[chator]

PLEASE EXCUSE THE RANT! It's been two episodes already and I don't really get why the Visitors are supposed to be the bad guys. Sure, there's the Reptilian skin, the snakey nature of how they hide their identities with a human appearance, but can you really blame them? Look at human history for a sampling of how we treat people that look different from us. What have they done for humanity? Cured the sick and created a sense of oneness among humans. In exchange for acceptance, trust-sounds reasonable. So their leader doesn't like being asked tough questions, who does? They monitor phone calls, TV programming, so does the government. They have moles in our government and society, foreign governments still spy also, and so do domestic security agencies. They dislike protestors and resistance fighters, so do corporations. I guess my point here is I really don't find these Visitors all that alien or menacing, despite the creepy music. They haven't blown up major cities and taken what they want like humans have in the past. What have they really done that makes them baddies any worse than the baddies in a non-alien world? The show hasn't effectively made the case that these Visitors are bad guys, or any worse than the existing bad guys in our world, IMO.