From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!rayssd!hxe
Newsgroups: net.movies
Title: Re: V (Part II)
Article-I.D.: rayssd.1131
Posted: Wed May 11 09:42:39 1983
Received: Sat May 14 01:49:08 1983
References: sri-arpa.1237

Yes, it was actually printed in TV Guide and in the many
TV magazines that accompany Sunday papers BEFORE "V" was
aired that if the ratings were good "V" would be turned
into a series.  Thus I knew even before I watched it that:
1) The author intended a parallel to the Nazi situation and
   his original intent was to just have a movie about how
   Americans would react to the occupation of their country
   by an alien force.  The reason he chose little green
   lizards from outer space was that he could not think of
   a current society that would have, as he said, "the staying"
   power needed to make the movie work (he seems to think
   it 'worked').

2) It was a catch-22 situation.  If the movie was good enough
   to attract a lot of viewers, then it would become a series,
   which would necessitate an unresolved ending, making the
   movie lousy.  But, of course, we would have to get all the
   way to end before we realized how we'd been taken.

Thus warned, I watched it anyway and was, of course, disappointed.