New Documentary on Obama (Not Really)

(David Gray / ABC)

That above is Morena Baccarin, the alien leader, Anna, in “V,” a series on ABC.

So?

Her slogan is: "We are of peace. Always."

Well, I read these reviews and somehow, I was reminded of the situation in a United States run by an administration headed by someone named Obama and could turn out to be a future documentary called "O".

Combined from here and here:-

A crowd gathers to gawk at a huge spaceship that has appeared in the sky over Manhattan. The bottom of the ship turns into a screen (à la “Blade Runner”) showing the leader of the alien visitors. She announces that they mean us no harm, that they just need some water and a mineral “common and abundant on Earth” before they shove off...[and] assures everyone in flawless English (and French and Egyptian) that "the Visitors" are here to offer technology in exchange for a few undisclosed but very renewable resources, and they come in peace.

Undone by relief, Anna's Audrey Hepburn haircut and the promise that the Visitors can cure 65 of our diseases, humans, or at least New Yorkers, neglect to consider that they are a renewable resource themselves. Like the gullible little oysters in "The Walrus and the Carpenter," they quickly embrace the "V's," signing up for theme-park-like tours of the ship and, of course, merchandising like crazy...The assembled New Yorkers digest this, look at one another — and start to applaud.

That’s an early scene in “V,” the new science-fiction series beginning on Tuesday on ABC, and the only logical reaction to it is: on what planet does that happen? Certainly not ours, where a more natural reaction would be “Who does she think she’s kidding?” or words to that effect.

...only an underground network of rebel humans suspects the visitors’ true intentions...The ideas in “V,” about alien encounters and mass delusion and media manipulation, are enticing...church attendance skyrockets, and young people flock to become alien-sponsored “peace ambassadors.”

...the show tries to provide topicality. The aliens’ promise to share their medical technology with the human race leads to a jarring reference to “universal health care.”...Anna and her crew seem to embody more of a Wall Street deregulated/Bernie Madoff mentality -- big returns for minimum investment. And we all know how that turns out...

...it's Chad who gets the clue to the real nature of the V's. Anna asks him to be her first interviewer only to insist that he not ask anything that might cast her in a bad light. Being a good-looking, ambitious newscaster in a television show, Chad, of course, agrees.

The original "V" drew obvious connections between the Visitors and the Nazis, and much has been made over the possible anti-Obama sentiment of this "V." The instant adoration, the attractiveness and rhetorical skills of Anna, the idea that the Visitors will woo us with universal healthcare and then destroy us all seem a right-wingish take on the president's ascendancy...

...Our collective longing for an effortless happy ending provided deus ex machina, whether by a political administration, a religious leader or a bunch of dulcet-toned aliens, is humanity's Achilles' heel.

What do you think?

Reality or alien?