I don’t know… last I remembered, the first miniseries ended with the world knowing that the aliens wanted to turn humans into cattle and the resistance spreading the “red dust” across the entire planet.
Interested to see how they manage to go from that back to people believing that the aliens are our friends.
When I was a kid, I thought V was the best thing ever to hit the TV screen. Been 15 years since the last time I saw it (NBC kept rerunning it every few years), so don’t know how it stands up now-a-days.
Ditto. While it did not age well, I still remember the build up and shock when the 2 babies were born. Robert Englund as the sympathetic alien. The Beastmaster (Marc Singer) as the square-jawed hero. The cranky, but soft hearted resistance leader played by that character actor whose name escapes me. That cute little blonde girl who, through the miracle of accelerated growth, is born and saves the world within the mini-series. Great show.
I think they tried to do a series, it sucked, and was cancelled after a season or two.
I thought it was a mediocre collection of hackneyed B-movie SF cliches wrapped up in bad acting and poor direction. But in an industry that will bring back Battlestar Galactica, I guess this sort of thing is inevitable.
TV science fiction needs another J. Michael Straczynski. But that probably won’t happen again.
I thought it was a mediocre collection of hackneyed B-movie SF cliches wrapped up in bad acting and poor direction. But in an industry that will bring back Battlestar Galactica, I guess this sort of thing is inevitable.
TV science fiction needs another J. Michael Straczynski. But that probably won’t happen again.[/quote]
Just as a frame of reference, how old were you when you first saw it? I imagine I was much more forgiving when I was 13 or 14 and, chances are, I will hate an updated version.
I thought it was a mediocre collection of hackneyed B-movie SF cliches wrapped up in bad acting and poor direction. But in an industry that will bring back Battlestar Galactica, I guess this sort of thing is inevitable.
TV science fiction needs another J. Michael Straczynski. But that probably won’t happen again.[/quote]
Just as a frame of reference, how old were you when you first saw it? I imagine I was much more forgiving when I was 13 or 14 and, chances are, I will hate an updated version.[/quote]
I was in my mid-twenties.
My real problem, though, is that I’d seen a ton of older SF movies, plus read a lot of SF books. There were no new ideas in V, save for the mildy entertaining way they set it up in the first couple of episodes. The rest of it was just a collection of cliches.
Having said that, a collection of old SF cliches well executed can be fun (Aliens is a good example). But I felt that V was poorly written and poorly acted.
But being 13 makes a big difference. Isaac Asimov once wrote, “Everyone has a golden age, and that age is 12.” There are movies that I remember very fondly from my teens that I would think are terrible today.
Ahhhh. That makes sense, then. Books were like Kryptonite to me and had not seen much sci-fi at that point. I did read a lot of Bradbury, but not sure if that was pre- or post-V.
I thought V was the cat’s meow as a kid, but I’ve seen some old clips of it floating around the net and when I look at the show now, I cringe at how cheesy it is. The alien baby thing was pretty fucked up, but they didn’t develop that as well as they could have.
I loved V when it was first on (I was 13), but even then I noticed that some of the writing and effects were pretty bad (although I thought the alien makeup was pretty good). For example, I remember one part where the hero guy has been captured, and he’s in his cell and tries to commit suicide somehow (like taking a cyanide tablet). An alien guard bursts in and they start wrestling for the suicide device, but the fight is brought to a halt when a second guard appears and points a ray gun at the hero, who is then forced to let go of the first guard and put his hands up. And I’m thinking, What the fuck? What kind of threat is “If you don’t stop trying to commit suicide, I’m going to shoot you?”
Still, though, I thought it was cool because I hadn’t really seen a story like it before. I’ve never re-watched it, though.
I saw the heavily edited version last week, the mini-series was filled with hours upon hours of pure filler, the heavily edited version still sucked, but had less filler.
LESS FILLER-STILL SUCKED.
