I watched it on TV during 1980s... I watched it on TV during 1980s...I watched V as well and quit watching after the alien opened his mouth and swallowed a rodent whole. Couldn’t take it.
I watched the original back in the 80s and the 2009 version as well. Frankly, I thought the latter was quite quite deliciously conservatively subversive. One of the primary members of the resistance was a Catholic priest, and the alien overlords preached a message of hope, change, universal healthcare and utopic vision that coincided with the start of the Obama (mal)administration. I was shocked that ABC would air it.