So, when I got back from a week of travel, one of the first things I did was sit down to review the V pilot for Tor.com.

It was sort of lucky I waited until I got back, though, because my flight experience came in super-handy!

Last week, when the V pilot aired, I was far from home in a place without decent TV (the horror, the horror!).

Which reminds me: you know how you get a meal on an airplane, and it comes on a little tray just the size you expected, and all the food is wrapped tidily in little containers clearly labeled, and you eat it because it’s there, but by the time you land you can hardly remember what you ate, because there was nothing wrong with it, but it just didn’t taste like anything?

In totally unrelated news, I caught up with the V pilot.

Check out the rest over at Tor.com!

And further, slightly more political thoughts under the cut.

So, the aliens are good-looking, well-dressed, health-care-offering liars who are really big lying terrorist liars? SUBTLE.

And no joke, by the end of the pilot I would have been happy to watch the rest of the show from the Visitors’ point of view, because they at least have some depth, and everyone on the ground is right out of Central Casting. Alan Tudyk can come live in the spaceship, too, maybe.

(Seriously, when SCOTT WOLF is the most interesting actor in a group of actors, something is WRONG.)

Good luck to those who are watching; hope for your sake it improves.