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OK, I never watched the original V. In that one, were there sleeper visitors? Because with this show, we don't need to learn a little bit of the Visitors' plan at a time; we have Visitors on our side who can just tell us everything right away. Which is maybe not so good for a series.
I was trying to remember, tommyrot. I don't think there were Visitors here first in the original, but someone else (Vortex, Bonnie?) might remember better.
Nope, no Visitors already here in the original. And no undercover Visitors - at least in the miniseries. I don't recall the series. The Visitors had an underlying rumble to their voices that would've made them easy to spot.
And in the original it took a couple of hours to discover that the Visitors were Not What They Seemed - at the end of the first 2 hours, I think. The beginning, at least, of the new version is moving along faster.
bennett gets it in one. There was nothing undercover about the original V except for, you know, what was under their 'covers.' (and by that, I do not mean porn)
The reveal took awhile and was pretty cool when it happened. They were different but we didn't know just how right away.
I really liked it! I have the original sitting on my DVR, but I like the sleeper cell idea, especially the part where part of their plan was to make the world start sucking in the first place.
especially the part where part of their plan was to make the world start sucking in the first place.
Huh. Not me. I was thinking along the lines of, "Us humans are perfectly capable of royally fucking things up ourselves, thankyouverymuch."
I'm with tommy. It felt like shirking our responsibility.
I need to watch Firefly again. I'm finding it hard to believe in an unmenacing Tudyk, even though Alpha and this character were revealed over time.
What has Morris Chestnut been doing with his time since Boyz In The Hood? B movies? God, he's pretty. And he moved so well in that action scene.
I can't take Scott Wolf seriously. What is he? 4'10? Has his voice broken yet?
I was thinking along the lines of, "Us humans are perfectly capable of royally fucking things up ourselves, thankyouverymuch."
Oh, we totally are. But I like plans.
Oh I like this coding of the threads and its avoidance of duplicate post numbers so much better.
No, I really didn't like the "they are fucking us up" angle. We are fucking us up. We really are.
But they beat the Cylons in the planning department.
Finished Defying Gravity, wah!
Maybe because I basically marathoned it (is that the same thing as mainlining?), but I didn't really miss any smaller beats in the story. Or maybe because they never really said where they were going with the show, so I had nothing to do but enjoy the little mundanities and intricacies of the relationships. Unlike, say, Carnivale, where it was all supposedly "The Kurgan and Chuck Norstadt do epic battle over the fate of the world!" but really it was a whole lot of meandering side stories. I was so relieved when it was cancelled, because it felt like Anne Rice's vampires that NEVER FUCKING DIED and the pain, misery, and torture would go on for centuries and books and centuries and books and books.
I have insomnia, a cold, and drugs.