First 'V: Visitors' scenes released

[melancholymecha]

It would be hard for this new one to be anything but an improvement on the snooze fest the original was.

Oh yes, it was such a snooze-fest, with such terrible ratings, that NBC did TWO minis AND a series.

No kidding. I was in the 8th grade then and this was an Uber-event. Everyone was talking about it -- teachers and students, both male and female. The original mini-series was awesome.

my PARENTS were watching it! Seriously... my parents only mostly watched spanish language shows.(well they occasionaly liked Incredible Hulk & Dukes of Hazzard too.)

 

[Gotham Central]

Nothing will beat the original ad campaign. First they plastered these propaganda posters everywhere with slogans like "we come in peace" and Friendship is Universal. Then gradually someone came around and spray painted a red V onto the poster. Great stuff.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Nothing will beat the original ad campaign. First they plastered these propaganda posters everywhere with slogans like "we come in peace" and Friendship is Universal. Then gradually someone came around and spray painted a red V onto the poster. Great stuff.

They should just do that again.

 

[roguephoenix]

V gives a big, beautiful head

Fascinating. I hope this show is a fun, fast paced drama like Burn Notice and not a medium of yawn inducing boredom like NuBSG.

if not, you can always replay that wolvercrap movie over and over when you buy it on dvd.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i think this will be more of an allegory of how we are handling the "war on terrorism", with a lot more grey.

The original V boiled down to us vs. them, and them people are evil. (But showing us how some of "us" succumb to helping the "dark side")

I can see this series as challenging fanatacism....of BOTH sides. not just the "devotion" of the V followers, but how hate of the enemy can become extreme. (i type this as i hear Jon Stweart mocking Dick Cheney and his justification of the Bush administration approach to the war & suspected enemies)

Maybe i am being too hopeful...but i am certainly intrigued by it.

But i am also hoping for a guest spot by Marc Singer as a fanatic resistance member who gets close enough to the leader to yell "Die, Anna!"

 

[Sheep]

Maybe the Visitors are evolved Dinosaurs who want to reclaim Earth. Wouldn't that be retarded?

I am glad you don't write for the show. In fact, I think you should delete that so any writers who might be lurking don't get any brilliant ideas.

 

[StarTrek1701]

V gives a big, beautiful head

Fascinating. I hope this show is a fun, fast paced drama like Burn Notice and not a medium of yawn inducing boredom like NuBSG.

if not, you can always replay that wolvercrap movie over and over when you buy it on dvd.

Dude, I panned Wolverine.

 

[Greg Cox]

I hope this show is a fun, fast paced drama like Burn Notice and not a medium of yawn inducing boredom like NuBSG.

Word to the wise: if you want the majority to agree with you, don't insult their tastes.

Gotta admit, that struck me as a bit gratuitous. We get it. You don't like Battlestar Galactica.

What's that got to do with "V"?

 

[Vonstadt]

Nothing will beat the original ad campaign. First they plastered these propaganda posters everywhere with slogans like "we come in peace" and Friendship is Universal. Then gradually someone came around and spray painted a red V onto the poster. Great stuff.

They should just do that again.

I remember that, the posters were in subways and in and around the NBC building in NYC. Everyone was asking what the heck?

Everyone was geared o watch it, it was a brilliant campaign and they should do something very similar.

Vons

 

[FreezeC77]

PR people are too lazy now, they'll probably some lame online viral thing or twitter regarding the show if they do anything. Nothing to that extent from the 80s

 

[Aragorn]

^ Forget... everything... you... know!

This... is... not... your... father's... V!

HAM TYLER: "I will not allow you to lecture me!"
MIKE DONOVAN: "Then why don't you stop me?"

 

[Temis the Vorta]

i think this will be more of an allegory of how we are handling the "war on terrorism", with a lot more grey.

I hope not. The premise doesn't lend itself to modern real-life allegory at least not in such a direct manner. One of BSG's biggest failings was trying to impose real-world allegories on a premise that didn't lend itself to such efforts (and then the producers trying to tell the audience that they are at fault for making the obvious and natural conclusions about a plotline dealing with, for example, suicide bombers.)

The V story seems to be more about the dangers of allowing blind faith to control your society - the Visitors are built up into a quasi-religion (which isn't unrealistic for the first alien contact w/Earth if the aliens look and act as nice as the Visitors do). There are some obvious real-life parallels there, but a lot that isn't parallel, and the producers should be careful about how the audience is likely to perceive such things - if you don't mean for there to be a direct parallel, don't use a heavy-handed approach that leads the audience to that conclusion.

 

[StarTrek1701]

I hope this show is a fun, fast paced drama like Burn Notice and not a medium of yawn inducing boredom like NuBSG.

Word to the wise: if you want the majority to agree with you, don't insult their tastes.

Gotta admit, that struck me as a bit gratuitous. We get it. You don't like Battlestar Galactica.

What's that got to do with "V"?

Nothing. I was just making a point.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Televisionary certainly liked the pilot (spoilers in the review, but they're marked):

V - "gripping," "electrifying," "sets up a slew of intriguing possibilities for the ongoing series."

What Peters does do extremely well here is imbue the pilot of V with an immense amount of promise and potential. After seeing just the first intoxicating installment, I'm already delirious with excitement about seeing just what happens next. Like The 4400, V excels at juggling multiple characters, each with their own storylines, and a number of subplots. There's a little bit of exposition at the start and, as I indicated earlier, the characters need some more shading but for a pilot (and one with the run time decidedly under an hour), I think that V perfectly sets up what looks to be an exciting and thought-provoking sci-fi series.

 

[Morpheus 02]

i think this will be more of an allegory of how we are handling the "war on terrorism", with a lot more grey.

I hope not. The premise doesn't lend itself to modern real-life allegory at least not in such a direct manner. One of BSG's biggest failings was trying to impose real-world allegories on a premise that didn't lend itself to such efforts (and then the producers trying to tell the audience that they are at fault for making the obvious and natural conclusions about a plotline dealing with, for example, suicide bombers.)

The V story seems to be more about the dangers of allowing blind faith to control your society - the Visitors are built up into a quasi-religion (which isn't unrealistic for the first alien contact w/Earth if the aliens look and act as nice as the Visitors do). There are some obvious real-life parallels there, but a lot that isn't parallel, and the producers should be careful about how the audience is likely to perceive such things - if you don't mean for there to be a direct parallel, don't use a heavy-handed approach that leads the audience to that conclusion.

The thing is, the twist is that the "good guys" (us) are the terrorists. So it could give us a very uniqu view on the "War on Terror", and how to address those issues.

Also, it would be interesting to hear other comparisons in history. The Marshall Plan, for example, to me, was a time where the US acted a lot like the Visitors...we pacified a potential enemy (i.e. a resurgent Germany and/or Japan) by our gifts of technology and improving the society we were visiting.

The parallels you talk about are also possibilities...i am sure we'll have a lot of people comparing the Visitors to the Obama campaign, for example.



Maybe i'm being too over optimistic (and watching too many Korean Historical Dramas), but i think there's a lot of potential in the new V.

 

[melancholymecha]

I got a Heroes season 1 vibe from the first clip...

I hope they go for something interesting when they reveal their alien look(heck, will they even look like aliens?)

ok I just saw the full trailer on youtube and they are indeed gonna be alien-like...things underneath the human skin. Good! I was worried theyd make them aliens that look just like humans(lame!) just so they wouldnt scare off the genre-phobes.

 

[SalvorHardin]

I remember enjoying V as a kid.... haven't watched it in ages though and I can't say I remember that much.

The promo looks OK and miss Vandervoort, who I'm very fond of, is in it so I'll be watching.

 

[Stone_Cold_Sisko]

This show looks fantastic. With BSG over with, and Lost almost over with, this (along with hopefully Caprica) will be my next sci-fi tv obsession.

I loved the original mini-series, kind of lukewarm on The Final Battle (and as far as I'm concerned, it ends there).

 

[Aike]

This "sublte" approach reminds me more of "Earth:Final Conflict" than "V"...

Yes, me too. And that is why this series will suck and rape my childhood. I loved V. (But come to think about the first season did rape my childhood since it sucked too. The mini series still rocks, though.)

 

[Agent Richard07]

Nothing will beat the original ad campaign. First they plastered these propaganda posters everywhere with slogans like "we come in peace" and Friendship is Universal. Then gradually someone came around and spray painted a red V onto the poster.

Brilliant!