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If that's true, the budget was wasted. While the CGI spaceships looked excellent, most of the other CGI was pretty subpar and the greenscreen on board the ships was bad.
I agree that played a huge part in this miniseries' success. Sci-fi spectacle of this scale on TV was mostly unheard of at the time. You'd have to go back to Battlestar Galactica, and that was nearly 5 years earlier in 1978.
By 1983, audiences were even more stoked for sci-fi at that point, after three Star Wars movies and two Star Trek films and several more space films (like The Black Hole, Starcrash, Battle Beyond the Stars). So a big-budget sci-fi miniseries on TV was going to be a surefire success. It was also inevitable that ratings were going to crash as hard as they eventually did by the time V became a weekly series, considering how cheesy and repetitive this show was.
I loved it, too. This was one of my all-time favorite miniseries. Absolutely gripping from start to finish with excellent performances and storytelling.
It's funny how the same concept and twist can be so different in execution. In All Good Things, the reveal was handled with cleverness and elegance. In The Triangle, it just felt like such a flimsy mess of a way to end things.
My top 20 sci-fi/fantasy shows
Futurama
The Expanse
The X-Files
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Firefly
Fringe
Rick and Morty
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Superman: The Animated Series
Stargate: Atlantis
Game of Thrones
Stargate: Universe
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Discovery
Star Trek: Picard
Stargate: SG-1
Gravity Falls
The Twilight Zone (1985)
The Outer Limits (1995)
Invasion
Evil
I think the most overrated sci-fi/fantasy shows are:
Babylon 5
Lost
Heroes
I hope she does show up. Of all the TNG regulars, she was the one I was most hoping would show up in season 1, but I was very happy with the Riker and Troi reunion scenes.
I don't get the praise for the character development. Most of the human characters were boring as hell, while the visitors came across like campy soap opera villains.
Season 5
Season 6
Season 4
Season 3
Season 7
Season 2
Season 1
It already started its downhill slide near the end of season 1. From there, the show just dragged. Characters became backstabbing and unlikable. Sylar was massively overused. The stories were dull and wore out their welcome.
There weren't any clues, but I figured when they reached Earth, it would either be the far future or the ancient past. I say that because it'd be too difficult to pull off Earth in the present.
I re-watched the series on Peacock. First, the HD upgrade is stunning. The show looks better than ever. The show is pretty damn cheesy, but I have to admit it brings back a lot of nostalgic memories of watching it and enjoying it as a kid. I had some fun with it, and I even thought season 3 was actually pretty good at times. It was kind of a shame the show got cut short just as it started going into a more story arc-oriented approach.
Below is my top 10, along with my favorite season from each show.
1. How I Met Your Mother - Season 6
2. Futurama - Season 5
3. The Expanse - Season 4
4. The X-Files - Season 5
5. Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5
6. Firefly - It only lasted the one season, but I probably rank this single season higher than any season of any other TV series (except maybe season 6 of HIMYM).
7. Fringe - Season 4
8. Rick and Morty - Season 3
9. Yellowstone - Season 3
10. Battlestar Galactica (2003) - Season 4
As you can see from my list, How I Met Your Mother is a huge outlier for me, as most of my top 10 is made up of sci-fi shows. And if I were to continue my list into a top 20, it would also be mostly sci-fi. For me, HIMYM, transcended being just a sitcom. It was not only the funniest show I've ever seen, it was enormously clever and emotional in ways that I never felt with almost any other sitcom.
It wasn't bad. Sasha Peralto is a stunning hot piece of ass with the prettiest face I've ever seen and has a gloriously amazing body, so it was worth watching just for her. I just couldn't believe the guy at the end chose the way less attractive girl over her. Made no sense to me whatsoever and soured the film for me.
I've seen the original miniseries, The Final Battle, and several episodes of the 1985 TV series. Here's my quick thoughts on why its rating is so high. For its era and time period, there was literally nothing else like it on television. V was the first ever big TV network sci-fi miniseries, and its production values were more cinematic than anything else on the tube at the time, and I think it gets remembered with a fair amount of fondness on a nostalgic level for that reason.
Before then, the TV miniseries format had been reserved for period pieces like Roots and Centennial, so it was really quite novel for it to be applied to science fiction. Star Wars and Star Trek were dominating the box office at the time, and its clear viewers were starved for some epic-scale sci-fi adventure, and V smartly capitalized on that hunger by offering viewers large-scale sci-fi they could see for free on TV.
While I'm not a huge fan, I at least admit it's fairly watchable. To have watched both miniseries adds up to nearly 7.5 hours of screen time and I made it through without too much trouble, horribly cheesy ending to The Final Battle notwithstanding.
Stargate: Atlantis is one of the few long-running sci-fi shows (long-running in my mind being at least 5 seasons) that I can think of in which I thought every season was excellent.
I didn't like V very much when I first saw it, and I still don't. I think it has a great concept and good production values, but its execution just leaves so much to be desired. The Nazi parallels are so heavy-handed it lacks any form of subtlety. Most of the heroes are just plain dull, and the visitors act more like campy soap opera villains in cheesy orange jumpsuits than menacing and fearsome extraterrestrial foes.
The Luck of the Fryrish
Meanwhile
The Late Philip J. Fry
Time Keeps on Slipping
The Farnsworth Parabox
I think Renee pales in comparison to Sasha Peralto. Sasha has the much prettier face and the FAR superior body. She's the hottest piece of ass I've ever seen.
The hype lasted for about two seasons. Once it became clear the show was in a precipitous decline from which it would never recover, most viewers left and stopped caring.
I have to mirror a lot of the thoughts on here. The non-linear format was a terrible idea. It killed the development of any momentum, and I question whether this would even be comprehensible for anyone who hasn't read the book or seen the 1994 miniseries. It's a shame, because some of the acting is excellent and the production values are pretty damn good, for the most part. Without question, the 1994 miniseries remains the superior adaptation.