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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Rastus on November 03, 2009, 02:17:24 PM
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V
A remake by ABC of the old series.
'V' aims at Obamamania
See comments below:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0,7062976.story)
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http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=9645.0;topicseen
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I remember this show, it was a made for TV mini series in the 80's. I thought it was pretty good back then if I recall correctly. I set my DVR for it, see if the new one is any good or not.
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I have a Planning and Zoning committee meeting tonight. I'd miss it but then I am the chairman. Damn! DVR is full, need to purge it so I can maybe record it.
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I have a Planning and Zoning committee meeting tonight. I'd miss it but then I am the chairman. Damn! DVR is full, need to purge it so I can maybe record it.
But it's GOOD to be King ;D
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The original was re-aired of the SyFy network last Sunday. I watched a part of it and it was clearly a “B” series. That being said there was a strong theme of anti-totalitarianism in the series. A media that was under the control of the “Leader.” Don’t believe what you see, believe what you are told. Resistance, no matter what the odds is necessary.
I would be pleasantly surprised if that message comes through in this time. I hope it does but I now expect the media to sell out.
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The original was re-aired of the SyFy network last Sunday. I watched a part of it and it was clearly a “B” series. That being said there was a strong theme of anti-totalitarianism in the series. A media that was under the control of the “Leader.” Don’t believe what you see, believe what you are told. Resistance, no matter what the odds is necessary.
I would be pleasantly surprised if that message comes through in this time. I hope it does but I now expect the media to sell out.
Remember this is was an 80's series! ;D Most every TV show from back then looks a little cheep compared to todays HD shows. ::)
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The original was re-aired of the SyFy network last Sunday. I watched a part of it and it was clearly a “B” series. That being said there was a strong theme of anti-totalitarianism in the series. A media that was under the control of the “Leader.” Don’t believe what you see, believe what you are told. Resistance, no matter what the odds is necessary.
I would be pleasantly surprised if that message comes through in this time. I hope it does but I now expect the media to sell out.
From Eric's link
Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.
The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: ``Why don't you show some respect?!!'' The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: ``Embracing change is never easy.''
So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?
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From Newsbusters
Parallels to Obamamania in ABC's 'V' Sci-Fi Mini-Series, Plus Reporter Helps the Aliens
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2009/11/03/parallels-obamamania-abcs-v-sci-fi-mini-series-plus-reporter-helps-alie
ABC's 'V' mini-series, which will debut tonight (Tuesday) in the first hour of prime time, is “nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity,” but “it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the President's supporters and delight his detractors,” Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin asserted in a review distributed by the McClatchy/Tribune news service and run in Tuesday's Chicago Tribune, among other papers. Garvin contended:
From the fawning reaction of the news media...to the recruiting of human supporters into an alien front group that could easily be mistaken for “community organizing,” the parallels to Obama are unmistakable.
Though the leader of the aliens, in Garvin's words, “is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us,” the plot has a featured character, a TV journalist, aiding the effort. “Some welcome their arrival,” USA Today's Gary Levin recounted, “but the suspicious form a resistance movement, which leads the visitors' charismatic leader, Anna (Morena Baccarin), to enlist an ambitious TV reporter (Scott Wolf) as a propaganda tool.” Garvin, presumably citing the same character: “One simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question.”
A storyline ripped from real-life!
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I was pleased to see the re=runs of "V" and have them on DVR now.
And I was thinking along the same lines as other posters. How, relevant to today, though not faced with beings from outer space, the "leader" mentality is spot on.
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DVR set.
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The original was GREAT! When that hot chick with black hair would swallow a guinnie pig... Good stuff! ;D
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The original was GREAT! When that hot chick with black hair would swallow a guinnie pig... Good stuff! ;D
Yeah, but can she - or the new one - suck start a Harley? ? ? ?
Sorry, it's been a while since I had to go to the corner, but that line just cracks me up and puts me ROTFLMAO!
Can't record it - GF has commandeered the DVR for NCIS. Funny thing is, I pay for the damn thing. Oh well.
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Yeah, but can she - or the new one - suck start a Harley? ? ? ?
Sorry, it's been a while since I had to go to the corner, but that line just cracks me up and puts me ROTFLMAO!
Can't record it - GF has commandeered the DVR for NCIS. Funny thing is, I pay for the damn thing. Oh well.
A NCIS kicks ass, Ziva is THE perfect woman and I dare anyone to argue.
B Eating guniea pigs and suck starting a Harley? Not turn ons. I'll go with the hot jewish ninja, thanks.
FQ13
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Yeah, but can she - or the new one - suck start a Harley? ? ? ?
Sorry, it's been a while since I had to go to the corner, but that line just cracks me up and puts me ROTFLMAO!
Can't record it - GF has commandeered the DVR for NCIS. Funny thing is, I pay for the damn thing. Oh well.
The GF or the DVR? ;D
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Both ;D
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A NCIS kicks ass, Ziva is THE perfect woman and I dare anyone to argue.
Yes, she is SUPER hot, however she is, to my dismay, anti - hunting. Sorry, I don't care how good looking she is, I'll take a 7 that likes to hunt, or at least doesn't look down on me for it, over a 9 or 10 any day.
Swoop
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I watched it, amd so far find it an interesting update on the original mini-series. However, as a sci-fi geek, I had a few nits to pick:
1. David Icke has already done this story. Oh, wait, he is trying to sell it as the truth.
2. Every physicist, astrophysicists, engineer and many sci-fi geeks would have been screaming wait a minute if aliens said they came here for elements commonly available on Earth. If it is commonly available here, it is commonly available on other spots in the solar system (without dealing with dangerous sentients like humans).
3. If they want to wipe out humanity, they could easily do it without subterfuge and from orbit.
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Both ;D
What he said.
I watched it, amd so far find it an interesting update on the original mini-series. However, as a sci-fi geek, I had a few nits to pick:
1. David Icke has already done this story. Oh, wait, he is trying to sell it as the truth.
2. Every physicist, astrophysicists, engineer and many sci-fi geeks would have been screaming wait a minute if aliens said they came here for elements commonly available on Earth. If it is commonly available here, it is commonly available on other spots in the solar system (without dealing with dangerous sentients like humans).
3. If they want to wipe out humanity, they could easily do it without subterfuge and from orbit.
Apparently you didn't watch the original - they want to destroy us but in a way that means they have to keep us whole and in fine fettle.
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They don't want to "Wipe out humanity" they want to cull us, kind of like the Dems do at election time.
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Apparently you didn't watch the original - they want to destroy us but in a way that means they have to keep us whole and in fine fettle.
I did. That is another nit pick. There are other easier and faster growing food sources for them. In the original, they were eating all sorts of rodents. Shoot, if they came and just stole all the cattle and horses, that would make more sense than eating people. We take to long to grow.
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Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.
They just want to serve man. ;D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29
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You guys just gave me the HEEEBEEEGEEEBEEE'S with the title of this thread let alone the further posts.. I am now going to try and forget I ever saw this and hope that I don't have too many nightmares..
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I did. That is another nit pick. There are other easier and faster growing food sources for them. In the original, they were eating all sorts of rodents. Shoot, if they came and just stole all the cattle and horses, that would make more sense than eating people. We take to long to grow.
There's just no accounting for taste!
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I watched it, amd so far find it an interesting update on the original mini-series. However, as a sci-fi geek, I had a few nits to pick:
1. David Icke has already done this story. Oh, wait, he is trying to sell it as the truth.
2. Every physicist, astrophysicists, engineer and many sci-fi geeks would have been screaming wait a minute if aliens said they came here for elements commonly available on Earth. If it is commonly available here, it is commonly available on other spots in the solar system (without dealing with dangerous sentients like humans).
3. If they want to wipe out humanity, they could easily do it without subterfuge and from orbit.
In the original series, in one of the last couple of episodes, they make it clear that Earth was not the first place they have "harvested," so to speak. This isn't their first rodeo. I guess they are really hungry critters that prefer their food served "fresh."