V – The Reboot Series

I watched the original V series so many times as a kid that it was nearly imprinted into my brain. However that imprint has faded as the years have gone by and it’s just in time for a reboot. Now, before we get into this… I’m 100% ready for people to start accepting Science Fiction shows as main stream television, however I have serious doubts that will happen. V is the latest attempt to make that happen, and using the classic “aliens show up, floating above major cities” is perhaps the safest way to make it work. Unfortunately that safe bet already doesn’t look good for the series, as reports are already surfacing that the show is in trouble. I figured i’d go over what I thought worked and did work… I’ll stick to 3 points for both bad and good… If you’ve not seen the show, you may want to skip everything below. Lets cover the bad first…

Bad

1. Stop killing Wash! – Seriously, you give him an opportunity to get back into science fiction and then you shove a chunk of metal into his heart in the first episode. Did you even watch Serenity? Did you watch how he died in that movie? I’m pretty sure you did, so you gathered all the Firefly fans and then spit in their face. Nice work guys… seriously… Yes I saw the preview for the next episode, and that was equivalent to the spit having a little bit of cold virus in it.

2. Dialog – What the hell was that ID4 reference? You know, the line about how ID4 was a rip off… (pause) This isn’t Mystery Science Theater 3000, so just stop.

3. Pace – The original mini series took 3 hours to do what you did in 1 hour. Thanks for robbing me of 2 more episodes of science fiction.

Good

1. It’s Science Fiction - I have a show about Alien Invasions in prime time, I will shut my fat pie hole as long as it doesn’t go the way of heroes.

2. The Tech - Thanks for ships that are not round like coasters… God will be pissed he has no where to set his drink, but we will remind him of point number 1.

3. Pace - The original mini series took 3 hours to do what you did in 1 hour. Thanks for saving me from the bullshit 2 extra hours to get to the good stuff… however the good stuff better be coming.