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."
another alien race that defeated the "lizards" will come to save us.
Hmm...didn't humans come up with some chemical compound that would kill the lizards? I thought we had already won.
That said, I'm really looking forward to it. I loved V...I just hope they don't spoil it.
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Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
Re:Great Series - NOT
by
tomhudson
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· Score: 3, Insightful
The series was shit. Tacky, dated, sci-fi at its' worst - with the opening premise ripped off from Clarke's "Childhood's End", and everything going downhill from there. "Original" only to people who can't read.
Guess that's why so many people watched it -
"There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1955)
Wow V.. now I feel old
by
malice95
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· Score: 4, Insightful
Dam has it been 20 yrs? I remember that series like it just aired last year.. I was 12 when it hit the little screen. I remeber the Eating live mice bit and all the lasers... This rag tag humans were just so ingenious compared to the dim witted aliens. Oh.. and the glasses so you could figure out who was a visitor and who wasnt. I remeber on of the big fast food chains gave those out.. Red colored glasses I think.
Malice
Oh, my lunch!
by
codefool
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· Score: 5, Insightful
Lordy, just when I didn't think television couldn't get any worse...
Okay, V was an 'okay' show - just okay. I have a fundamental problem with their story premise that I just can't muster enough suspension of disbelief to swallow.
They come to Earth for two reasons:
Water
Food
So they're saying this alien race can build these huge inter-stellar vehicles but we can't figure out how to generate water and farm food animals? That somehow its easier to mind f*** an entire planet and dress up like humans than just flat out invade? What kind of lazy writing is that?
Kinda reminds me of the pong gag on the Simpson's halloween special a few years back. "All species who have mastered inter-galactic travel raise their tentacles."
the humans are terrorists!
by
Frymaster
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· Score: 5, Insightful
what the hell are they thinking? v glorifies terrorism! witness:
the humans don't wear uniforms - they are "unclassified combatants"
they wear the visitors' uniforms in combat situations
they win in the first series by using biological weapons of mass destruction
given the current political atmosphere in the united states i find it amazing that anyone could dare glorify the efforts of extremist human terrorists.
Re:synopsis recollections
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mnemotronic
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· Score: 5, Insightful
As I recall, the whole alien/nazi earthling/jewish thing was way too haavy-handed and preachy. The "V" insignia was a swastika with a few missing chunks, the uniforms were SS. They may have even had the equivalent of "hitler youth", but my brain is rebelling at trying to remember. No subtlety, too little imagination, really bad dialog, and a limp, hole-ridden plot (i.e. like "Matrix" but without the overly-long fight scenes). Please, if you're going to waste my time and beat me over the head with your same-old message, at least show me some t*t.
-- The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
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All three of which are better than more Crossing Over With John (bleeping) Edwards, or Scare (bleeping) Tactics.
--- Ban humanity.
Hmm...didn't humans come up with some chemical compound that would kill the lizards? I thought we had already won.
That said, I'm really looking forward to it. I loved V...I just hope they don't spoil it.
Warning: Opinions known to be heavily biased.
Guess that's why so many people watched it -
Dam has it been 20 yrs? I remember that series like it just aired last year.. I was 12 when it hit the little screen. I remeber the Eating live mice bit and all the lasers... This rag tag humans were just so ingenious compared to the dim witted aliens. Oh.. and the glasses so you could figure out who was a visitor and who wasnt. I remeber on of the big fast food chains gave those out.. Red colored glasses I think.
Malice
Okay, V was an 'okay' show - just okay. I have a fundamental problem with their story premise that I just can't muster enough suspension of disbelief to swallow.
They come to Earth for two reasons:
- Water
- Food
So they're saying this alien race can build these huge inter-stellar vehicles but we can't figure out how to generate water and farm food animals? That somehow its easier to mind f*** an entire planet and dress up like humans than just flat out invade? What kind of lazy writing is that?Kinda reminds me of the pong gag on the Simpson's halloween special a few years back. "All species who have mastered inter-galactic travel raise their tentacles."
"Stop whining!" - Arnold, as Mr. Kimble
- the humans don't wear uniforms - they are "unclassified combatants"
- they wear the visitors' uniforms in combat situations
- they win in the first series by using biological weapons of mass destruction
given the current political atmosphere in the united states i find it amazing that anyone could dare glorify the efforts of extremist human terrorists.now, everyone together: "no blood for water!"
2 1337 4 u!
As I recall, the whole alien/nazi earthling/jewish thing was way too haavy-handed and preachy. The "V" insignia was a swastika with a few missing chunks, the uniforms were SS. They may have even had the equivalent of "hitler youth", but my brain is rebelling at trying to remember. No subtlety, too little imagination, really bad dialog, and a limp, hole-ridden plot (i.e. like "Matrix" but without the overly-long fight scenes). Please, if you're going to waste my time and beat me over the head with your same-old message, at least show me some t*t.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.