V: The Series is so very bad.

[biotech]

The thing I remember most about how bad the series was, was when Ham and the guys infiltrated a building full of visitors, they escaped in a lift, then Ham threw a grenade in the lift, and sent it back up, now this was a normal grenade, he just pulled the pin, didnt set any timers or anything special.

This grenade stayed in the lift as it went up several floors, then the lift opened on the floor with the visitors in, they ran into a lift containing a grenade, and only then did this magically sentient grenade explode.

 

[biotech]

I never got into V myself. Enjoyed the miniseries, though. Thought that had a lot of good stuff in it. I know that V had a big cult fan following in the 80's, though. I do remember one episode where...

Spoiler: Donovan

they had Donovan in a room and told him that it was years later. (Am I remmbering that right?)

I remember enjoying that episode.

Do you need spoiler tags on a show over 20 years old?

 

[Aquehonga]

If you were in 4th grade when V:The Series originally aired it was The Hip Thing Friday nights & on Monday if you missed Friday's episode you were a Herbert.

I find it watchable, like a “good” bad movie, if its on. More V-alue to me nostalgically than anything else

Ahh, the 4th grade:
V:The Series, Transformers (cartoon/toys), Voltron (cartoon/never collected the toys), He-Man (cartoon/had stopped collecting the toys).

I remember alot of kids being aficionados of ROBOTECH back then.

BACK TO TOPIC:
V:The Series, objectively, was crap. Garbage built upon the quicksand foundation of V:The Final Battle's asinine hyper-unrealistic buttmunch climax.

 

[Lt. Trull]

O give me a break... V was ok... quite enjoyable.... and I alway's wanted more... but then my mom taught me as a young child... science fiction/fantasy was better then reality... cuz it's not here... it takes me somewhere else...

and what kind of other science fiction was on tv at that time... not very much... no scifi channel... no flippin the channels to catch a scifi/fantasy show on come other channel... V was it...

I'll take as much as they give us... and If I can live with the various incarnations of trek mythology... any changing to V will be for the better...

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The thing I remember most about how bad the series was, was when Ham and the guys infiltrated a building full of visitors, they escaped in a lift, then Ham threw a grenade in the lift, and sent it back up, now this was a normal grenade, he just pulled the pin, didnt set any timers or anything special.

This grenade stayed in the lift as it went up several floors, then the lift opened on the floor with the visitors in, they ran into a lift containing a grenade, and only then did this magically sentient grenade explode.

Ham Tyler was just that badass.

Must be an ancestor of Captain Robau.

 

[KB24]

You just discovered this *now*? I have each series on dvd, if only for completion. I cant' say I've watched V: The Series since I taped it off the Sci Fi Channel years ago-when they first showed all of V again I was so exited! Now my husband put on a random series episode to fall asleep to.

 

[stonester1]

A much better continuation of the storyline was the comic series put out by DC.

 

[KB24]

I enjoy the first few novels as well, though I haven't gotten the new V script turned book by Kenneth Johnson yet. I imagine the old books mind not be as good going back to read now, either, though I read the miniseries novelization by AC Crispin probably 10 times.

 

[dru]

I really enjoyed the original mini-series and The Final Battle was OK but the TV series seems to have taken a massive drop in quality.

All the same people seem to be involved so I was hoping that someone could shed some light on why it got so bad?

Let me make it clear, the show was seen as a huge drop in quality by fans even when it ran first run. You're wrong about "all the same people... involved" because creator Kenny Johnson only did the original mini-series.

The Final Battle had its moments but I hated the whole "star child" thing.

 

[Christopher]

I imagine the old books mind not be as good going back to read now, either, though I read the miniseries novelization by AC Crispin probably 10 times.

Aside from the ones by Crispin and/or Howard Weinstein, the old books weren't that good the first time either.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

It sucked that they killed of Martin. But... the producers did realize that they made a really stupid move and they brought back the same actor to play the Martin's twin brother Phillip who essentially was Martin with a different name.

Which was of course totally stupid, since Visitors' external human appearance was fake anyway. But they never dealt with that in the episode.

 

[Shawnster]

^ I had a much better idea at the time. Martin wasn't killed in the explosion but was seriously injured. He was found by a blind hermit that tended his wounds and helped him heal until he was well enough to return to the group. Being blind the hermit was never repulsed by the Visitor's true appearance.

I hated that they made the show into a Sci-Fi soap opera as if they could try to pull viewers AWAY from Dynasty/Falcon Crest.

I enjoyed the Final Battle up to the moment the Star Child uses her magical abilities to save the day. There was no need to give her such abilities. And the hyper growth was just a dumb way of getting her to be an adult and not worry about the child labor laws.