Getting Further into "V"

I guess this show is ever so slightly more intelligent than I initially gave it credit for, but I'm still not buying a lot of it. A number of characters are also questioning the sincerity of the message of the Visitors, but the majority of planet earth seems to be buying what they're selling. I really honestly hope this isn't the world we live in, in which people just go ahead and buy into obvious lies. My opinion of the aliens hasn't changed since the beginning of the show. It's obvious that they're not telling the truth, and the fact is, these aliens are pretty bad at it. And yet, we get scene after scene of people getting duped by the aliens.

And once again, why do the aliens look like humans? If they can cross the galaxy, then it stands to reason that they can assume the forms of humans if they want to. It's even plausible that they might think this is a good idea for their spokesperson, but apparently all the aliens are indistinguishable from humans. There's really no reason or explanation for that. And how would you even manage to get an entire population of aliens to consent to having their forms altered to look like humans? If would be like telling a small country, say Luxembourg, "okay, from now on you are all going to have the form of a small dog."

I noticed an interesting commentary on the media, which I think is worth noting, and may be a clue to the point of the whole show. That is to say, it's a commentary on the media game and how that is played.

The alien spokeswoman decides that she wants to do an interview for earth media, so she chooses an ambitious-yet-hapless young reporter who asks silly questions like "how come you're so beautiful, Mrs. Alien-lady?" from an ambitious, small, and hapless news organization that will do anything to get access to a big interview like the Alien Queen. It's really weird how the Alien Queen suddenly got media-savvy, when the aliens have been getting so many other things blatantly wrong. Maybe it's just luck that the aliens happen to also have a media culture like ours. Or it might be a case of convergent evolution, if you will, the same way a dolphin and a shark evolved similar body types through distinct evolutionary paths.

However savvy she might be, she's also brutally clear about her desires for being portrayed in a positive light. Again, so much so, that she appears to be playing the human game a little bit wrongly. She refuses to give any interview unless she can be promised that she'll only get easy questions.

Again though, what I don't get about the aliens is why they're playing the Public Relations game so aggressively. You'd think if you had access to alien technology and alien lifespans (how did they cross the galaxy if they aren't incredibly long-lived?) they'd have all the time and confidence in the world about being perceived in a good light. And any little problems, like protesters in the streets, are problems for local human government, not a concern for the aliens. And they will eventually go away as society adapts.

Or perhaps this is the message of the show. Society never really adapts. We've been changing our society at an increasingly rapid pace over the last, let's say 200 years, since the industrial revolution. And still we have troubles like terrorism, corruption, ignorance, and so on. Maybe we'll never really adapt to a truly modern society. In some ways, this is a horrible thought, because it means we will have to deal with a 9/11 every couple of years. In other ways, it is a check on the steady advance of corrupt leaders.