Moody, weird, and genuinely scary, the premiere episode of new ABC series "V" has us convinced that there's life after Battlestar Galactica. We saw the whole thing at Comic-Con and have a spoiler-free report.
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This was a television franchise we weren't sure we wanted to see back again, and yet another remake/reboot that we were leery of. But this show opened our bleary eyes with its moody, weird and scary pilot. The cast, including Firefly's Morena Baccarin and Alan Tudyk and Lost's Elizabeth Mitchell, were snappy and fun to watch. And the old "beware of aliens bearing gifts" trope still turns out to have a decent amount of life left in it. The 4400's Scott Peters brings the right amount of paranoia to a story where the terrorists turn out to be anti-alien freedom fighters, and the media is lying to us all along. We heard several people marveling afterwards that a V remake could be so intriguing. Hollywood Reporter says the screening and panel got a strong Comic Con response."
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Starting Friday, the giant red letter V—written by skywriting planes—will begin to appear over New York landmarks like the Statute of Liberty, the network says, to promote V, a remake of the 1980s miniseries, that begins next month. ...
ABC won't specify which landmarks will be getting the giant V treatment, but it will go on for several days, it says.
New Yorkers can expect to see the sky graffiti overhead early Sunday and again on Halloween.
I wish they'd bring back War Of The Worlds as a series.
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"There's rioting breaking out through the city. Fire is continuing to burn everywhere. Troops are shooting people. My God, I...I don't know why! There's a woman dying in front of me, and no one's helping her! There are conflicting reports about who or what started the chaos. Will someone tell me what's happening? This is madness! What is this world coming to?"
So far, it's ok, but going very fast. They should have made it a 2 hour premiere.
agreed. it don't like the pacing. no build up. ofcourse it could be argued that since we all knew they were lizards, there was no need for the suspense.
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