By: D.A.D.

D.A.D. — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:17:48 +0000

I remember the original only with hazy nostalgia – as a child who enjoyed being frightened, “V” (was it the miniseries?) left an indelible dream-like disquiet with what creatures might hide beneath the skin. I cannot compare that childhood visceral response to this new series, yet the opening minutes of “V-2009″ was bizarrely unsettling – bizarrely because there was nothing that we haven’t seen before in film or imagined before in literature in the unwinding of that first big “reveal,” but some combination of elements was just right to send a crippled spider trekking up my spine.
I do not rave, however. There was an element of the trite to be found throughout the pilot – the obviousness of how this portion of the story was to play out, where the characters would be at the end of the episode, the trajectory of micro-storylines (though I admittedly did not see two major character elements coming, more alert watchers likely could). This is somthing we must live with in network TV. Sadly, when a show does seem to make some stride to play within bounds while striving to make of those boundaries a quality framework, rarely does it succeed by virtue of its reaching for art.
I’d like to see more, but I will not allow myself to become attached to the story… too potentially good to be denied a beginning, a middle, and an e

By: Kevin Hall

Kevin Hall — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:05:48 +0000

Saw the first 8 minutes of V and I really liked it! It had a sort of Independence Day feel to it and that’s not a bad thing. The spaceships that came into view were great and the image of the woman on the bottom of one of the space craft was tingling… can’t wait for the pilot episode! Never saw the orginal V… maybe someone can buy me it for christmas? Is V The Miniseries the first ones?

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