RE: V series
POSTED BY: zzetta13
UPDATED: Friday, November 13, 2009 03:41
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Interesting posts my fellow browncoats!
Pizmobeach & Patchist, yepper I was thinking about that too ( too much drama and becoming stagnant and boring) “V” finds itself in an odd position, what to do to bring in non Sci/fi folk and not become stale. We know that for a science fiction tv show to succeed and draw in a bigger viewing audience that will tune in every week it can not take itself too serious. That will loose the non devoted viewers very quickly. How can “V” achieve this and still be good?
Firefly and Galaxy Quest are a couple of shows that seemed to have been able to mix emotional drama and comedy and still come out smelling like a rose.
My wife picked out that Alan was a bad guy rather quickly, so if the writers were thinking that that bit of breaking news was a shocker…..they were way off mark. She exited to the kitchen just as the last scene of the episode faded out. Wash, dead again. Not so I had to find her and tell that he would be back for the next episode…..and with glee I might add.
I know that “V” cannot become a sci/fi comedy ( like Ice Pirates- which I rather enjoyed) But it will have to do something. The younger priest that was right on the borderline of crossing the LINE was a little disturbing, hope that that isn’t pursued in later eps. And the fellow that was about to pop the question to his fiancé is a lizard thing himself ? Holy smokes……what if they had kids?
“ Hi good to meet ya, here’s my son Iguana-Don, and my daughter Herba-Don. We'll have the double paddy McMice burger with a side of Hash-browncoats thank you!”
Z
Zeek, I totally agree with you on the clapping thing.
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Loved it. Can't wait to see more of Alan. Too bad he's not in the cast. Alan needs his own show, gorramit.
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Loved it! When I saw Alan I figured since he was only a guest star he would be killed or something. Did not see that coming.
And I love Morena playing evil.
Can't wait until next week.
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Very impressed by the visual effects and set design (Virtual sets perhaps?) on the mothership.
Morena was, as has been noted, mesmerizing, and Alan was... Alan!
Nice that the symbology of the Visitors (as seen in the view from the floating remote assassin) is the same as in the original miniseries.
http://thevisitors.info/
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It was rushed...but I think my biggest problem with the episode was something they even pointed out in it...all the aliens are very "beautiful" people. I certainly have nothing against the great looks of Morena B. & Laura V., but one of my favorite characters from the original mini-series/series was 'Willie' played by Robert Englund. That character/actor would have no place in this group.
Everything just seemed so FORMULA and predictable.
Also...and I will put this under spoilers:
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The idea of having the sleeper cells already in place on Earth and the Visitor resistance force already established out of Visitors who suddenly felt invasion would be wrong seem a bit too neat for my tastes.
"Jayne is a girl's name" - River
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Originally posted by zzetta13:
Holy smokes……what if they had kids?
You know this is a remake, right?
It was about what I expected ... hokey. Wasn't the Visitor's leader named Diana in the original? And now they are going with Anna. I found it interesting the way Anna blinked, very reptilian like. It must've been on purpose, right? Was that Moreana or did they CG that in?
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Originally posted by lesather:
It was rushed...but I think my biggest problem with the episode was something they even pointed out in it...all the aliens are very "beautiful" people. I certainly have nothing against the great looks of Morena B. & Laura V., but one of my favorite characters from the original mini-series/series was 'Willie' played by Robert Englund. That character/actor would have no place in this group.
Actually, I thought Alan was going to play the "new" Willie!
Ol' Willie got even less beautiful in his next project, didn't he?!
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I watched not knowing what the original show was. I mean, I knew it had something to do with aliens that look like people (from the commercials), but didn't know why the show was called "V". (Wait, V for Visitors? Ohhh. I get it now.)
Other than the knife in my chest whenever I see Morena with short hair, the show seemed alright. I agree it should have been 2 hours, though. (Damn ABC, keep pushing their Dancing crap.)
Yay, Morena is major character! (She has a job!) Wow, she's so pretty. And good. A good evil woman/reptile.
Alan's in it. Awesome.
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Halfway through the show he turned Alpha-like evil. Cool. But then they stabbed him through chest with that thing. Crap, they killed him again! I got kinda pissed.
After it all, I see the preview: Wash lives!!!
I think I'll be watching this show. (Hell, I got nothing else to watch on Tuesday nights anyways.)
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Quote:It's a cook book!!
Originally posted by cljohnston108:
Very impressed by the visual effects and set design (Virtual sets perhaps?) on the mothership.
Morena was, as has been noted, mesmerizing, and Alan was... Alan!
Nice that the symbology of the Visitors (as seen in the view from the floating remote assassin) is the same as in the original miniseries.
http://thevisitors.info/
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Originally posted by whozit:
It's a cook book!!
Ha! That's exactly what I was thinking when all those morons started applauding after the head Visitor appeared on the giant big screen in the sky.
Have none of these people seen The Twighlight Zone episode "To Serve Man"? Or at least seen the Simpsons' Halloween episodes?
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