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Title: V
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on November 16, 2009, 05:38:39 PM
How did I miss this?

Wow, I love it!  I watched the first two episodes yesterday.  I love the play against "Hope-Change" and "Universal Health Care."
Title: Re: V
Post by: Matthew Carberry on November 16, 2009, 05:45:59 PM
Stop, invert your review.

You put the simple "I love it" first.  As you should know, Americans are not allowed to enjoy anything except insmuch as it, first and foremost, is a thinly-veiled political allegory supporting their position.

See, it seems like all ripping on hope and change at the start, which fired up the right, but it was apparently produced by an uber-lib, which means there will surely be some sort of liberal Socialistic salvation forthcoming, which will make it bad.

Stop enjoying it (and no ogling Ms. Baccarin) until we see where it finally lands on the political spectrum.

Only political inclinations matter in this brave new world.  =)
Title: Re: V
Post by: 41magsnub on November 16, 2009, 05:48:13 PM
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and no ogling Ms. Baccarin

She is in this?  Off to hulu tonight...
Title: Re: V
Post by: Ben on November 16, 2009, 05:49:04 PM
Quote from: 41magsnub on November 16, 2009, 05:48:13 PM
She is in this?  Off to hulu tonight...

Yeah, but I don't like her haircut.
Title: Re: V
Post by: RaspberrySurprise on November 16, 2009, 10:04:01 PM
The original will probably end up being better.
Title: Re: V
Post by: tyme on November 17, 2009, 01:01:49 AM
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Yeah, but I don't like her haircut.
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The original will probably end up being better.

This thread is now cancelled.
Title: Re: V
Post by: slugcatcher on November 17, 2009, 02:40:57 PM
I'm still waiting for something exciting to happen. It's going kind of slow. Two more episodes until next spring and I'm not enthralled yet. I do think the plot so far is much more thought out than the original.
Title: Re: V
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on November 17, 2009, 03:05:47 PM
It's pretty obviously riding on the coat-tails of BSG sci-fi 80's remix, with a healthy nod to "The 4400."  Even has the lead from the 4400 as the priest in this series, and the address of the resistance meeting place was 4400 <<something or other>>.

I think the first two episodes were plenty fast enough, but I haven't seen episode 3 yet.

Quote from: RaspberrySurprise on November 16, 2009, 10:04:01 PM
The original will probably end up being better.

Unlikely.  Most 80's techno-crap had horrible plots.  They got all hot and bothered by the special effects systems dreamed up by Lucas for Star Wars, and left the plot behind much like the CG-driven movies of today. 

V was not a terribly complicated plot with lots of twists and turns and intrigue.  Nor was the original BSG.  Or Airwolf, or Knight Rider, or any of the other sci fi shows of that period.  Sci fi television "authorship" died probably until the Star Trek TNG series.