We’ll see how it is this coming Tuesday (November 3, 8-9 PM on ABC), but the Hollywood Reporter review is pretty much a rave, and the show looks promising.
The miniseries always seemed way too campy for me to have noticed the symbolism. I might give this new version a shot.
From the article.
I thought V was an allegory for communism.
No, definitely Nazis. See their unsubtle symbol, looks sorta like a swastika.
The original was fun. I’m looking forward to the “reimagining.”
Note I said the original. Not Part 2 or the series. 
I loved the original and I’m looking forward to the new series, although rumors of it already being scheduled for a hiatus after the first 6 episodes are troubling. Love Firefly girl as the V leader and Juliet from Lost as one of the resistance. Scott Wolf can’t quite fill Mark Singer’s shoes though.
Anyone else watch the original V miniseries marathon on SyFy today? I tivoed it and am about halfway through the first miniseries. I have to say it still holds up pretty well.
Is it just me or do all the Vistor women (Diana in particular) come off as lesbians whenever they’re in a scene with another woman? :dubious:
I’m deeply worried that ABC’s remaking this as a regular TV series instead of a miniseries. My gut feeling is that it ends up cancelled without any kind of conclusion. Or turn into Earth: Final Conflict (which the same exact scenario just played out longer and without us getting to see the Taelons’ arrival.
I watched it today, practically the whole thing (though I did take a few breaks as I had some errands to run and my wife wanted to watch “Desperate Housewives”). I just saw it was on when I was flipping through the channels and sort of got hooked.
Still, I couldn’t help thinking just how dated and campy it looked. And I also wondered why the aliens spoke English to each other, instead of their own native language (this happened when the TV cameraman was spying on them aboard the spaceship in the first installment; he didn’t appear to have any trouble understanding what they were saying).
I dunno…the original aimed pretty low even for the '80s mainstream, and devolved into camp pretty fast. I’ll admit Ron Moore squeeze a lot out of the even-campier “Battlestar Galactica”, but he also eschewed a lot of the sillier elements of the original along the way.
For this incarnation of V, orignial producer Ken Johnsonis on board–a move that could either be brilliant or catastrophic–while the ‘other’ head writer’s track recordon what was arguably the worst season of “the 4400” and some forgettable “Outer Limits” episodes does not bode well.
The article’s oxymoronic claim that the series is “clever enough for a cult following and accessible enough to reach a broad demo” is industry gobbletygook…my guess is this is gone and forgotten by next May.
WKRN in Nashville will be airing “V” on 5-hour delay, at 12:05 am each night, in order to air “The [Titans head coach] Jeff Fisher Show” during prime time. The 1-6 Titans.
I was mad when they pre-empted “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” for JF, but this just seems crazy. The people leaving comments on the WKRN website are all kinds of pissed off.
I don’t know if I’d go that far, the commercials look all kinds of fantastic and Morena Baccarin looks downright sexy-creepy with her short hair. I’m cautiously optimistic. FlashForward turned out good, so why shouldn’t this?
And film/television “journalists” are notorious for their poor grasp of the English language. I’ve said it before, but they make video game journalists look like scholars in comparison. They’re probably using “cult following” to mean “loyal Lost-like following”, which is not what the word “cult” means in the context of film/television at all.
Yeah, another problem with the original I noticed yesterday is that it suffered from that great syndrome of '80s action camp - in that the bad guys fire off a million rounds and if they’re lucky graze one of the good guys, but the ragtag band of heroes with their crude weaponry and training OTOH are mowing down the villians left and right. The bad guys also waste about a hundred good opportunities to off the resistance leaders. The whole time I was thinking that for a race capable of interstellar travel, these guys are really shitty marksmen.
In fairness though, “V: The Final Battle” is much worse in this regard than the first miniseries, which was actually more an allegory on totalitarianism than a straight up action flick.
On a related note, I see where they’re re-making The A-Team as an action movie.
What the what?! You can do that with cartoons and stuff (Transformers, GI Joe) but The A-Team was driven by its actors IMHO. You can’t just go replacing them and tell me it’s “THE A-Team.” Cuz it’s not.
I’ll probably check it out. The ads look interesting, and it’s not like I’m watching anything else on Tuesday nights…
And I’m certainly not watching anything else [del]on Tuesday nights[/del] in the wee hours of Wednesday morning.:mad:
The original V is when I got it bad for Michael Ironside.
I can’t think of anyone who could fill Mark Singer’s shoes.
So, do we have to first watch I through IV in order to fully appreciate this show?
No love for FBI Agent Wash?