History Series / V2009

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler: Very nearly. Ryan is dead, Tyler is dead, Hobbes is missing, and Chad's cover has been blown...]]

* UncannyValley: In a lot of shots, the Visitors are digitally airbrushed to remove their skin of imperfections. The effects, however, make them look too good to be true--like they're all made of plastic--[[FridgeBrilliance which is exactly what]] [[InvokedTrope is intended]].

** The DNA of Vs has become 1000 times more complex over the span of 50 years. The scientist claims that that surge in complexity should have taken 5000 years. Based on what? He doesn't know enough about V evolution to deduce that pattern from their history and if he's basing it off life on Earth then he's just plain wrong. Anatomically Modern Humans have been around for about 200,000 years, that means our genes have not changed much since then. If Vs separated by 50 years have that much difference in their genetic complexity, not only would they no longer be the same species, they probably wouldn't even be in the same biological kingdom. Somewhat justified by the V's evolution being artifical and designed to take genes from other species to improve their own duriablity, resistance to disease, etc.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Vancouver for New York.

* NotSoDifferent:
** The episode "Laid Bare" has both sides of the war doing similarly [[BlackAndGreyMorality questionable acts]] in order to accomplish their goals. These acts are the [[LaResistance protagonists]] [[spoiler: torturing and subsequent killing of Malik for information]] and [[BigBad Anna]] [[spoiler: having [[RebelliousPrincess Lisa]] kill a test subject to "extract a human soul."]]
** Mentioned in "Mother's Day" by both Erica and Lisa.

* SnakesAreSinister: Anna, the leader of the Visitors in the reboot as played by Morena Baccarin, has some noticeable serpentine features, such as very short hair, a long neck, and a very slender frame. Of course, underneath her human skin she's really a member of TheReptilians.

* YouKeepUsingThatWord: A Fifth Column is a group within a larger group who sides with an outside group against their own group's interests. In the original series the phrase was rightfully used to describe the Visitors who helped the human resistance fight their leaders. In this series, however, it's used to refer to anyone (human or Visitor) who is fighting against the Visitors. It is possibly a case of TheArtifact for the human resistance, who more-or-less adopt the name for themselves after the Visitors begin a PR blitz to discredit the human resistance and the actual Visitor Fifth Columnist in one broad stroke by conflating together. The problem is that the majority of the humans don't know that there are Visitors within the Fifth Column.

* RebelliousPrincess: Lisa, who [[spoiler: is now [[ReverseMole secretly]] fighting alongside the [[LaResistance protagonists]]]].

* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler:Since this show [[http://tv.ign.com/articles/116/1167653p1.html won't get a third season]], "Mother's Day" was ''indeed'' a good day for Anna.]]

** The episode ''Laid Bare'' had the extreme misfortune to air 10 days after the Tucson shooting that led to the deaths of six people and congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords being hospitalized. There was considerable media buzz following the shooting and many accused right-wing pundits like Radio/GlennBeck and UsefulNotes/SarahPalin of encouraging violent behavior through rhetoric. Keeping this in mind, ''Laid Bare'' has a scene involving a [[spoiler: fake]] relative of a victim of an anti-V suicide bomb blaming ''protagonist'' Jack's rhetoric for the bombing. Of course, this episode aired [[TooSoon so soon]] after the tragedy that it was obviously completed before it occurred, making this a case of ''extremely'' bad timing.

* OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler:Erica]] does a variation with the blue energy "freeze ball" grenade in the season one finale. Which was pretty [[{{Narm}} Narmish]] considering the ConspicuousCG.

* ConspicuousCG: You just ''know'' that the mothership is a green-screen backdrop... somehow. Inside the ship, most of the time, nobody and nothing casts shadows. The glimpses of the Vs beneath their human skins haven't been terribly impressive either.

* FiveBadBand: For the V camp.
** [[BigBad The Big Bad]]: Anna
** TheDragon: Marcus
** TheBrute: The V Soldiers
** [[EvilGenius The Evil Dumbass]]: Chad Decker
** TheDarkChick / TokenGoodTeammate: Lisa
** [[SixthRangerTraitor The]] [[strike:Sixth]] [[SixthRangerTraitor Fifth Ranger Traitor]]: Joshua
** [[TagAlongKid The Tag Along Kid]]: Tyler -- a rare case of the ''villains'' getting their own TagAlongKid, but that's just because he's TooDumbToLive.

Stars [[Series/{{Lost}} Elizabeth Mitchell]] as Erica Evans and has [[{{Series/Firefly}} Morena Baccarin]] as Anna, in a role equivalent to Diana's in the original.

* PostponedQuestion: In "We Can't Win", Anna's number 2 asks her near the end of the episode why they were giving humans blue energy. Also counts as ViewersAreMorons, because there's no way we could have figured out ourselves why an invading hostile-masquerading-as-friendly culture would possibly want to make us dependent on them for our energy needs.

* AlienInvasion

** Anna's mother, Diana, is played by [[Series/{{V 1983}} Jane Badler]].

** Erica's dream sequence in "Red Rain" has her walking through [[FlashForward2009 a city full of bodies and crashed cars.]]

* FollowTheLeader: Arguable, the ''[[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 BSG]]'' parallels are noticeable, but it's more the concept of the reboot (an old Sci-Fi series reworked for greater political relevance and additional religious themes) than the core pitch of the shows themselves.

* SnakesAreSinister: Anna, the leader of the Visitors in the reboot as played by Morena Baccarin, has some noticeable serpentine features, such as very short hair and a very slender frame. Of course, underneath her human skin she's really a member of TheReptilians.

** The episode ''Laid Bare'' had the extreme misfortune to air 10 days after the Tucson shooting that led to the deaths of six people and congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords being hospitalized. There was considerable media buzz following the shooting and many accused right-wing pundits like GlennBeck and SarahPalin of encouraging violent behavior through rhetoric. Keeping this in mind, ''Laid Bare'' has a scene involving a [[spoiler: fake]] relative of a victim of an anti-V suicide bomb blaming ''protagonist'' Jack's rhetoric for the bombing. Of course, this episode aired [[TooSoon so soon]] after the tragedy that it was obviously completed before it occurred, making this a case of ''extremely'' bad timing.

* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Decker comments at his first meeting with the Visitors that they are all what humans would consider attractive; he asks if there are any ugly Vs. Anna makes the charming "You're not so bad yourself" rejoinder, which means the Visitors could very well be GenreSavvy enough to know humans react positively to that which they find attractive. And that they would not react well to finding out that Visitors are reptiles underneath.

* TakeThat: A kid remarks upon seeing the Vs spaceships for the first time, "Dude, this ''is'' ''Film/IndependenceDay''", to which his pal [[GenreSavvy responds]], "[[OlderThanTheyThink which itself was a ripoff of any number of alien invasion films]]."

** Then there's [[spoiler:Project Aries]]. [[spoiler:Their base is specifically stated to be built deep enough below ground to survive the impact of the New York mothership both crashing and exploding if it was ever hypothetically shot down somehow]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything?:

* ViewersAreMorons: For the premise of the show to work the writers are assuming that people worldwide aren't asking common sense questions.