Be honest, here. Anyone actually going to watch "V" ?

[Archae]

Next week?

I'm deliberately going to miss it.

[pokerfan]

1. Tuesday?

I will be watching the WSOP on ESPN.

[Broken_Hero]

2. Depends, on when

its on, and if I can remember to watch it. Looks interesting enough to me, I liked the old version as well.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. yep. "we are of peace...always"

[Razoor]

4. I am planning on watching it

the previews looked good to me and I loved the orginal V back in the 80's

[Tikki]

13. This family will be watching....

The Tikkis

[Maine-ah]

14. there's a new one?!

[alphafemale]

5. I watched the original. Don't know if this remake could top the shock of that "tongue moment"

You see? The first time? We didn't know they were actually...

Oh no spoilers...there might actually be 5 living people that don't know.

[nolabear]

16. HEY! I'd forgotten all about it until you mentioned that! Heck yeah, I'll watch it.

I loved the original. (shuddering)

[alphafemale]

24. Wasn't Robert (Freddy Krueger) Englund in that?

He played a "good" alien or something?

[Orrex]

26. Willy!

[Fire Walk With Me]

22. Yeah. They make television in the hopes of gaining the audience

that wasn't around the last time it aired!

[alphafemale]

25. Which is anyone under 25 or so at this point?

Under 30ish if you add the people who would have been pre-school kids who would probably have no memory of the the show.

[Fire Walk With Me]

31. Yes.

Until their older friends/spouses show them the youtube clips from the 80s series :)

[Deja Q]

29. Doesn't need to. Those were the days when real risks were taken...

These days, all one need do is scribble on a piece of paper, slap on copyrighted trademarks, and peddle it to a mentally indolent populace with crowd-pleasing moments. They'll yum it up and, if not, there are plenty of dead franchises to dig up and make a self-parodying mockery of...

[kedrys]

6. Probably

But it's because of Morena Baccarin, mostly.

[elocs]

8. You mean the Morena Baccarin from "Firefly" and Serenity?

I'm definitely watching! I loved her in "Firefly" and besides, she is gorgeous.

I enjoyed the original V and also as a Halloween note, Robert Englund was in the original V: The Final Battle and he was Freddy Krueger in "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

[NewJeffCT]

10. The same

she has short hair in this one, though, and is in the Jane Badler hot evil alien leader.

[elocs]

15. I only saw a brief glimpse of that shot and didn't recognize it as her.

What a fine example of female pulchritude she is.

[Iggo]

21. Mmff!

I mean, "Yes. I will watch Ms Baccarin any chance I get."

[Deja Q]

30. She either thinks there's something special in the remake, likes its nonsubtle political commentary,

OR

just needs the money.

I'll let others share their opinions first. I can't think of a remake of a dug-up dead series I've yet to truly love or like. (it's possible; if Star Trek TNG could remake TOS's "The Deadly Years" into "Unnatural Selection" and actually improve on it, then anything's possible!)

[elocs]

40. There have been some very good actors who have taken roles

just because they need the money. I think that most of us have probably worked job we didn't like just because we needed the money.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. I will. I loved the original.

[TK421]

9. I will....I want to see what they'll do with it

I was a big fan of the original

[NewJeffCT]

11. I'll try to watch it

I almost never remember when things are supposed to be on...

[AngryOldDem]

12. Wasn't this the same show that was on NBC in the mid-80s?

And lasted for all of, oh, two weeks?

[alphafemale]

17. I'm pretty sure it was a mini-series.

I guess Roots wasn't important or anything either. Seeing as it was only on for 8 nights.

:hide:

[NewJeffCT]

19. The original mini-series had huge ratings

then, the sequel mini series did okay, then the actual tv series was so-so, I think.

[graywarrior]

18. I work nights

No, I'm not a hooker.

[Blue-Jay]

20. Hell yes I am.

Although, I'm going to miss that Freddy Kruger guy playing the semi-retarded alien.

[wickerwoman]

23. Hells yeah. Bring on the lizard people.

[alphafemale]

27. shhhhh!!! U spoiler U!

:P

[wickerwoman]

34. Sorry! Got over-excited. Nothing to see here. Move along.

Certainly no lizard people. :P

[Deja Q]

28. Yup. I've got the DVD for the 1983 miniseries ready to go...

What will I be missing next week?

[frogmarch]

32. No. I watched the

original V series way back when, and I can still picture the dark-haired V woman, who was some kind of commander, holding a live mouse over her mouth by its tail, and then gulping it down.

No more V for me.

[NewJeffCT]

33. you mean this scene?

I loved it when I saw it...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObQfWMgmIM

[frogmarch]

35. Oh, thanks for that.

I really appreciate your making my day. :puke: (I had to watch it, of course, lol)

Yes, it was that scene, or one very much like it. I remembered her gulping down a cute little mouse, though. What was it she ate in the You Tube scene? A hamster? A kitty?

Ick.

[NewJeffCT]

37. I think it was a guinea pig

but, I'm not sure

[azmouse]

36. I'll watch at least the first episode.

I liked the original series so I'm curious to see what they're doing with the new version.
If it sucks, I'll stop watching.

[pokerfan]

38. I would like to see Childhood's End brought to the screen

* The BBC produced a two-hour radio dramatization of the novel, which was originally broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1997.

* A screenplay of the novel has for years been sold and traded in the movie business, but has not been produced yet. Director Kimberly Peirce and actress Hilary Swank have been attached to the project.

* The story's opening scene, in which the spaceships appear over Earth’s major cities appeared in the openings of both the American television mini-series V and the movie Independence Day, and was parodied in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End

[bigwillq]

39. No (nt)