underrated

Great show. I really hate the cancelled it. Eventhough it has an open ending I rewatch it from time to time.

I have always loved V. I was a great fan of the 1984 mini-series and I tried to like the show that followed but honestly it wasn't very good. I was ecstatic when I found out they were bringing it back in 2009. I was very enthusiastic considering how wonderful the reboot of Battlestar Galactica was. Then I found out it was not going to be on ScyFy, which was the rumor. It was on ABC. I knew from that moment that the show WOULD NOT LAST. I still hope that somebody at the SyFy Channel or wherever will get some balls and really go to bat for V and bring the fans the show we all know and have known for over 30 years is there. V has so much potential story-wise. In the right hands with proper studio support V could finally be the show I always knew it could be. If it could happen to Battlestar Galactica it can still happen for V. If you ever saw the original 1978 version of Battlestar Galactica you would know what I mean. That show started with very good and very strong episodes despite 70's feathered hair and disco-inspired costumes. But it fell apart and it was very expensive to make. The reboot was everything I could have asked for and then some. I am going to keep praying for the same fate to finally happen to V.

Just finished watching this. Really sucks that it got cancelled. Erica hadn't even found out about the fate of her son Tyler. How would she have coped? I thought it was stupid to not bring Tyler in the fold. They also made it seem like every-time she wanted to tell him, he was wearing the jacket. C'mon, dude wasn't wearing it 24/7. LOL! Also, the introduction of Marc Singer! Hopefully Sci Fi does a reboot and bring back Anna, she was beautiful and scary at the same time.

I'm not sure if I would call it underrated. This was a heavily flawed show and is about deserving of its 6.8 IMDB rating, but I thought it was still better than the overrated 1983 and 1984 miniseries and a damn sight better than the 1984 TV series. About the only thing V (1983) and V: The Final Battle did better was that it had a more cinematic look and feel and delivered much bigger action sequences.

Otherwise, I preferred the depiction of the Visitors in the remake, with Morena Baccarin making for a much more chilling villain than Jane Badler, who was just too campy to be intimidating. Elizabeth Mitchell is far superior to Faye Grant when it comes to the human protagonists. I like the more ethereal look and feel of the interior of the Visitor ships, and I thought the whole cloned skin concept was a lot more interesting than the fake plastic skin they wore in the original.

It's kind of interesting to see the remake go for a more paranoid conspiracy thriller approach than the action-packed, laser guns vs. machine guns shootout action of the original.

I'm not saying the 2009 V was a great or even a particularly good show, but it did more right than wrong.