V (Remake)

[Covert Rain]

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.

True but correct me if I am wrong (I have not watched the original in some time), the didn't know the human race was on the menu right away. You didn't know what the end game was exactly?

I guess that is still intact. We don't know what the end game is or what exactly they are up to. I wonder how much they will deviate from the original series.

 

[joeshmo]

True but correct me if I am wrong (I have not watched the original in some time), the didn't know the human race was on the menu right away. You didn't know what the end game was exactly?

I guess that is still intact. We don't know what the end game is or what exactly they are up to. I wonder how much they will deviate from the original series.

True, I dont think we knew that until the 2nd mini series called the "Final Battle".

And agreed, we know they are evil but we dont know their end game yet, which would have been to fast of a reveal.

 

[sundevilscott]

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.

Top 10 all time post.

 

[Pariah]

This is Battlestar Galactica all over again (what made the lightbulb go on for me was the actress playing the agent in interviewing the priest). Paranoia of those who walk among us being the enemy and indistinguishable from our allies.

It's the new Red Scare, it seems.

 

[Covert Rain]

I really like this show. Morena Baccarin is awesome.

 

[green machine]

I really like this show. Morena Baccarin is awesome.

I found myself really into the show when I finally got around to watching last night. Looking forward to seeing how things play out.

 

[Stout]

Five episodes, and then they're going to disappear for a month and a half? What moron exec came up with that idea?

 

[RON_IN_OC]

Five episodes, and then they're going to disappear in a month and a half? What moron exec came up with that idea?

Huh???

 

[Stout]

Huh???

Sorry, I meant they are going to disappear FOR a month and a half. That's right, Tuesday's episode is the last one until next year. Stupid, huh?

 

[PDXChris]

Sorry, I meant they are going to disappear FOR a month and a half. That's right, Tuesday's episode is the last one until next year. Stupid, huh?

They said it is because of the winter Olympics, but those only run 2 weeks. Seriously, this is dumb since it is just starting to get good.


By the way, did anyone self get both aroused and grossed out then the blond was in her underwear.

 

[Covert Rain]

By the way, did anyone self get both aroused and grossed out then the blond was in her underwear.

Nope...strictly aroused. Laura Vandervoort is hot.

 

[Pariah]

By the way, did anyone self get both aroused and grossed out then the blond was in her underwear.

Why in the world would anyone be grossed out?

 

[PDXChris]

Why in the world would anyone be grossed out?

Cause she is a lizard. If you are into that thing, I will not judge, but lizards are not my cup of tea.

 

[Stout]

Cause she is a lizard. If you are into that thing, I will not judge, but lizards are not my cup of tea.

Banky, she's not REALLY a lizard, she only plays one on TV

 

[Pariah]

Cause she is a lizard. If you are into that thing, I will not judge, but lizards are not my cup of tea.

I'm totally into hot chics that are half naked that play lizards on tv. Totally.

 

[MadCardDisease]

I can't believe we have to wait till MARCH for the next episode!

 

[Zeno]

I can't believe we have to wait till MARCH for the next episode!

Me either. I like this show a lot. I'm still waiting for the big answers, do they want people for food this time around--do they want to steal our water? Why are they trying to poison our flu shots?

 

[Stout]

I can't believe we have to wait till MARCH for the next episode!

Me either. I mean, I like the show, but I don't love it, so I'm not sure if I'll be able to pick it back up again in March. On the other hand, if it wasn't such a gorram long wait, I'd definitely finish watching the season.

 

[Chaplin]

I was speechless when I saw it was coming back in March, but there is a certain amount of sense as to WHY it is coming back in March.

By that time, Lost will be in the middle of its run, and assuming V has a standard first season run of around 16 episodes, this allows V and the 2nd half of Lost to run without repeats for 3 months. That seems to be the only reason why they are doing it this way. V is definitely ABC's replacement for Lost, so they are running new eps of both together. If V had more episodes before March, that wouldn't have been possible.

 

[Stout]

I was speechless when I saw it was coming back in March, but there is a certain amount of sense as to WHY it is coming back in March.

By that time, Lost will be in the middle of its run, and assuming V has a standard first season run of around 16 episodes, this allows V and the 2nd half of Lost to run without repeats for 3 months. That seems to be the only reason why they are doing it this way. V is definitely ABC's replacement for Lost, so they are running new eps of both together. If V had more episodes before March, that wouldn't have been possible.

There's a flaw in that logic, though. I think it is very possible that the show will simply die on the vine before that. I don't know what ratings are now, but it doesn't seem to be that kind of 'must see' show that can take months off and come back to snag good ratings. My fear, aside from the fact I might not be motivated to start watching it again, is that many others won't pick the show back up and it'll get crushed in ratings.

 

[Chaplin]

There's a flaw in that logic, though. I think it is very possible that the show will simply die on the vine before that. I don't know what ratings are now, but it doesn't seem to be that kind of 'must see' show that can take months off and come back to snag good ratings. My fear, aside from the fact I might not be motivated to start watching it again, is that many others won't pick the show back up and it'll get crushed in ratings.

Of course that's a risk, but the numbers have been good. Yes, there was a big drop off between the pilot and the second episode, but the 4th episode had no drop off at all from the 3rd. It is a real possibility, they can just look at Lost's 3rd season to see what a long layoff can do. The numbers for their return episodes were pretty bad, but the quality of the show was so good when it returned, those numbers eventually went up and they finished strong that season with one of the best season finales of the show's run. Maybe they are counting on that. I will say that at the time, I was not too enthusiastic about those first 6 eps of Lost that year--I enjoyed V more. However, I have to say when I watched the eps on Blu-ray, they played out much better.

Also have to consider that in February they will probably be running all 4 of V's first episodes as well. Besides, on Tuesdays at the beginning of 2010, wouldn't it go up against American Idol? You'll see most networks avoiding competition with that show.

 

[Stout]

Of course that's a risk, but the numbers have been good. Yes, there was a big drop off between the pilot and the second episode, but the 4th episode had no drop off at all from the 3rd. It is a real possibility, they can just look at Lost's 3rd season to see what a long layoff can do. The numbers for their return episodes were pretty bad, but the quality of the show was so good when it returned, those numbers eventually went up and they finished strong that season with one of the best season finales of the show's run. Maybe they are counting on that. I will say that at the time, I was not too enthusiastic about those first 6 eps of Lost that year--I enjoyed V more. However, I have to say when I watched the eps on Blu-ray, they played out much better.

Also have to consider that in February they will probably be running all 4 of V's first episodes as well. Besides, on Tuesdays at the beginning of 2010, wouldn't it go up against American Idol? You'll see most networks avoiding competition with that show.

You make excellent points Chap. I wouldn't figure anything else, as you know infinitely more about this than I do

I base my opinion solely on what I feel about the show. I figure that I give it way more slack than the normal viewer because I desperately want it to succeed and love shows in that genre. Therefore, when I say that I'm not sure if I'll pick it up again, even though I like it enough to watch it now, I kind of figure that the regular joe just won't bother to do so. Granted, now that I know they'll re-show the first episodes I think it might do better, but I don't know. I think it'll be really tough to recover from the layoff.

 

[Chaplin]

You make excellent points Chap. I wouldn't figure anything else, as you know infinitely more about this than I do

I base my opinion solely on what I feel about the show. I figure that I give it way more slack than the normal viewer because I desperately want it to succeed and love shows in that genre. Therefore, when I say that I'm not sure if I'll pick it up again, even though I like it enough to watch it now, I kind of figure that the regular joe just won't bother to do so. Granted, now that I know they'll re-show the first episodes I think it might do better, but I don't know. I think it'll be really tough to recover from the layoff.

Actually I agree. Not only is the layoff to March extremely long and potentially devastating, but they only aired 4 episodes so far. You have to wonder how many people are invested enough to watch again. They will certainly have to air those first 4 shows again to get people interested. They might even have to advertise those first 4 shows in February as if they never aired.

And added to that is if Flash Forward doesn't improve, in March ABC really will only have Lost to fall back on (as far as the audience for V goes--Housewives and Grey's will still be around, but I'm not sure the audience is the same).

 

[MadCardDisease]

I'm totally loving this show.

It's become my replacement for Battlestar Galatica.

 

[Cheesebeef]

I was speechless when I saw it was coming back in March, but there is a certain amount of sense as to WHY it is coming back in March.

By that time, Lost will be in the middle of its run, and assuming V has a standard first season run of around 16 episodes, this allows V and the 2nd half of Lost to run without repeats for 3 months. That seems to be the only reason why they are doing it this way. V is definitely ABC's replacement for Lost, so they are running new eps of both together. If V had more episodes before March, that wouldn't have been possible.

i know I'm chiming in late here but the reason they weren't coming back for so long was because the show was in chaos after the network saw cuts of the first four episodes. They ended up blowing out the show-runners after the first four episodes and shut down production, brought in new show-runners and some new staff and completely re-broke and re-wrote the rest of the season. That place was apparently a HUGE clusterfrick back in November.

curious if the people who watch it from the first four to now can see any differences in how the show's written, better, worse, no different.