So remember back in the ’80s there was this\u00a0wicked mini-series about aliens called V?\u00a0 Yeah, it was awesome.\u00a0 I rewatched it a few years ago and it totally held up, as long as you watched it through an ’80s filter.\u00a0 But the remake pretty much sucks, which is really disappointing because there is so much potential in the concept of alien invasion.\u00a0 I guess sometimes no matter how much you love the original you shouldn’t wish for more of a good thing because it simply turns into a bad thing.\u00a0 The BSG remake was rocktastic but clearly it is the exception to the rule of most remakes\u00a0being shite.<\/p>\n
The new V could not be more dull or pointless.\u00a0 And it’s almost like they were overcompensating for the slowness of the original (everything in the ’80s was slow paced, that’s just how they rolled back then) by making it so fast paced that I almost got whip-lash watching it.\u00a0 They’ve already given away the entire story and there’s only been one episode!\u00a0 We already know the aliens are up to no good and it was pretty much flashed in our faces with neon signs as though we are all afflicted with ADD and ignorance.<\/p>\n
A good portion of the audience will be familiar with the original so I guess they figured they could give everything away in the first 10 seconds but what about new viewers?\u00a0 The lizard reveal was so underdone that I\u00a0was incredulous. \u00a0I mean really?\u00a0 In the original it was so shocking and dramatic when we find out what the Vs really look like but in the remake it’s almost an afterthought.\u00a0 Oh yeah, they’re reptiles, wanna join the resistance?\u00a0 WHAT?\u00a0 Who wrote this shit?\u00a0 Seriously, this is basic screenwriting no-no stuff.\u00a0 Ever heard of “show, don’t tell”?\u00a0 Apparently the hacks who wrote this dreck haven’t.\u00a0 We are literally told by a nameless character that the Vs are bad, yo and they want to kill us, yo, and they’re reptiles, yo so go to this resistance meeting, yo.\u00a0 Ummm…. you could have written an entire season about the characters figuring that shit out for themselves.\u00a0 Why it is simply thrown in our faces so carelessly?\u00a0 It was so bad that I almost wondered if it would be a double reveal of the Vs having another layer of skin under the lizard skin, but no, let’s not give any credit to the creators of this shit.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I guess the point of the show will be the resistance, which you know what, kinda sucks because it’s just going to become an action series with random explosions and shit.\u00a0 Where is the social commentary?\u00a0 Where is the sci-fi?\u00a0 They’re just trying to distract us with pretty spaceships and pretty Morena Baccarin.\u00a0 I guess that’s the\u00a0one amusingly ironic part of the show.\u00a0 One character is smitten with the Vs ’cause they’re hot and so he joins them.\u00a0 I guess they hope that we as viewers will do the same thing.\u00a0 Look, it’s shiny, let’s watch it!\u00a0 The executives at ABC must be rolling around in their piles of money laughing their asses off because they got me to tune in to a steaming pile of dog poo and they will continue to laugh and smoke their cigars because they know\u00a0I’ll watch the next episode in the vain hope that it will improve.\u00a0 UGH!\u00a0\u00a0 Why must I be so addicted to sci-fi?<\/p>\n
Also?\u00a0 The characters suck.\u00a0 There is the aforementioned horndog who joins the Vs ’cause he wants to get laid by Supergirl and there is the newscaster who is so shitty at newscasting that it almost makes me long for his whiny alcoholic character on Party of Fluff.\u00a0 There is the FBI agent who’s also a single mom, which is TV shorthand for multidimentionality.\u00a0 Look, she works AND is a mom, therefore we don’t have to make her compelling in any way whatsoever.\u00a0 Then there’s the priest (!) who questions his faith and stuff… yeah, really.\u00a0 A priest who questions his faith when he sees aliens.\u00a0 Really original material, eh?\u00a0 So far the only one I care about is the dude trying to marry his stupid girlfriend who turns out to be a good-guy V.\u00a0 It’s completely cliched but the other characters are so null and void that he’s the only one who kept me going.\u00a0 Oh, and Morena Baccarin.\u00a0 She could of course read the phone book and be\u00a0fascinating so good casting there.\u00a0 She’s got the beautiful menace thing down pat.\u00a0 So you know what?\u00a0 I’m officially rooting for the\u00a0aliens on this one.\u00a0 Humans suck.\u00a0 Let’s kill them and steal their planet.\u00a0 And first in line to die should be the producers of this crapfest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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