V (2009) We're of peace. Always

November, 2009 - March, 2011

2 Seasons

22 episodes

This post is about an epic series which marked my childhood. It’s V, aired in the 80’s and picked up for a remake in 2009. At a time when the TV supply was very limited (I mean, by far, more limited than nowadays), every TV series was an absolute success. So when I heard about the remake I was very excited, and I wasn’t going to miss it.

For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, V is about spaceships coming to Earth. The aliens have human appearance and say they come in peace as they only need some resources from Earth. In exchange, they offer to share their technological advances.   But, as you can imagine, they have hidden purposes and Earth’s inhabitants are divided between supporters and detractors.

The remake keeps the original idea but the storyline is completely different as it’s adapted to the current time, and also because they wanted to use actors from the original series as special guests.

There were some subliminal points that surprised me because of their clear parallelism to the real world. One is the justification of a war after pulling off an auto-attack (giving responsibilities to others, of course). And the other point is about using a vaccine against a fatal disease as an excuse to inject people with some kind of biological “tag”. And that came in the middle of the real polemic about flu A... Did they want us to be willing to accept something like that?

In the role of the evil Visitor Queen (Anna) is Morena Baccarin, and leading the Fifth Column is Elizabeth Mitchell (as Erica Evans). The rest of the main cast is formed by: Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Lourdes Benedicto, Laura Vandervoort, Charles Mesure and Scott Wolf.

Although the audiences weren’t bad, the series was taken off (which seems weird), and it was left unfinished, what a pity!

Anyway, despite not having a proper ending, it’s worth watching it if you were a fan in the 80’s. You’ll have a different point of view of the same story, lots of action, intrigue, suspicion, futuristic devices, and... some more surprises.

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