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I so want to like this thing. I really really do. I'll probably keep watching the whole season, the same way I'll probably keep watching FlashForward (which I also really want to like). The whole time I'll be waiting for the new season of LOST (2010!! Bastards!!) and looking forward to the re-do of The Prisoner.
The political parable that V is wrapped around is ham-fisted at its best moments, and downright embarrassing at its worst. I love some of the actors in this show, and I'm saddened by what the writers have put in their mouths.
I've 100% utterly and completely adored Morena Baccarin since my first time through Firefly. It's great to see her in something that flexes non-Inara muscles. She's creepy as fuck in this thing. She and Tudyk are really the only ones pulling it off, and in Tudyk's case, you can literally SEE him making the character work in spite of the writing. I dislike whats-her-name just as much as I dislike Juliet on LOST, and for the same reasons. Her unrelatability WORKS on Juliet, though; you're SUPPOSED to be unsure about Juliet. It doesn't work when she's the main female lead on a massive network drama. The priest dude (I know he's from another show too... anyone?) is being written in a way that substitutes waffling for three-dimensionality.
I generally wait until a show has got its stride before passing judgment, but a big expensive prestige show like this really has no excuse not to come out of the gate strong.
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