This Ain't Your Older Cousin Danny's V
My only real experience with the original V miniseries was that sometimes I would sleep over at my cousins' house, and my older cousin Danny got to watch it, but I was not allowed. It was deemed too scary or too mature for me. Not enough farts and pancakes, I guess (farts and pancakes being the things that children like to see). Somehow, despite the fact that I have always known about V, I've never actually looked into it or had any idea what it was about (beyond that it was about alienz), as if somehow my relationship to it was still that of a child to a show intended for adults. Well guess what, I am an adult now, and I can do what I want! I can spend all day looking at pornography, and I can vote for John McCain, and I can rent a car and drive it into a grocery store. I can go to jail! So now that they are remaking V, it is my turn to watch it. I'm 56 years old, and I am ready!
There have been clips floating around the internet all week, but I have been avoiding those because I'm so in the dark about what V even is that a clip would be meaningless to me. But now there is a full trailer, after the jump, and I have to tell you guys, SPOILER ALERT, it looks great.
Whoa! This looks like the best thing to happen to the mini-series since Wild Palms! (Sorry, John Adams!) Actually, I'm not even sure this is a mini-series. Probably all the aliens graduate and go to college and one of them starts cage fighting. But whatever. The True Blood vampires are wishing so hard that they were heavy-handed parables for false prophets rather than heavy handed homosexual metaphors right now.
DVR Club.
Posted by Gabe at 10:00 AM in Trailer
Tags: Aliens | V
I watched the original V and I loved it. Being 4 at the time, the only thing I can remember about it now is that it was cheesy, a bit sexual for sci-fi, and the aliens ate squirrels. Let's hope the last part made it into the remake
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I was really afraid that the Vs were gonna come eat my guinea pig.
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I love you Juilette
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Also being 4 years old when it aired- I agree with Mcluskyist! I loved it. However, all a can remember is that:
1) aliens are harvest people for food
2) people can have sex with lizard aliens and not realize that they are lizards
3) you can't abort a lizard alien baby- It won't let you!
4) and Graffitti can be taught to you by an old man....V is for victory (right?)
I guess what I am trying to say is: FUCK YEAH THEY'RE REMAKING V
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OOPS! I meant to delete that superfluous "are" in #1 - or even possibly tacking on "ing" to the word harvest...words are so confusing.
Seriously though- ALIENS ARE HARVEST PEOPLE FOR FOOD!
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OMG! That V-lady is a total Companion if I've ever seen one. Don't the humans know what they get when they mess with space prostitutes?
"Avoid the Clap - Jimmy Duggan!"
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juliette's dislocating jowls
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Party of V!!!!!
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Amara from Firefly is the the alien's giant talking head? Awesome.
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That is totally her!
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Looks like another Cylon plot to destroy humanity.
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This blows. V is a classic - shut up and go watch it now, before this drivel forever ruins it.
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I concur. The original "V" is a masterpiece of weirdness and hilarious nazi-alien heavy-handed metaphors.
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I'm just glad my desktop background was the first link in the post.
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the part where the title appears, at 2:47, looks conspicuously a lot like LOST's!!! this looks great and all, but its too bad Juliette had to die on the island just to come back to another life where there are aliens out to get her... whatever, i didn't like her anyway
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JULIET!
That's who that is! That was bugging me so much!
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