advanced race of alien attacks resistance cell.
1- sends some advanced SUPER VISIBLE flying equivalent of a shrapnel bomb
2- Rush like madmen with knives, yes, you heard that right, stupid knives.
How did they even manage to invent fire?
I really felt like they were in such a hurry that they had to make everything excessively straightforward. Too bad. I also think I could have written a better script with 2 fingers up my ass, but hey, I never say no to a sci fi flick
The 'leader of the aliens' lady displayed some great acting, perfect equilibrium of 'stereotypical warm human bodylanguage and a vague 'fake' vibe. I liked the very last scene of the first episode, when she's looking at new york from her spaceship and blinks, it was both perfectly 'normal' and somewhat reminiscent of 'a reptile'. (though I didn't like how it meant assuming that human experience of bodylanguages applies to an alien species)
The teenager visitors fan is the cliché everybody hoped to avoid but expected to see.
That whole bs theological 'but how can there be aliens and men in god's universe', i mean, get over the 15th century already. Using bad ethnocentered religious ideas to hint at the visitors not fitting their own picture or something just seemed quite dumb.
Also, while i get the old 'lizard men from space' theme fitted perfectly back in the heighties I'd have liked them to at least not basically hint at the Vs being evil 'because they don't really look exactly like humans'. Again, ethnocentered and stupid and somehow never bothers people until you use the 'racism' word and everybody starts screaming, green undertones and scales doesn't make them biblical snakes.
Even if they wanted to use the highly shaky idea that the Vs come from a similar environnement and that some biological law make the 'lizard-like sentient species' a quasi rule in the absence of extinction events; assuming ANY relevant shared traits between our perception of the our reptiles' and the personalities of the Vs would be like assuming we act and think like our long gone rodent ancestors, preposterous.