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The first episode was good enough to keep me coming back for more. Let's hope that ABC doesn't screw this one up (like they do with so many other series).
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I've been curious for some time how this reimagining would work. Would it cover the ground of both miniseries? Would it start where the TV series did? In effect, it has covered the ground of the miniseries and is pretty close to jumping in where the TV series tried. There are small little changes to distinguish, yet tie, to the previous telling. For instance, Diana is now Anna. I don't even know why bother to change it.
Anyway, I liked it while I was watching it. I'll have to reflect for awhile to see if it sticks with me.
The resistance leader did say the V's have been here for a long time, it's just they're now revealing themselves. He knows about them because he's been in the resistance for a long time and has learned about them. We haven't been given all the information on that, but we have the broad strokes. He isn't a V. Morris Chestnut is.
For some reason I kept wondering where the ships were hiding that neither NASA nor any of the other telescopes or observatories across the world never picked them up. Hiding behind the moon, I guess.
It'll be interesting to see Juliet as leading woman material. She's quite laid back and subdued in her delivery. Whoever is playing Anna, however, leaps off the screen as deliciously evil (for lack of a better word). Attractive and sinister. Just like Diana was, but even more glossy and sophisticated (it is 2009, after all). She's a reason to watch.
That's one heck of s space ship.
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Diana is now Anna. I don't even know why bother to change it.
Probably because the name Diana today doesn't seem youthful or trendy.
Yeah, I also felt that the show seemed a bit rushed. I liked the slow build of the original miniseries better where the strange things that were happening were more subtle. I think they could have stretched it out for maybe another episode.
It did seem like there was some allegory to a certain figure, from the immediate applause of people after Anna's initial message to even a direct reference to a controversial issue that the Vs were offering.
One thing that bothered me is that if you were an alien race trying to appear peaceful, why would you show up in a ship, and open it up like you're about to attack and scare the shit out of people, couldn't they have just said "we're opening up a display panel, don't be frightened" I guess maybe since they are "always peaceful" they never bothered to think that other races might perceive them as a threat (or at least what they would want us to think)
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V for VERY bad... sigh, Julia is not believable AT ALL as an FBI agent.
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My only thought is the Vs must be rather small if they have such thick flesh covering them.
I think a lot of Anna's creepiness is in her odd blinking patterns. In that final scene it seemed she was sending out a message in morse code. :)
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"Die Diana!" never flowed trippingly off the tongue.
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Diana is now Anna. I don't even know why bother to change it.
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So, when do we revisit the part where a cheap plastic lizard crawls out of the woman's belly?
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I loved the miniseries as a youth and even toiled through the series for it's single season. Which leads me to my comment...I'd prefer a miniseries. A regular series will put the pacing all over the map. Fast set-up, interminably drawn out sub-plots, too quick resolutions. We will see. Didn't like the ep much, but I'll still give it a few chances. I much prefer Diana and the 80s hotness, but beggars can't be choosers. And if they have infiltrated...why not use your own newsman to interview with softball questions? Why risk a journalist?
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People clapping in the streets at the beginning after she gave her message is where it started to loose me. I was like the entire of Season 1 of the original crammed in to one ep. Meh effects, meh reveals, didn't really entice me to tune in to the next ep (even though I will).
Yeah, that gave me a groan as well. I certianly wouldn't be clapping because of an Alien message that perports all kinds of great and happy things (call me cynical). This is where I started seeing allegory to a certain person.
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You can read a Barack Obama allegory into the Visitors, but I think you can also read a FreedomWorks/Tea Party allegory into it as well. The larger idea, which I found fasinating, is that the Visitor sleeper cells actively worked to increase political polarization into more radicalized camps around the world. The more radical each side is, the more discord and turmoil in the world. The more discord and turmoil in the world, the more the population will desire a savior. Adolf Hitler exploited the discord and turmoil of Germany under war reparations between the world wars to build support for his national socialist party. What the Visitors have essentially done is artificially manufacture the conditions that allowed someone like Hitler to thrive politically so that they themselves could thrive politically.
Absolutely you could. As I said, I doubt you would see a Hollywood production be directly or exclusively critical of this certain person. "The Devoted" could easilly be applied to the religious people. I think we'll find that there will be parallels to many types of people and speficic people as well. But the other themes you mention are intresting.
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Morena Baccarin is about the hottest woman on the planet in my mind. Oh yes, I will be watching this...
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Morena Baccarin is about the hottest woman on the planet in my mind. Oh yes, I will be watching this...
I have a friend who saw her in a play, and the audience gasped when she entered the stage because she was so beautiful. And since you are a fan, keep an eye out for
Death in Love.
But WTF is up with the hair? Looks horrible.
Interestingly, when my wife saw her in the Swarley epsiode of HIMYM, and she instantly hated her. When she asked me if I found her attractive, I just looked into my shirt and mumbled incoherently. *whew*
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She was one of the best things about
Firefly that's for sure.
The ladies had Nathan Fillion to gawk at and we had Morena.
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Wash!!! and Inara. I was not expecting to see Alan Tudyk. That was a nice surprise. Still watching it now.
Since I wasn't aware of Tudyk's participation on "V", my spidey sense was screaming "dead meat", i.e. early kill victim, or as the episode wound down: mole.
But it's always good to see ABC showing some love to the Firefly crew, nonetheless.
I never realized how crooked Morene'a mouth is when she speaks, it was a bit distracting during her first addressing of the human race via the ship screen.
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That's the same thought I had. I'd want to believe that they were there for benevolent reasons but I'd be cautiously optimistic rather than clapping or going right onto one of their ships or spray painting 'V' on walls, etc.
Group think does funny things to - well, groups. ;)
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early reports is that V has flopped
Lo, there do I see my mother, and my sisters, and my brothers, Lo, there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning, Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, In the halls of Valhalla,where the brave may live...
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