"V" Open Thread (It's hopey changey)

11/3/2009

[SonOfDarkSkies]

It's starting in 3 minutes..."V"...the strange remake of "V"...the series that is so evocative of Obama's "hope and change".

Just starting a discussion thread as this serial opens.

[Mamzelle]

Will check in later. I don’t usually watch network TV until its out in DVD. Making an exception—hoping for some satire and laughs.

[freedumb2003]

I’ll stream it later...

[RatsDawg]

I am watching.

[DavidAccord]

My guess is that this will be on HULU or ABC.com tomorrow.

[TheVitaminPress]

Hoping they post it on HULU fairly quickly PING.

[C19fan]

Someone posted an “Official” thread earlier. Not sure which one to hang out with.

[Hot Tabasco]

the series that is so evocative of Obama's "hope and change". Just starting a discussion thread as this serial opens.

Not even interested, you've been watching too much news dude................THIS IS A SCIENCE FICTION STORY WHICH WAS WRITTEN LONG AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Well, here it comes.

I don't know if I will make it through the entire opening night...but I hope this is a scathing attack on Obama's hope and change!

But is it really an allegory?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

I searched for an earlier thread.

Apologizes for a duplicate.

[BGHater]

Preparing the public for disclosure.

[editor-surveyor]

"but “it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the President's supporters and delight his detractors,” Miami Herald TV critic Glenn Garvin asserted in a review distributed by the McClatchy/Tribune news service and run in Tuesday's Chicago Tribune, among other papers."

[C19fan]

The search engine is a weak aspect of this site.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

er...

Apologizes for a duplicate.

Apologies!!!

Wow...there's that excitement factor!

[editor-surveyor]

It would be a documentary...

[SonOfDarkSkies]

OH NOES!!! TOO MUCH TV!!!

[TheVitaminPress]

For what it is worth I think the original series was a reworking of Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” which was a novel about fascism coming to America. Now I’m not a big fan of Lewis’ but I think it is entirely possible that just because a story of fascism taking root in America was written long ago does not necessarily mean that it can’t speak to our time when just such a thing is happening . . . otherwise we might as well toss the Huxley and Orwell books. Just my humble opinion though :)

[TheVitaminPress]

For what it is worth I think the original series was a reworking of Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” which was a novel about fascism coming to America. Now I’m not a big fan of Lewis’ but I think it is entirely possible that just because a story of fascism taking root in America was written long ago does not necessarily mean that it can’t speak to our time when just such a thing is happening . . . otherwise we might as well toss the Huxley and Orwell books. Just my humble opinion though :)

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Just my humble opinion, of course...but I request a butt-naked interview with the cute alien female with the short haircut.

Just to make contact, of course!

[TheVitaminPress]

She looks like she could make a nice “companion”.

[mnehring]

bump

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Ping

[SonOfDarkSkies]

She’s already pulling a Gibbs!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

She’s already pulling a Gibbs!

[KarlInOhio]

One of the FBI agents looks like he could be a good pilot too. What is this, a Joss Whedon refugee camp?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

This film is already into the Obama double speak.

What a bunch of liars...just like the adminstration!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Holy Shiite!

The subject of universal health care just came up in conversaion!!!

[BGHater]

Lol, so far. David Icke bump.

[DouglasKC]

lol...I’m loving this show. Anna the leader even resembles Obama somewhat doesn’t she?

[DouglasKC]

lol...I’m loving this show. Anna the leader even resembles Obama somewhat doesn’t she?

[GRRRRR]

You started a Ping LIst yet??

I’m in!@

[parsifal]

I’m waiting for some clever freeper to swap out a “Dee” for the “Vee.”

parsy, who hopes

[mnehring]

ping

[bolobaby]

Don’t get your Hopes up yet. I’m sure the visitors will all turn out to be Dick Cheney and Karl Rove in disguise in the end.

[SonOfDarkSkies]

You're the first.

I'll put the list on my home page.

[GRRRRR]

There are several reviews of the “V” series that say it LAMPOONS the CULT LIKE status of the Visitors...

I’ll watch for a while and see where they take it.

[kalee]

ping

[upstanding]

David Icke bump.

LOL. So far, not bad. A good way to spend the hour waiting for that buffoon O'Reilly to get off the air so I can return to watching the returns.

[KevinDavis]

Good start..



A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[diamond6]

May I ask what is HULU?

[SonOfDarkSkies]

Fiction and allegory are many times more damaging to the administration than is FoxNews.com.

Whenever Obama draws a crowd of sychophants...he also creates a vacuum.

And nature abhores a vacuum.

[C19fan]

UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! The damn ABC affiliate in Richmond, VA cut out from the best part to show the stupid concession speech by the donkey loser for gov of VA.

[KevinDavis]

That is correct..

[null and void]

Apologizes for a duplicate.

Apologies!!!

Wow...there's that excitement factor!

I would have blandly said that this is the Central Time Zone thread...

[TheVitaminPress]

Man this is the first time I’ve regretted not having cable/digital tuner thingy. HULU better come through!

[bradactor]

I did hear one of the teenagers use the term universal health care that the female lead alien was promising. Interesting.

[TheVitaminPress]

Wash is in the show? Man they should bring Firefly back!

[SonOfDarkSkies]

It’ll be on the banned YouTube in a day or so!

[TheVitaminPress]

Haha . . . down the memory hole!

[higgmeister]

Thanks for the ping but I'm not watching. Man-eating Lizards from space is not my idea of good Sci-fi. I'd rather watch Kirk fight the Gorn a thousand times than watch this rehashed series that wasn't so good the first time.