I like the new V so far, it seems like it has some drama beyond the "aliens want our planet" meme. I do hope they make them more alien though, Bacarin in a business blouse and skirt combo seems to familiar. Let's keep the alieness visible not existential ABC. FlashForward...well, I intend on giving it a fair shot, but I just hope Seth McFarland is only a minor character, I am so sick of his ass already.

Nuke'em!!

No way in hell I'm watching "V" by that hack Scott Peters. Ira Steven Behr was what made The 4400 great, including severe rewriters of Scott Peters' scripts. He guided the show, especially in Seasons 3 and 4, toward greater dramatic realism and heightened political insight in using the War on Promicin as a commentary on the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, and explored political revolutionary's moral ambiguity through Jordan Collier and the motivations for religious fundamentalism with Kyle. Brilliant stuff.

And what does Mr. Peters use the final DVD set to do? He disses the direction of the show. It's his right, but his original premise was dull and he's a crappy writer and he shouldn't have sidelined Ira Steven Behr, whose commentary on the Season 4 episodes, were nowhere to be found. Ira Behr makes smart drama and cares about the world to try to explore issues in a way the mainstream media won't, and I love him for that.

Screw you, Peters.

Long live Ira Steven Behr, who's working as head writer on Crash Season 2

Please leave the original 'V' alone.
Why destroy originality with this new crap?

Remember, remember, the 5th of November...

Wait, wrong V.

Saw the original in first run, liked it. I'll definitely check the new version. BTW, am I the only one who noticed the resemblance between Morena Baccarin and Sarah Douglas from 1981's Superman II? Or does that make me way older than you fanboys?

Hey Bluesman, that was my first thought when I saw Morena Baccarin. I thought she was the chick from Superman II. As a kid I used to love the V: series. I hope that they do a good job and don't ruin it. I already don't like the spaceships and I kept asking myself, where are the red uniforms?

Bluesman and ogop79, if you're referring to the woman who was one of the three villains in Superman 2, I've seen it on TV enough to know that she was quite a bit less attractive and less feminine than Baccarin, I think. I think she was creepier, too.

Even if the dialogue was clumsy, I liked the idea that the journalist was willing to dispense with his "integrity" for the sake of access. This is an all-too-common occurrence in the mainstream media. Just look at CNN kissing butt to the Bush admin in the lead up to the Iraq War or CNBC firing Phil Donahue for criticizing the war. Most people in the media game are in it for the celebrity and access, like Anderson Cooper. If they drive home that message to the public, I'll be happy.

I loved the original V when I was a kid. More often than not remakes suck, but I'm going to give this series a chance. If a remake of Battlestar G with a female Starbuck can be good why not V.

WTF! That was V? That was pointless! Where's the suits and gore? Looks craptastic.

I'll only watch V if she eats a mouse.

This is only YARM !!!
yet another remake/reboot

I am boycotting all YARM and will refuse to ever watch an episode of this krap.
We need to be seeing new and fresh science fiction folks not recycled old shows.Where is the creativity ?
Boycott these YSRM shows.

That V clip told us NOTHING!
Won't watch.

The reboot of Battlestar Galactica was far superior to the original. If they can do the same to V I'll be happy--because V-original was baaaaddd! Now if somebody could do the same for Buck Rogers I'll be happy as a --(fill in desired simile).

Was that Seth McFarlen?!?!

Sarah Douglas was the villain(ess) in Superman 2.
Also was in Stargate SG-1

Sarah Douglas also played Pamela, a Visitor commander, in V: The Final Battle.

Yeah, I was sure I saw Seth McFarlane too! and maybe Don Cheadle in the Flash Forward, um.. flash.. forward... I guess I could check IMDB but I'm too lazy right now

Seth McFarlan is an actor now because Fox got drunk and cancelled Family Guy again. JK!

Ah Morena...I will be happy to give the "refresh" my full attention... :)

Both of them look good and I'm happy we have more genre shows to watch.

"We've come for your water and another mineral." Uhhh, water, at least water that's either potable or useful for agricultural applications is not exactly as bountiful a commodity as it was pereceived to be back in the 80s (nor would massive desalination of the oceans be a really great environmental move).

Mudfield, you're getting hooked by the teaser, there's a choice being made by the journalist and we don't know yet if he's "all in" on the compromise. IIRC, Donovan, the resistance leader in the original was a journalist who didn't compromise and actually discovered "the truth."

Seriously, Mudfield, your game is slow today. I would have figured you'd have rehashed the transparent political allegory going on here: technologically superior civilization showing up exporting "happiness" (democracy) to other civilizations in exchange for predatory access to natural resources. You skip your coffee or something?

Everyone else complaining how they look too familiar: that's the point. The aliens want to look as human and humane as possible in public in order to win public/political approval. "There's something not right / too perfect" vibe is only picked up by a few until "the reveal" ... and maybe, just maybe we're dealing with a scifi property that, while we all know what's going to happen, will not give us the review during the sneak peak phase like every other franchise has done for the past three years.

We're deleting comments about the media and the current administration. Take it outside.

I like the original V, but these new clips weren't very captivating.

It just seems out of date. As someone said above, they want our water. With all the global warming freaks around, these days do you realy buy us doing that?

I just feel that they should have updated it for the times. If a space ship hovered over us and gave that speech, do you really think everyone would start clapping? The scene isn't realistic to me. Not even the original had everyone in the streets applauding.

What did all the V fans out there think of Earth: The Final Conflict? At least in the first season, the premises were very similar.

This comment draws from other "previews" and pilot reviews around the 'net as well as the above clips.

Also, in this comment V refers to the original mini-series; for space I will be ignoring V:The Final Battle and V: The Series, except to say that the former was a good continuation of the original mini-series and the latter was...NOT. The ways in which the series deteriorated would take several posts by itself.

V was an intelligent, thought provoking mini-series that touched on many issues that have in no way lost relevance in the past 20 years. In many ways, it is actually more relevant today than when it originally aired. The original was about so much more than fighting aliens. It was about a free people suddenly finding themselves faced with living in a fascist state. The slow descent from one to the other, the 'good reasons' for each step, the use of propaganda and fear to turn those who would speak out against it into "the enemy" and "terrorists" - there were so very many thought provoking and important ideas illustrated through the use of "aliens" etc. There is a scene in the original where a concentration camp survivor informs his son that they will be hiding a family and says something akin to "or else we haven't learned a thing". I've not seen it since I was twelve years old and it first aired, and yet I can quote that scene. That doesn't even begin to touch on all of the issues that were explored, of course. Should we trade water (acknowledged even then as a limited resource) for the cure for cancer?

V could have been updated easily. The moral issues are still relevant. And yet, from the few clips released, I am already disturbed. Perhaps the most by the use of Homeland Security as heroes. From the idea that some of earth's problems are the result of "sleeper visitor cells" instead of our own mistakes. (it's not our fault!, this seems to scream) From the "youth prejudice" that disregards the theme in the original that older people have seen and experienced things that we can and should learn from. Where is the person who survived WWII (there are still some out there, if you know one, talk to him/her. Record it. Send me a copy.) Where is the Vietnam Veteran, who knows the details of guerrilla warfare because he saw how difficult it is to defeat an enemy you cannot see? Where are the scientists? Noooo....now we get Homeland Security protecting us all! Instead of a gardener and a factory worker, we get FBI agents! Don't worry. Go about your lives, the government will take care of you! Instead of a street thug using gang connections to arrange a safe-harbor for resistance fighters, we get - well, we don't know what we get yet, do we?

But I bet it isn't anything near what we already have.

Think I'll rent a DVD.