V (Remake)

[Gaddabout]

The production looks slick. Which is disappointing. I was hoping for guys in rubber suits.

 

[LVG]

ABC is bringing back V. I can't believe it. I consider the fact I watched every minute of the NBC mini-series a shameful part of my past. It was so awful NBC canceled it in the middle of the run. Then, when pre-teen geeks like me wrote and complained about it, they ran the rest of it in late May when everyone went to repeats -- and still finished last in its time slot.

But I ... can't ... help ... myself ... must ... watch this ... Tuesday night ...

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I'll be right there with ya.

 

[Covert Rain]

The production looks slick. Which is disappointing. I was hoping for guys in rubber suits.

Hahahaha. Don't fret....the face peeling will come soon enough. I really will not miss the 8's music video space outfits the Visitors had. Those were bad.

 

[AsUdUdE]

I gotta say, I think the show looks a little too weird for me.... The concept is new to me (I don't remember any TV show), but Aliens invading the earth seems a little to far out there for my taste on primetime...

 

[Gaddabout]

I gotta say, I think the show looks a little too weird for me.... The concept is new to me (I don't remember any TV show), but Aliens invading the earth seems a little to far out there for my taste on primetime...

How about this one for a sitcom ... a friendly extraterrestrial who crash lands in the garage of a suburban middle class family.

Or this one for a drama ... a (vaguely) rogue FBI agent somehow maintains employment while going off on a personal search for his sister whom he believes was kidnapped by aliens -- orchestrated by his father, who worked for a mysterious government agency. He drags along an unwilling skeptic and fellow FBI agent, an attractive woman, but they don't have sex. Or even hug. Or touch each other.

Or another serial drama following the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island with seemingly mystical qualities that defy the laws of physics and known science and each week presents an unending row of infuriatingly unanswered questions.

Nah. The American public will never buy aliens on prime-time TV.

 

[Covert Rain]

How about this one for a sitcom ... a friendly extraterrestrial who crash lands in the garage of a suburban middle class family.

That was a good one.

An Alien Life Form intercepts an amateur radio signal and follows it to Earth crash landing into the garage of a suburban middle class family in Riverside, California. The Alien is adopted into the family that also includes a cat named Lucky. Hilarity ensues.

 

[O]

Or this one.

A human-looking extraterrestrial in a one-man spaceship crash-lands near Los Angeles. The ship's pilot is, in fact, an anthropologist from Mars and is now stranded on Earth. Tim O'Hara, a young newspaper reporter for The Los Angeles Sun, is on his way home from Edwards Air Force Base (where he had gone to report on the flight of the X-15) back to Los Angeles when he spots the spaceship coming down.

Tim takes the Martian in as his roommate and passes him off as his Uncle Martin.

 

[Brian in Mesa]

Watched every minute of the original on live TV and in reruns and own all of it on DVD. That being said - I don't care too much for remade television shows - and likely won't watch the new one.

 

[Chaplin]

It's definitely not cheesy like the original series. The production value is really high. And the pilot is pretty good.

 

[SuperSpck]

Serenity girl = pretty!

 

[ozzfloyd]

The first episode was pretty good. Captured the vibe of the Kenneth Johnson original but lacked the cheese and bad 80's hairstyles.

 

[Gaddabout]

meh.

 

[bankybruce]

meh.

 

[green machine]

I liked it. A lot going on, sure, but I liked all the different parts.

 

[Chaplin]

I just watched the Lost Season 5 finale, and it's cool to see Juliet in something--and one of the leads on top of it. It took me a while to warm to Juliet, but Elizabeth Mitchell is a hell of an actress.

It's ironic that ABC's 2 attempts at finding a replacement for Lost each have an alumni from the show (Elizabeth Mitchell in V and Dominic Monaghan in Flashforward).

 

[bankybruce]

I just watched the Lost Season 5 finale, and it's cool to see Juliet in something--and one of the leads on top of it. It took me a while to warm to Juliet, but Elizabeth Mitchell is a hell of an actress.

It's ironic that ABC's 2 attempts at finding a replacement for Lost each have an alumni from the show (Elizabeth Mitchell in V and Dominic Monaghan in Flashforward).

Don't forget that Flashforward also has Sonya Walger(Penny)

 

[Gaddabout]

It's ironic that ABC's 2 attempts at finding a replacement for Lost each have an alumni from the show (Elizabeth Mitchell in V and Dominic Monaghan in Flashforward).

Whomever cast V was also a fan of Firefly. It sucked to watch Alan Tudyk die. Again!

 

[Pariah]

I thought it was pretty good; I'll be watching the rest of the series.

My one complaint: the "reveal" of the aliens as

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sinister lizards

was a bit too quick, I think. Yeah, most all of America knows it already so it's not some big state secret or anything, but still, you'd think that they'd have at least waited until the final scene of the pilot.

 

[blindseyed]

It was average, I'll give it a few more episodes and see if it gets better

 

[Russ Smith]

I liked that they made it current. References to the economic impact of the visitors and things like that.

What I didn't like is how quickly they jumped from spaceship is here to everyone calling them "the V's" and other stuff. But it was interesting and they have changed the plot enough from the original that it kept my interest for the hour.

I hope it doesn't go the way of the original which got ridiculously bad as a regular series.

 

[Covert Rain]

I really liked the show. I have the same complaint as some of the others. I think the reveal was too soon. I also felt that the start of the resistance was too soon as well. I would have liked to see that stuff develop a little bit more.

Glad to see some people from some of my past favorite shows like Firefly and 4400. Nice to see "Super Girl" again as well as "Juliet".

 

[MadCardDisease]

I enjoyed it.

Looking forward to the next episode.

 

[joeshmo]

I dont mind the fast reveal at all at least for the biggest most important part of it. Its already a well know fact, I would hate to see them drag out the inevitable. The one and only reveal I thought they did to fast was the character with the fiance.

 

[Covert Rain]

I dont mind the fast reveal at all at least for the biggest most important part of it. Its already a well know fact, I would hate to see them drag out the inevitable. The one and only reveal I thought they did to fast was the character with the fiance.

Yes but their target audience is much wider the fans of the original. I would say the target audience is larger. One thing that I really enjoyed about the original was that they really played up the "were here to help" angle with subtle hints about other motives.

The new fans are going to miss that probably for the sake of the fans familiar with the original.

 

[joeshmo]

Yes but their target audience is much wider the fans of the original. I would say the target audience is larger. One thing that I really enjoyed about the original was that they really played up the "were here to help" angle with subtle hints about other motives.

The new fans are going to miss that probably for the sake of the fans familiar with the original.

The new audience knows exactly what is going on as well though. Info Age in full effect, they all know about the old series either from someone else telling them or google. Plus its kind of hard not to know what is going on. I mean really would people really watch a show that they thought was just about aliens coming here to help up, ALF in dramatic form?

I also watched the oringal mini series a few weeks back and you knew exactly that they were evil in the first hour of the mini series. Remember it was originally a mini series and didnt come out as a TV series until a year or two later.