A new science fiction tv series: V

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V is about first contact. 29 motherships fly above the major cities of the earth. The passengers, known as the Visitors (sapient lizard people who wear skin suits and give themselves human names so as not to scare us), or V for short, promise to make our lives better and advance our technology. They are able to cure disease. They amass a cult following and some people even worship them. But their true intentions are kept secret. A resistance develops when someone finds ou that they actually want to exterminate us....they want to use us as a food source. But so many people love the v that they wont listen, leaving the resistance very small. This is a remake of an 80's show just so you all know. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hJRafM1e8Q&feature=related[/youtube]

It is a remake of an old sf series of the same name.

See http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095497/

ruveyn

That sounds quite a bit like the old Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man

I thought that rather than being a carbon copy remake the V is told from the point of view of a different human. I would like to see it and find out how close to the original the new series is.

omg, to me V is the classical series from the 80s, I have it on VHS

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQBC1H-t9Q0&feature=related[/youtube]

For anyone who asks: yes, the idea sorta came from to serve man(the short story and Twilight Zone ep.) Im probably gonna watch the original miniseries and tv show first. Critcs have said that the pilot episode was so good that it might surpass Lost.

Actually, there's even a V font out there...

The original V was the definition of craptastic, in my opinion. The only part I thought good was the amusing dynamic between Mike Donovan and Ham Tyler.

Looking forward to the new series with curiosity.

LOLOLOLOL!! !

First of all, yeah, V is so NOT new! We watched all of it when I was a kid. My dad was a sci-fi geek and we all took after him somewhat. And the Beastmaster was in it! LOL! And let me tell you, that speaks volumes... both are not to be missed if you like kitschy, corny fantasy and science fiction movies. Some choice moments from V, points where even a tween is watching and saying, "What the...?":

The woman who got pregnant by one of the aliens (who as it turned out looked like anthropomorphic lizards) giving birth to twins, and beautiful blonde monster with poison sacs concealed in her neck and a weak, green, scaly infant that crawled from it's mother's birth canal and later died in the NICU. I can still remember the hand puppet appearing above the sheet to the horror of the hospital staff!

The same blonde monster growing with remarkable speed (so as to outrun the show's cancellation and become a major character as quickly as possible to save it from said cancellation) even going so far as to wander off and cocoon herself, emerging from her chrysalis in just no time at all as a naked adult with hair a foot shorter and fastened in barrettes she wasn't wearing when she ran away! And they wasted no time in embroiling her in a romance!

And they're remaking this? Well, they could hardly make it worse. If they're going to make an alien invasion story, I wish they'd make Robotech. That would be awesome.

Take heart. The new BSG was not a slavish remake of the old BSG.

ruveyn

The worst part of the original V, so bad it looped back around to good, was at the end of V: The Final Battle when Elizabeth magicked away the nuclear problem with last-second sparkly key-clinging action.

Did she really? I think they lost me after the coccoon barrettes...

for everyone who said that V isn't new, I mentioned that at the end f my first post. I just want to make myself clear.

"This is a remake of an 80's show just so you all know."
XD XD Oh good, I'm relieved. I usually let cliches slide, but I was just about to say, that sounds like just about the most generic sci-fi plot I've ever heard of in my LIFE. But I love suspenseful survival TEOTWAWKI* type things, so I'll probably watch it. OTL I'm sure they'll do something new with it.


*I'm ashamed to know this abbreviation, (paranoid rednecks don't abbreviate often, but when they do it's impressive) but for the record, I learned it on accident. Just like you're about to when you Google it.

My prediction - ABC is the weakest of all the networks. No matter how hard it is trying, V is going to get canceled. Just like Flash Forward is going to get canned. Everyone is going Sci-Fi these days like it's never going to go out of style. And it's just getting overdone.

ABC aint gonna die. lost is immensely popular but this is its last season