please, please, please keep these things evil...
Please, please, please keep these demons/aliens/body snatchers/whatever they are completely evil. I'm a little afraid with the explanation we got this past episode (spoilers ahead if you haven't caught up to ep 8) that these things are going to straddle some lame "we're good guys" line.
So, Sydney character's explanation for the terrible crimes the other entities were doing was that "the first few days are rough." Add to that what the newly exorcised trucker guy told the reverend at the start of the episode, "I was taught that being touche by the devil was a bad thing, but, Reverend, I wasn't afraid...I was filled with warmth" or something along those lines. Then, there's the wife of the fireman who is being painted as this perfect merger between entity and host. All is happy and right with them, so why exorcise these things, right?
Ugh.
I do not care for a we just want to live in peace and harmony with human hosts bull**** storyline...if that is where the writers are going.
I think that's the worst and cheapest kind of twist in this genre. I've seen it too many times, and each time, it makes for a boring, long-winded, circuitous story with neither villains nor heroes.
Keep it simple, writers. Give us a baddie. Make them do bad stuff. Then have the hero do what the hero needs to do - eliminate said baddie doing bad things. We have enough drama and existential "what is evil?" crises in the real world already. So, please, for the sake of classic storytelling and on behalf of my fellow horror fans everywhere, don't pee in my genre and tell me it adds "layers", okay?