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‘V’ review: Resistance is (mostly) futile
Rick Porter
Zap2it
Tuesday, Nov 3rd, 2009
The remake of “V” that lands amid heavy promotion by ABC on Tuesday gets a lot of things right. It sets up its story quickly, draws at least a few of its characters in more than one dimension and looks very good.
But. Or maybe a small-b “but,” because in part my feelings about the prospects for “V” as a series are colored by having re-watched some of the 1984-85 series (thanks, Syfy!) that grew out of the two “V” miniseries that aired in 1983 and ‘84. The weekly series, to put it charitably, was not good — even my 13-year-old, alien-loving self recognized how thinly plotted and spottily executed it was.
So if I have reservations about the new “V,” they come mostly from memories of how the original went off the rails and not from what I’ve seen of the new show. Because Tuesday’s premiere is really quite good.
The setup is the same: Giant alien ships appear over the planet’s major cities, causing awe, panic and wonder in the population. The leader of the Visitors, Anna (”Firefly’s” Morena Baccarin), appears to the world and assures us that they’ve come in peace and are eager to help us. The Visitors inspire intense devotion in much of the populace, although a small band of dissidents discovers the Vs have more sinister purposes.
Elizabeth Mitchell (”Lost”) stars as an FBI counterterrorism agent who’s investigating a possible terrorist group whose chatter goes way up when the Visitors arrive. It’s the only one she’s tracking that does so, and it soon becomes apparent why: The group isn’t planning to attack any human targets, it’s planning to defend against the invasion; its leader (David Richmond-Peck) says that a Visitor sleeper cell has been worming its way into every aspect of our society for years, and with the arrival of the motherships it’s about to go active.
The new series largely jettisons the original’s unsubtle but effective Nazi allegory but keeps intact the Visitors’ seductive promises — access to higher technology and free healing of the sick — and their manipulation of the media (wherever their home planet is must have good PR consultants), as represented by an ambitious TV reporter (Scott Wolf) who trades some his ethics for access in an effort to advance his career.
Wolf’s character, Chad Decker, gets one of the best lines of the premiere when he incredulously asks Anna, “You want to provide universal health care?” It’s a timely line, and I’ve already seen more than one reading of the Visitors, with their heady promises and darker motives, as stand-ins for the cult of personality surrounding Barack Obama. If you’re so inclined, then I’m sure you can read it that way — but you can also read it, as I do, as a larger indictment of our collective desire to get something for nothing.
And as far as I can tell, the new “V” is less concerned with scoring any sort of political or societal points than with telling a pretty old-fashioned tale of humans vs. aliens. The pilot does that very well, setting up multiple conflicts involving Mitchell’s Erica Evans, her V-loving teenage son (Logan Huffman), a priest trying to process the larger meaning of the Visitors’ arrival (Joel Gretsch, “The 4400″) and a man (Morris Chestnut) torn between his former allegiance to the resistance and his love for the woman he wants to marry (Lourdes Benedicto).
The pilot, written by Scott Peters (who created “The 4400″), wisely doesn’t spend much time on exposition; even if you’re unfamiliar with the original “V,” the alien-invasion template is so familiar that it doesn’t need a whole lot of explanation. The visual effects — mostly shots of the massive Visitor motherships hovering over cities — are well-done, and by the episode’s end the battle lines are drawn. (And yes, the aliens are still lizard-people masquerading as humans.)
The big question, then, is whether Peters, fellow executive producer Jeffrey Bell and the rest of the writers can sustain the impressive craft of the pilot for however long the series runs. Peters and Bell have said they have the first two seasons pretty well mapped, and going way back to May’s upfronts ABC chief Steve McPherson hinted that the long-term plan for “V” is a finite, four-year run. All those things are good signs for a serialized show like this — because after the promise of the pilot, I’d hate to see it go the way of the original weekly series.
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November 3rd, 2009 at 12:14 pm
i think that were so naieve that were evan getting exploited by abc!!! how sad are we!!!
Not the dumb... Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:29 pm
I think this series has the potential to derail Project Blue Beam. The natives are already restless and distrustful of authority. Now they’ll potentially have many aspects of the future plan laid out for them in weekly installments!
Hahaha! ABC trumps NWO!
asshole Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:01 am
ahahahha
yea right not !!!!!!!!!!
abc is just naother branch of the NWO lickspittle robberbarons mass murderers and theives syndicate !!!!!!!!!!!
and another thing
this stinks of HEGELIAN DIALECTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
n Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:35 am
ABC is the NWO. How naive of you.
jcdstorm Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:06 am
The principals of V are actually semi biblically accurate. Since Luciferianism is a twist on the Word of God then one can say V is an exact representation of what will occur in the future. Look, the powers at be need to indoctrinate us for huge advances in technology when we see these technologies the Truth will be hard to swallow. Satan-Serpent. The Beast-Dragon.
Reptilians and Greys-Demons and aliens. It doesn’t matter anymore even if the powers that be shouted it in our faces the majority of us would follow them like sheep.
meanjean Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Do a search on Operation Blue Beam. You will see exactly what’s coming.
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm
http://msmilitia.ning.com Join the American Militia! Fight the NWO!
November 3rd, 2009 at 12:47 pm
This series probably won’t be as much about politics as religion and the New Age brainwashing aimed at opening the collective credulty to receive the “truth” about alien visitors on earth. Totally predictable.
If you already think aliens are among us, you’ll probably love this show. If you have a more discerning spirit, you should watch it for clues as to what the power elite are planning to do to you if you don’t go along with their plans. And not just the power elite but all those who fall for the great deception. Let’s see how they portray the resistance characters. They’ll give the clue as to how the Hegelian masters want the believers-in-aliens to think about those who know better.
If you think the power elite can’t stage a fake alien invasion, do a web search for things like holographic display technology and anti-gravity propulsion technology, all of which has been developed completely by humans on earth in black op-funded programs. Remember, with enough money, humans aren’t as stupid as the alien-believers think!
thefreedomship Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
This series it’s being remade is because since the original box set has released to DVD it has sold millions of copies. This quickly prompted ABC to pump out a remake with fancy new digital effects etc. The motivation behind this is mainly profit. You have to keep that in mind, at all times it’s profit. If they could make money of Alex Jones believe me they would.
The intellectual concept behind this show is one of deception. Namely the people of earth are deceived by a group of visitors who are pretending to be like them, when in reality they are reptilians who seek to take control of the planet. It may be too early to call this predictive programming. I think it might be more of a case that Sci-fi has made a strong comeback and it’s rating well. Also ABC/CBS and their NWO owners aren’t stupid, we all know this, people are waking up all over the place. Instead of this being programming, maybe it’s another warning. I have heard a lot of people taking about the staged alien invasion, this does not mean however that Aliens are a myth. Sex has been used to control human behavior for thousands of years, that doesn’t make it any less real or inherently bad.
Whether we like it or not, in reality we are dealing with a massive coup of Earth. It may not be run by Reptilians (although David Icke thinks it is), but it is run by people who refuse to evolve or change. Our society is in a mess because of “reptilian” attitudes. Resistance to change is a reptilian trait, mammals adapt to their environment whereas reptiles do not. This story really has a lot more depth than CSI or Law and Order and for that reason alone I’ll be checking it out.
Steve Williams Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:57 pm
The dinosaurs lasted a very, very long time by constantly changing. I agree though with you about a coup going on.
We do do seem to have some sort of 3d party predators among us in whatever way they’re doing it. While Icke may be incorrect on specific details, I would bet dollars to donuts that Icke is closer to being correct than non-correct.
Our type of star is literally a restaurant sign to any predator who is feeling hungry and has a means to get here. Including cannibals. It’s still cannibalism if one species of people preys upon another, different species of people. I seriously doubt that only humans have completely cornered the universal or interdimensional market on cannibalism. This may be uncomfortable, comfy-zone destroying news to those who do the goofy ufo-cult nonsense, but aliens can be just as much total sleazoids as humans can be. Sorry to burst your airy-fairy little bubble, but that’s just the way things are. And you ditzing out hasn’t been exactly helpful. You being dumb and willing prey puts everyone in danger. Which isn’t to say that there aren’t good and decent people among our neighbors, but for sure there will also be total skuzzes who enjoy being cannibal predators just as much as some humans do.
I know there are 3d party predators among us in whatever way they are because every now and then I notice something happening that couldn’t be of human doing. As to what they are, I don’t know. They haven’t yet said to me, “Hey, Steve, here’s a comprehensive 1300 page report of what we’re up to, complete with pie charts and bar graphs and a detailed trend analysis report!”
And enough of that idiotic, “Demons!” stuff. The predators aren’t supernatural. They’re just predators who have found prey stupid enough to be prey. Superstition and its subsequent ditzing out have long been the bane of every single human society.
As I don’t actually know what the 3d party predators are at the moment, I can only invoke Williams’ Law* of “A real time problem needs real time facts so that a real time solution can be found.”
*Murphy has his Law, and I have mine.
ATHANOR Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:45 pm
I have no choice but to agree.
asshole Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:03 am
thefreedomship Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:24 pm
AHHAHAHAH AHAH TOO FUNNY
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED , DO NOT FIGHT IT !!!
SLEEP
OBEY
DO NOT QUESTION “AUTHORITY”
AHAHAHHAH
LOOK AT THE WATCH
SLEEP
OBEY
FOLLOW ORDERS
AHAHHAHAHA
AHAHAH
meanjean Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:29 pm
You are absolutely right, Have You, it’s called Operation Blue Beam and if you Google this you will find all the details of this Satanic Black Ops agenda. They do have the technology for this fake invasion. This will be the clencher to have us at each others throats. V is a warning of what’s coming.
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Just so you know, the “V” in V is not for “Visitors” they are not “Vs”… Watch the original, the “V” is for Victory, harkening back to WWII…. Just an observation
Witness Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Of course it’s for Victory and WWII…take a look at the series on Syfy and look at the modified swastika on their uniforms, how they’re nothing but stormtroopers in red, enforcing their “martial law” on the people.
V is also equal to the #5 in Hebrew I believe and is used in the occult to denote the 5 points of the pentagram, female sexuality as in a woman with her legs open, and the 5 point plan of Satan from Isaiah 14 for taking over the throne of God.
Same with the letter E, Notice in corporate logo’s how it’s always offset, highlighted, changed or canted (masonic square) in some way, like in the DELL logo, E-Trade, etc.. it’s nearly always offset or made to stand out because E is the 5th letter and the greek Epsilon which has to do with the spiritual..in this case, dark side of the spiritual again, the 5 POINT (5 pointed star) of Satan for controlling the entire world and ushering in his PrisonPlanet of death!!
meanjean Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 5:49 pm
Very good, Witness. The Illuminati already own the world, this final battle is for our hearts and souls, God vs Lucifer. They are all Satan worshippers and if they succeed in destroying Christianity, Judiasm and Islam, then they will control us all. All that New Age BS is just that, BS and designed and promoted by the Illuminati to get us away from God.
Joe Reply:
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
I seriously doubt you actually understand your own religion, let alone have the understanding to make suspositions on other philosophies.
The very fact that you list religions that sprang up due to the illuminati (elightenment) shows you are just trying to reinforce the delussion that you choose to follow. Purhaps you’ll learn and practice critical thinking someday, rather then follow a dogma that has been setup for you to follow without question.
Like New Age the Old age (religion) is made to seperate you from finding any real “god” and instead con you into believe a premade concept of what you should believe in.
But then why search for the truth when there is always epople willing to supply you with an answer (even a false one)?
It never cease to amaze me how people can see BS in things around them and still constantly be blind to the BS they themselves perpetuate.
meanjean Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 10:49 am
You don’t understand what I understand, Joe. Nor do you know if or what religion I may follow. Go to http://www.righteousalliance.blogspot.com and read the articles on the Illuminati there. Then you will understand my post. Appearantly you don’t believe in the Creator. You obviously spring from the mud you sling around. And what “truth” are you spewing around? You have yet to make an intelligent point; you sound like every other New Ager who believes in only themselves.
Juan Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:02 am
You are all wrong. the “V” is for Vato and this is about illegal aliens taking over the country.
meanjean Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
You’re wrong: it stands for Vasquez:)
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Part of the story line refers to how the V’s are infiltrating the common people. Sounds strangely familiar. Let me think on that for a minute….TIMES UP; can you say,
“Obamanation”? That would have been a better name for a remake of a bad TV show.
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:43 pm
FOWL 230
November 3rd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
To give this much attention to a television show pretty well sums up the state of the union.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:02 pm
Meanjean with all due respect, what does said God look like. Why is said God depicted as a male. there is proof of this, only what has been made up because no one actually knows what this god looks like, as goes this figure satan. So when you say god vs satan what exactly do you mean. please dont quote the bible think outside of that. the bible does not prove this either.
Steve Williams Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:32 am
Presumably there was some sort of originating force, if for no other reason than obviously that existence exists and something had to enable that to happen somewhere along the way. And that originating force had to be she because only shes have the ability to self fractalize. No non-she can fractalize himself. We just don’t have the ability.*
The term “god” would be of the wrong gender.
If the “goddess” is expecting me to worship her, she has emotional and insecurity issues. I don’t worship anyone or anything. No sentient being is dominant or submissive to any other sentient being. I respect her for being the first mom, but I’m not someone’s perpetual child. We all have to grow up and become adults and do the things adults have to do in our own respective ways to keep things running more or less functionally so everyone has a good time understanding and cherishing the ultimate value of life.
*Shes have an underlying programming code that is infinity to the infinity power large. Distilling that hugeness down to its most basic expression gives the equation 1=2. One equals two, i.e. one fractalizes itself to become two. The entire programming code for non-she is 0=0. Zero equals zero. Zero can’t fractalize and therefore can’t ever be motherhood. And that is the difference between the two genders. One can fractalize itself and the other can’t.
fUny1 Reply:
November 5th, 2009 at 2:20 am
Steve,
zero is not only the absence of value but the sum total of all positive/negative integer values therefore zero is everything and nothing all at once.
Also, western world numbers are Arabic in origin and in the Arab world, Indian numerals are used. the letter V is the number 7 In Arabic hence the V for Victory aka, the CHRIST prototype. whose name in aramaic starts with the letter Y , another 7 or V
AMRMEGEDDON = HAR MEGIDDO. MEGGIDO IS A CITY AND ITS NAME means, believe it or not, HIS GLORY.
START CONNECTING THE DOTS.
November 3rd, 2009 at 9:47 pm
John Holdren backwards is Nerdlow Noj!
Nerdloh……….
He’s a crazy motherfucker!
November 3rd, 2009 at 11:44 pm
The NWO have a plan hatching for 2012! This is likely to coincide with the olympics. I often wondered how the logo for the 2012 olympics looked so creepy and inhuman? I think it is because it does not represent humans at all and represents the agenda and grand plans of the NWO. We humans should be most vigilant and question everything? As the olympics draws close every detail of announcements should be watched, but most importantly we should be looking beyond the propoganda for the real agenda! It might even be worthwhile boycotting the olympics. The kings or gods as they consider themselves of the NWO are the intl banking families!
November 4th, 2009 at 2:55 am
You see the aliens in the show are not from the Earth. Why do you suppose they so love this scenario, that the entire universe is a huge battlefield and it is just planets vs. planets, and we are just forever duking it out? Wouldnt you have to have a lot of faith that there is NO GOD maintaining any kind of order or balance? This kind of subliminal quietly gets your soul. See if Hollywood is allowed to make something resembling a peaceful outside universe. They only project the universe, aka HEAVEN, as being full of beings that magically can’t survive without our little hell hole, totally owned by Satan. You see if you come from God, from heaven, you are projected as some sinister lizard man. See if Hollywood is allowed to make any spiritual references with a true foundation. And let me just say, ‘V’ is the reality that the rest of the world has been dealing with, but it doesn’t come in the form of alien spaceships it comes in the form of the United Nations, the World Bank, the IMF and all these people getting off thinking they will take the globe. These people act like alien invaders, [pretty hard for an israeli to explain how human they are, to a Palestinian while demolishing their home] creeping in on every facet of their lives and their governments play right along by self-destructing and accepting more foreign control. So see if V projects these parasitic global institutions AT ALL. Yea I think heaven became not enough for Lucifer. Gold is the only thing that will save our nations now, if we only get our shit together
November 4th, 2009 at 3:02 am
I am really surprised this site did an article on this film ……cause i cant believe their even making it …….. SUBLIMINALS 360 …….. the original film was really funny ….. u see these reptilian subliminals all over Hollywood films.
–The V Novels That Might Have Been Better Than The TV Show–
http://io9.com/5395357/the-v-n.....w/gallery/
I could dissect this whole movie ……the internet is changing everything
November 4th, 2009 at 3:03 am
This show provided a clue of whether or not to tell if you are going to fall prey to a real or a project blue bean invasion to accept ONE WORLD GOV.
If you see massive objects but do not feel their vibration in the environment around you, it’s blue beam and let other people know.
remember this post if u see them within the red skies at night situations coming up.
the only caveat is the quantum experiments done that showed human beings effect the experiment, extrapolating this to a global consciousness level = we create our own reality and we’ve been brainwashed with alien revelations for more than 60 years.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:45 am
If you think this series serves any positive purpose on exposing anything, you will be sadly mistaken. It’s probably a conditioning tool cooked up by the NWO elite. I’m not wasting the brain cells each week to watch this thinly veiled garbage. The 9 minute preview was overflowing with NWO symbolism and allegory. They are pretty much using music and film to teasingly gloat and wave in front of our faces what their future plans are. It’s all done in hopes of instilling fear and provoking a response from the people that they want to take care of first…those who have the will to act. Pretty much the same thing as Alex Jones. Some truth mixed with lies to manipulate the people.
November 4th, 2009 at 3:56 am
argggggggggghh! David Ike was right, Reptilians! NOT!
November 4th, 2009 at 4:40 am
Is it just me, or did Glenn Beck come to mind as the news man doing the interview?
n Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Yeah, Beck is good at knowing what NOT to ask like the moronic coward that he is.
November 4th, 2009 at 6:25 am
V is a fun show to watch, but in the grand scheme of things I think it could easily become a tool to distract reality. People have already started to compare V to our current political situation (Chicago Tribune). I predict that anyone who talks wrongly about our government will be quickly dismissed as a silly alien sitcom watcher. “You, believe there’s a NWO, you watch too much TV”. Lets be careful to stay focused on whats really going on.
November 4th, 2009 at 7:34 am
a short film about tv and the predictive control of people, the matrix 911 -gi joe the stand and matrix , and the new V ,very interesting, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBBNXHEtalo
November 4th, 2009 at 8:50 am
—-I was reading through a Halloween “ghost story” thread……a veteran posted the story below:
–When I was in Afghanistan I was on guard with on of my friends from 2100 to 0100. Around midnight we saw something with our NODs( night vision goggles) that look liked shadows in the shape of people, we had a thermal scope on the 240 so I took a looksey, no thermal sig what so ever. The “shadow” people stayed around the ECP until our relief showed up with the SOG they saw it for about 5 minutes before they disappeared. It was really disturbing because for starters I thought it was go time and was getting ready to ruin someone’s night but also because it was something I have never seen before and wasn’t ready for it at all. I’m just grateful that I wasn’t in the ECP at night from that night on. When I was in Afghanistan I was on guard with on of my friends from 2100 to 0100. Around midnight we saw something with our NODs that look liked shadows in the shape of people, we had a thermal scope on the 240 so I took a looksey, no thermal sig what so ever. The “shadow” people stayed around the ECP( entry check point) until our relief showed up with the SOG (sergeant of guard)they saw it for about 5 minutes before they disappeared. It was really disturbing because for starters I thought it was go time and was getting ready to ruin someone’s night but also because it was something I have never seen before and wasn’t ready for it at all. I’m just grateful that I wasn’t in the ECP at night from that night on.
USMC Grunt VET Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 8:58 am
another vet replies:
That just gave me chills, dude. Some other guys I know have said they’ve seen the same thing. I never did personally, but I wasn’t entirely sure I believed them until now. I was in Iraq though. Insurgent secret weapon?
then someone else rePlies with this HOLLYWOOD movie about the same god damn thing
• “The Objective” trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjz-J4Tq218
……i heard u talk on the radio about people saying dimensional vortexes and shit is all govt paid bullshit….but ALEX ITS NOT FUCKING BULLSHIT MOTHERFUCKER…..what if we are over in Iraq for something way the fuck over everyone’s heads….just think about that
http://www.objectivemovie.com/
– i don’t give a fuck if this disturbs anyone……. the GOD DAMN PUBLIC NEEDS TO WAKE THE FUCK UP……IF THEY DONT WAKE UP…… THEN DUMP A BUCKET OF COLD ICE WATER ON THEIR ASS
USMC Grunt VET Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:04 am
OH AND HERE IS THE FUCKING THREADS URL:
http://www.militaryphotos.net/.....amp;page=2
—-TELL ME THIS DOSENT TIE IN WITH THE FIRST EARTH BATTALION
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Earth_Battalion
ALLOT OF WEIRD SHIT GOING ……..DON’T TALK ABOUT THE OCCULT ON YOUR SHOW IF U DONT WANT THE TRUTH
November 4th, 2009 at 9:36 am
its called sleep depravation. it can happen with high tempo missions and especially with extended missions where you can not develop a sleep pattern because your internal clock has no set routine. an old RANGER school story of the guy who was caught trying to but a dollar in a tree(looked like a soda machine to him at the time) for a soda. “mass induced hypnosis” is possible when under this type of combined stress. no sleep, long hours, problems at home, fear for life, you get the idea…
November 4th, 2009 at 9:45 am
Some of you on here are complete nutjobs!
I believe in an Alien Agenda. I believe Icke may have uncovered some truths in his research. I believe in Government/N.W.O. propaganda. But, to think that “V” is some type of indoctrination program aired to get the masses ready for enslavement, is just ludicrous.
And people say I should be wearing a tinfoil hat……..
meanjean Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
blackavenger, read Jim Marrs “Alien Agenda.” It’s full of information.