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V cancelled
- Thread starter Temis the Vorta
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When you start to see cast members of a scifi show appear on sitcoms or other series, it's a good indication the scifi show is getting canceled. 
Morena Baccarin appeared on The Mentalist. Masi Oka was in an episode of Hawaii Five-O, just as Christine Rose appeared on Brothers and Sisters.
Morena Baccarin appeared on The Mentalist. Masi Oka was in an episode of Hawaii Five-O, just as Christine Rose appeared on Brothers and Sisters.
Project Alice is trying to jump start a campaign to get TNT to pick the show up. It's all over Twitter.
V is one of those shows that I wanted to like from the beginning.
The direction of Season 1 just wasn't really what I'd been expecting.
Many of the characters seemed like they were there either to be a hindrance or sacrificed in order to escalate the plot tension.
Then things were reshuffled a bit and they started doing some more grandiose type stories but bases on cliches of genre films from the 1950's.
In the end, I watched it all, but I just never enjoyed it as much as I'd wanted to.
Most certainly it's another excellent example of an arc based show rushed into production without a "proper plan" or "series bible" in place to deal with the types of questions that writers accustomed to a week to week type schedule can't churn out as effortlessly as they can for shows like CSI or L&O.
The direction of Season 1 just wasn't really what I'd been expecting.
Many of the characters seemed like they were there either to be a hindrance or sacrificed in order to escalate the plot tension.
Then things were reshuffled a bit and they started doing some more grandiose type stories but bases on cliches of genre films from the 1950's.
In the end, I watched it all, but I just never enjoyed it as much as I'd wanted to.
Most certainly it's another excellent example of an arc based show rushed into production without a "proper plan" or "series bible" in place to deal with the types of questions that writers accustomed to a week to week type schedule can't churn out as effortlessly as they can for shows like CSI or L&O.
TNT already has Falling Skies debuting in a few weeks, and they don't need another alien invasion series. My hunch is that Falling Skies will show V how it's done.
If TNT wants to branch out, they should pick another subgenre of sf/f - space opera or supernatural horror (Locke & Key is available).
Yeah, there was simply too much of people just standing around waiting to say their lines.
The problem with this show is the premise. Once they defeat the V, the show's over so they never actually do it. I know LOST is controversial for many but it succeeded in solving this problem. The goal of the show became less of getting off the island and more of figuring out the mystery of it all. V had no hook to keep you coming back.
The problem with this show is the premise. Once they defeat the V, the show's over so they never actually do it. I know LOST is controversial for many but it succeeded in solving this problem. The goal of the show became less of getting off the island and more of figuring out the mystery of it all. V had no hook to keep you coming back.
Considering TNT has it's new 'post Alien Invasion' series ramping up to premire in June (called "Falling Skies"); I doubt that'll happen.
I DVRed and caught up with the last 5 episodes of the 'new' V; and while the writing and pacing had improved a bit, it was still rather meandering and dull. Won't miss it.
Edited to add: Ooops Temis beat me to it.
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I know I just posted that as a means to spread the word on things associated with V.
Lost was really all in the characters - they were lost before they ever got to the island - the compelling part of the story was seeing when and how they would ever be "found." In the end, the mysteries were largely just a gimmick, but the characters were the real story.
And the characters were all in the casting, which is a wild card. There were a couple really good actors in V who were right for their roles (Morena Baccarin and Joel Gresch) while Elizabeth Mitchell was miscast. Ryan and Tyler were badly miscast.
I think the show needed to be more of a one-person-against-the-world idea. Maybe Elizabeth Mitchell, but not as an FBI agent but as a scientist who discovers something suspicious. Then she starts to gather allies against the V's, who are so popular and useful to powerful interests that it's a moot point whether they are up to no good. They've co-opted everyone in power and the little guy is screwed.
Yep. For every Star Trek, there was a Deadly Games (UPN series about escaped video game characters), for every Quantum Leap there was a Time Trax, and for every Land of the Lost there was... well, just about every other attempt at SF in the '70s.
But unlike V, the new BSG made money and was at least noteworthy on the radar of discussion at the watercooler, unlike V who I never met anyone mention it except for two of the actresses. I still know a lot of people, and a lot of females, who love the newer BSG.
(I giggle a lot at BSG each time kobol is mentioned, then again, I am LDS.)
Bummer no Laura Vandervoort, this fall.
Maybe she can pop up on Nikita?!Bummer no Laura Vandervoort, this fall.
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