{"id":624,"date":"2011-03-16T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2011-03-16T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/?p=624"},"modified":"2011-03-30T23:34:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T23:34:22","slug":"thoughts-on-v-mothers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2011\/03\/thoughts-on-v-mothers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on V: &#034;Mother&#039;s Day&#034;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/omgtylersdead-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"omgtylersdead\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/omgtylersdead-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/omgtylersdead.png 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>V&#039;s second season ended on a doozy, though I do have a few gripes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why didn&#039;t Evil Lisa need to wait for her breeding skin to develop?<\/li>\n<li>I don&#039;t like the FBI guys turning out to be Project Ares members. It could have worked, but I don&#039;t think it makes sense given their behaviour in the past. Felt rushed in. And even if it does, wow what a waste that Erica was hiding her work from them all this time! And, besides, the whole &#034;secret government organisation with large underground bunker and amazing logic-defying software&#034; thing is <i>really<\/i> tired now.<\/li>\n<li>Ryan&#039;s death was anti-climactic in the extreme.<\/li>\n<li>How on earth does one of those lizards fit into the human-sized skin suit?!<\/li>\n<li>And why is Anna going on about using emotion to manipulate humans when she&#039;s being doing that anyway <i>from the very start?<\/i><\/li>\n<li>The Fifth Column was <i>so<\/i> dumb to rely on Lisa to kill her mother. Duh. And to leave a mirror right in front of her chair. Duh.<\/li>\n<li>Why was Erica not affected by the global bliss? Do you get to ignore the film if you miss the opening credits sequence?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Everything else was great, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fast-moving story;<\/li>\n<li>Laura Vandervoort sex, yay (great acting too, btw);<\/li>\n<li>Lots of shake-ups;<\/li>\n<li>No more Tyler, yay;<\/li>\n<li>Now <i>that&#039;s<\/i> how you kill your mother;<\/li>\n<li>Jack was the only member of the team to stay true to his principles throughout, and now he&#039;s lost them to blissness&#8230; aww.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On and off, I&#039;ve been critical of this series despite watching it almost religiously every week, but I do hope that we&#039;ll get to watch a third season. Will we&#8230; won&#039;t we&#8230;? Up to you, ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>V&#039;s second season ended on a doozy, though I do have a few gripes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}