V: What? Barack Obama was a Flesh Eating Alien Reptile?

'V', a science fiction TV series airing on ABC, and a reboot of the campy 1980s series by the same name, has aired twice. 'V' is a wonderful show for the subtle satire against men on white horses, or in this case cute women in space ships.

One bright morning, a fleet of alien space ships appear over the cities of the world. A gorgeous young woman, played by Morena Baccarin of Firefly and Stargate SG1 fame, who calls herself 'Ana' and claims to be the leader of a race of benevolent aliens who have come to bring the benefits of the alien technology, including universal health care, to the benighted people of Earth.

Barack Obama could not have put it better himself.

Before one can say "hope and change" the nations of the world start rolling over for the aliens, or Vs as they are come to be called, like a collection of thirty dollar hookers. Even an ace reporter, of the sort who would never dream of being so accommodating to an Earthly politico, agrees to only throw Ana soft ball questions and generally be the aliens' flack on Earth, as long as he gets to do it his way.

Young people flock to the aliens' message of hope, change, peace, love, and free, universal health care. Earth's giddy youth is even recruited into a kind of Aliens' Auxiliary, complete with uniforms that look like East German track suits. All seems to be well with the world.

Except that it isn't. There are protests being conducted by people whom Bill Clinton would no doubt call "tea baggers" who don't trust the aliens and think that maybe a little freedom is being given up. These folks are despised as being fringe types. But as it turns out, the protesters don't know the half of it.

It seems that the Vs have been among us for years, fomenting trouble, infiltrating centers of power, softening us up for the main fleet, which is an invasion in disguise. And, by the way, the Vs are not human, but are in fact flesh eating reptiles disguised with cloned human epidermises. They mean to destroy us and loot our planet six ways from Sunday. V is not only a satire against Obama and everyone else on a white horse, but has added in some good, old fashioned Cold War style paranoia about the "enemy within."

Naturally V is going on hiatus shortly, until spring, for a little retooling and a change of show runner. But it will be fun while it lasts.

Source: V (2009), TV.Com