Did anybody watch this? I was definitely entertained but there were a lot of WTF moments. I think I'm hooked. I hope it doesn't get cancelled.

I don't know any of the actors names except for Morris Chestnut (he's a red pro on Full Tilt lol). They were a bunch of actors who all I can describe them as is "that guy or that girl from that show." That guy from the show with Jennifer Love Hewitt, that girl from Lost, that guy who played the Pirate Guy in Dodgeball.

I just looked up some information on the show. It looks like they have only filmed 4 episodes then are taking a long break. Probably will get cancelled lol.

I never heard enough about it to even want to watch, and I have enough shows to watch religiously as it is.

I watched, and I liked it a lot. The whole "filmed 4 episodes then took a break" thing is highly disconcerting though, I hate getting involved with new shows only to see them get the axe.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG...can't wait to watch this. JUST noticed that it's actually aired...this is one of my favorite childhood shows.

I really wish they would have gone through with their original plans for the storyline. About 5 years ago or so, Kenneth Johnson, the creator of the original V, was talking about bringing the cast from the original show back and doing a 20 years later mini-series. I thought it was at least an original idea, but after I learned they just planned to essentially remake it, I decided to pass.

Pretty much what I decided. Plus, there are just so many areas to potentially go awry in an attempt to stretch out a story line.

What is it with networks taking a premise that is, at best, workable for a 4-6 episode miniseries or movie of the week and trying to stretch them into multiple season serials?

QFT. Watched a little of the marathon on SyFy yesterday also. Love me some Marc Singer.



And lets not forget Morena Baccarin (that space whore from Firefly). I'm not liking the short hair, but she's still smoking hot.



Probably. I'm already trying to predict what sort of shitty reality show will take it's place.

They did 4 episodes and took a break because they will be airing the winter Olympics. Depending on the ratings over the first few weeks they will decide if a full season order is going to happen.

Looks like the ratings are there, at least for the first episode:

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/11/04/tv-ra...rs-follow/32541

“V” stands as the TV Seasons’ highest-rated new series debut with Adults 18-49.

“V” marked ABC’s strongest performance in the time period among Adults 18-49 in 3 years (any programming) – since 11/14/06. In addition, the new drama produced ABC’s highest non-sports numbers in the hour in 6 years across the key Men demos (M18-34/M18-49/M25-54) – since 11/4/03.

Topping CBS’ spinoff “NCIS: LA” series debut in September by 14% (5.0/13 vs. 4.4/11 – which had the added advantage of airing out of the season opener of “NCIS”), “V” qualified as the top-rated Tuesday night fall series debut among Adults 18-49 on any network since 2005 and ABC’s highest since 2003 – since 9/20/05 and since 9/23/03, respectively.

“V” opened with the highest Adult 18-49 rating for a regularly slotted 8:00 p.m. drama debut (any net/any night) since ABC’s “Lost” in September 2004 (9/22/04).

My thought exactly. This seems like a great miniseries or a full show that will very quickly erode into crappitude and then be cancelled before coming to a logical conclusion.



And the guy from Firefly too.

I didn't watch the original V when it came out, which is odd because it was right up my alley in stuff I would have liked as a kid. I did watch the first episode and it was just terrible. Terrible in the way all network drama's with any kind of promise are terrible. Poorly written, poorly acted, corny and dumb. It reminds me a great deal of Heros and Kings.. so much potential, and all of it lost. I don't know why network shows have to suck so badly, I really don't. I swear to god the only good network dramas ever were Twin Peaks and early X Files. I'm cutting my loses and bailing early from this.

Funny look at the show on O'Reilly

Click on the "Is V mocking Obama" video on this website

If V is mocking obama, don't expect it to get picked up beyond these first 4 shows.

Guess some peeps not so hot on the pilot. But me? LOVED IT!

I was pretty impressed with how well they packed so much character intros into an hour. Anna has some great legs and it's a great remake so far. Only thing that'll piss me off is the big break. I'm going to try to wait and watch them all in a day or two...pretty unlikely though. I'm already excited bout the next episode.

Who would've thought that falling down the well would've shipped Juliet into another world altogether?

me likey this alien:

I just watched the first episode online, I liked it. Some of the acting was really bad, but I don't really watch to many shows consistently, and Im not usually doing anything Tuesdays @ 8

.

i like the premise..see what happens after a few shows

I played golf with Scott Wolf once at a celebrity golf tournament,

He's a nice guy, and he's perfect for his role as the pretty face tv newsguy who doesn't really have much more going for him than his hair.


But this show does hit a lot of similarities between the Obama fan base and the visitor out to destroy all of mankind.

It's a cookbook!

Don't sell the writing short, it was terrible too. I hate it when shows have a great premise and deliver on a fraction of their promise.

.

If you did the second thing, you wouldn't be so hooked on the first thing.

Although I must admit having a 100% committed 'alien abduction and invasion' theory friend makes this show slightly more fun because I understand the truth which is that this show is designed to soften our acceptance of the need for a world government to fight the 'soon to be faked' alien invasion. And here's the good part, the one world government thing is needed to allow for the alien invasion to take place later on....


Think about that for a couple minutes and realize how much credit you got to give to these anal-probing deviants from another galaxy. It's like they are really good at manipulation and planning. Of course when I asked him what defenses we could muster to fight them he told me that our weapons are largely useless, which left me wondering if this is like SPECTRE vs Bond and they might be allowing for too much time for us to find a way to defeat them...but I'm not saying nothing because I'm on our side!

This show does kind of remind me of a secular Left behind.

I think the pacing sucks a lot. Did we really need to learn the aliens were evil and had been plotting this for ages all in the first episode? That should have been the big reveal like 3-4 episodes in. And the FBI lady finds out her partner is a bad guy in episode one?

Same problem with Flash Forward. I dont want these shows to be like Lost (i.e. you learn squat for 3 seasons) but I dont need to know everything cool by the end of the pilot.

And, yeah, the acting is pretty bad but I can get past that.

I dont see it really. Can you elaborate? I actually read the whole Left Behind series......I think reading it is 95% responsible for my dismissiveness toward fundamentalist Christianity.

I meant the left behind movie. Mostly it was a comparison of terrible acting, but also the Carpathia antichrist character is similar to the Vistors, and Anna, in that they are telling/convincing the world that they are good and righteous, and at the same time establishing a one world government of evil, while a spunky group of misfits fight against them, lead by Television news anchor, ( I assume the guy interviewing anna eventually joins the resistance).

KIRK CAMERON!!!!!

yeah, I get the comparison now.

I think I will give this show at least two more episodes before I make a decision.

You read the whole thing???


I got to book 3 and told my wife not to buy anymore ever or I would be really angry and cut her pay to $35 a morning.

It pains me to think that that series of books would be the benchmark for anyone to judge Christianity on.

Read a Ted Dekker book or Tony Dungy's book, not Left Behind

On this we can both agree. As bad as the left behind movie was, it was a much better movie than the book was a book. Maybe the worst novel I've ever read.

.

I can type slower next time

\

I wanted to give Revelation a chance....

How was the 2nd episode tonight? I missed it because I went to see Director Brett Ratner speak @ my school.

I liked it, I hope the show doesn't get cancelled. I could do without the storyline with the chick cop's son though. So he wants to join the V's because of the hot chick, and that is the extent of the storyline. Just seems dumb and out of place. I like all the other storylines though.

I'm playing the guessing game with who I think are aliens. So far I'm 100% convinced that the old guy priest is an alien.

Heres's a link to the old V (1983) It was rated really high by viewers when it aired.

http://www.surfthechannel.com/show/3117.html

The 2nd V episode was solid. They seemed to have reversed the gender roles of the all major characters in the original V.

I understand the "only 4 episodes" commitment. That show is EXfokkinPENSIVE! You don't want to spend 200mm without testing it first. Solid enough for me so far, watched every episode of the original when it was on so I'm pre-biased. EFX are surprisingly good for TV. Hope the story pans out. I mean, why do the V's have to "infiltrate" humanity? Based on their tekkmology shown so far, they could just wipe out everyone human and say thanks... Do we have to like them to taste good? I sure hope so...

But I really really want to have interspecies relations with Anna.

Yeah I really liked the 2nd episode. I like the way the story is developing. Looking forward to next weeks now

Could be. And I was thinking possibly FBI chick's boss.

i'd guess that the old priest is a red herring, not an alien but may have something bad happen to him because of suspicions.

Yeah.. I mean, if the priest is an alien, this show is really bad, because they've been so heavy handed about it.. but if he's a red herring, it's still pretty bad

There's a reason Lost is so popular and a lot of it has to do with the way they present questions and answers. Networks dont want to waste money on a show if its going to get canned so we are forced to deal with these LOL premieres. They are doing everything they can to get us hooked on the first episode and by doing that they are messing up the way the a good TV show tells a story.

They need to stop throwing a bunch of answers at us and just give us a few questions to keep us interested. If the writers are doing their job well, that should def be enough and they could actually get to a second season with something to write about.

I was just advocating somewhere in the middle. Finding out they are bad in the FIRST episode is lame potatoes.

I'd say the majority of the haters didn't watch the original. This is definitely an improvement on what was a lovable mini-series and they moved at a pretty quick pace. The problem is a lot of y'all think the suspense or interesting storyline is in finding out they are bad. The fun stuff is...oh wait...I think I've said too much already.

I liked the show last night. The whole idea of the 5th regiment or whatever it was called which is a group of the aliens starting a resistance agains their own was pretty cool. I still think the story line with the kid is stupid, but we did get to see the blonde chick in panties.

Being that I am in love with her, I will put up with his shitty story to see her more naked

Holy shit. I had written this series off, but I watched episode three out of sheer boredom, and it's starting to pay off. It's still terrible, but Anna and her succubus daughter are the two hottest things on TV right now. I am a sucker for treacherous temptresses.

I just got done watching the first two episodes after leaving them on my DVR for a while. I don't really know that you can blame them for the way the show is being handled with the pacing. Look at how Fox has completely mishandled several of their shows in a similar genre. They completely fucked up Firefly when it premiered by showing episodes out of order to "get people hooked" instead of showing a really strong origin story to launch the series. Then with Whedon's Dollhouse they make the first 6 episodes all work as intro's, instead of building a story right away and in the end people lost interest and it got canceled. So they do a test run for 4 episodes, they are going to push a lot of stuff at viewers quickly to get them hooked and see if they have an audience.

I don't get the acting complaints, the cast is pretty strong and so far they haven't had great material to work with. The lead who was on Lost was a nice surprise actually, she was my favorite character on that show before I quit watching it. It was cool to see alumni from BSG and Firefly on the show. I get a kick out of Morris Chestnut being a lizard for some reason. Also I'm laughing at the drooling over Anna (Morena Baccarin) that seems to be happening like she is new to TV. She was better looking on Firefly. And that young V blond girl is pretty hot.

I haven't seen the third episode yet, but so far it's been enjoyable.

Painfully hot.

I'm with you all the way Jadaki. Until the "stopped watching Lost" bit...don't really get that.

It's true. She's the rare woman that's hotter with a few extra pounds on her. I say "extra", but in Firefly she was still tight as hell. She was pretty much perfect on that show.



Picsplzkthx.

Laura Vandervoot:





She's more innocent and cute looking in "V". I'm at work so I'm not going to root around for the pics from Tuesday's episode, but if all evil aliens with designs on Earth domination looked like her I'd be first in line for a slave collar and a pickaxe.