Hey!! Me too! Those were good times…
They had two basic shortages. Water and food. Sure, they could mine moons for ice, but our planet had the good eats. That’s why humans were getting packed away in frozen tins for later.
That was a bit of a plot annoyance. All the ships retreated and high-tailed it back to their own planet. With all those hundreds of thousands of frozen humans to be eaten. No rescue.
Now that would be a good plot of V: The Next Generation. The human survivors of the untold horrors on the Visitors’ planet come home. And they’re not happy.
Since the Visitors eat people, would having sex with a human be a form of bestiality?
My question is, if the human form is just a costume, not plastic surgery, how could Brian impregnate Robin without her noticing that his penis was green and scaly? I know the girl was a virgin, but really.
After eating a human, the Visitors made condoms out of their skins. Obviously another technology they had yet to master.
If the lights are dim enough, he could tell her it’s a French Tickler…
You know, one thing I didn’t get until I saw the show again a few years ago was that the black dude was selling drugs to the Visitors.
I won’t even go into the whole mammals and reptiles reproducing together thing.
It’s an all-over costume that fits like a glove. You know they had details like eyelids that would blink normally and fake human eyeball type stuff – so presumably all the other parts were similarly detailed. Robin didn’t have to lay an egg for him or anything!
One part that made me roar with laughter from the series was when, for reasons I don’t remember, Diana had to marry another one of the aliens. He was a commander of some sort, and may have had rank on her.
His human alias? Charles. 
I’d worry about a mini-series with the same cast.
I mean Faye Grant and Jane Badler were so hot back then, they’re probably not quite as appealing.
Of course this is just a guess.
“But they are rounding up all the…SCIENTISTS!” I guess at eight years old, I didn’t catch it…
In all fairness, it was cheesy even then!
No shame for you. I, too, played V. My shame comes from the fact that I took my dad’s gardening gloves and cut the fingers off so I could have the fingerless gloves like Ham Tyler.
No joke. Up until this point, I always wanted to play the good-hearted hero (like Luke Skywalker vs. playing Han Solo). Ham made me want to be the tough guy.
“Baby. Seriously. DON’T worry. It’s only herpes.”
I did this once in rehearsal for a drama presentation when I had long hair (up until a month and a half ago, when it started getting very excessive). I quickly ceased when the fan clipped a small clump of hair off.
Oops. I missed one in my multiple quote response. Under “Elizabeth”, I was going to add that I too hated her and wondered how much better it would have been had the original actress cast been available to play the part.
Dunne was the daughter of famed writer Dominick Dunne.
Oh, yeah? Well my friend and I got matching grey coats and black baseball hats to look like we had uniforms to complete our infiltration of the 5th column. (We weren’t actually stupid enough to get orange outfits, that would have gotten us beat up in the playground)
Strangely, I always preferred to create my own additional sidekick kind of character. Because then I could interact with the good guy. Being the good guy was okay, but…
Take the darker aspects of Batman for example, he kind of has some mystery to him, right? Well, if I was Batman, then I’d know all the deep dark secrets and there would be no mystery. But if I was some other invented character that was, of course, way cooler than that lame doofus Robin, I could be a really cool superhero that was friends with someone as mysterious as Batman. That was more interesting.
And yes, I agree, Ham Tyler made the morally ambiguous bad-ass good guy a far, far more attractive option than the squeaky-clean do-gooder.
Of course, nowadays, you’d be picked up as suspected prison escapees for wearing 'em!
She was the older sister in the movie Poltergeist. She was strangled by her ex-boyfriend who showed up while she was running lines with one of hr “V” co-stars. He only served two years of a six year sentence. :mad:
In the original “V” mini-series, there is still some footage in the show of Dunne as Robin, but it’s the back of her head.
I loved the show. It was a good/bad sort of thing. It was bad, but you loved it anyway. Ham Tyler was my favorite.
I’ll quote what I said about one of the series’ episodes (timely enough, it was the Christmas episode, or as I like to think of it, The WORST Episode Ever:
You know, I loved Ham Tyler, but the character took a serious nose dive in that episde; I tried to purge it from my mind so I could still respect him.
The series just never did anything for me. The whole L.A. being declared an open city and human and aliens having a ceasefire in the city didn’t make too much sense to me. While the mini-series had battles and biological weapons, the show was trying to be cloak and dagger. I want my humans and human looking lizards to fight ferocious battles to the death damnit!
Looking at the reruns now, it strikes me as fairly obvious that Diana was hiding a reserve battle fleet in her hairdo.
I mean, what other reason could there be for so much volume?
My sister thought Charles was “pretty”. She was not being complimentary.