V. A Passing Glance
04. Nov, 2009 
4 Comments
Yeah, yeah. I get it. Never look a gift horse in the mouth – unless Greeks give it to you and you happen to be Trojan. Then it might be a good idea.
Yeah, yeah, I got it in Saturday school. Beware of snakes bearing apples. Especially if they’re female snakes cause we all know that its all the woman’s fault.
Yeah, yeah. Seen it already. Take a previously male character and make them female for the re-do. Wow – what a completely unexpected and awesome twist. One up it? How bouts we take a female character and turn her male in the re-do. No one will expect that.
Yep. Ages old trope: sacrifice your ideals for egoboo and eventually really, really bad things are gonna happen to you. That is, after you enjoy a life of luxury and fame and adoration, the awesomeness of which will be inversly proportional to your punishment.
Uh huh. The black man is really an alien. A traitorous alien. Think I remember seeing something like that on the Outer Limits re-do. Wonder how this is going to go down amongst the ‘SF fail’ crowd. (Probably should have been a female black alien.)
Yawn o-rama. City sized ships. Way, way advanced aliens. All your diseases cured. Mein Fuhrer, I can valk!
O sweet whatever you invoke during moments of total incredulity:
Chad: “You mean ‘universal health care’”?
Anna: “That’s what your people call it.”
Been there. Done that. 
Now that I found your reviews…
Wish I had read the “V” review before I watched. Oh, but that turned out OK. It put me right to sleep. It is definitely a sci-fi misnomer.
No need to schedule that to record again.
Laura
I haven’t seen it and don’t plan to. The review I read said it was a not so disguised right wing attack on Obama! Isn’t there enough of that on Fox News?
LOL. I’m not surprised that it got “glowing” reviews as “intelligent sci fi”.
That it could just illustrates the point that I’ve been trying to make for almost two years now – most “mass media” science fiction ISN’T.
Having missed the show when it premiered, I hoped you were being perhaps unnecessarily hard on the show. The reviews have been mostly glowing, really exciting.
Having now actually /seen/ the show (via Amazon’s Video On Demand streaming service), wow. What a clunky turd.
First off, this isn’t space opera. Call it what you will, but there’s no fun, no adventure, no galaxy-spanning adventure, no sensasunda. This may be the sci-fi which is the dumbing-down of more legit science fiction.
I mean, I’m probably the demographic they’re going after, but could you be any more ham-fisted and obvious? The only surprise in the entire first episode was just how cliche’ and clunky everything was. I laughed out loud when divorced FBI mom stepped in front of her son to protect him as they stared up at the green screen.
Look, I’m all for serious discussions of, well, all these issues. But this isn’t a loving canvas painted by a master. It’s a mass produced paint-by-number set that we’ve already seen before. I’m a Theist, and even I hate preaching to the choir.
I’d rather go back and watch reruns of Firefly. Again.