Krug
Newshound
Two new clips posted: Video: ABC's creepy 'V' remake--The Live Feed
Doesn't look too bad by any means...
Doesn't look too bad by any means...
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V: The remake
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Plus: Morena Baccarin, Joel Gretsch , Elizabeth Mitchell, and Alan Tudyk!
Mustrum_Ridcully
Legend
Thoughts:
1) I don't remember anything about the original V, I didn't follow it as achild. Did it also have a religious angle, or is this the 9/11 or Ron Moore vibe?
2) It's strange, but somehow SFX makes things real - real as in this show might actually happen, because they already have their space ships ready.
3) What did they do to Morena Baccarins hair?
4) The actor playing the reporter. Where do I know him? He almost looks like Jamie Bamber (Apollo), but it is someone else. Is this some wishful thinking that I want to see BSG actors everywhere?
1) I don't remember anything about the original V, I didn't follow it as achild. Did it also have a religious angle, or is this the 9/11 or Ron Moore vibe?
2) It's strange, but somehow SFX makes things real - real as in this show might actually happen, because they already have their space ships ready.
3) What did they do to Morena Baccarins hair?
4) The actor playing the reporter. Where do I know him? He almost looks like Jamie Bamber (Apollo), but it is someone else. Is this some wishful thinking that I want to see BSG actors everywhere?
Thoughts:
1) I don't remember anything about the original V, I didn't follow it as achild. Did it also have a religious angle, or is this the 9/11 or Ron Moore vibe?
2) It's strange, but somehow SFX makes things real - real as in this show might actually happen, because they already have their space ships ready.
3) What did they do to Morena Baccarins hair?
4) The actor playing the reporter. Where do I know him? He almost looks like Jamie Bamber (Apollo), but it is someone else. Is this some wishful thinking that I want to see BSG actors everywhere?
1) All I remember about V is
they eat mice
4) Scott Wolf, Party of Five, Everwood
Scott Wolf (I)
Thoughts:
1) I don't remember anything about the original V, I didn't follow it as achild. Did it also have a religious angle, or is this the 9/11 or Ron Moore vibe?
It has been a long time, so I could be remembering wrong and mixing up two shows in my head. But, yes, I am pretty sure there was a priest character / religious angle in the original as well. I don't recall it so much for "worship" of the visitors (but there could have been that, at that age, I paid more attention to the action scenes rather than exploration of ethics discussions). But rather used as a moral compass for the viewers perspective to recognize when things were not as they seemed and when discussing actions to be taken, and such. And, of course, his church was used as a safe house for rebels to meet. Something like that ...
There was also some sort of law officer character, and an 'every day person' character, and 'the hottie' and the reporter. and, of course, the human and V that were in love. and the human who gets captured and others need to break him out. So, yeah, basically, they had several characters to show the different angles and perspectives.
coriolis
Explorer
I just watched the trailer (sound off because I'm at work)... While I'm happy to see that Morena Baccarin, Joel Gretsch, D.B. Woodside, and others have found some work, they seem awfully typecast -- Morena is redoing Adria from SG-1, Joel is redoing Tom Baldwin from the 4400, etc.
On a more general note, I don't see the point of remaking something when the big 'secret' is so well-known by the target audience. To make it interesting to me, they'd have to radically change the premise, but if they're going to do that, why not simply make a whole new story?
The effects look spiffy, I'll grant you that. I wonder if it was Zoic (Firefly, BSG)?
I'm betting on a cameo from Robert Englund (he played a slightly retarded Visitor in the original that allied himself with the humans).
On a more general note, I don't see the point of remaking something when the big 'secret' is so well-known by the target audience. To make it interesting to me, they'd have to radically change the premise, but if they're going to do that, why not simply make a whole new story?
The effects look spiffy, I'll grant you that. I wonder if it was Zoic (Firefly, BSG)?
I'm betting on a cameo from Robert Englund (he played a slightly retarded Visitor in the original that allied himself with the humans).
I don't remember that deep a religious aspect to the original V... I do remember an old Jewish man who had survived the Nazi concentration camps coming upon a young boy creating (is that the right word?) graffiti on a sign of the Visitors, and the old man painted a big red V on the sign instead, saying "V... for Victory." However, the religious aspect was not central to the role, other than the old Jewish guy being upset by the Visitor Youth (or whatever they were called) being a recreation of the Hitler Youth.
