings us back to something he said early in the show: he looks up at the sky and instead of seeing God, he sees mother ships. Perhaps it has been a long time since anyone on Earth looked up at the sky and literally thought they saw God. But perhaps the best thing traditional faith can offer us is the conviction that, if a powerful alien presence swoops down from the heavens and offers to be our saviors, they are not “God” any more than we are.
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