Miraculously, ABC decided to renew V despite flagging ratings and boring episodes. My guess is that the slight improvements in two consecutive weeks was able to push the ABC executives to keep the show. Realistically there's not much hope for the show in the ratings or creatively next season. The ratings again dropped this week, and without Lost as a lead-in, it's sure to do worse.
"Red Sky" was a drawn out slog finally leading to Erica destroying most of the eggs. In the ensuing aftermath, Anna goes crazy, showing real emotional--raw anger--for perhaps the first time in the series. There's been a mystique about Anna almost holding her at a distance from the viewers, making her into something completely inhuman, because she is so cold and calculating, and she finally shows more than the planning or cold-hearted execution. She releases the "red sky" upon the world.
Ooooohhh!! Pretty colors. Other than that, lame.
Val dies after giving birth to the baby, who we still haven't seen. A death would usually mean something, but Val was such a non-factor that I didn't even blink me eye. Anna uses that to draw Ryan back into her sphere. It's kind of ridiculous how little the Visitors know about everything, even things that occur on their own ship. Erica and Hobbes regularly does Fifth Column things under their nose, and the Visitors are totally clueless. People can go on a rampage in the ship and run off without being caught. Can't technologically advanced aliens be...smart?
The season finale did provide some interesting movements that may or may not pay off. Considering what happened in the second half of this season, I'm leaning heavily towards the will not pay off category. The writers have yet to prove themselves, but I'll give them another chance.
Score: 7.5/10
