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...
by
pir8garth
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· Score: 4, Funny
"...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...
by
Vengeance
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· Score: 5, Funny
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
by
corebreech
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· Score: 4, Funny
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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corbettw
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· Score: 4, Funny
"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.
History Repeats itself
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SL33Z3
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· Score: 3, Funny
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 -
Re:synopsis
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Funny
for those not born when this came out:
How depressing is THAT?
It wasn't just the water, dummy!
by
EvilStein
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· Score: 4, Funny
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!
Software glitches of the future
by
lightspawn
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· Score: 4, Funny
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?
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.
Re:V the second generation?
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tomhudson
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· Score: 4, Funny
No, after V, there's
VI (roman numerals)
W (alphabetical order)
V2 (bombs away!)
U (the prequel)
V++ (V with classes)
V# (V extended by M$)
V.pm (the perl module)
GNV (GNU V - GNV is Not V)
Got any more?
Worst Thomas Pynchon Adaptation Ever!
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Tax+Boy
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· Score: 4, Funny
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
by
Ethelred+Unraed
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· Score: 3, Funny
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.
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.
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 -
How depressing is THAT ?
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!
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?
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.
- VI (roman numerals)
- W (alphabetical order)
- V2 (bombs away!)
- U (the prequel)
- V++ (V with classes)
- V# (V extended by M$)
- V.pm (the perl module)
- GNV (GNU V - GNV is Not V)
Got any more?I mean really. WTF with all the aliens?
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.