From: utzoo!watmath!bstempleton
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Title: Re: The "V" Miniseries
Article-I.D.: watmath.5010
Posted: Wed May  4 00:40:22 1983
Received: Wed May  4 23:34:00 1983
References: utzoo.2943

I didn't think the directing was that bad, Kieran.  The writing was
what had problems.  Of course, they were done by the same person.  I read
that this guy essentially wanted to do YAFIBM (Yet Another Fascism is Bad
Movie) but decided that adding Science Fiction would attract a lot more
viewers since that's popular.  I felt the production values and SFX were
good enough that it would have had potential if not for the tremendous
realism Gaffes. (sp?) Lizards in human suits that talk English on board
their ship when nobody else is around is one thing.  Stealing water and
taking humans for food is pretty bad, though.  I don't see why they had
to do this.  The director did something unusual in this movie, namely he
gave the aliens some morals and a bit of depth of character.  They are not
all of one voice, for one thing.  The idea of eating people is completely
needless.  Stealing people for slave armies is perfectly acceptable as a
premise in my mind, and is certainly more than enough to get the
freedom fighters worked up.  The eating just makes the whole thing two
extreme.  One thing Hitler never did is eat people.

What did the alien do to the valley girl?  I assume he got her pregnant in
some way, but boy would that be a feat of biological engineering.  Perhaps
he put something inside like the creature from the O'Bannon movie "Alien".
Boy could those guys ever french kiss!

Both the Hulk and the $1E6 man were series that started off good in my
opinion, and went downhill.  That seems to be the trend of this director.
I don't want to see what happens when this show goes "downhill".
Perhaps the enemies of the Space Nazis will be wingless birds in human
suits.

Still, what do people think of the rest of this show?  I think it would
have been acceptable if they had:
1) Not been lizards, but rather humans from the same genetic stock.
   (ie. both races planted by some father race of humans as in Chariots
   of the Gods)
2) They had been after people only as slaves
3) They wanted valuable natural resources like gems, rare earths and
   fisionables, instead of water.