5 Things I Hated About the Pilot
When I decided to write my own version of the pilot, I started with the things I hated and then, improved upon them. In general, I don't mind a creator going way outside of what is possible or even inventing some gadget whose sole purpose is to save on special effect costs, but when they have people or aliens doing dumb stuff, it shatters the story. For example:
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The Visitor ship slowly rolls up over the city catching everyone by surprise.
- How could the military, NASA, amateur astronomers, and most people in general miss 29, two-mile wide ships coming into the astrosphere and rolling across the country side until they park over the city of their choice? Couldn’t someone have picked up a phone? Shouldn’t there have been more than one lone jet sent out to meet these unknown ships?
We need water.
- Our astronauts have been making their own water since the Apollo program. Just take a little oxygen and hydrogen mix with electricity and you have water. It’s impossible to believe that a race advanced enough to build a faster-than-light-speed drive can’t make their own water.
Visitor Agents collecting C4.
- Why can’t they make their own? Are all these guys high school drop outs? Don’t the Visitor’s train their agents? Couldn’t they just Google it? And there are even better explosives out there like Astrolite.
The three week jump
- If you weren’t watching closely, in the middle of the episode, the story jumped ahead three weeks. (Right before Tyler and his friend rode the hopper to the main Visitor ship). It seems to me, the first few days after the Visitors arrivial would be the most exciting.
The big battle at the end
- Actually, I liked the big battle; the hovering seekers were a nice touch, but why did the Visitors want to kill everyone? With advance technology, surprise and superior numbers, it seemed to me they would want to capture as many as possible. Also, wasn’t Erica a little too quick to kill Dale? Were they both up for the same promotion or what?