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From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.tv
Subject: Nonsense in V
Message-ID: <1686@brl-vgr.ARPA>
Date: Wed, 9-May-84 13:08:40 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.1686
Posted: Wed May  9 13:08:40 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 12-May-84 12:29:19 EDT
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A striking and gratuitous continuity goof in "V" -- Much was made,
at the end of the second episode of "The Final Chapter", of the
girl baby having a forked tongue. Yet, when she is used to save
the world at the end of the third episode, close-ups show her
licking her lips several times -- her tongue is an ordinary human
one at that point. It wouldn't have been hard or expensive to
use some sort of rubber prothesis in those scenes, but they just
didn't bother. Humph.

By the way, I probably missed this due to flicking between channels
so I could also watch the destruction of Pompeii, but was the silly
business of the little girl turning all sparkly and reversing the
blow-up of the mother ship ever explained in any fashion? I thought
she was simply going to know the secret code, punch it in, and turn off
the destruct mechanism. Doing it the way they did was SO hokey...

The obvious lead-in for a possible sequel, with Diana taking off in the
shuttle craft (shades of Darth Vader in his fighter at the end of 
SW - ANH!) was just too "cute" for words...

This story was so full of holes, to criticize it will be like
blaming a colander for not holding water!

Will