Guillotine

So I wrote about the V reboot about a year ago, and haven’t written any more updates simply because I talked to someone who had seen an advance screening of the pilot around the beginning of this year, and he described it as “unwatchable”, so I wasn’t really looking forward to it after that. I assume they have worked on it quite a bit since then because the aired pilot was rather watchable. I wouldn’t go so far as to say it was good, but it was alright. The show has some potential if the writers don’t get weird. Of course Sci-fi writers always tend to get weird don’t they?

As far as the visual aspect of the show… It looks like they were betting a lot on the visuals with large sweeping pans of the ships, but… Maybe if this show had aired 6 years ago it may have been more impressive. They didn’t really do anything breathtaking, or anything that wasn’t already done in BSG. I did like that there was an Independence Day reference in the show though.

The cast is pretty good so far, and were quite believable. The story has some potential if as I mentioned above the writers don’t go off on a weird tangent, and simply stick to the plot that has been laid out. For those expecting a simple retelling of the original series you may be disappointed. As I mentioned in the last article I wrote (here) this story is quite different than the old series. The 80′s series was based on a World War II perspective with a very similar story to the German Holocaust. The new story is based more on well… What the current hot topic in the world is… Terrorism. I did like the way they placed the Visitors on Earth decades before the ships appear thus the UFO nuts that people have been laughing at for years turn out to be the base of the resistance force, and that they really weren’t crazy all this time.

If I had to do a comparative analysis… The original series to me was always like The A-Team with laser guns. The new series I’d say is more like 24… With laser guns (although I haven’t seen any actual laser guns yet… The new Visitors seem to like bladed weapons).