SgtMathias

This came up in an episode thread a few weeks ago, which made me check IMDB: Jennifer Connelly is starring in the Top Gun sequel with Tom Hanks that comes out in two months. I don't know how big her role is, but that would certainly explain her absence.

That was just a painful reminder of what we lost. Melanie was the only really interesting character, played by the best actress - and they killed her of. I don't need any more of hallucination-Melanie.

Usually, SciFi shows take three or four seasons until they run out of ideas and decide to pull a Starbuck. I'm not fond of the not-really-dead! Scifi trope, and making this move in the first season's finale makes it worse: what are you going to use to create drama in the future, if the most dramatic card possible - the death of your main character - has already been played? Also, the ubersynth's were dissapointing. Still, it was better than Discovery, even if you ignore the nostalgia factor.

Wasn't that immediately followed by a conversation with Eve where she explains that Eve makes her feel things? Even in the pilot we were shown that V and Konstantin have some kind of relationship. A badly messed up relationship maybe, but still a relationship. Psychopaths don't have real relationships, they're not capable of that. You don't need to be a psychopath to do horrible things. I'm not saying V is not a bad person, I'm just saying she's not really a psychopath IMHO. I'd say the show has consistently depicted V as a very interesting, funny and ruthless asshole.

I'm not sure the show is depicting V as a psychopath, at least not if you apply the definition the show itself has given us when the psychiatrist briefed Eve's team about psychopaths - IIRC, he basically said: "no feelings, no empathy". V is shown as having feelings - lots of feelings, actually. There was a (very warped) version of empathy when she mercy-killed that boy in the hospital, there's despair including actual crying when she feels like Eve has lost interest, we've seen her angry lots of times, she was delighted to see that Konstantin was still alive... Her moral compass is definitely off, and she can be a stone cold bitch if necessary. But to me, she's more of a spoiled brat with lots of mommy/daddy (or lack thereof) issues than a psychopath...

Glenn might have been a nerd in a former (pre ZA) life, but I don't think he was ever portrayed as a 'nerdboy' on the show. Quite the contrary: he was shown to be smart, cunning and resourceful. He's the one who saved Rick's ass in the first episode, wasn't he?

NXIVM is not a sex cult, it's a marketing company selling very expensive 'seminars' - i.e. it's a scam where rich people are convinced to pay thousands of dollars for stupid 'success programs' to improve their life. Some female members of NXIVM were also recruited for a rather extreme sex cult ran by NXIVM's founder, but NXIVM and the sex cult were not directly related. Grace Park was a member of the former, but not the latter. She didn't do a "recruitment video", but several videotaped interviews with the company's founder, which were posted to the net for advertisement purposes. She tried to have these clips taken down in 2017, which suggests she's done with NXIVM. I'm not following this too closely, but what I heard about her involvement makes me question her intelligence more than her ethics. As for the pilot: I did like most of the actors, especially James Roday - who I couldn't imagine in a role like this before, but he's spot on. A bit too much drama and mystery going on, but it was a pilot, so let's cut it some slack. I'll keep watching.