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What went wrong with this remake/re-imagining.. .

posted 11 years ago by yaroslavc
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I really think what sunk this remake of an incredible sci-fi story was the fact that the story of this incarnation put sci-fi on the back burner and became a huge character study on mother-child conflict, protectiveness of the maternal figure and how one might be driven to matricidal tendencies.
I also have to say that while I love Elizabeth Mitchell - what has turned out to now be a typecast character for her in this story did not really help propel things forward but just rather help maintain a constant suspense element that because of her reticence to take a clear stand one way or the other (just like in LOST and Revolution) there was no strong forward movement that allowed the story get to a point where it went back more to its scifi roots.

[–] Mattfinbell 11 years ago

No it was they tried to reboot this and they should have made a next generation.

tying things in from the orginal.

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[–] Rosabel 11 years ago

I still don't know just what the Vs' goal was. What were they here for? What did they want humans for? To eat us? To cross-breed with us? To adopt us? To use us for spare parts? WHAT?

The writers kept revealing a tiny bit of the picture here and there, but never enough to get a clear idea of what the end plan was. We were supposed to be scared of the Vs, but without ever really knowing why. After the hours and hours of pointless shadow-boxing, I began to feel that the gullible, enthusiastic humans supporting the Vs really had the better argument. How could you blame them? We had the privilege of seeing what was going on behind the scenes, and we STILL couldn't figure out what was going on. Erica and her chums came across as paranoid cranks. They should have at least been able to make a convincing argument to us, the audience, if they couldn't reach the fictional populace in the story.

As it was, our "heroes" took on the role of terrorists, making pinprick attacks against an overwhelmingly powerful and numerous enemy. Maybe this was supposed to be clever postmodernism - "Traditional human life = al Qaeda". But then we should have at least had a clearer idea of what the alternative was. The Vs were just a mystery that wouldn't be solved and wouldn't go away.

And I agree with the OP that the persistent ruminations on motherhood, teen alienation and family dynamics became tiresome very quickly.

Flat, drab passion meanders across the screen!

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