Lots of double-crossing and surprises were present in this final episode of V Season 1.12. Anna (Morena Bacarrin) is different from what we’ve seen leading up to this;, she is more vulnerable, off of her game and surprisingly emotional. We see the reins of power slip from her grasp and into Lisa’s as the episode ends with Anna screaming bloody murder and Lisa doing the tiny smile that her mom has been doing since forever. We also see the dreaded mystery ships summoned in episode 1.4, finally descend on Earth to do god knows what. We also get to see Jack (Joel Gretsch) finally leave the church – possibly ending one of the most worthless side stories in this show.
Starting with the still broken Ryan (Morris Chestnut) mulling over his pregnant girlfriend, he doesn’t know that a soldier had found the home of his doctor friend and had kidnapped Valerie (Laura Vandervoot). Anna, wanting to reclaim Ryan under her Bliss, sends word to him that they have Valerie and the hysterical Ryan charges the closest Visitor location and demands to be taken aboard to find her. Once aboard, the two are reunited (by Anna’s permission), Val tells him she is sorry and that she loves him and then he is asked to leave while they deliver the baby.
Tyler (Logan Huffman) tells his mom that Anna wishes an audience for dinner in order to discuss the “Live Aboard” program and his relationship with Lisa. Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) surprisingly accepts and uses the opportunity to plot a means of blowing up Anna’s soldier eggs. Hobbes creates a bomb that would remain undetected within her purse and before long the two mothers along with Tyler and Lisa are having dinner within Anna’s quarters. Oh Anna the writers forgot to give you a brain this episode hon.
Chad Decker (Scott Wolf), lap-dog and traitor to the human race, sets up Joshua and another Fifth Column contact onboard to get discovered and locked up by Anna’s guards. While imprisoned Joshua tells Chad where to go in order to find the truth and it leads him to discovering the horrible experiments being conducted within the red halls of the ship. Decker feels very much the idiot for trusting Anna and Lisa sneaks out from the dinner party in order to release Joshua and give Erica a blue energy grenade with which to blow up the eggs (Erica’s purse with Hobbes’ makeshift-bomb was confiscated by the guards earlier).
With Anna dining away with Tyler and Lisa and a diversion plotted and executed to distract her, Erica sneaks into the egg room and destroys them all. After dinner Anna orders Valerie killed and tells Ryan that she died during childbirth; consoling him and using his weakened state to bring him back into the influence of her bliss. Ryan is returned to Visitor status under Anna and she returns to check on the eggs that would become the army to take on the earth. Once the chaos dies down and Anna sees the remains of her eggs, she screams and bursts into tears of rage. Putting all logic to the side in place of anger, she summons the ships from orbit to enter the Earth’s atmosphere, an event which literally turns the sky red.
Highlights of V-Finale and My Personal Gripes/Likes
- Anna was out of character this episode, she was a flawless puppet master for 11 episodes only to allow a dangerous Erica to walk into her house and kill her eggs. This was disappointing for me as it makes a once scary Anna now seem vulnerable.
- Ryan who was one of the stronger characters in the beginning has been reduced to a stoic, weepy, shell of himself now turned back to Anna’s army. Did Morris Chestnut piss off one of the producers?
- Stephen bows to Lisa and calls her “my Queen” the same way that other Visitors show reverence to Anna. Is this a set-up for a possible royal feud in the future? I really liked that little added touch.
- In the end there are more ships than you can imagine descending on earth, this makes me look forward with great interest to Season 2 and a possible Terminator caliber resistance.
- Marcus in the end confused me with his resurrecting of Joshua… did he do it to torture him for Anna or is he the ultimate Fifth Column contact?
Written by Greg Dragon – who has written 365 reviews on Spicy Movie Dogs.
Cinephile and opinion writer, Greg Dragon has been a fan of movies since the 80's when Kung Fu theater was all the rage and Roger Moore was James Bond. As an opinion writer that has reviewed Box Office releases on a number of prominent websites, Greg is the founder and lead critic of Spicy Movie Dogs.
