Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the is-twenty-years-old-classic-yet dept.
Silas writes "According to CNN, twenty years after NBC's hit sci-fi miniseries "V" invaded the small screen, the network is bringing the aliens back with "V: The Second Generation," a three-hour TV movie from the original creator Kenneth Johnson."
...David Icke seen foaming at the mouth and ripping biblically at his turquoise shellsuit. No film at 11 as the Bilderberg Group have confiscated it.
-- --
Proud descendant of semi-nomadic cattle-herders.
Sounds familiar...
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pir8garth
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"...came to Earth with the promise to solve the world's problems through their high technology, but after gaining control of the planet through subterfuge and media manipulation, began to methodically kill their hosts."
Sounds suspiciously like V could have been predicting Microsoft's rise to power...I think I may go live in a cave
-- Something clever...
Let's see here...
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Vengeance
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Battlestar Galactica? Check V? Check
Next up: Man from Atlantis
-- It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
another alien race that defeated the "lizards" will come to save us. Sort of like an "operation iRaqi Freedom" effort on a planetary scale.
But after they "liberate" the Earth, will they have a hard time finding these so called "weapons of mass water depletion" and "bio-human McNugget processing" equipment that their leaders told the other planets in the federatoin? Will it turn out that the lizard race were simply a bunch of petty power hungry lamers who used their position to simply "live the good life" ignoring the well being of those they oppressed? Will they then speak harshly of the "bird race" that aided the lizard leaders and who themselves are suspected of harboring these water depletion devices?
-- You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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corebreech
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And this time, let's do more than just hearing the lizard-people belch after a meal of human. I want to see somebody get eaten. I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human. Do the lizard-people have anything like the Atkins Diet? How many carbs are in a human anyways?
Re:Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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binaryDigit
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And Hanibal Lector can be made the head chef to the lizard queen (or even shown to be a lizard dude himself!)
Re:Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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corbettw
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"I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human."
Why, a nice Chianti, of course!
-- God invented whiskey so the Irish would not rule the world.
Re:Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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Sloppy
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How many carbs are in a human anyways?
I thought the trick to getting the most out of humans, was not to eat them, but to keep them alive in little pods, distracted by VR.
Teach a lizard to eat a human, and you've fed him for a day. Teach a computer to enslave a human, and you've fed him for life.
-- As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
Re:Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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rmarll
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Do the lizard-people have anything like the Atkins Diet?
Something like that I think.:-o
Though there probably wasn't enough of him to save leftovers.
Re:Bring back Molly Ringwald as the V-mom
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Cpt_Kirks
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I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human.
IIRC, Chianti, with a side of fava beans...
History Repeats itself
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SL33Z3
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The series would be better if Robert England would have an identity crisis and confuse his alien role with his Fredie Kruger role. At least then you could have an interesting plot.
-- SL33ZE
- Artificial Intelligence is No Match For Natural Stupidity -
You made a typo and a mistake. First of all, we're not talking about weapons of mass destruction, but about weapons of mass distraction (even Paul Wolfowicz has admitted that). Second, the weapon was not in the series but it was the series itself! While we were all watching it, the aliens (who actually look like chimpanzees underneath) took over - Bush is their chief leader.
Daniel
-- Carpe Diem
Re:synopsis
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Anonymous Coward
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for those not born when this came out:
How depressing is THAT?
Have to agree about ...
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burgburgburg
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"Manimal" and "Jason of Star Academy". But why stop there!
Bring back "Quark"! What's been happening to the garbage scow Quark and it's captain Adam Quark all these years? What about Betty I and Betty II, Andy the Android and The Head? The people want to know!
Will this version fix all the bugs from the V1 version like the bad acting, lousy effects and shallow characters?
The lizard baby birth scene
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Geccoman
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As a kid, the scene where the baby with the forked tongue scared the crap out of me.
I recently saw that episode again with my wife and could not stop laughing at how funny the little doll looked when that little plastic tongue popped out and wiggled back and forth.
I can't wait to check this out.
-- I'm on a chair.
It wasn't just the water, dummy!
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EvilStein
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The Visitors had a little trouble finding a Starbucks on Pluto, but you can't swing a dead cat on this planet without hitting one.
C'mon. Visitors need their morning venti latte goodness too. Selfish human!
V the second generation?
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nocomment
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Then there will be "V Outer Space 9", then will come the show about the generation before the first generation, and that will be call "V voyaging".
-- /* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */ /* http://allyourbasearebelongto.us */
Re:V the second generation?
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tomhudson
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Re:What about the Red Dust?
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bastion_xx
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The red dust is for polar zones only. There is no parking on red dust locations.
Software glitches of the future
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lightspawn
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Or were they the ones that went "diggity-diggity - hello Dr. Theopolis"?
You mean "BIDI-BIDI-BIDI <obvious comment>, Buck!".
By the 25th century, medical knowledge will have advanced so much that humans will no longer have speech impediments. OTOH, comp sci advances will make robots so humanlike they'll start developing them.
How does a bug like that get out of QA without being caught? Should the vendor be sued? Can a patch be issued? Is Twiki running windows 2491?
Re:Heh.
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Anonymous Coward
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Yeah but it had Jane Badler, who was the first alien chick I wanted to nail...
Does Erin Grey count? I know she's not technically an alien, but I don't think any human woman could have squeezed into those outfits, either.
pet rodents the world over are cringing
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Mantorp
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you know some dumbass will try to swallow one after watching V
I remember that being a family event for my house.
I remember it being a big family event at my house too. I was watching it with my mom and two brothers and we were on the final episode. I was in the back of the room, my mom was in a chair in front of me on my left, my younger brother was lying on the couch in front of me on my right, and my older brother was lifting weights in the middle of the room while watching TV (why? I don't know).
Well one of the clamps holding the weights had broken because my brother over-tightened it so he took off that clamp and then took off the other so that it was balanced. You can see what's coming.
During an extremely suspenseful moment, my older brother is standing there just holding the weights at chest level, eyes glued to the screen. The bar on the right slowly tips down to the right. My eyes are diverted from the TV screen by the weight which slides off the bar and "Bam!" right onto my younger brothers head.
"Oh, no!", my older brother cried and tilted the bar the other way causing a weight on the left to slide off and hit my mom's leg causing her to scream in pain. My older brother and I rush to my younger brother who has this dazed look on his face and is holding his head. He doesn't realize that his hand is filling up with blood. He looks at my older brother and says, "You dork" very softly. He then realized that his hand was all wet and pandemonium ensued.
As my family is rushing out the door to go to the hospital, I start arguing with my mom over whether I can stay and watch V. The argument didn't last long. I never did find out what happened.
Sigh!
I have been wanting to rent the whole series for the past 10 years to find out what I missed and if it's as enjoyable as I remember it, but it is too much of a commitment.
-- Sigs are bad for you.
Nazis? Huh? I just don't see it...
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Phoenix666
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Aliens come to earth to take all the water and take humans for food, mice and small birds for snacks. A rag-tag band of rebels fight them and their human collaborators. Eventually, they go up in hot air balloons to pour Red Dust into the ecosystem and make the planet poisonous to the Lizards.
What part of that is an allegory for the Nazis and the Final Solution? The Nazis didn't want to eat the Jews. They rounded them up and exterminated them. The Nazis had weird eugenics programs and notions of racial purity and hierarchy. The Lizards just ate people. The Nazis sought Lebensraum in the East. The Lizards just wanted to eat people. Yes the Lizards were out to smear and control the human scientists, but that's because they were the only ones who could figure out what was going on and prevent them from eating people.
Unless all bad guys in all stories are really Nazis, because no one else could be, and all underdog good guys in all stories are really Jews, because no one else could be, then it's really hard to make out what you're talking about.
IMHO, this is a story about Lizards wanting to eat people, and the people objecting.
-- Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
Re:Great Series - NOT
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AndroidCat
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The difference was that "Star Trek" (the original, not any of the sequels) broke barriers (first televised inter-racial kiss, for example).
And K&S fan-fiction broke every other barrier. (And what they didn't break, the furries took care of.):^)
-- One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
HOLD IT, HOLD EVERYTHING!
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boy_afraid
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I thought that when the rebel fighters developed the Red Dust they would disperse it around the planet, into the air. The ending of the series doesn't get into details, but it is assumed that the humans won after the little girl safed the mother ship from crashing and killing the leader with the dust. How can the Visitors STILL be in charge when they can't even breathe the air. This is BULLSH*T! We don't need to stinkin' aliens coming to resue us, in fact, they need US to give the the forumla for the Red Dust.
Worst Thomas Pynchon Adaptation Ever!
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Tax+Boy
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I mean really. WTF with all the aliens?
Why has this not been modded up?
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Pii
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Excellent work, sir.
And for your list...
9. VD (The creeping crud)
-- For those that would die defending it, Freedom
has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
Re:Why has this not been modded up?
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tomhudson
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9. VD (The creeping crud)
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... and to continue, when it comes out on disc, it'll be DVD - the "boxed" set! the Digital Venereal Disease...
I don't even what to think about what the bittorent SVCD / VCD will stand for:-)
Does this mean I can relive all of my Jane Badler fantasies I had as a kid?
Watching her slowly eat that mouse, just wishing that some part of me were...
Sorry, I'll be right back.
-Goran
-- Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
You be overlookin' the obvious
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Ethelred+Unraed
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Just about every Alien Invasion movie has this problem... they all expect the aliens to come to Earth to grab our "resources" but the fact is earth is a piss poor place to get resources.
Y'all's overlookin' the obvious. "They" don't come here for our resources. They come for our women.
However, if we geeks were to defend the Earth against a large gaggle of female-snatching aliens from the planet Zod, the Zodders would make off with them before we knew what hit us.
Worse, the women would take one look at us (or at the back our Slashdot-reading heads) and go willingly for a little Zodomy.
(I don't know what got into me on that post. I really don't.)
Cheers,
Ethelred
-- Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
Re:What about the Red Dust?
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Anonymous Coward
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> If you'll recall, later in the series the "red > dust" didn't work as well in tropical and > temperate zones leaving it only "effective" in the > colder polar regions...
So *now* we know who's responsible for global warming.
Slashdot Mirror
...David Icke seen foaming at the mouth and ripping biblically at his turquoise shellsuit. No film at 11 as the Bilderberg Group have confiscated it.
-- Proud descendant of semi-nomadic cattle-herders.
"...came to Earth with the promise to solve the world's problems through their high technology, but after gaining control of the planet through subterfuge and media manipulation, began to methodically kill their hosts."
Sounds suspiciously like V could have been predicting Microsoft's rise to power...I think I may go live in a cave
Something clever...
Battlestar Galactica? Check
V? Check
Next up: Man from Atlantis
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
According to the article, the first time around the plot was an allegory referring to the Nazi invasion.
I just wonder if, in this sequel, the humans will be looking for some Weapons of Mass Destruction.....
Does this mean that the Lizards will sport imaginary weapons of mass distruction?
The difference between Canada and the USA is that in Canada healthcare is a right and gun ownership is a privilege.
another alien race that defeated the "lizards" will come to save us. Sort of like an "operation iRaqi Freedom" effort on a planetary scale.
But after they "liberate" the Earth, will they have a hard time finding these so called "weapons of mass water depletion" and "bio-human McNugget processing" equipment that their leaders told the other planets in the federatoin? Will it turn out that the lizard race were simply a bunch of petty power hungry lamers who used their position to simply "live the good life" ignoring the well being of those they oppressed? Will they then speak harshly of the "bird race" that aided the lizard leaders and who themselves are suspected of harboring these water depletion devices?
Can't wait to find out (or not).
W
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
And this time, let's do more than just hearing the lizard-people belch after a meal of human. I want to see somebody get eaten. I want to know what kind of wine goes best with human. Do the lizard-people have anything like the Atkins Diet? How many carbs are in a human anyways?
Is this truly the only Earth I can live on?
The series would be better if Robert England would have an identity crisis and confuse his alien role with his Fredie Kruger role. At least then you could have an interesting plot.
SL33ZE - Artificial Intelligence is No Match For Natural Stupidity -
You made a typo and a mistake. First of all, we're not talking about weapons of mass destruction, but about weapons of mass distraction (even Paul Wolfowicz has admitted that). Second, the weapon was not in the series but it was the series itself! While we were all watching it, the aliens (who actually look like chimpanzees underneath) took over - Bush is their chief leader.
Daniel
Carpe Diem
How depressing is THAT ?
Bring back "Quark"! What's been happening to the garbage scow Quark and it's captain Adam Quark all these years? What about Betty I and Betty II, Andy the Android and The Head? The people want to know!
Will this version fix all the bugs from the V1 version like the bad acting, lousy effects and shallow characters?
As a kid, the scene where the baby with the forked tongue scared the crap out of me.
I recently saw that episode again with my wife and could not stop laughing at how funny the little doll looked when that little plastic tongue popped out and wiggled back and forth.
I can't wait to check this out.
I'm on a chair.
The Visitors had a little trouble finding a Starbucks on Pluto, but you can't swing a dead cat on this planet without hitting one.
C'mon. Visitors need their morning venti latte goodness too. Selfish human!
Then there will be "V Outer Space 9", then will come the show about the generation before the first generation, and that will be call "V voyaging".
/* oops I accidentally made a comment, sorry */
Clearly the ideal name for the sequel is V#.
The red dust is for polar zones only. There is no parking on red dust locations.
Or were they the ones that went "diggity-diggity - hello Dr. Theopolis"?
You mean "BIDI-BIDI-BIDI <obvious comment>, Buck!".
By the 25th century, medical knowledge will have advanced so much that humans will no longer have speech impediments. OTOH, comp sci advances will make robots so humanlike they'll start developing them.
How does a bug like that get out of QA without being caught? Should the vendor be sued? Can a patch be issued? Is Twiki running windows 2491?
Yeah but it had Jane Badler, who was the first alien chick I wanted to nail...
Does Erin Grey count? I know she's not technically an alien, but I don't think any human woman could have squeezed into those outfits, either.
you know some dumbass will try to swallow one after watching V
I remember it being a big family event at my house too. I was watching it with my mom and two brothers and we were on the final episode. I was in the back of the room, my mom was in a chair in front of me on my left, my younger brother was lying on the couch in front of me on my right, and my older brother was lifting weights in the middle of the room while watching TV (why? I don't know). Well one of the clamps holding the weights had broken because my brother over-tightened it so he took off that clamp and then took off the other so that it was balanced. You can see what's coming.
During an extremely suspenseful moment, my older brother is standing there just holding the weights at chest level, eyes glued to the screen. The bar on the right slowly tips down to the right. My eyes are diverted from the TV screen by the weight which slides off the bar and "Bam!" right onto my younger brothers head.
"Oh, no!", my older brother cried and tilted the bar the other way causing a weight on the left to slide off and hit my mom's leg causing her to scream in pain. My older brother and I rush to my younger brother who has this dazed look on his face and is holding his head. He doesn't realize that his hand is filling up with blood. He looks at my older brother and says, "You dork" very softly. He then realized that his hand was all wet and pandemonium ensued.
As my family is rushing out the door to go to the hospital, I start arguing with my mom over whether I can stay and watch V. The argument didn't last long. I never did find out what happened.
Sigh!
I have been wanting to rent the whole series for the past 10 years to find out what I missed and if it's as enjoyable as I remember it, but it is too much of a commitment.
Sigs are bad for you.
Aliens come to earth to take all the water and take humans for food, mice and small birds for snacks. A rag-tag band of rebels fight them and their human collaborators. Eventually, they go up in hot air balloons to pour Red Dust into the ecosystem and make the planet poisonous to the Lizards.
What part of that is an allegory for the Nazis and the Final Solution? The Nazis didn't want to eat the Jews. They rounded them up and exterminated them. The Nazis had weird eugenics programs and notions of racial purity and hierarchy. The Lizards just ate people. The Nazis sought Lebensraum in the East. The Lizards just wanted to eat people. Yes the Lizards were out to smear and control the human scientists, but that's because they were the only ones who could figure out what was going on and prevent them from eating people.
Unless all bad guys in all stories are really Nazis, because no one else could be, and all underdog good guys in all stories are really Jews, because no one else could be, then it's really hard to make out what you're talking about.
IMHO, this is a story about Lizards wanting to eat people, and the people objecting.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
And K&S fan-fiction broke every other barrier. (And what they didn't break, the furries took care of.) :^)
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I thought that when the rebel fighters developed the Red Dust they would disperse it around the planet, into the air. The ending of the series doesn't get into details, but it is assumed that the humans won after the little girl safed the mother ship from crashing and killing the leader with the dust. How can the Visitors STILL be in charge when they can't even breathe the air. This is BULLSH*T! We don't need to stinkin' aliens coming to resue us, in fact, they need US to give the the forumla for the Red Dust.
I mean really. WTF with all the aliens?
And for your list...
9. VD (The creeping crud)
For those that would die defending it, Freedom
has a sweet taste that the protected will never know.
Does this mean I can relive all of my Jane Badler fantasies I had as a kid?
Watching her slowly eat that mouse, just wishing that some part of me were...
Sorry, I'll be right back.
-Goran
Carpe Scrotum - The only way to deal with your competition.
Y'all's overlookin' the obvious. "They" don't come here for our resources. They come for our women.
However, if we geeks were to defend the Earth against a large gaggle of female-snatching aliens from the planet Zod, the Zodders would make off with them before we knew what hit us.
Worse, the women would take one look at us (or at the back our Slashdot-reading heads) and go willingly for a little Zodomy.
(I don't know what got into me on that post. I really don't.)
Cheers,
Ethelred
Everyone wants to be Ethelred. Even I want to be Ethelred.
> If you'll recall, later in the series the "red
> dust" didn't work as well in tropical and
> temperate zones leaving it only "effective" in the
> colder polar regions...
So *now* we know who's responsible for global warming.
So depressing I'm going to slurp up a nice fat rat!