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Guilty as charged. From what I've read, the Visitors landing on top of the UN building in the original was an homage to the scene where the Kanamit strolls in to the UN in "To Serve Man." I'm such a geek. ______________________________ "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein |
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I'm lovin' this.
Way better than the original as far as I can recall. _________________________ "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man." -- Ronald Reagan |
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There was some of the original V on syfy today. My God, I did not remember it sucking this much. Maybe it was the giant 80s hair, on both the men and womyn, or maybe it was Robert Englund in his pre-Freddy Kruger days. I watched the new one tonight. It has potential. I just hope it doesn't suck too much.
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I watched it last night and thought it was not bad, not bad at all. I like they interwove current events and themes into the storyline without getting too PC.
It’s interesting to see how sped up TV (and movies too) storylines have become in the past 25 years. They covered in last night’s one hour pilot what in the 1983 miniseries took multiple hours over several episodes. I noticed this in the new Doctor Who, with the new Master storyline; they covered in 2-3 episodes which would have been a whole entire season (series) in the 70’s or 80’s. I guess this is due to there being so many more channels and shows on nowadays competing for eyeballs than back then. Obamacare: On it's way to DOA. |
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In the original I always wondered where the military was during this?
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goodheart |
Speeding up the plotline has detracted from the overall dramatic effect. We shouldn't have learned until several months down the road that they're lizards. And the opposition learned about all this way too quickly.
_________________________ "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man." -- Ronald Reagan |
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I agree 100%! Gotta speed it up for the ADD generation. I had the original Ghostbusters movie on the other day and saw that it was over 2 1/2 hours long! What movie nowadays is barely 2 hours, I think more and more of them are around 1 hour 40 mins! Obamacare: On it's way to DOA. |
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The trouble is we know the visitors ARE Lizard people - here to eat humans, from the original show. The drama in the great and prolong revile just won't work... We know the out come already. I watched the first half, and decided to spend time on the PS3 instead. - Matthew i see the world through the scope but i gain no insight with it when i get introspective i put the safety on |
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In the original miniseries we learned that fairly early, before there even was a real opposition. ____________________________________________________________ "I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here." -- Ronald Reagan, Farewell Adress, Jan. 11, 1989 Si vis pacem para bellum There are none so blind as those who refuse to see. Feeding Trolls Since 1995 |
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Yeah, but the opposition still took time to develop, though, once people started getting suspicious and fed up with the heavy-handed behaviour by the Visitors. The fact they were lizzards was really only secondary once they found out they were here to eat us. In the new one, there is opposition to them even BEFORE they make official contact. . . No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Ronald Reagan |
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My wife is really creeped out by "V".
She wanted to make sure it wasn't on again tonight. _________________________ "If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. And this idea that government is beholden to the people, that it has no other source of power except to sovereign people, is still the newest and most unique idea in all the long history of man’s relation to man." -- Ronald Reagan |
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I can't believe I missed the first episode dangit! DVR is now set. I bet I will like this show.
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Aren't some of you that are saying it went too fast the same folks that think SGU is slow?
Not saying I don't agree with the SGU assessment, but what exactly is the Goldie locks zone for speed here? ------------------------------ "...and we liked it!" |
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It felt like they cut a 2 hour episode down to 1 hour.
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42. It all depends on pace - SGU is dragging along, compared to Atlantis and SG1, and V is whipping through stuff too fast. I mean, I personally don't like it that the Visitors just arrived, and there is already a strong underground movement that knows they are lizzards, a 5th Column movement on earth composed of lizzards still masquerading as humans, lizzards cracking down on the 'resistance', and it was just the first hour. Heck, I just don't like it compared to the original 1983 version, but who cares what I think. . . There is a reason there are 500 different kinds of ice cream - people have differing tastes. No arsenal is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. Ronald Reagan |
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Well I did watch it and it does have potential. The lady FBI agent is hot, and tough! I do hope they slow things down a little bit to be able to flesh-out or expand the storylines. It has potential.
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She shared a rather...infamous...scene with Angelina Jolie in Gia. "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering." - Bruce Lee |
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Pictures! I want pictures!!  "Without dreams, there can be no reality" SP2022: 9mm, .40 TT, P239 .40, p229 .40, Marlin 336A 30-30 WIN. |
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I'm just hoping someone tells Hound Dog that "lizard" is spelled with one L!
As far as the resistance having foreknowledge of the true nature of the Visitors, I try to rationalize it by believing that the rebel Visitors were the ones to start it. ________________________ "In closing, I remind you that my client has been accused of an incredibly heinous crime. Should you upset him with your verdict, any one of you could be next." Bizarro |
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