[TESLA]

Hey all,

been away for a few days, havent had time to respond to any of the threads yet.......   


Got this link emailed to me from a friend of mine.

A new 'V' tv series. I think it looks kind of cool! Loved the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahjPQjQGdbU&feature=related


Lot of familiar faces in it...... 

[Flipside]

Hmmmmm... Didn't look too bad, but just a hint of 'Christianity vs Scientology' about it.

[TESLA]

Hmmmmm... Didn't look too bad, but just a hint of 'Christianity vs Scientology' about it.

Wonder if its ABC's opposition to 'Caprica' ?

[Aardwolf]

Interesting...

[Mefustae]

Morena.

****ing.

Baccarin.

Sold.

[Mongoose]

Never heard of 'V', but some of that looked for all the world like Independence Day...although I suspect that comparison should probably go the other way.

[Jeff Vader]

The original V and The Final Battle were good, but the lower-budget series after that was sorta like... well, horrible.

[Nuke]

looks kind of intresting, ive watched the original so this might prove to be intresting.

[perihelion]

Never heard of 'V', but some of that looked for all the world like Independence Day...although I suspect that comparison should probably go the other way.

Yes, it does go the other way around.  And both owe their inspiration to Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.  At least, that's the earliest instance I've seen of that kind of city-dwarfing flying saucer.  There may be an earlier one.  Certainly, Clarke's is the most famous example of that archetype.

[Flipside]

Is the story itself similar though?

The main difference between ID4 and V is that, in ID4, there's no attempt made to hide the intentions, V was more along the lines of a resistance fighting against an apparently benevolent race that had hidden intentions. The simple existence of 'Big Flying Saucers' does not a story make

[perihelion]

I wasn't talking about the story; I was talking about the "gigantic flying saucers that dwarf a city" archetype.

It looks like they are diverging from the original story quite a bit.  To be honest, I'm really ambivalent about this remake.  The original story, though horribly dated by its 1980's American roots, was incredibly well done and well written.  The parallels to Nazi Germany just made the story.  It never would have worked nearly as well without them.  Looks like they are taking a completely different path here.

I guess BSG has proven that you can do a remake well, but the whole idea still gets under my skin.  Just come up with an original idea for once?  Please?  Or at least have the decency not to put who you are ripping off in the freaking title?  [/pointless rant]

[Liberator]

Childhood's End was about a truly benevolent XT species coming to Earth and giving us a Golden Age without ever showing themselves.  Turns out that the reason they hid from us was because they looked like the classical description of demons, and they would never have trusted us had they shown themselves first.  In the end of the story tho, it is revealed to the last human alive that the reason they came to Earth in the first place was to make sure that the emerging collective consciousness from the children of that last generation was benevolent instead of malevolent as our history had shown them that would be the case.

"V" is more along the lines of the old "Wolf in sheep's clothing" fairy tale.

[redsniper]

Childhood's End was about a truly benevolent XT species coming to Earth and giving us a Golden Age without ever showing themselves.  Turns out that the reason they hid from us was because they looked like the classical description of demons, and they would never have trusted us had they shown themselves first.  In the end of the story tho, it is revealed to the last human alive that the reason they came to Earth in the first place was to make sure that the emerging collective consciousness from the children of that last generation was benevolent instead of malevolent as our history had shown them that would be the case.

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