Posted by Dustin on 11.04.2009 at 6:52 pm

So I watched “V” last night and enjoyed it, enough to keep watching. From my understanding this is going to be like “Harper’s Island,” a one season deal and not supposed to go passed that. I guess if the ratings are good enough, who knows really.

I wasn’t sure what they were going to do given this was a reboot. I mean if you watched it chances are you’ve seen the original, or found out about the original somehow (the net, another person). So the surprises aren’t really there. We know they are lizards. We know they aren’t “of peace.” If they stick to the original story, we know they’ve come to eat us. My guess is they have, as the woman in the scene with the apples levitating didn’t take a bit, but instead handed it to someone else.

I guess what I was most shocked about was how they basically crammed the first 2 hours of the miniseries into this pilot. Visitors arrive – Check. Set up recruiting the teens – Check. The resistance is formed – Check. The Visitors are exposed as lizards – Check. I kinda wonder how they will deal with a whole season now. I’m sure they have a plan, well I hope they do.

One thing they definitely did different was to have the Vs already established on earth and creating strife and conflict so that when they arrived, the world would somehow unite and be brought to peace. In the original it was the other way around, the uniting was really in the world working together to fight back once they realized who the Vs were. Also the original was at a time when nuclear war was on everyone’s mind, and it’s no coincidence the original Vs came in bright red (communism) uniforms.

The show hasn’t gone without flack. A friend felt the show was specifically using Obama wordage to cause controversy and outrage, I guess hoping people would tune in. If you google V and Obama you’ll find all the similarities people have drawn between the two (Change, Hope, universal health care, the fact that Anna seems to look exotic and her ethnic/racial origins aren’t quiet known).