V - Red Sky, S01E12 - Season Finale

I am pleased as punch that V has been renewed. While this episode was a most excellent cliffhanger, leaving me excited for its return and full of questions, I would have been most angry if that had been the end of it. But there will be more! YAY.

The episode started with a rather hasty capturing of Val (Lourdes Benedicto), which left her doctor still alive. I guess someone had to contact Ryan (Morris Chestnut). He, brave and stupid man that he is, immediately went to the ship, crying "Anna has my baby. Let me on the ship!" It was fantastic. Of course, Val had the baby, then Anna (Morena Baccarin) killed her, and used Ryan's pain and paternal instincts to win him back to her side. We'll see how that cross over affects the 5th Column next season.

While Ryan took that course, the rest of our heroes planned to destroy all of Anna's soldier eggs when Erica (Elizabeth Mitchell) and Tyler (Logan Huffman) joined Anna and Lisa (Laura Vandervoort) in the ship for dinner. Lisa, learning of the plan from Joshua (Mark Hildreth), wasn't sure she could betray her mother, but when the time came, she chose the humans. The moment where Joshua acknowledged her as his queen before going off to sacrifice himself was particularly touching.

Oh, yes, Father Jack (Joel Gretsch) decided to trust Chad (Scott Wolf) again. It didn't work out well the last time, and this time was even worse. He got Joshua captured and betrayed all of the 5th Column on the ship (except Lisa of course). Sure, Joshua has now managed to convince him that the V are NOT of peace, but it was a costly lesson. Frankly, I wish someone had just shot him in the head as an anti-V move a long time ago. We'll have to see if he improves at all next season.

So Erica managed to destroy the eggs, but then had to shoot Joshua to push her beyond suspicion. Obviously she didn't want to kill him but it was a necessary action. I was quite crushed at the idea of him not returning next season, but there is no need to fear as Marcus (Christopher Shyer) resurrected him.

What is the deal with Marcus? On the one hand, he's manipulating Hobbs (Charles Mesure) into doing what he wants - which is infiltrating the 5th Column apparently, and on the other hand he's bringing back Joshua and trying to stop Anna from enacting part of her evil plan (which made the skies red at the end of the episode). Now, it's possible that he's 5th Column. It is also possible that he simply didn't want Anna to move too quickly, and that he brought Joshua back so that he could question him. It's just that his "Welcome back, Joshua," didn't sound ominous. It sounded friendly. But he's a V...so he may just not have the proper handle on emotions.

And speaking of not having a handle on emotions, Morena Baccarin did a wonderful job feeling such powerful grief over the loss of her soldiers. Her pain, her screams, were beautifully done, and her vengeful reaction is going to make next season a lot of fun.

Clearly, this show has earned it's right to be renewed, and it will prove that next season, too.