quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: Weeeell....if you limit it to ONLY the initial mini-series, then yes. I agree that "V" was very good for it's time and had untold potential.
Too bad the series blew all that potential.
It's really hard to accept a premise of "as long as you ignore 90% of the stuff after the pilot it was great" as a reason to revive something.
Still, I'll probably watch it and hope for the best. They're at least continuing with original actors and aknowledging that time has past between series. I much prefer this track of thinking over the "re-imagining" of Battlestar Galactica.
I know what you mean..."V:The Series" was a horrid mess. NBC tried to do it on the cheap, and kept meddling with it. AFAIK, NO ONE who considers themselves a big V fan likes the series (as a whole, there WERE a couple of good eps).
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Yeah, you now it was bad if it's not still in cable syndication. Sci-Fi still shows sorry shows like "Kolcheck the Night Stalker" all the time but no one shows "V: The Series".
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Kolchak helped spawn stuff like 'The X-Files' and had some interesting writing, V the Series was a crummy cheap spin-off from a 'made for TV' movie, so no surprises that it bombed. V was basically retelling the Nazi occupation of Europe in a post Star Wars time, so you have to wonder what they were thinking with a mini-series. How did the guy pitch it to the execs, "it's 'Nazis 2; the series!" Or would it be more like "we payed for lots of effects shots and costumes, lets reuse them. Sci-fi fans are dolts, they watch anything with spaceships in it!" Sad thing is, they're partly right.
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