Frank Bach: "Gentlemen, our mission has to change from just following Loengard around to actually fighting aliens."
OK, I understand the Hive would benefit from humans being disunited because of racial confrontations and weak to fight an alien invasion, but at the same time the black reverend told the racist guy the Hive made them all equal. Wouldn't it make sense if the Hive started possessing people of both races and making a united implanted/slave front? They could even instruct their Hive members to act out and keep stimulating racial confrontations. Or are there many more throwbacks than people they can actually implant? If that's the case, I'd say that's the case of a very incompetent invasion front. I mean, you should only decide to possess an alien population if you know you can implant a significant amount of them, preferably most of them.
And what's the deal of "touching the light" anyway? I thought they took over a human body by implanting one of those nasty bugs inside a fellow, so what about the light? What gives?
By the way, remember Aeden Bennett, from Journeyman?
Back in the 1960s, it was very easy to fool the authorities with fake FBI credentials. I bet it still is. It's not, like, they're, I don't know, trained to spot this kind of fraud. I mean, if you can't trust a man's word, we've lost the war already.
I think the racist guy in shackles in the basement actually would benefit from some Hive implantation. He certainly needs some attitude adjustment. Besides, he's just too annoying. Not just because he was racist, but because he was incredibly stupid. On the other had, the implanted reverend keeps a cool demeanor. Actually, the Hive could go legit, and have their own political party. "Vote for The Hive. We promise to end racism, crime and injustice and deliver soothing equality for all. We are your every solution." (OK, minus the evil laugh, that was unnecessary.) As John Lennon (who may not have been Hive, but Yoko certainly was) once said, "imagine all the people..."
Hey, why doesn't Bach's team have a single black agent?
"I am J. Edgar Hoover, damn it, in case you haven't read the subtitles."
What was in the manila envelope? Pictures of Hoover in a skirt? And are vacuum cleaners called hoovers because they suck? (No, that joke sucked...)
TV is culture. Watching Day Break I learned the difference between a threat and an example. Now, with Dark Skies, I know the difference between a church and a liability.
OK, the problem here is that we all know racism is so obviously wrong, so it becomes a sort of moot point to have that as the lesson of the day. And it becomes harder to take the lesson seriously when the racist guy is shown to be someone so damned stupid and enraged. I mean, the guy was implanted with a horrible alien creature, receiving help, and still couldn't forget his racist agenda. I mean, couldn't he at least be smart enough to pretend to put those issues aside? But it was an OK episode from a revisionist history point of view, and perhaps someone with a closer identification with the situation in the American South would feel more involved in the story. I give this episode 6 laughing reverends.
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