V: The Second Generation

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So, while I was at work today, I picked up the USA Today that someone had left sitting around - it was the weekend edition with the entertainment section. What do I read but that:

V: The Second Generation has been commissioned by NBC.

I don’t know about anyone else, but V and V: The Final Battle were mini-series’ thatI always remember - never mind that I do have a copy of each one on DVD.

Also included was the news that the short-lived TV series will be released on DVD next month. I remember the horror of the series as well, so I don’t know that I’ll even consider purchasing it (well, not until I have a job again, and probably not then).

I don’t know what I think of the idea of a new chapter to the saga, but if it really gets made and shown, I’ll probably watch it. Only because every so often I have to re-watch the others, so why not. At least, I’ll watch it unless it’s so terribly bad that it makes my eyes bleed.

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Then this board is doomed! We all know how much the Visitors like small rodents!

The series did indeed suck. I also own both mini-series on DVD.

Interesting to note the similarites between how the aliens’ ships hovering over various cities look just like the same scenes in ID4.

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Back when the first series was showing I was talking with my sister on the telephone. We both had the TV on, with “V” showing, but I must have had my head turned away, because suddenly I heard my sister go “Ewwww! She just ate a rat!” (Actually, it was a mouse) I turned my head just in time to see Diana let her jaw shorten up again. Ewwww indeed.

Maybe if we start breeding mice now the Visitors will leave the hamster alone!

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That was stolen from Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End.

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Though in the story, there was only one ship, and the rest were illusions. Unless I remember wrong.