V The Series

[mwynn]

Amazon has been playing the mini-series then the regular series.
The mini series is a lot of fun, yet he carried by Jane Badler.

The regular series is pretty weak. It tries to capture the mini series and falls flat.

[Darren75]

V is one of the greatest mini series ever.

I watched it back in the eighties when it originally came out and everybody loved it back then too. There's a cool marketing story as well. They put up the posters advertising the series and then a week later went back and sprayed red V's on them just like in the show.

How Jane Badler didn't go on to become a mega star I'll never know. She looks fantastic in V.

Just avoid the remake with Inara from Firefly, it's terrible.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Darren75

V is one of the greatest mini series ever.

I watched it back in the eighties when it originally came out and everybody loved it back then too. There's a cool marketing story as well. They put up the posters advertising the series and then a week later went back and sprayed red V's on them just like in the show.

How Jane Badler didn't go on to become a mega star I'll never know. She looks fantastic in V.

Just avoid the remake with Inara from Firefly, it's terrible.

Was reading up on the series more and found out they never filmed the last episode of the first season. The mini-series was great. Really good moments and a lot of emotion.

[Darren75]

Originally Posted by mwynn

emotion.

This is the key. Emotion, characters you care about, good writing.

I've been on a bit of an old mini series kick recently because new tv shows are guff.

Things I never watched before because they were too sissy like The Thorn Birds or Pride and Prejudice or Hollywood Wives.

I'd much rather watch two characters I care about fall in love and be torn apart over Agatha Harkness or Dr Who. Even the new Shogun, which was pretty good, isn't in the same universe as the original.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Darren75

This is the key. Emotion, characters you care about, good writing.

I've been on a bit of an old mini series kick recently because new tv shows are guff.

Things I never watched before because they were too sissy like The Thorn Birds or Pride and Prejudice or Hollywood Wives.

I'd much rather watch two characters I care about fall in love and be torn apart over Agatha Harkness or Dr Who. Even the new Shogun, which was pretty good, isn't in the same universe as the original.

I am finding quite a few new shows that are good. Have you watched From?

[Darren75]

Originally Posted by mwynn

I am finding quite a few new shows that are good. Have you watched From?

I haven't but, it sounds like the sort of thing my kid would love and I quite like Harold Perrineau so I'll give it a try next week.

[KcMsterpce]

JC, mwynn bringin' up FROM again.

That show is f***ing bad.
It started with a high concept premise that was taken straight from at least two Stephen King short stories (people end up in a town, but find that after getting lost, there's no way OUT of the town).
Then, the town has vampire-like creatures come out at night and terrorizes the townsfolk (like Salem's - or Jeruselum's - Lot).
However, it has spent three seasons introducing more and more nonsensical mysterious anomalies, and has not answered a single question about the "why" of any of it. The questions of the supernatural visions; electricity working on lamps and other devices that aren't connected to anything; strange vocal signals from radio signals that lead to nowhere; buildings collapsing for no reason to cause mayhem; a man that's been there decades who refuses to ever say any information of value (just hints of "things are getting bad now. I know. I have been here."); no explanation of how the talismans that keep indoor places safe from the 'vampire-things' works, or why; incessant time-wasting episodes that lead to NOWHERE, and NOTHING happens; teleportation because, uhm, why? - no answer yet; everyone making dumb, idiotic choices that leads to forced conflicts which should never have happened if these people were not complete idiots, which leads to wasting more time and doing nothing about answering ANY OF THE OPEN ENDED QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN PRESENTED FOR THREE SEASONS.

I would be more willing to accept this idiocracy if they introduced say, THREE oddities, then answered 1-2 of those mysteries before then moving on the another 1-2 strange unexplainable events, and so on....
But no. It has been a group of idiots making bad decisions to cause issues and conflicts from one episode to the next, while none of the 'mysteries' or actual plot devices have any movement or progress, episode after episode.

I watched the first episode of season 3 yesterday. I got pissed off when they talk about not having crops for food, and considering what to do with the cattle.
Then, that night the vampire creatures open the door where the cows and sheep are housed, and let them loose into the night.
BUT, - BUT - at the end of the episode these vampire creatures taunt the town leader and say how they are getting into their head... inside an empty barn that could have housed ALL THE CATTLE THAT WAS LET LOOSE OUTSIDE IN THE NIGHT.
The talisman wasn't in place, so these vampire creatures snuck inside this empty barn... where they could have put the animals before nightfall, and put a talisman to ward off the baddies.

But no, instead the writers had to force ANOTHER cheap obstacle to keep this lamebraned story going.

It's awful.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by KcMsterpce

JC, mwynn bringin' up FROM again.

Yep I will bring it up every chance I get.

Anyway back to V. The love triangle with Kyle, Elizabeth and Robin was strange.

[KcMsterpce]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Yep I will bring it up every chance I get.

Anyway back to V. The love triangle with Kyle, Elizabeth and Robin was strange.

lol.
[Brings up FROM in a thread for V]
[Reply about FROM in the thread for V]


Then....
"Anyway back to V."

Well played.

[mwynn]

They just wrote Robin's siblings out of the series.

[drb999]

V: The Series was hot garbage. But I’d still love to own it on blu-ray.

[mwynn]

It is on Plex if anyone wants to watch it.

https://watch.plex.tv/watch/show/v?u...google-catalog

V Final Battle - Brian captured and Daniel framed for it - YouTube

[Jay H.]

I loved V as a kid. The mini-series, the sequel, the weekly series, the comic book...

Years later, the original mini-series is still great, the sequel is decent, and the weekly series is awful after the first episode. I read somewhere that almost every scene involving visual effects was reused from the two mini-series. The weekly series even repeats a shot of Willie running that was used the previous week!

I still have all 18 issues of the comic book. The artwork is... interesting.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

I loved V as a kid. The mini-series, the sequel, the weekly series, the comic book...

Years later, the original mini-series is still great, the sequel is decent, and the weekly series is awful after the first episode. I read somewhere that almost every scene involving visual effects was reused from the two mini-series. The weekly series even repeats a shot of Willie running that was used the previous week!

I still have all 18 issues of the comic book. The artwork is... interesting.

Oh yeah the series was cheap. There was no reason for the visitors to maintain their human disguises. Yes all of the VFX was recycled.

[Jay H.]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Oh yeah the series was cheap. There was no reason for the visitors to maintain their human disguises. Yes all of the VFX was recycled.

I forgot to mention: in the weekly series, the Visitors no longer had their unusual voices. I suppose they "lost their accents", which could have been explained quickly and easily with a single line of dialogue.

I loved that show when I was 11... because I was 11.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Jay H.

I forgot to mention: in the weekly series, the Visitors no longer had their unusual voices. I suppose they "lost their accents", which could have been explained quickly and easily with a single line of dialogue.

I loved that show when I was 11... because I was 11.

Yeah that was something we noticed right away. Where is the reverb? Just cheap at every turn.

[BluPat]

Jane Badler is AMAZING in V And V: The Final Battle. She's also very active on social media. She played Diana as an awesome villainess. She made those 2 films what they are IMO.

[KcMsterpce]

I loved V when it came out, and was excited for more V adventures.
I had the V mini-series on VHS when it came out. I watched it at least 10 times over a few years.
I watched the series regularly when it came out, but missed almost half the episodes. I was interested in it, just didn't have the time right when it was released on air at the time.

However, the mini-series was great. It's slow in parts, especially for today's standards, but it had a lot of interesting concepts, and it was ambitious for its time.

Then, when the DVD release for season 1 came out in... 2004 or so, I started watching it.
I got about 11 episodes into it, and had to stop watching. It was dreadfully slow, with no story progression from one episode to the next.

So, I decided that the entire history and relationship that I ever had with "V" works best basing it entirely on the mini-series. It was a condensed version of all the best of what the series had to offer.

As for the remake back in 2010-or-whenever... the one with Morena Baccarin... it was abysmal. But I watched it because back then it was an interesting concept for resurrection.

Now, it's a good product of its time. Would have worked best as a mini-series, and then remain better off being left well enough alone.

[BluBonnet]

[drb999]

Jane Badler was the sexiest alien lizard ever.