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amberfocusDay 03 - Your favorite new show (aired this TV season)
According to wiki:
Giant spaceships appear over 29 major cities throughout the world, and Anna, the beautiful and charismatic leader of the "Visitors", claims to come in peace. The Visitors claim to only need a small amount of Earth's resources, in exchange for which they will share their advanced technological and medical knowledge. As a small number of humans begin to doubt the sincerity of the seemingly benevolent Visitors, FBI counter terrorism agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have spent decades infiltrating human governments, businesses, and religious institutions and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the Earth. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, a Visitor sleeper agent who over time developed human emotions and now wants to save humanity. The Visitors have won favor among the people of Earth by curing a variety of diseases, and have recruited Earth's youth—including Erica's son Tyler — to serve them unknowingly as spies.
Well, there wasn't a whole lot of choice for me. V will win out every time, mostly because it was really my first obsession back in the early 80's when the original mini-series aired. I wrote stories on my typewriter for that show at fifteen. Mike and Julie FTW! They were my first OTP. Anyway, for years and years and years after the mini-series, mini-series follow up, and original series aired there were always rumblings of V coming back again and this season it finally did. I didn't know if it could ever hold the gravitas of the two mini-series (the series was just camp with two love stories thrown in, but I loved it anyway because I loved the characters) and no, it doesn't have that gravitas, but that doesn't stop it from being good science fiction.
In a lot of ways I wish they had followed the original ideas a bit more closely, but they didn't. There are echoes, of course. Young love between a visitor and a human, a cross species pregnancy and birth where one parent is murdered, a group of freedom fighters and a fifth column amongst the aliens. But this is more of a reimaginging than a remake, much like BSG was, so that's about where it ends. It isn't deep and thematic, at least not yet, but it's enjoyable and towards the end of the season the characters really began to come into their own. I'm looking forward to next year and the major advances in plot that were heralded by the season finale.
Runner up: Flash Forward
According to wiki:
Giant spaceships appear over 29 major cities throughout the world, and Anna, the beautiful and charismatic leader of the "Visitors", claims to come in peace. The Visitors claim to only need a small amount of Earth's resources, in exchange for which they will share their advanced technological and medical knowledge. As a small number of humans begin to doubt the sincerity of the seemingly benevolent Visitors, FBI counter terrorism agent Erica Evans discovers that the aliens have spent decades infiltrating human governments, businesses, and religious institutions and are now in the final stages of their plan to take over the Earth. Erica joins the resistance movement, which includes Ryan, a Visitor sleeper agent who over time developed human emotions and now wants to save humanity. The Visitors have won favor among the people of Earth by curing a variety of diseases, and have recruited Earth's youth—including Erica's son Tyler — to serve them unknowingly as spies.
Well, there wasn't a whole lot of choice for me. V will win out every time, mostly because it was really my first obsession back in the early 80's when the original mini-series aired. I wrote stories on my typewriter for that show at fifteen. Mike and Julie FTW! They were my first OTP. Anyway, for years and years and years after the mini-series, mini-series follow up, and original series aired there were always rumblings of V coming back again and this season it finally did. I didn't know if it could ever hold the gravitas of the two mini-series (the series was just camp with two love stories thrown in, but I loved it anyway because I loved the characters) and no, it doesn't have that gravitas, but that doesn't stop it from being good science fiction.
In a lot of ways I wish they had followed the original ideas a bit more closely, but they didn't. There are echoes, of course. Young love between a visitor and a human, a cross species pregnancy and birth where one parent is murdered, a group of freedom fighters and a fifth column amongst the aliens. But this is more of a reimaginging than a remake, much like BSG was, so that's about where it ends. It isn't deep and thematic, at least not yet, but it's enjoyable and towards the end of the season the characters really began to come into their own. I'm looking forward to next year and the major advances in plot that were heralded by the season finale.
Runner up: Flash Forward
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Date: 2010-06-04 03:18 pm (UTC)I loved this show too! Admittedly, not for shipping reasons, but more for creepy reptilian alien factor. Heh. There was a lot of that going on and I loved it! :D
Did you watch the BSG reboot? If so, did you ship Starbuck/Apollo???