Who will be watching ABC's remake of "V?"

That's the one.

(And that second pic is an outstanding get.)

 

Yeah, I saw that one on Google and just had to share it.

 

First-episode excerpt on Hulu: http://www.hulu.com/watch/104096/v-a-first-look-at-v

 

Original V marathon currently on SyFy. It's as gloriously awful as I remembered.

 

Sweet. Thanks for the heads-up.

 

I caught the end when they replayed "The Final Battle" last night. Truly craptacular.

 

It was the talk of the fourth grade.

If they avoid the Christ child conceit, it has a fighting chance. That's when it really went off the rails.

I still have the novelizations.

 

Exactly. Visitors eating live rodents? A must. Lizard-like appearance? Sure, though better disguises would help. Just spare is the magical interspecies child.

 

Okay, episode last night. Thoughts?

Some of mine....

1. Loved when the TV reporter asked Anna why all the aliens were certifiably hot and she said, "You don't look so bad yourself."

2. They got to the reptile part with no foreshadowing at all. Meeting of the resistance group, and the guy starts calling them "reptilian." At least in the original 80s series, there were some subtle hints, like the guy at the party noticing that the Visitors never ate anything cooked, and made the parakeets nervous.

3. I finally remembered where I had seen the blonde FBI agent before: she was the bi-curious chick in the movie Gia. Hot scenes of her and Angelina Jolie grappling naked.

4. They're reversing genders on some key roles. Marc Singer's spot is now held by the female FBI agent. The human-lizard sex (and possible child?) will have the FBI agent's kid paired with the hot blonde alien.

5. Nice touch to reveal that there have always been lizards among us, and their advance work was to totally fuck everything up in the form of wars, insurrection and bad government. So in this movie, AIG and the Taliban are lizards? (Go ahead, libs ... suggest that George W. Bush is one too).

 

George Bush -- Hell. What about Carl Rove, and we've already seen his slimy skin.

 

Donald Trump.

Definitely, no question, absolutely a lizard.