Who will be watching ABC's remake of "V?"

[hondo]

Looks like it might be a bit better than the original, which was '80s schlock epitomized. I still watched every episode back then. Who's going to watch it this time?

 

[Mitch E.]

'80s schlock epitomized.

I'm pretty sure the entire 80's was schlock, so what? I will be watching and hoping it doesn't suck. V was probably the first series that I dove into, and I'll hope for the best here.

 

[Small Town Guy]

The original miniseries, then the Final Battle were classics. The regular series sucked.

Mike Donovan, Julie being tortured by Diana while wearing her formfitting outfit, Diana eating the guinea pig, Robert Englund's good guy character, the alien baby, Ham the merceneray, humans being used and stored for food, discovering the poison, using balloons to disperse the poison. All of it, awesome.

No way the new one lives up to that but I'll definitely be watching.

 

[Herky_Jerky]

I don't know anything about its original incarnation in the '80s, but that trailer looked pretty decent.

 

[sportsguydave]

I don't know anything about its original incarnation in the '80s, but that trailer looked pretty decent.

Two words: Jane Badler. Hot hot hot!! (sorry for the Buster Poindexter moment)

I agree that the miniseries were much better than the thankfully short-lived TV show. They kind of launched Michael Ironside's career, I believe ...

 

[outofplace]

I'll give it a shot. Loved the original miniseries. The ongoing series sucked.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

The original miniseries, then the Final Battle were classics. The regular series sucked.

Mike Donovan, Julie being tortured by Diana while wearing her formfitting outfit, Diana eating the guinea pig, Robert Englund's good guy character, the alien baby, Ham the merceneray, humans being used and stored for food, discovering the poison, using balloons to disperse the poison. All of it, awesome.

No way the new one lives up to that but I'll definitely be watching.

Don't be so sure about that.

I can think of a major sci-fi property from just before that time period that was "re-imagined" recently ... it was pretty good.

My main problem with the original V mini-series was the unexplained-near-miracle-from-on-high that wrapped the story when NBC finally got around to it. The weekly series ... well, it just sucked.

 

[sportsguydave]

The original miniseries, then the Final Battle were classics. The regular series sucked.

Mike Donovan, Julie being tortured by Diana while wearing her formfitting outfit, Diana eating the guinea pig, Robert Englund's good guy character, the alien baby, Ham the merceneray, humans being used and stored for food, discovering the poison, using balloons to disperse the poison. All of it, awesome.

No way the new one lives up to that but I'll definitely be watching.

Don't be so sure about that.

I can think of a major sci-fi property from just before that time period that was "re-imagined" recently ... it was pretty good.

My main problem with the original V mini-series was the unexplained-near-miracle-from-on-high that wrapped the story when NBC finally got around to it. The weekly series ... well, it just sucked.

You'd be talking about the half-alien, half human child magically taking the controls at the end.. the whole "pretanama" thing... or whatever that word was?

And you are right .. That weekly series was fail when fail wasn't cool.

 

[Piotr Rasputin]

The original miniseries was a simple-yet-brilliant Nazi Germany analogy that my eight-year-old self absolutely ate up. Still do, even if the effects look dated. Part of the charm. You know . . . if you talk into a small fan, your voice sounds sort of like the Visitors'.

V; The Final battle deteriorated into cliche and shootout, and while I loved it as a kid, it doesn't hold up as well as the original. Ended on a deus ex machina that trumps any of Star Trek: The Next Generation's most shameless "Geordi and Data solve the problem with tachyons at 5:52 p.m.!" ones. I do enjoy it, though.

The less said about the weekly V series, the better. A few years ago, TV Land actually showed the Pilot as a test to see if enough people would care enough for them to make it regular. Don't believe enough people cared.

I'm pretty excited about this new one. Like Flash Forward, they're taking the logical, yet easy, route with the main character, making here an FBI agent who would have access to all the information the viewer needs to know.

Early returns are that the Pilot is good. I hope so. With Lost going off the air and FlashForward yet to truly grab me after the Pilot, I'm ready to slot this new V into my "Television Show I Am Scarily Obsessed With" vacancy.

 

[RickStain]

Ended on a deus ex machina that trumps any of Star Trek: The Next Generation's most shameless "Geordi and Data solve the problem with tachyons at 5:52 p.m.!" ones. I do enjoy it, though.

Hey, put a spoiler warning!

 

[Ace]

I'll be there.

 

[JayFarrar]

I'm in.
I am about to give up on Flash Forward.
Five minutes of totally awesome open and two minutes at the end isn't enough to keep me around for an hour.

 

[Bubbler]

You know what was bad-ass about the original V? The introduction of the ships. City-sized, ginormous craft.

http://****busters.vaevictis.nl/screens/v.the.series/v01-04.png

I thought it was awesome. To this day, when I see a storm squall move over, I think of those V spacecraft, because it kind of resembles the way those ships moved into frame in the original mini-series.

Hopefully, they'll find a place for Marc "Beastmaster" Singer in the new version.

 

[ArnoldBabar]

You know what was bad-ass about the original V? The introduction of the ships. City-sized, ginormous craft.

http://****busters.vaevictis.nl/screens/v.the.series/v01-04.png

Is that Falcon in there?

 

[outofplace]

The original miniseries, then the Final Battle were classics. The regular series sucked.

Mike Donovan, Julie being tortured by Diana while wearing her formfitting outfit, Diana eating the guinea pig, Robert Englund's good guy character, the alien baby, Ham the merceneray, humans being used and stored for food, discovering the poison, using balloons to disperse the poison. All of it, awesome.

No way the new one lives up to that but I'll definitely be watching.

Don't be so sure about that.

I can think of a major sci-fi property from just before that time period that was "re-imagined" recently ... it was pretty good.

My main problem with the original V mini-series was the unexplained-near-miracle-from-on-high that wrapped the story when NBC finally got around to it. The weekly series ... well, it just sucked.

Hmmm...I wonder if you and I are thinking of the same re-imagined series.

 

[sportsguydave]

You know what was bad-ass about the original V? The introduction of the ships. City-sized, ginormous craft.

http://****busters.vaevictis.nl/screens/v.the.series/v01-04.png

I thought it was awesome. To this day, when I see a storm squall move over, I think of those V spacecraft, because it kind of resembles the way those ships moved into frame in the original mini-series.

Hopefully, they'll find a place for Marc "Beastmaster" Singer in the new version.

Shamelessly stolen for Independence Day, too.

And I agree. I loved the Singer character. How does Michael Ironside end up with regular work after that and Singer doesn't?

 

[dog428]

I'm looking forward to this. However, not looking forward to the ridiculous schedule for it.

ABC plans to air it for four weeks and then pull it until March.

 

[Shoeless Joe]

I'm all over this. I was a huge V fan as a kid. For a 12-year-old boy, Jane Badler/Diana gave me a tingly sensation I was really starting to appreciate.

I even went as far as modifying an old squirt gun so it looked like one of the Visitors' pistols so we could play V in the back yard.

 

[Madhavok]

What night does this air?

 

[Buck]

Our theater manager was a lizard on the old TV show.
I haven't asked him about the remake yet.