# "V" Pilot Tonight — \[Open Spoilers after it airs\]
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [November 3, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169 "2009-11-03T16:09:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/1 "2009-11-03T16:09:34Z")
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The **V** isitors are here. And, they’re here to help. Join them.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/2 "2009-11-03T16:29:42Z")
Who’s got guinea pig on the menu tonight?
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/3 "2009-11-03T17:29:30Z")
I can’t wait!
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/4 "2009-11-03T17:33:03Z")
For the record, I was a huge fan of the original. Even the awful sequel mini-series (V: The Final Battle), and the inevitable series-series. But hey, I was eleven.
I’ve tried to remain as spoiler free as much as possible. The only thing I’ve seen is the official trailer.
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### Author:  [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/5 "2009-11-03T18:08:44Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> For the record, I was a huge fan of the original. Even the awful sequel mini-series (V: The Final Battle), and the inevitable series-series. But hey, I was eleven.
Me too! My friend and I even ran around the playground at school climbing the equipment and pretending we were escaping through the conveniently man-sized air ducts of the alien vessel!
But if there’s no Mike Donovan or Ham Tyler in this series, I ain’t watchin’.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/6 "2009-11-03T18:24:14Z")
Oh, dear. [This might be a bit too political](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story) for Obama supporters.
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/7 "2009-11-03T18:24:25Z")
It’s double duty for the DVR with my wife’s one-two punch of _Biggest Loser_ and _SYTYCDance_, so I’m going to have to hold out hope that ABC streams it easily enough…
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/8 "2009-11-03T19:03:09Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> Oh, dear. [This might be a bit too political](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story) for Obama supporters.
Nah. I’ve always known he was a totalitarian space lizard. I voted for him anyway.
As the lesser of two evils! 😃
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/9 "2009-11-03T19:19:08Z")
> [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](#):
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> Me too! My friend and I even ran around the playground at school climbing the equipment and pretending we were escaping through the conveniently man-sized air ducts of the alien vessel!
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> But if there’s no Mike Donovan or Ham Tyler in this series, I ain’t watchin’.
Ha! So did we. I remember using magic markers to color a lizard pattern on the underside of my forearm, then cover it using liquid latex and makeup before school started. Then at recess, (I always played the role of Martin\*) I’d tear off the skin to achieve maximum playground geekery. I was a GOD in 1984.
That said, I doubt there’ll be any over-the-top Donovans or Tylers in this series. Maybe it’s for the best.
\*I didn’t want to be Donovan, because I thought it’d be cooler to play a treasonous lizard.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/10 "2009-11-03T19:23:13Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Nah. I’ve always known he was a totalitarian space lizard. I voted for him anyway.
Don’t blame me etc. 😃
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/11 "2009-11-03T19:26:21Z")
> [@silenus](#):
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> Nah. I’ve always known he was a totalitarian space lizard. I voted for him anyway.
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> As the lesser of two evils! 😃
Yeh, but… _Universal_ Health Care… literally.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/12 "2009-11-03T19:32:21Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> Then at recess, (I always played the role of Martin\*) I’d tear off the skin to achieve maximum playground geekery. I was a GOD in 1984.
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Don’t cha hate when you peak so young ? 🙂
I too look forward to this.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/13 "2009-11-03T19:36:57Z")
Who said I peaked?
**RIPS OFF FULL BODY SKIN TO REVEAL COMPLETE REPTILLIAN FORM WHILE EATING A FLYING SQUIRREL**
_ **RRrrAAaarrrrLLGGGGGgggrrrrrrRRR!** _
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### Author:  [@clnilsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clnilsen)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/14 "2009-11-03T20:04:09Z")
I wonder if there will be any nod to the original series.
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### Author:  [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/15 "2009-11-03T20:14:01Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> Oh, dear. [This might be a bit too political](http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story) for Obama supporters.
:rolleyes: Good god. Not everything is political and you’d think someone doing a write-up of a sci-fi show would realize that “We bring gifts/change for humanity” is not exactly a new trope.
It was even part of the plot of the original V!
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/16 "2009-11-03T20:14:36Z")
> [@clnilsen](#):
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> I wonder if there will be any nod to the original series.
My money is one very quick and debateable lizard tongue sighting that is never seen or discussed again.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/17 "2009-11-03T20:15:54Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#):
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> :rolleyes: Good god. Not everything is political and you’d think someone doing a write-up of a sci-fi show would realize that “We bring gifts/change for humanity” is not exactly a new trope.
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> It was even part of the plot of the original V!
But this is the first time in history the US has had an alien for president 🙂
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### Author:  [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/18 "2009-11-03T20:26:05Z")
Was anyone else a bit miffed about how in that clip of the first 8 minutes that was online…
…we didn’t see anthing other than NYC? The original showed us a bunch of shots of them arriving all over the world. I understand this is an American show, but I want to see the global impact. At least setting most of the action in NYC (home of the UN) instead of LA (home of Hollywood) is a start.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/19 "2009-11-03T20:28:54Z")
> [@clnilsen](#):
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> I wonder if there will be any nod to the original series.
I kind of hope they keep some semblance to the original V symbol… that stylized swastika thing.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [November 3, 2009, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/v-pilot-tonight-open-spoilers-after-it-airs/516169/20 "2009-11-03T20:34:28Z")
It’d be cool to see a Robert Englund or Marc Singer cameo, too.
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