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I can say the new V is better is many ways. .
Unfortunately it's really paranoid. Premise: all the really bad things that are happening have been caused by the Visitors to help them take over. I only watched about 4 episodes of the first mini-series, because it was a bit silly in my opinion and getting more so. How the rest developed I don't know. Although I know there was some kind of big battle at the end of the second mini-series defeating the Visitors, which was all undone so they could have a short-lived (if I remember correctly) regular series.
The name of the Visitor leader has been changed from Diana to Anna, no doubt to avoid offending Lady Di fans. Diana was a villain of the old school with everything save the black cowboy hat. Anna is a little more subtle at least to start. Her smile toward humans is less oily, more friendly and enigmatic. Her evil, so far, is more of the lying through propaganda variety, than of the Bwa ha ha. Her lieutenant is played by one of those actors who never plays a good guy, so even if you didn't know from the start what was going on from the previews, you'd be pretty sure. The rest of the V gang however is in high gear as the counter intelligence branch has infiltrated everywhere, and is doing everything including terrorism to make the arriving Visitors look like saviors arriving in the nick of time.
Most of my complaints are technical. A shot is shown of a 'poor' paraplegic sitting alone on in his chair on a landing in the middle of the steps outside a Catholic church waiting to go in. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any ramp for him to have gotten to the landing nor does there seem to be any ramp for him to get any higher to get into the church. He could have been helped up to where he is by someone who has now walked away, but the priest who comes out and talks to him makes no effort to help him go any farther.
One of the heroes is the priest from above who immediately distrusts 'them furriners.' If it wasn't immediately more than just a healthy distrust, the show would come off as less paranoid. He and his superior are discussing the Visitors with some concern about how popular they are becoming. The younger priest specifically uses the words 'worship' and 'devotion' and some how comes up with the idea that 'devotion' is the more intense and therefore more dangerous. Personally I think you can be devoted to something without coming near to worshiping it.
I think V could easily be more popular this time around. But currently I don't have any desire to experience much more of its intense paranoia.
Unfortunately it's really paranoid. Premise: all the really bad things that are happening have been caused by the Visitors to help them take over. I only watched about 4 episodes of the first mini-series, because it was a bit silly in my opinion and getting more so. How the rest developed I don't know. Although I know there was some kind of big battle at the end of the second mini-series defeating the Visitors, which was all undone so they could have a short-lived (if I remember correctly) regular series.
The name of the Visitor leader has been changed from Diana to Anna, no doubt to avoid offending Lady Di fans. Diana was a villain of the old school with everything save the black cowboy hat. Anna is a little more subtle at least to start. Her smile toward humans is less oily, more friendly and enigmatic. Her evil, so far, is more of the lying through propaganda variety, than of the Bwa ha ha. Her lieutenant is played by one of those actors who never plays a good guy, so even if you didn't know from the start what was going on from the previews, you'd be pretty sure. The rest of the V gang however is in high gear as the counter intelligence branch has infiltrated everywhere, and is doing everything including terrorism to make the arriving Visitors look like saviors arriving in the nick of time.
Most of my complaints are technical. A shot is shown of a 'poor' paraplegic sitting alone on in his chair on a landing in the middle of the steps outside a Catholic church waiting to go in. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any ramp for him to have gotten to the landing nor does there seem to be any ramp for him to get any higher to get into the church. He could have been helped up to where he is by someone who has now walked away, but the priest who comes out and talks to him makes no effort to help him go any farther.
One of the heroes is the priest from above who immediately distrusts 'them furriners.' If it wasn't immediately more than just a healthy distrust, the show would come off as less paranoid. He and his superior are discussing the Visitors with some concern about how popular they are becoming. The younger priest specifically uses the words 'worship' and 'devotion' and some how comes up with the idea that 'devotion' is the more intense and therefore more dangerous. Personally I think you can be devoted to something without coming near to worshiping it.
I think V could easily be more popular this time around. But currently I don't have any desire to experience much more of its intense paranoia.