2.9 Devil In A Blue Dress The Bliss that Anna uses to control the Visitors causes violent pain to the humans. However, thanks to Ryan’s baby, Anna knows that there’s a certain frequency of Bliss that doesn’t cause humans to thrash around and shriek, even though it’s nearly fatal for her to use it. Of course, that’s not going to stop her from expanding her plans, but she’s got someone she needs to Bliss up first before she takes on the rest of the world, and that’s Tyler. Meanwhile, the Concordia Project is steaming along nicely. Anna gets to even do a big launch for the project, and everyone claps and cheers, except for the Fifth Column. They realize that 530-something new blue energy reactors is probably a bad sign. But they don’t know what Anna’s up to until Science Sid has the brilliant idea of actually examining blue energy and what it does. That’s where Erica and company get the great idea. Remember Three Mile Island? Well, why not create a Three Mile Island featuring blue energy reactors! It’s actually the first really good idea the Fifth Column have had since their idea to assassinate Anna. (Seemingly, they’ve dropped all those ideas lately, since Anna does a public presser and nobody’s there to plug her.) However, the issue is that nobody really understands how blue energy works except for the Visitors. So, their plan to destroy the blue energy reactor and cause a leak is more like, ahem, constructing a massive atomic bomb in the middle of New York. Or possibly, anyway. Amazingly, the only things that have spiked the interest in the show have been Elizabeth Mitchell’s two hidden talents and the slap heard round ABC. (Everyone still loves the slapping of Tyler even weeks afterward.) Anna’s able to Bliss humans, which gives her a serious weapon against humanity. Meanwhile, the Fifth Column are getting more bold and more splintered by the need for big action versus the desire not to leave wide swaths of innocent victims in their wake. Meanwhile, Diana and Lisa have been having family bonding moments, as Diana is using her knowledge of humans and Anna to give Lisa tips to give to the Fifth Column. She knows that Anna is getting more dangerous as time is getting shorter. Speaking of time getting shorter, it looks as though the time of the show is getting shorter and shorter as well. Everything seems to be coming to a head for a good season finale, but not a series finale. Given that pretty much all the metrics seem to indicate that V won’t be coming back for a third season (no matter what might happen with this season or ABC’s other hour-long dramas), I’m not sure how they can wrap things up easily. They’ve done a great job of establishing the invasion fleet and just how insidious the visitors are, but all that stuff about the soul and humanity seems to have distracted the show from doing something like, I don’t know, getting to the war between aliens and humans this season, rather than next season. ABC’s lack of successful new shows this year is also working in V‘s favor, but even with a reduced budget and streamlined special effects, it seems like V is a show that costs too much to keep making. I really want there to be more episodes of the show, but the fact that everyone seems to have decided that it’s going to be gone by this time next year has really taken the wind out of my sails when it comes to actually reviewing or getting around to watching the episodes. When there’s no real future, it’s tough to stay motivated. US Correspondent Ron Hogan would like another season of V, but he knows that’s unlikely. Find more by Ron daily at Shaktronics and PopFi. Follow Den Of Geek on Twitter right here.
