All I can say about the new one is that I'll keep watching it to see what it evolves into, which is saying something, since I rarely watch TV anymore.
There are some elements about the new one I like, such as the Visitors having been here a long time before their grand public appearance in the flying saucers. But while the overall plot seems to drag, some elements seem a bit rushed, if not forced.
I dislike that they're called the Vs, and the whole premise of them encouraging youth to tag with spray-painted Vs. The original was a WWII corollary, and the spray-painted Vs were for Victory, a reference to the French Resistance against the Nazis. They were simply called the Visitors, wore orange jumpsuits with thinly-disguised swastikas, and had a group of rebels within their species that called themselves the Fifth Column, which was also a direct reference to rebels within the ranks of the Nazis. And of course the rounding up of humans like cattle was a reference to the Holocaust. Even at twelve I could pick up those references (of course, schools were worth a damn then). It tried to say, "Well, you think something like what happened in WWII couldn't happen today? Guess again!" Like most good sci-fi, it tells a real story.
The sequel to the original miniseries dropped most of those corollaries and turned the subsequent miniseries and TV show into a shoot-em-up, more typical eighties series, which sucked. Not knowing where to go with the plot, apparently, they ended it with the blessed Star Child magically saving the day (retch, puke...) And the TV series, just as badly written, didn't live very long.
Hopefully this remake will learn from the mistakes that killed its predecessor. We'll see.
tim :eek
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