Comments on: Tonight, the Visitors appear

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:37:49 +0000

Steve, all points well-taken and all components I fully expected in “V.” For an ABC prime time show featuring aliens who visit every city on earth in a story truncated to fit into 40something minutes of air time, I’m not expecting snappy writing or great special effects or good acting. I’m expecting the guy from Party of Five to hit on the hot main alien and for a lot of ships to turn into big TV screens and then for Juliette to run around for a while with the guy from Serenity.

I may need to borrow your VCR…

By: Steve Scholz

Steve Scholz — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 01:38:02 +0000

I just caught at few minutes of V tonight and had to shut it off. Cheesy special effects, predictable writing, not so good acting….I flipped to another station and saw the 90210 remake (or “reimagining”) and thought “wow, equally bad.” Sorry, Sandy.

But I do have a VCR.

By: Sandy Marshall

Sandy Marshall — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 23:02:34 +0000

Great call on Community, I wonder if NBC realized that they probably accidentally pre-plugged the premiere of V to the superfans out there…

By: Fred Mowery

Fred Mowery — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:06:12 +0000

“Who grows there?”

By: Joel

Joel — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:26:47 +0000

Yes – the birthing scene was definitely something I talked about at school the next day. You didn’t see THAT coming. I think the first 2 hours of V was people sitting around saying “Birds sure act funny around the Visitors” and “Where did Dr. So-and-So go? He said he had important news about the Visitors and now his car has weird burns in it.” Just when you are getting bored– The Beastmaster gets the shot of Diana eating the hamster. Awesome. And don’t forget Freddy Kruege w/o his makeup.

PS – “Community” had Chevy Chase dressing as The Beastmaster for the Halloween episode. 4 of my favorite words: Chevy, Chase, Beast and Master.

By: alison

alison — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:32:11 +0000

I’ll be happy for a jump back from the TV screen moment like the one where the hybrid human-visitor baby, who looks human, suddenly reveals it has a forked tongue and then a lizard baby crawls out of Robin.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TufUH1T-F18

By: Adam Witt

Adam Witt — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:33:50 +0000

JoJo Dancer Ironside, hah.

And good call about actually finding out that the Visitrs were Lizards IN THE ACTUAL SHOW IN REAL TIME. plot twist! I guess audiences have to know ahead of time now or they won’t watch.

By: alison

alison — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:36 +0000

I am inclined to agree that the absolute shock of discovering the Visitors were lizard people who ate live animals will be unable to reproduce. Having watched some of the original over the weekend on SciFi (I refuse to go along with their “people are stupid” name change), I hope they try to recreate the acting styles of the early 80s miniseries.

By: Fred Mowery

Fred Mowery — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:29:00 +0000

“Total Recall” Ironside vs. “Tombstone” Powers Booth

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:25:25 +0000

That depends, Fred: Are we talking “Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone” Michael Ironside or “Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling” Michael Ironside? That choice could make all the difference.