| Altius | 21 May 2009 6:45 a.m. PST |
It wouldn't surprise me if I'm the last person to find out about this, but ABC is remaking that old series from the 80s, V. link I loved the original show when it was on. I don't know how good this new one will be, but at the very least it's got the Brazillian babe from Serenity in a skin-tight space suit, and that's a big plus! |
 Inari7  | 21 May 2009 7:20 a.m. PST |
Here are two clips from the show. aintitcool.com/node/41130 Here is the ABC trailer, aintitcool.com/node/41144 WARNING! WARNING! Talkbacks at the bottom of the page my have BAD WORDS! and to make this thread relevant to TMP, What figures would you use to game this show? and What figure would you use for Elizabeth Mitchell :) picture |
| Hexxenhammer | 21 May 2009 7:43 a.m. PST |
When I was a kid, Diana was one step down from Darth Vader on my list of bad guys that scared the crap out of me. I VIVIDLY remember seeing her eat that parakeet. |
| Altius | 21 May 2009 7:51 a.m. PST |
"What figures would you use to game this show?" I don't know offhand what I would use for the aliens or the pro-alien human forces, but even before I heard about this, I had started building a 'kinda' futuristic rebel group using Hasslefree and Copplestone partisans and scavengers. I was thinking of something along the lines of Children of Men, but I bet they would work for a V-style resistance group. |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 May 2009 8:09 a.m. PST |
Wow. Morena is simply HOT!!! "Just make sure not to ask anything that will paint us in a negative light"
"or this interview is cancelled" Hmmm . . . odd that Hollywood would write something like that into a script in this new political environment. Could there actually be a resistance member within Hollywood? :) CC
PS. I hope they come up with better special effects: YouTube link |
| Cacique Caribe | 21 May 2009 8:30 a.m. PST |
Here is what they really look like in the new series (watch clip): link CC |
| Top Gun Ace | 21 May 2009 10:18 a.m. PST |
Looks like a good remake. The original one was good, if a bit too slow moving at first. |
 javelin98 | 21 May 2009 10:24 a.m. PST |
That show freaked me out when I was a kid. Hoy. |
| Phil Walling | 21 May 2009 10:27 a.m. PST |
Oooo consider me excited.. |
| Given up for good | 21 May 2009 12:13 p.m. PST |
I would love to see this having just watched it in two weeks on re-runs. As for figures – how about 15mm humans with the heads from a fantasy lizard? Andrew
blog.kings-sleep.me.uk |
| Hexxenhammer | 21 May 2009 12:26 p.m. PST |
I'd want to do this in 28mm. For main character Visitors, I'd want a 3 pack: human, human face half ripped off, and full lizard. |
| KatieL | 21 May 2009 12:40 p.m. PST |
I don't see how this new one will have anywhere near the impact of the original. Anyone else still get shivers at that scene where they turn the lights on in the hibernation chamber… and it's huge.. and Martin says "There's another basic shortage on our planet…". And that's because of the way it came across the FIRST time they saw it?[1] The original series was crazy at the end, but it worked when you saw it cold -- because it just kept asking you to believe ONE more thing… every time you'd got established with what was REALLY going on, it would pull another stunt off. This time round everyone'll know they're carniverous lizards who are stealing the water right up front. How is that going to work?
[1] It was shown in 1984 in the UK. 2 hours a night for a whole week. I was *ELEVEN*. Sci-fi TV was never the same after that…
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| Bunkermeister | 23 May 2009 8:53 p.m. PST |
Everyone will not know because the first time was a long time ago and most of those watching did not see the first one. Many of us who did see the first one don't remember it that well. Also the most recent King Kong worked out pretty well, give most of us knew the story. They have to give us great special effects and a more in depth story line. Mike "Bunkermeister" Creek
bunkermeister.blogspot.com |
| Cacique Caribe | 05 Oct 2009 11:20 p.m. PST |
About the 2009 remake on ABC (which premiers Nov. 3): abc.go.com/shows/v
link Man. If Morena asked me to submit, I would gladly accept her as my overlord! I love that line . . . "The world is in such bad shape, who wouldn't welcome a savior right now?" CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 06 Oct 2009 8:26 a.m. PST |
Oh man, here come the paranoid critics with their short memory crap again . . . link What's with these crazy people? Must they always find hidden connections where there are none? C'mon, this is not a new 2009 concept or language. The original show was done in 1983. And the Twilight Zone episode before that was done back in 1962. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, right? I say just enjoy the damn cigar without reading so much into it. CC |
| Cacique Caribe | 06 Dec 2009 8:31 p.m. PST |
Andrew Beasley: "As for figures – how about 15mm humans with the heads from a fantasy lizard?" link
link So, you prefer that look for most (bare lizard heads), or helmets for most? Dan
TMP link |
makes a simple conversion to a toy car.
