I'm fine with the cheap stuff. My biggest issue with the whole thing was not seeing enough lizard people. Besides the baby, the only time I remember seeing a lizard face was when they kill the fake Michael. The baby was cool though, I was hoping for something like that.
>it's another thinly veiled Nazi allegory
They even make it too "on the nose" by the comparison between rounding up scientists and rounding up israelites. With the israelite who joins the visitors and he grandpa giving him "the talk". This show the first time I remember seeing anything about the holocaust.
Adaptation of a book written in 1935, It Can't Happen Here. Oozes paranoia. Highlights include: >illegal whos grandfather "fought with Zapata" >Shoah grandpa >israeli David the collaborator >jive talking black characters >Diversity wins
I just looked it up. I didn't know there was a 1984 tv series either. All I watched was the original miniseries and the final battle. How's the 1984 series?
First saw it in the late 90s when I was still a brat. Loved it then, still love it today. I watch the original miniseries and V: The Final Battle (which had an OK ending, very sappy, but always gives me a good feeling, although it contains a big asspull). Don't bother with the TV series after it.
She was cute, but Diana in that uniform is unbeatable.
the most despicable villain in TV history
I was happy when she gets shot in the back. Whatever happened to Michael's son? The last you see of him is when he is eating cake with her, sharing their battle plans.
Cheap f/x but it was still a pretty good series for its time.
I'm fine with the cheap stuff. My biggest issue with the whole thing was not seeing enough lizard people. Besides the baby, the only time I remember seeing a lizard face was when they kill the fake Michael. The baby was cool though, I was hoping for something like that.
The baby freaked me out when I was a kid. Looks laughably fake now but then, at like 6, something about it got me.
I'd kill to see Diana's lizard breasts.
Classic example of executive meddling. Kenneth Johnson has done many interviews about how the network ruined it.
I'm curious, can you give some examples of what they did?
I wish I had seen it as a kid. I could definitely see it being scarier that way.
Ehhh I dunno anon. I think it would’ve been better if I’d had some sort of parental supervision growing up instead
As a kid in 1983, watching Special Bulletin, V, and The Day After in the span of a few months on TV was a special kind of traumatic ride.
it wasn't supposed to be a documentary
This exact reason is why I want to show it to a friend. We discuss things like lizard people, aliens being demons, etc.
Little Willie
Freaked me the frick out as a kid. The guys eating rats snake style is what did it
>tfw no dominant reptilian gf
>it's another thinly veiled Nazi allegory
They even make it too "on the nose" by the comparison between rounding up scientists and rounding up israelites. With the israelite who joins the visitors and he grandpa giving him "the talk". This show the first time I remember seeing anything about the holocaust.
I noticed it too. I thought it was funny they shoehorn the israelites into this.
Come to think of it, I can't remember one non-white looking Visitor.
But this time the israelites joined the Hitler Youth. That was pretty meta.
If that character wasn't there then bringing up the holocaust and the comparison with the scientists would have been much more obviously forced.
>veiled
Why do you think they're lizard people.
It's a thin ass veil, but a veil nonetheless.
>only the scientists can expose our nefarious plot, they must be eliminated
It was in the age before the internet when you couldn't expose bullshit by yourself.
I was more of an Alien Nation enjoyer, but V was fine.
I think the first part was vastly superior to the second
Adaptation of a book written in 1935, It Can't Happen Here. Oozes paranoia. Highlights include:
>illegal whos grandfather "fought with Zapata"
>Shoah grandpa
>israeli David the collaborator
>jive talking black characters
>Diversity wins
I only ever watched the remake that was on ABC at the time, Morena Baccarin is a cutie.
There's a remake? I've got to look this up.
If you watched the original, you're likely going to be disappoint.
I just looked it up. I didn't know there was a 1984 tv series either. All I watched was the original miniseries and the final battle. How's the 1984 series?
>How's the 1984 series?
Even more decisive "Eh".
It's pretty bad. They just wanted to milk it since the minseries was successful.
If you haven't learned yet that it can always get worse you need to lurk more.
can't be worse than the original tv series, can it?
Eh.
Yeah it didn't last long
As I recall they tried to make it an allegory for the secret evils of the Obama administration and... healthcare. Bizarre choice.
>mfw journos become turncoats for privileges
surely this could never happen, right?
First saw it in the late 90s when I was still a brat. Loved it then, still love it today. I watch the original miniseries and V: The Final Battle (which had an OK ending, very sappy, but always gives me a good feeling, although it contains a big asspull). Don't bother with the TV series after it.
Faye Grant was so cute. shame about the kiddy diddler she married.
She was cute, but Diana in that uniform is unbeatable.
I was happy when she gets shot in the back. Whatever happened to Michael's son? The last you see of him is when he is eating cake with her, sharing their battle plans.
the most despicable villain in TV history
Would she have ended as food too eventually? Was the plan to relocate every human or just enough to get a few food farms running back home?
They were trying to take every human and all the water. Martin tells Michael in one of the first two episodes.