Threshold: Revelations

I think if we were to use a phrase that would be the moral for tonight's episode - hell, maybe even the entire series - we'd have to take it from a very popular show from a few years ago: "Trust No One." Seriously, don't trust anybody. Don't trust security men, even if they have little earphones in their ears, because they might be aliens. And don't trust sweet little moms who donate to churches and serve you tea in nice china cups, because she might suddenly appear in the room with a shotgun like an action hero and attempt to blow you away.

Look, I have no doubt that our heroes are very smart people, with degrees from accredited universities and serious looks on their faces, but they've got to understand that these are aliens that can look like anyone! Isn't it time they routinely test people to see if they've been infected? Especially if odd things start happening or someone asks you to meet you alone in a weird area at a weird time? 

I love how the show is progressing little by little, showing new schemes by the aliens, and showing what Threshold is learning in their fight against the invasion. A few episodes ago they didn't have any weapons against them (shooting them didn't work, punching them didn't work), but now they have those neat electronic pulse bullets or whatever the hell they are, and that's a neat thing for the show to come up with, because it would have been silly for the good guys to keep constantly shooting the aliens with bullets over and over and over again, like in so many monster movies in the past 50 years.

I also like how that infected ship in the pilot episode keeps popping up and is really driving the entire plot of the show. It gives the show something to focus on while still having semi-contained "plot of the week" episodes.

(By the way, check out The Writer's Grotto, a blog kept by the show's creative team at cbs.com.)