avatar & v

I've been watching V, the abc mini series although it seems to get slower and less interesting every week. Slowness occurs when the anticipations take too long to be fulfilled or even worse, when we don't know what we're supposed to be anticipating. In this case, we're eight or so episodes into the thing and we still don't know what the Vs want or what the resistance is trying to do.

The original V was a metaphor for World War II. The current V is like the flip side of Avatar. Avatar tells the story of the colonization of a planet from the perspective of the colonizers. V is the story of what it is like to be colonized. The Vs are technologically advanced, god-like. But we know they want something from us. The experience of being colonized is interesting and could make for a good story arc but the current V doesn't know exactly what it wants to be.