V

[Rastus]

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

[ericire12]

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php?topic=9645.0;topicseen

[GUNS-R-US]

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.

[Pathfinder]

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.

[tombogan03884]

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   

[Sponsor]

[WatchManUSA]

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.

[GUNS-R-US]

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! Most every TV show from back then looks a little cheep compared to todays HD shows.

[tombogan03884]

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?

[WatchManUSA]

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!

[alfsauve]

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.