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Amazing miniseries

posted 12 years ago by warlok1
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Its been 30 years...that fact still amazes me. The mini-series did a great job of showing a generation how Fascism can creep into a society...especially 'the day after' the big warships arrive. The most poignant character on the mini-series was Abraham, the old jewish man who kept saying "I've seen this before..." or "Thats what they said the first time."

This series does a better job of showing how a Fascist , Totalitarian state gets started than any other visuals (especially WWII films that might seem so distant in time and place to folk alive today.)

Watching as our rights erode, as folk collaborate with the Visitors, as black markets and crime erupts, as those targeted enemies of the state are persecuted...is still chilling today. Everyone should watch with their kids and discuss why our civil and human rights are so important.

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[–] jokerz77 12 years ago

I loved the original 'V' Mini Series and watch it every time it's aired on TV even thou I already own it on DVD.Even today it still holds up as a riveting story with characters that you grow to love like Ham Tyler and Elias and villains you love to hate like Daniel and Mike's mother.

[–] dpcole7 12 years ago

Naah. Let's just remake the thing, throw out everything intellectual, make the plot as sensationalistic but as cheaply as possible so we can take away any real sense of threat...

I'm amazed the 2009 remake got beyond that idiotic and half-baked pilot episode...

Most audiences today prefer remakes because the originals are sooooo slow. Which is sad; people thought gen-X'ers growing up in the early 1980s would all get ADHD over television of the time, too...

Oh, how many rights did people really have in the early-80s? What if politicians were or were going to write up laws that would erode peoples' rights? And what if they did? Why didn't people care at the time REX84 was being written?

And why watch? Just so Elias and others can be cynical and spit out "Audiences will sit back and believe anything"... "V" wasn't ahead of its time, and sci-fi before 1983 also delved into this subject of subjugation. Especially British sci-fi, since they got to deal with the Nazis much closer than Americans had... not as close as other countries, though...