V: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON
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The Visitors have been between us. In a singular common moment, they crop up in each vital city in the world, compelling a summary of peace. They wish to share their believe of technology; they wish us to unite. And they have been counting on a really critical member of tellurian nature: devotion. At initial deliberate a threat, the Visitors — or V’s — fast turn a fascination. But when FBI Counter Terrorist Agent Erica Evans discovers what lurks underneath the alarmingly tellurian extraneous of the V’s, facing this brand brand new universe has never been some-more critical — and never has there been some-more at stake. It indeed is the initial of a brand brand new day.
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This series is bad science fiction. First, these aliens look just like us (only skin deep), and there is no mention of how it is possible that aliens from another planet look exactly like human beings (except better looking than most humans)? Give me a break. We evolved to this appearance. The likelihood of another race evolving to look like us would not happen. Any scientist would question how it was possible for visitors to appear human. This was never explored in the show – a huge flaw! However, if they did go down that path, the show would have been vastly different, and better IMHO.
If you want to see good sci-fi, then I suggest you rent/buy District-9. BTW, I could see where people could argue about Star Trek having most of the aliens look human as well. That is true, and I find those episodes (most unfortunately), awful as well.
Beyond the fact that the “visitors” look alien, this is standard television writing at its worst. It is such a bad soap-opera, and little happens of any consequence. I haven’t been watching it much myself. My wife likes bad sci-fi. I catch bits and pieces of it. I piss her off by making comments like “oh, that’s such BS”, or “look, they have a dead visitor, she (the FBI gal) could bring the body into a TV station and show the whole world that the visitors are not as they appear.” It is lame. Totally lame.
I gave up TV ten years ago. I suggest you all do as well. You can cherry-pick what you like by watching VOD from Amazon, Hulu, or Netflix VOD (or DVD rental). Television sucks, and the series V is proof that it is time to back away from the television trough of hog-feed.
Want to see good sci-fi? Rent District-9; Cloverfield; the original Andromeda Strain (1971); the first 2 seasons, and the first 3 episodes of season-3 (then stop there) of BSG; or Forbidden Planet (kind of hokey, but the story line is great). Two good series: the previously mentioned BSG, and Firefly. They both are set in space, and both have no aliens whatsoever during their entire series.
Rating: 1 / 5
I was a huge fan of the original mini-series, but I didn’t want a recycled script with new actors, or even the old ones. I have done my time with re-boots and re-imaginings, some of it good and some of it bad. So I’m not a hyperventilating old-school fan who gets upset when everything isn’t done the way it was the first time. When I first heard about this series, I thought cool, let’s see what they can do. Then I heard about the airing schedule, and I wasn’t going to watch at all, figuring I was being set up like Kings. I changed my mind about watching, but I don’t think the outcome will be any different.
The pilot gave me whiplash. In 47 minutes they managed to jam in *almost* all the plot that took nearly three and a half hours in 1983. I felt like major pieces were missing, like I wasn’t being shown things. Instead Ryan tells us everything; he’s a narrator, not a character. Some of it came later, but the pilot was just rushed. I didn’t want to watch any more after that because it went so fast, but other elements proceeded too slowly, so I kept at it hoping for… I’m not certain.
Why are the Visitors here? What do they need from us? They never really answer that question, and after 11 episodes I’m still not sure. As a result I don’t know why there is even a resistance, except apparently they’ve got jackets. (They’re nice leather ones at that. The Visitors, however, have nylon jackets, because they are technologically advanced and wanted something they could throw in the wash.)
I can only suspend my disbelief so far, and there are a lot of plot holes shouting “Nothing to see here! Hey, look at the pretty people and SFX!” The writers give us information that we don’t care about and probably don’t need, and there is too much time wasted on computers, or dithering around at the FBI. Anyone can be revealed to be a “V” at any time (see also Cylon and Bobby Ewing stepping out of the shower). We will defeat the Vs with Love and Empathy–seriously??
Tyler is special, but they won’t hint at why, and instead make him the center of a plot better suited for All My Children. Ryan can make babies with human women, but they won’t tell us how THAT happened, either (even Ryan isn’t telling us that one). Erica has a rebellious son who seems to always have his jacket on him, otherwise she would be able to name one bad thing the Vs have done, since she is FBI and can access anything without IT seeing it. Father Jack is an idiot who cannot adapt to the situation, yet they keep him in the loop. Anna is Wicked Evil but she seems to have no motivation. I keep wanting to call the reporter Chad Vader for some reason, and John May is built up to a fever pitch… then nothing. The gun-for-hire has a beard and does not get top billing even though he got a jacket.
Amidst all this is Anna’s chief medical officer, Joshua, who we rarely see, but seems to be running the Fifth Column. Joshua, who must brutally execute people and show no emotion lest he out himself, who seems to be able to do anything on a moment’s notice, who is always there when Ryan calls on his little marble, never tells his story. I don’t think we’ll ever know, since the writers are too busy figuring out the paternity of Annakin Skywalker and coming up with some new, hip reason the Vs are here. (Food and water are needs that are either too simple or too complicated for the audience to understand these days.)
I went into this expecting ABC to cancel it, and I think ABC did as well. With a five MONTH gap between airing episodes 4 and 5, it’s hard to believe otherwise. Shows like this are why people watch cable and go to the movies–nobody wants to invest time in something knowing they’re going to be cut off mid stream. Broadcast networks seem to just let something sink or swim rather than trying to cultivate anything past the first 4 or 5 episodes anyway. Why should I invest my time when I know they won’t? The writers sure didn’t, but maybe they knew the network would kill it all along. I did, and I didn’t even get a jacket.
Rating: 1 / 5
This is a horrible show. I am angry that ABC chose this piece of garbage over flash foward. This show will be a failure in the fall for the network. I bet on it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Get someone who understands science before you try writing Sci-Fi. Eugh, I think the low point was when I heard the line, “that fleet you ordered has started entering the outer solar system – within radar range.” ABC, you can do better.
Kenneth Johnson must be crying in his soup – a 27-year-long wait, for THIS?
Rating: 1 / 5
I’m going to start off by saying that while I love and adore the original sets of V miniseries (V and V: THE FINAL BATTLE), I absolutely loathed the spin-off weekly series. Waaaaay too soap-opera for me.
With the advent of smarter and deeper television over the last decade, I was first in line to give the new V series a chance, especially since it had featured so many actors that I had loved from other shows I loved (Elizabeth Mitchell from LOST, Morena Baccarin AND Alan Tudyk from FIREFLY and Laura Vandervoort from SMALLVILLE), and a modern sensibility brought to a great Sci-Fi concept is usually a good thing (see BATTLESTAR GALACTICA).
But where the old V miniseries succeeds is every place that the new V weekly series falls short.
First, there’s character: After watching the first ten episodes, I found, and not for nostalgia’s sake, that I cared more about the original miniseries’ characters over the course of 3-4 hours than I ever did about any of the characters on this incarnation. There is just nothing there to connect with. Mitchell’s FBI/mom character is the only one that has anything to work with and it’s just not enough. Baccarin’s Anna has none of the gleeful devilishness of the original series’ Diana; Scott Wolf’s Chad Decker is so much of a non-entity that I’m surprised that he’s even credited.
Second, the plot: It’s pretty much the same as the original, but the V’s seem to be bringing more with them. And certainly their weapons are more high-tech. And they’ve been here before, developing “sleeper cells” which is a change from the original. But in a Post-9/11 America, we sure are awful quick to accept the V’s, which just doesn’t hold water. And conversely, we’re awful quick to determine that there has to be a Resistance against these evil V’s… and this is all in the first episode.
Third, the action: Where is it? There was never a moment of tension that was more than barely palpable in all the episodes I watched.
In the final analysis, I stopped watching not because it doesn’t match up to the original, but because it could be smarter and more tense, and it just isn’t. I gave it chance after chance, but besides the few moments I thought worked, there were so many that didn’t.
I never thought that I’d be yearning for the days of Marc Singer, but the new V series does make you more than just nostalgic. It makes you wonder why, when there have been great Sci-Fi shows like LOST, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and FIREFLY, that this is a show that has been successful. It’s obvious that ABC is looking for its next LOST, but V is not it. Not by a long shot.
Rating: 2 / 5