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[Deja Q]

Which miniseries was the best?

[Beware the Beast Man]

1. Loved V!

By 80's TV miniseries standards, it was quite good both in acting performances and special effects.

[mark11727]

2. "Nazi Lizards From Outer Space" Yeah, that was fun.

[Deja Q]

3. Based on the book 'It Can't Happen Here'

Though it's happening here. :-(

[TK421]

4. I loved Michael Ironside as Ham Tyler

what a badass! I loved this series

[MercutioATC]

5. The original (with Freddie Krueger as "Willie")

[Jara sang]

6. The moment they unmasked the reptoids

was better than the "Dallas" J.R. thing. And the girl that gave birth to the alien, I thought they were really going to show that.

[billyskank]

10. I was just a wee nipper when that was shown on UK TV

scared me shitless! :scared:

[kick-ass-bob]

7. My cousin could tell you the differences in the sounds that

the lasers made from the first miniseries to the second.

That was frightening.
:scared:

[Aristus]

8. The theme music was cool, with all those clunky, thundering war drums.

B-)

[LiberallyInclined]

9. other-

never watched any.

[Mizmoon]

11. I devoured the books

pun intended :)

[Aiptasia]

12. pree tay nah mah

I can't believe I got suckered into watching the miniseries when it first aired. What a bunch of crap. They stretched "To Serve Man," a perfectly respectable twilight zone episode, into weeks and weeks of crappy sci-fi miniseries. Rod Serling's corpse should have sued.

It did help launch Robert Englund's career. Wes Craven must have tuned in and said, "Hey, he can play Freddie!"

[hyphenate]

16. Actually,

Robert did Nightmare I before the series. It was funny, because when he was at an old convention in 1984 in Boston, some of us knew him only as the V character, while others were big Nightmare fans. He was more like Willie than he was like Freddie. Speaking of which, did anyone see him during his B5 appearance as a cult leader on the B5 equivalent of the 13th floor?

[Magrittes Pipe]

13. I was a HUGE "V" fan.

DVD set, eh? :think:

[Gatchaman]

14. New one could be great

If they make a new V series with the same quality of the new Battlestar Galactica, it could kick ass.

[Deja Q]

18. One was rumored to air in Fall, 2004.

A new miniseries.

But as imdb has nothing on it, it must've been only a rumor.

[hyphenate]

15. The original mini-series

was the best. Articulate, scary, filled with surprises and just a great run. I enjoyed the series as well. There were some things we could have done without in the series, but in order to bring it to TV, they had to compromise on some things. But I don't think I would be interested in a remake, because frankly, the world we live in now is thousands of times different than the world of 20 years ago, and a lot of our innocence has been taken away in favor of cynicism, and a remake would need to keep that, and it would not work as well IMO.

[Deja Q]

17. Quite.

The original miniseries was the best.

"The Final Battle" was well made and had a LOT of great set pieces, but the plot is horribly flimsy. Even the first part wants us to believe that humans can easily copy Visitor technology, it's hard to swallow. Subsequent episodes' plots were also shaky (and how they gloss over the big whoopsie of how quickly more ships could arrive and the nuances and politics of...), but the production and set pieces make the followup miniseries more than a sum of its parts.

The TV followup series (19 eps plus 1 alternate ep) had no budget and no care put into it. Lots of re-used miniseries scenes combined with lax effects (evne the Visitors lacked the resonance in their voices) and YUCK.

Oh, the innoence is lost - but in 1984 they had shown Elias saying how Americans would buy the Visitor tripe of a re-cast of the bogus medical cure. Seems somewhat cynical, if not accurate.

The real problem is how to explain 20 years' worth of no lizards since the TV series credibly.