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The first 14 minutes had me thinking this was going to be great... and then the commercial break came and when the show returned it was three weeks along in the plot line, there was some terrorist investigation going on and a string of clues that had been followed with zero explanation. In short, the show was edited like it was supposed to be a two or three part intro/mini-series and then butchered to fit into a 44 minute time slot. The result is a disjointed mess that only looks like it will soon be canceled. Very disappointing... I think if it had landed on another network, the makers would have had more freedom to make something along the lines of the original mini-series, which back then was akin to a TV event rather than the hurried mess the folks at Disney gave us last night.

I can't believe that ABC would dump "defying gravity" early in favor of this unoriginal tripe. Alien invasion stories are a dime a dozen and generally have no mystery or twist to them. This is no exception. I can think of at least three other series with the same premise, and some of them were better (E.G. Earth, Final Conflict) I should know by now that originality and imagination are not qualities that inspire network execs. Give me a show with interesting characters and interesting stories! Clearly that's asking too much. No wonder the broadcast networks are losing market share year after year. I had programed my DVR to record the whole series, so now I get to cancel YOU!

I've learned that the best way to write a reasonable review of the TV- series is to wait (and record) until they air all the episodes and then watch all of them one after another (no week delay). This way the picture looks radically different. So, V is nothing but Dallas, Denver Clan or some Mexican (or Turkish) soap-opera with artificially fabricated plot full of holes, illogical happenings and "twists" (all very predictable, as a matter of fact), unexplained events brought up in some episodes, bad acting and casual (I-really-don't-care) production manner. Of course, most of the people craving for SF are willing to swallow up almost anything that even remotely reassembles something like that. This is not it. It's simply a cheap placebo for masses, full of clichés seen so many times before in other forms. They should not have canceled the show. They should not have made it in the first place.

However, three stars for casting Morena Baccarin and Alan Tudyk (only as guest, unfortunately) of the Firefly, but even they can not save such a badly conceived and produced project.

I really wanted to like this, and despite the disappointments of the first few episodes kept coming back because the actors are excellent. But the plot! The human characters show unbelievable naivety, acting with extreme stupidity and then somehow lucking out (for the most part). The visitors monitor everything - except, apparently, within their own ships where they're not only completely blind but also totally lacking in any other security mechanisms (such as locks). Worse still, the visitors (at least in the first season) haven't actually done anything all that shockingly bad (if I was an alien commander wanting to show the human resistance as terrorists, for instance, I'd arrange for them to blow up a ship full of school kids on a cultural outing, not...).

I gave it 3 out of 10 mostly for the actors. Morena Baccarin (Anna) gets special recognition, with her movements and facial expressions very well suited to her role.

Just another predictable remake of an originally marginal series. There are so many other Sci Fi subject that can be explored, why do we have to rehash bad stuff? Acting is uninspired, the story is bland, the lines can be predicted before they are spoken. The actors are earning a paycheck but their performances are rather painful. However, I assume that we can look forward to some interesting special effects even though so far nothing has been that impressive. The ships are goofy, the mattes are, let say, OK... the story line needs to get interesting if they are going to keep most adults interested, teenagers may watch for the cute, sexy girls, but that is hardly enough for an Emmy. Personally I'll watch the reruns of Flash Gordon, at least I'll laugh watching them. Next?

I don't think I will be finishing this series. I much preferred the original and found it to be uninspiring and uninteresting. I don't care for it at all or find myself drawn into the story. I doubt that I will try and give the second season a try much less finish the first.

What they needed to do to make this story some what watchable is make the aliens a little more sinister. Stop trying to rely so heavily on drama and jumping from character to character all the time. Using music to make everything sound interesting actually hurts the credibility of what could have been a great remake.

I remember how a friend of mine hated remakes and I'd defend them, stating that remakes have their place and can be just as good if not rarely better than the original. Yet he's also right in stating that to many try to go a different direction than what the original was supposed to be about and I found that this show did that and in a way that hurt the credibility of the show, holding me back from wanting to finish it. I guess some shows are simply not meant to be remade and this just happens to be one.

This show is really not that bad. In fact, it might be really good. The problem is, the main character, played by Elizabeth Mitchell, is so utterly annoying that she makes "V" nearly unwatchable.

Mitchell plays a middle-aged FBI agent. So far, she has displayed remarkable fighting prowess for a not overly imposing looking middle- aged woman. Most of us don't normally think of middle-aged women getting into first fights all that often. Actually, if any of us saw a middle-aged woman punching anyone, we'd probably keel over from the shock. This is not only because the notion is preposterous, but because such behavior is simply not acceptable in a civilized society.

Mitchell's character easily overpowered her "alien" male partner in one episode. In another, she raced about 50 yards in a straight line towards an armed assassin, who was aiming his weapon at her the entire time. Oh yes, she was not holding a weapon. And yes, there were tons of larger males in the building, who stood there frightened until the powerful middle-aged warrior showed up and saved them. Think about that-what screenwriter has a middle-aged woman running a good distance towards a man holding a machine gun, who can see her the entire time? Fortunately for Mitchell's character, the assassin neglected to fire at her as she trotted towards him, waiting patiently instead for her to knock him down and overpower him easily.

This intense propaganda is now the most prevalent theme on television and in movies. According to Hollywood, virtually any female can beat up virtually any male, even when the male is holding a weapon and the female is unarmed. It is a relentless theme, and this new television show employs it liberally, utilizing Mitchell's middle-aged FBI character to do so. It is offensive and, even if it were not so laughingly unrealistic, incredibly trite and unoriginal at this point.

When she is not beating up men, Mitchell's character is delivering her lines with the actress's patented smirk and singular lack of emotion. Mitchell's one expression is deadpan, and her voice is invariably quiet, almost mouse-like. This makes her "tough guy" attempts at intimidation all the more ridiculous. How she ever became a star in Hollywood is a great mystery. She must be related to someone, because even by the low standards of network television, she is a one dimensional, boring and unskilled actress.

With another actor in the lead role, this might be a completely different series.

Have you seen it? No? There is likely a very good reason for that...it stinks.

Like nearly ALL the endless remakes and reboots that have been plaguing movie goers for the past decade or so....all this is, is a heartless version of the original.

It has no heart.

It has no soul.

It is a retelling of a film that we all love and cherish...and it adds nothing to the story. It improves nothing but the special effects--which held up very well over time--and in some cases belittles the fans of the original...particularly in the fact that they remade the movie at all, without adding anything clever to it.

Like so many other remakes it is a hallow shell of the original.

This version of V started out as an interesting story, but as it got further and further into the series it became bloodier and more gory-- especially where aliens were concerned. In one episode an alien was skinned alive (plenty of screaming), and that's just part of the gore factor. Reportedly the show was reported to the FCC for exceeding prime-time family-viewing codes of the day and was very shortly thereafter removed.

A case of writers and directors failing to remember what lines not to cross.

Said to be a new or a reboot of V, but it was a continuation of the original, they brought back Jane Badler, who reprised her role of Diana from the original. That was cool, but then they brought in Marc Singer as Lars Tremont? And in the last episode? Why didn't he just come back as his original character, Mike Donavon? When I was a child, I watched the original when it first aired, and loved it, I even bought it on DVD. But this series, was just too short, and left to many unanswered questions. They should have explained more, like why Marc Singer was Lars Tremont. Maybe he was Mike Donavon, but using an alias! Guess we will never know since they canceled the show so early!