Monday, August 16, 2010

V: The TV Series news


A couple of headlines caught my attention recently about the sci-fi series, V.  V is a series about aliens that come to Earth and promise they come in peace and they’ll help us.  However they have a hidden agenda.  In the current series, it hasn’t truly been revealed what they’re here for.  In the original series they came to Earth to siphon off our water and to use humans for food.  The original mini-series is truly some of the most classic television, as it gave us a perspective of what it was like for countries that were invaded by Germans and a resistance movement needed to form, just with an alien twist.  Really great stuff.
The new series is full of bells and whistles, not all for the better, but it is still pretty decent sci-fi television.  I was really excited that ABC decided to give this series a second life.  The show is interested, has some decent actors, and modernizes the classic.  There have been some disappointments and the whole situation so far feels much more hopeless than even the first one since they don’t seem to be adding on more characters.  Until now!  This next season guarantees some great stuff from what I hear.
The first is that Jane Badler has been confirmed as Anna’s mother in V.  Jane Badler played the alien leader Diana in the original show and what a great way to pay homage to it.  Jane Badler was the quintessential bad ass, cold hearted, killer woman that you never wanted to meet in a dark alley.  Jane Badler defined what it meant to be one bad “broad”. 
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Jane Badler in a recent musical performance.  Hey, she can sing too!
The next is that Bret Harrison will be joining the cast of V for season 2.  Bret Harrison is fresh off of the series “Reaper” which was on the CW before being cancelled.  It was a really hilarious series and Bret was the main character and he found out his father was the devil.  All good stuff there, eh?  Bret will play a biologist named Dr. Sidney Miller.  I can’t quite picture him as a Sidney, or a biologist for that matter.  We’ll have to see, but it certainly makes me more interested.
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Our loveable loser, Bret Harrison may be come a winner finally!
The new season of V isn’t set to premier until November.  I’m guessing only 13 episodes again this year.  If they would just build some sets instead of having to CGI everything possible it might be easier to film more.  Although anything involving sci-fi is a risk and you don’t want to appear low budget.  CGI still doesn’t make everything better.  Here’s to Season 2 though and I hope it gets even better!
 

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2 comments:

  1. I like Reaper and I will be interested to see him in the new V. I really do hate the bad CGI on the ships and stuff. It makes it look low-budget.

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  2. Yeah, the CGI/Green Screen technique they use is awful. They even CGI the floor, so it doesn't look like they're actually standing on stuff. Ugh. Use sets people! SETS!

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