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?
Welcome to ABC’s “V,” the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it’s also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president’s supporters and delight his detractors. With or without the political sheen, “V” is sweeping television storytelling at its best. Whether you choose to view it as a blood-and-guts war story, a spy thriller (unlike the original show, these V’s are perfect replicas of humans, so you never really know who might be sitting beside you at the bar).
You Will Obey!!!
Try “space lizard” in teh Google. Chuckle.
Don’t think so. ABC is in the tank for Dems and Obama. Thank god that Fox news exposes this elitist fool and his radical buddies he pals around with.
Well, since V is a remake we already know how it turns out. The resistance makes a virus that kill the aliens so they can’t stay here.
Man if it were only something like H1N1 and it exterminated Liberals in Congress.
I always liked the movie ‘They Live’ as far as alien infiltration schlock goes. It was a similar critique on the Reagan years.
Besides, movie that stars Roddy Piper has got to be worth its weight in cheese.
I’ll leave this lame thread so the angry right wingdings can drink each others bath water.
You guys deserve a little social venue.
Interestingly, only four episodes were shot before production was stopped. If the show gets good ratings, they’ll make more. It apparently will need to do a lot better than the first episode promises it doing.
In Soviet Russia, you eat lizard.
I voted for Obama and don’t hate him yet but I think it is important to lampoon, and satirize all our leaders to keep them knowing we are watching. I almost said to keep them honest but that is ludicrous.
Question all Authority, Always!
One thing is for sure, the state Of VA finally grew up and realized that the Dems and Obama are full of it. Hopefully the tide will turn and the beginning of the end of Obama and the most corrupt democratic congress in history.
Look up the ORIGINAL and its time frame..
THEN think about this.
#9. Meet the new boss….yep, I’m sure everything will be better now.
Jeez.
They Live is a classic. Anyone that makes it out of Regent Park deserves respect – Roddy.
Watched the first part of V, meh… It did give a fine example of what’s to come though. The faked alien invasion courtesy of NASA and the celestial broadcasts they’ve been working on.
I agree with ECA #10
This always happens when there is a plot twist that most can find a political interpretation. The original was in the early 1980s. I don’t remember a political slant then, but I was in high school and I was just interested in the scifi aspect.
However, remember when Star Wars Revenge of the Sith came out people were saying that the Empire was Bush. Now the V’s are Obama.
Maybe we should just let the show be.
The Hollywood remake virus has struck TV… 😛
#14. Damn…women had big hair back then.
“I never sweat.” – Obama
the line about universal healthcare was ridiculous. the aliens that want to kill humans want to provide free healthcare for everyone. i interpreted it as propaganda against healthcare reform
I, for one, welcome our new space-lizard overlords.
[Thanks, I needed that -ed]
Wingnuts and other Republicans have already shown their willingness to base their lives on fiction *cough* 24 *cough* so no doubt this program will have them spellbound. Gawrsh, maybe the Birthers were right, Goober, only he was really born in outer space not Africa!
Ah, little pedro again, still projecting I see. 🙂
The premise of “V” was always silly. If some alien race has the technology to come to our planet and blend in perfectly, they would also have the technology to overwhelm ours and outright take over.
Of course little school boys will still get their knickers in a knot discussing who is an alien and who is human. Of course today, we have DNA testing which wasn’t available in the early ’80s.
I don’t know that he has the cerebral rocks to be one of the hidden superior alien types. BUT, for the ones who pull his strings?
“chuck said,
I, for one, welcome our new space-lizard overlords.”
Did i say overlords? I meant protectors.
Morena Baccarin is HOT. Who cares about the rest of it?
The television drama is riding the coattails of free publicity like this post and laughing about it all the way to the bank.
Politics and theatre have been interwined since ancient Greece. It’s healthy for a society to examine itself through satire and theatre. It’s good for Democracies to examine their own positives and negatives. It may even help to de-polarize our societies.
@#19 Phydeau
> Wingnuts and other Republicans have already shown their willingness to base their lives on fiction *cough* 24 *cough*
You’re forgetting Atlas Shrugged.
As mentioned here, this is a remake, but apparently holds the same message… Maybe they already knew about the Obama plot to become president back in the 80’s? That makes sense, it would jibe with the whole birth certificate story, right? Aha!
Gotta love conspiracies. Always some point just waiting for a proof.
Mediocre formula script, casting matches the script.
Recorded it. Watching – I skipped about a third.
Won’t waste time watching it, again.
Oh. The politics up top? Absurd.
I totally forgot what the show was about once I saw Morena Baccarin’s legs. Something about spaceships I think.
I kind of look like that photoshop picture
when I sleep with my head pressed into the quilt.