V Returns

[theenglish]

^I smell reboot here, to be honest.

I would prefer that to a continuation.

I really can't fathom any valid way of doing a continuation to this series. A reboot is the only way to go.

 

[KB24]

Poor Ken Johnson. He's been getting jerked around for years about a sequel and update and now its just gung ho without him.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

My bet is that they pull a BSG - take the name and the barest whiff of the general premise and just run off in a whole new direction.

 

[Hermiod]

My bet is that they pull a BSG - take the name and the barest whiff of the general premise and just run off in a whole new direction.

Which is the best way to go, IMHO.

 

[Level 2 Diagnostic]

Poor Ken Johnson. He's been getting jerked around for years about a sequel and update and now its just gung ho without him.

To be fair, would you really trust the director of Steel with your potential sci-fi franchise?

As for the reboot, I expect lots of heavy-handed comparisons to the war in Iraq... i.e., the Resistance are "insurgents" who commit "terrorist" acts to drive out the "occupying force" of the Visitors, etc.

 

[Gotham Central]

My bet is that they pull a BSG - take the name and the barest whiff of the general premise and just run off in a whole new direction.

Which is the best way to go, IMHO.

I think its the only way to go. The problem with V is that in the intervening years, other sci-fi stories have copied its format. Both Earth: Final Conflict and Independence Day have elements of the story.

Not only that, but the reveal of their "secret" is already known.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

I'd like to see them steal Invasion's idea - to have a major character who thinks he's human and then finds out otherwise, or just adopts his human persona so completely that he can't really go back.

 

[Greg Cox]

I remember watching the 4400 and Elizabeth(?) started turning into future jesus and then aged instantaneously and I was thinking, hey, they ripped off V.

Actually, that was Isabelle, just in case anyone was worrying about that.

 

[darkwing_duck1]

I remember watching the 4400 and Elizabeth(?) started turning into future jesus and then aged instantaneously and I was thinking, hey, they ripped off V.

Actually, that was Isabelle, just in case anyone was worrying about that.

Indeed, Elizabeth was the character being "ripped off"...