After watching the second episode, I feel a little bit let down. I had high hopes for the remake but there were many elements of the second episode that seems all too predictable.
(Possible spoilers below for those who haven't watched it yet.....)
Let's take some things into consideration...
- Really, was anybody surprised when Erica's partner in disguise, Dale, showed up at the end alive & well? Especially after her comment of thinking that "... he'll never show his face again" to her boss?
- In order to save the woman he loves, Ryan must let her go. Nope, didn't see that one coming.
- Tyler, Erica's son, is being misguided to follow the Visitors as a result of being attracted to a V. "Hey, look! I'm young and she's attractive so I'll disregard what my Mom, the FBI agent, tells me and I'll secretly support the visitors! Wheee!"
- Father Jack is starting to question his faith. Are there any leading characters in a genre work who were religious men and haven't questioned their faith? HHhmm....
- The Vs are secretly in control of our telecommunications network. So, wait... one guy on a ship is monitoring every public phone in the city and just happens to immediately answer the one from our erstwhile hero, Erica? OK, now I'll grant the writers this one.... maybe the Vs had the smarts to know that they were going to have a secret assassin group in the area and co-ordinated with the guy by himself on the ship to intercept any communications in the area. But I'll bet a virtual bottle of birch beer that was not the case.
- The Vs have been amongst us for years and are secretly in key positions around the world; they could be anybody, anywhere. I wonder if any of the writers ever watched a little movie with Rowdy Roddy Piper? I keep waiting for somebody to find a pair of sunglasses in an alley.
OK, maybe I'm being too cynical but I was expecting something fresh from this series.... don't know what exactly, but certainly not the list of standard cliches seen time & time again.