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Was just reading about this in the DS headlines! The trailer looks fantastic, but not too sure about changing Mike Donovan's character into a woman, and likewise Christine's character into a male hardcore journalist. The new character of Anna (Diana) looks great though!!
I loved the original mini-series and The Final Battle - I remember it so clearly as a kid!! Hopefully this will do it justice.
I loved the original mini-series and The Final Battle - I remember it so clearly as a kid!! Hopefully this will do it justice.
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That has always bugged me about BSG, (not the fact that Starbuck became a woman) it was as though they thought that they needed to "sex-up" the DVD cover in order to sell the show.
With regard to V, having watched the trailers and clips, I have to say that the new Lizard leader Anna comes across as creepy straight from the start......personally I'd be suspicious of them as soon as she says "Do not be afraid".
Does anyone know when it's gonna be on, and what channel?
It probably said somewhere and I just missed it.
ABC in the states in september for an initial run of 13 eppys,elsewhere to be determined.:)
Actually V is not due till the mid season (Jan/Feb 2010)
13 - are you sure? I thought i saw they started with 6 to gauge the reception.
Confirmed in th DS news article,sorry no link thingy.
I knew that:p
http://www.thrfeed.com/2009/05/video-abcs-v.html
Might also interest you to know the plan is to have 4 seasons all-in-all for V 2010, each of varying length (it depends on the storylines, so S2 might by 22 episodes, but then S3 might only be 14 episodes).
Is Ham Tyler being replaced does anyone know??
Starbuck will always be Dirk Benedict...much as I love the new BG!!!
I really hope so!! My dvd set of V is wearing thin...I need this to replace it!! :cool:
I can't wait - all the characters have changed but it looks really good. I'm glad it's only 13 episodes - they seemed to have learned from recent British sci-fi successes that less is often more. This is promising to be major "event" TV - if they were brave enough, they should do a Torchwood and run it every night for two weeks.
I really liked the 4400 - and this is by the same production team.
Even though I'm male, I loved the scene in the original where Julliette heroically stands pointing her tiny little gun at an incoming Visitor fighter. Still gives me goosebumps. So when I "played" V in the playground, I always wanted to be Julliette but went for Ham Tyler instead for fear of being laughed at forever!
I saw V the same week as I saw Star Wars for the first time on TV. What a great week that was!
Anyway - the reason I'm excited about this show is that the trailers show a very scary scene where the visitors turn their spaceship into a massive TV screen and Anna doles out the propaganda!
I'm not sure I would be so trusting watching that massive scoreboard in the sky.
Anna looks gorgeous and very trustworthy and also very human in an "other-worldly" sort of way. Perfect casting.
In this day and age, we trust pretty faces to run our countries rather than ugly people who have the tools for the job. It's perfectly believable that most people would be taken in by her and be all too willing to go along with her friendly rhetoric.
There also seems to be a theme where all of the Visitors look beautiful and have a very intelligent demeanour, as if they're human but several thought planes above us.
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lol - I can't wait for this, as you can tell.
PS. I loved the original Battlestar when I was a kid too. The remake was just amazing though, the acting was outstanding from the entire cast and the stories were gripping. As long as we get the same here, I'll have no complaints - even if it in no way resembles the original V.
EDIT: Hmmmm - actually. Wouldn't you be suspicious if a brand new civilisation visited our planet, looked just like us, and had English names like Anna and Keith.
Terran
eh?
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So does Morena Baccarin.
And Laura Vandervoort.
where they attack hiding place in the hills then donavan appears after escaping the mothership and saves the day flying one of the spaceships better than the visitors do lol.
awesome scene
Oh I know the scene well, and yeah it's great.
Jazzx's wrote that he enjoyed the scene, in which a female is shown to be heroic, and he made a point of stating that he enjoyed it even though he is male.
I was just wondering what that was all about, seems like a bit of a cave man thing to say.
Read the whole paragraph. You know? What more than one sentence is comprised of?
I was so inspired by that scene that I wanted to be Juliette in my playground games. (I also had a crush on her)
But I'm a boy - so I chose to be Ham Tyler instead to spare myself all the ridicule and a lifetime of social problems!
Seizing on a comment without reading even one sentence beyond that shows that you need to go to chimpanzee school before you can graduate to nursery school and then hopefully on to great things at Primary school where you will be taught amazing things about how several sentences make up a paragraph (how far we've come!)
At Secondary school, you will learn how to read whole texts and evaluate them, not just on a single sentence, or even on a single paragraph, but as a whole.
Then at University - (you need to stump up the cash to get in, though) - you will learn how to collate several complete texts [comprising of multiple paragraphs with multiple sentences] into a thesis or dissertation.
That's clearly a long way in the future, but with dedication and study - and cash - you'll get there. I know you will, I have every faith in you.
Just get out there and realise your potential!
Go for it!
I'll be rooting for you!
I love the "underdog-comes-good" storyline.
or "Retard gets Masters Degree against all odds".
But just start in small steps. Read a whole paragraph instead of just one sentence. It's hard, I know, but one day you'll thank me for it.
yeah no probs :cool: