The Visitors are Back
Last night saw the return of the Visitors on ABC’s re-make? re-envisioning, re-imagined? I’m not really sure what ‘official’ term they’re going with but lets just go with ‘what has happened before will happen again’. I did watch V at one point in high school but I honestly don’t think I should be making comparisons. It was a hazy time for me. I’ll leave that to Jerk or maybe Mr over-eager Will in the comments.
Flat out, I thought it was a good start. It’s holding my attention better than I expected, better than a lot of other similar shows out there right now. I can’t help but feel the similarities from the first half of the V pilot to FlashForward. Humanity all confused, trying to figure something out.
Most importantly, the ships look cool. I was sad to see Tudyk die so early, but something tells me we’ll see Mr Alpha again. I think Anna is freaky and seeing Scott Wolf on TV again is just weird, not to mention he hasn’t aged in over a decade. I’m really hoping they bother to give Supergirl ‘Lisa” and Tyler Evans a bit of back story as I see them being more than just a strategic storyline.
I like the fact that we’ve got rogues and they’re set out for us already, well some of them and I also like that we haven’t really been strung along when it comes to the Visitors status as hero or villain though I do expect that to change back and forth.
Maybe it’s just me, but I’m sort of rooting for the Vs. As humans, I think it’s to be in our nature to side with our own kind but right now, I’m feeling like maybe the super advanced aliens maybe do know best.
-DoubleBitch
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There are 4 Comments to "The Visitors are Back"
From the previews, we’ll definitely see Alpha again. I was mentally calling him that the whole time, by the way.
I really liked it, very good cast, interesting story, good effects. I’m in!
There. Much better. As for me, I enjoyed it… but I do wish they’d kept the reverb voices, red in the uniforms (although updated for style…), and the dreary interior design of the mothership. Mostly superficial things. But the original Visitors were a militaristic culture, or at least the mission was seemingly military. Everyone wore uniforms, everyone had a rank, etc. There were no power suits, or vast open shopping mall-esque areas on the mothership.
I’m interested to see if they keep the original “they’re here to eat us!” plot.
I suppose that’d be slightly suspect though, in this day of perception and image and such…
I do hope for a nod to the original somewhere in there. A guest spot, a musical cue… something. Even BSG had a brief musical nod to it’s ancestor in the original miniseries.
I’m hoping to see some really obvious matte paintings.
I’m hoping to see an alien puppet baby. And Michael Ironside.