Plots and Missing Scenes

This is Steven Petrick posting.

One of the annoying things in TV shows is ill thought out plots. Things that should have a scene or two of exposition to clean up, and thus make the presentation more internally consistent.

An example of this is "V".

The members of "the resistance" are continually hampered by not knowing why the "visitors" are here, or what their technology is capable of doing.

So, where is the scene where the FBI agent turns to Ryan and says "Why are you visitors here?"

And after finding out about what has been done to her and her son, why has she not asked Ryan "Why" at that point?

If Ryan does not know, we should at least have a scene where the question is asked and he says he does not know why Anna brought her ships to Earth. And yet, clearly Ryan did know "something" since he tried to protect his pregnant wife from Anna.

To me, this is a major disconnect. Early in the show when it was revealed that Ryan is "one of them", why was he not immediately sat down and debriefed?

And why is Ryan not kept sitting someplace while he explains what V technology can, and as important cannot, do?

You could have had a scene where Ryan is asked and replies: "I do not know. I am just a low level {soldier/agent/whatever). I was sent here to gather specific information about this planet, including but not limited to its flora and fauna. I have no idea why. But here is a copy of the information I was sent to gather. Maybe you can find someone who can figure out if there is a pattern. I know there are other agents on the planet, but they will be in the same position as myself. Ordered to gather specific information, or infiltrate specific organizations, but not knowing why. Only Anna and her top commanders and staff will know the reasons." At that point we would be primed with the knowledge that Ryan is as much in the dark about why Anna has come to Earth as the defenders, and anyone Ryan subsequently reveals as a fellow agent can be expected to also not know the master plan.

The resistance, of course, then gains a mission to try to capture one of Anna's staff or commanders in order to find out the answers, and they can legitimately be working in the dark. Finding bits and pieces (kidnapping of homeless people, experimenting on the "liveaboards", etc.) and slowly piecing things together.

But never asking Ryan these questions? This ruins much of the show for me because I cannot grasp not exploiting an intelligence resource, which is what Ryan is until he is found out not to be such.