V - Episode 2.02 - Serpent's Tooth - Review

After a steady come back last week V returned last night with the next episode of season 2 'Serpent's Tooth'.

The episode revolves around suicide bombers outside the Visitor centres. Erica and the FBI must find the people behind these bombings . Erica is taken hostage by her fellow FBI agent Sarita who is a Visitor. I think the writers were hoping this would be the "big reveal" of the episode when actually, we already knew she was a Visitor after deleting evidence last season. Chad warns Jack that Erica is in danger and we are left hanging.

We also learn that Anna has been keeping her mother prisoner while all the other Visitors believe she is dead. She needs her mother to tell her how to overcome human emotions. Diana explains to Anna that the soul is the centre of human emotion and that it can't be looked at from a scientific perspective. It is also revealed that Anna is going to be using Ryan's daughter to try and convince him to come back to the Visitors and leave the Fifth Column. She uses what Diana taught her about human souls to reach Ryan.

I didn't really take much to the soul story line. I found it a little tedious and it put me off the episode. I want V to do something new and exciting. This is sci-fi at the end of the day, there are no limitations. The ideas they have at the minute are very predictable and plain.

The episode felt slightly like a filler episode and I was disappointed, we didn't seem to move any further and with only eight episodes left of the season I was hoping for a quicker pace with the plot. Even so, the character development has been much better this season for me. We seen to be learning more about each character than we did last year. I love that Jack has gone back to his original character and is once again a Priest. We seemed to have lost that a bit towards the end of last season. I'm most interested to see what happens with Ryan and if he will stay loyal to the Fifth Column.

Let's hope next week we get back on track with the plot. It would be nice for V to get a season 3 and to do that, I think it really needs to try and make the plot more exciting and unpredictable. V can be very hit and miss for me, one episode can be brilliant, the next, not so good.