If You're Feeling Sinister
I've been watching reruns of the "V" television series from the 1980s. Back then, I was all over "V" and thought it was the coolest thing on television (hey, I was in fifth grade--give me a break). The show is awfully dated now. The special effects are cheesy, and the dialogue and acting are cringe-worthy, but it's a story idea that had a lot of potential.
I can't really fault the show for its special effects, since this was c. 1985--long before CGI made special effects in science fiction shows somewhat more believable. But what I can't understand is how television show back in the 70s and 80s were just so horribly written. Sure, there are a lot of horribly written shows in the 21st century, but there are a lot of very clever shows too. Clever shows back then were few and far between--or maybe my family was just watching the wrong shows. I don't understand how, with the fewer network selections, and fewer scripted programming back then, how there wasn't a greater concentration of writing talent in the shows that did exist.
Anyway, as I watch the reruns of "V" I rather wish some hotshot producer would do with "V" what Ronald Moore has done with the "Battlestar Galactica" franchise: give it a makeover and help what was a poorly executed show realize its potential. The original "V" developed a complicated analogy between the alien Visitors and Nazi Germany, asking, "If a Nazi-like invasion were to occur today (the 1980s) what would happen? Who would collaborate? Who would resist?" A 21st century version of "V" could be rewritten to comment on current events. In the original series, the heroes were a group of human resistance fighters. Today, though, we might label them terrorists. They bombed alien installations, conducted assassinations and guerrilla warfare (even using weapons of mass destruction), and violently opposed the collaborating human governments. It would be very interesting to watch the heroes in a new series have to struggle to convince other humans to join the resistance movement while they have to combat the "terrorist" label and the propaganda that would be used against them, perhaps even going so far as to imply an analogy between the aliens' occupation of Earth and America's occupation of the Middle East. It could be a very interesting series.
posted by Depthfunction @ 8:08 PM
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