V - The Original Miniseries | Part 1 | First Time Watching Reaction | What Do They Really Want?!?
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2024
- The Visitors have arrived. What is their ultimate goal? We both dive into the Science Fiction classic, V - The Original Miniseries (1983). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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I remember watching this in May 1983. It's all we talked about in school the next day. Everyone went nuts for it, the adults too including our teachers. It was that good.
I was 12 and obsessed with this show
I was a senior in high school getting ready to graduate. Great year!
So did mine! This was amazing!
I was 13 when V first aired and I've been obsessed with it ever since
Do you have the Blu-ray copy of V?
Wow, finally someone has reacted to this great series. Today's generation have no idea how good yesterday's entertainment was.
In 8th grade, the lizard face reveal was the coolest thing I had ever seen!
I remember being scared to death, but I was six at the time😂
And Diana's butt
I also loved it
The end when Abraham Bernstein teaches the kids that V is for victory is always fantastic.
Kenneth Johnson the writer and director of V originally wanted to do a miniseries about how the Holocaust started in Germany. He couldn't sell that idea to any of the networks so he transposed the idea to science fiction.
yup, off of the book, "It Can't Happen Here" by Sinclair Lewis
I haven't seen this in years, and I'd forgotten just how much really good stuff is packed into each episode.
My favorite character has to be the Holocaust survivor grandfather, who has the best lines in almost every scene he's in.
Remember, when this came out in 1983 no one had seen anything like it before. It didn't take place in the distant future or in a galaxy far, far away, it was here and now.
Production costs were steep too. This was before computers and CGI. Every blue laser bolt had to be hand drawn and ended up costing $1,000 per blast. Pew...$1,000, Pew, Pew, $2,000.
"Pew...$1,000, Pew, Pew, $2,000." Brilliant.... made me laugh
Good to know.
Years ago I watched the commentary with Kenneth Johnson, he mentions this. 😄
"This was before computers and CGI." no it wasnt, that is a dumb statement
@@flexydex8754 Oh please tell me of some realistic CGI from 1983 that was cheap enough for television. 1982's Tron? Movie only and super expensive for a TV series so no. And when I said "Before computers" I meant before computers were used for visual effects. Yes, you did have motion control computers like they used in The Empire Strikes Back, but no visual effects computers. In 1985 A new Twilight Zone series tried some innovative computer special effects but they looked like water color paint on the screen. In 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation broke ground with better computer generated special effects, but, they still kinda looked bad. In 1993 Babylon 5 made a great attempt as well, and while drastically improved, they also looked cheap too. So, I stand by my statement.
V: The Miniseries and the TV series was must watch TV back in the 1980's!
Michael Wright rips my guts out with that monologue while Ben dies. Man that's good stuff. Him walking right up to his own place in the world without meaning to - "the Doctor and... the other one", and it's only when he puts that boundary between his own lack of self-worth does he realize that Ben's died. It's fantastic
Micheal Wright is a under rated actor he is awesome in the movie the five heartbeats..hopefully Mr and Mrs movies will check it out someday
I remember when this came out. May 1983 was a good month for sci Fi, V and Return of the Jedi.
Dominique Dunne (the eldest daughter in Poltergeist) was cast as Robin and shortly into filming was rehearsing with David Packer when she was murdered by her ex boyfriend. She is still visible in a wide shot of the neighborhood looking at the ship.
I understood her whole part was shot, but they had to go back to reshoot her scenes, else the character would be lost from the series moving forward.
Nobody remembers her for her life. That's sad. I guess only the family members know, but to us it's "that girl who got strangled". The insane part is: she is dead, and the motherfugger who killed her walks free with an anonymous name in some anonymous place. Maybe the Christian way is to forgive. Easy to hate. Takes work to love, even those who have done pure evil.
@@Emulous79 Forgiving can either be a strength or a weakness. Sounds like the latter in that case, but I don't know the full details.
@@Emulous79 People have kept track of him ever since. Every time he changes his name and moves they contact his job and inform them of who they hired, leading to a cycle of name change, move, get new job, get fired, repeat. It's not the punishment he deserves but at least it's something.
@@Emulous79FOX recently broadcast an episode of TMZ Investigates which focused on Dominique Dunne's murder. Harvey Levin was a longtime friend of her father's.
I forgot Michael Ironside wasn't in the original V miniseries. He pretty much came to fame in the follow-up and the eventual full series.
He was busy being a scanner in Scanners.
Watching him in Total Recall, he was REALLY giving "Ham Tyler" vibes.... later I found out he did it on purpose. He was using the Richter character to give Ham a proper send off, since he didn't like how he left the character.
I didn't even know he was Canadian until much later, but Marc Singer was well known to be (it was on the tv ads for this show "Canada's own Marc Singer stars in the epic V!"
Michael Ironside is a bad ass. He could defeat the Vs singlehandedly
Super cool dude. At least it didn't cost him an arm.
Kenneth Johnson is the same Executive Producer who made “The Incredible Hulk” with Bill Bixby. All the humanity and heart in “V” comes from Johnson.
And "The bionic woman", the best of all.
@@danielesteve8359 Ken also adapted "Alien Nation" as a TV series.
@@Madbandit77Alien Nation was a very interesting show.
It may not have aged well with effect etc, but damn V was a fantastic show. I was HOOKED as a kid. V: The Final Battle was even better. Definitely one to watch. I just love Diana. One of TVs greatest villains.
because warner wont give him the budget to do it final battle was good original was shot in widescreen ahead of its time weres final battle wss done in 4/3 as on much smaller budget and mono sound to stereo of original series the bluray of 2019 shows how much better picture quality of orignal mini series to 4/3 bluray of final battle picture
it has aged well most people on earth say the orignal v series is much much better than 2009-2010 reboot flop with very bad ending. Bluray versions on original miniseries and final battle is a must
I Remember 🤔 "Diana"!
I Remember 🤔 , That She Was So Beautiful!📺👩🏻😍🥰
( I Was A Teenager In 1983. )
So , She Was My 2nd Crush📺😍 🥰👩🏻 Right Behind Elizabeth Montgomery 🥰👩🏼 From "Bewitched" 📺👩🏼😍🥰
I Am Typing This 👇🏼 At 12:36 p.m. , Sunday Afternoon 🌁🛤️🛣️🏙️ , March 10, 2024.
@@SJHFotohe didn’t like the STARCHILD. He told me.
@@SJHFoto There was a definite drop in quality after KJ was ousted from the project. No spoilers, but it really jumped the shark.
V The final battle 3-part series is my favourite when michael ironside aka ham tyler comes into it!
The Final Battle is definitely the best of V, so good.
Michael Ironside is always great!
@@OneDarkMartian very true. it has the best sub plots,
In the book, he's the pilot of the second helicopter in the beginning of the story.
As a kid growing up in the 80's. This was one of my favorite shows. It was pretty big in the 80's. :)
This was a HUGE tv event! I was 8 when this came out! Watched every part!
Same. I was about 12 or 13 and I sat on the floor of our living room and watched the entire mini-series with my parents. Good times...
Indeed, highest viewership at the time. Everybody was watching it. Everybody was talking about it. Especially after the end of the first series.
I remember the campaign ads everywhere the Visitors are coming.
@@jeffreymiller6847 In NYC subways, big posters with a big red painted V on a black background were everywhere initially. A few weeks later, they transitioned to posters with a visitor in the background.
Yeah this remains one of the most epic TV events in history. Brilliant marketing and the series did not disappoint. And Jane Badler's Diana also remains one on the most epic villains.
Faye Grant(Julie) also played Rhonda, one of Ralph Hinkley's(William Katt) students on The Greatest American Hero(1981-1983). She was married to former actor Stephen Collins.
And their marriage counseling pre-divorce got him outed as a pedo.
I LOL'd at "Discount Mario Lopez".
Totally accurate. 🤣🤣😂
This series is more relevant today than ever.
It’s happening right now, here in the US.
some of the kids who grew up watching this didn't learn a thing
@@taoist32 We're going to have to report you now. Spreading misinformation.
RIGHT WING MEDIA
IS STILL SCREAMING
PROPAGANDA
NOTHING CHANGES
History does repeat itself doesn't it?
V: The Original Miniseries is a sci-fi masterpiece and a true classic. I was captivated by it right from the start. I own the Blu-ray of V: The Original Miniseries and even though I know its story, I replay it from start to finish a few times per year.
Same here, I watch it Completely, again, every 3-4 years. I am a Singer fan.
Yeah, I've been known to watch the entire 5 parts in a single sitting. I love these miniseries.
Michael Ironside (V: The Final Battle) first came to fame for his role as the villain, "Darryl Revok," in David Cronenberg's original exploding head movie, "Scanners" (1981).
I liked him in “Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone.”
😂😂 V BABY!!! V BABY!! V BABY!! Coolest thing on TV, next day at school the teachers couldn't keep us quiet 😂
Im fom Spain. It was broadcasted saturday afternoons. You could watch people in the street because everyone was watching V (in that time we had only two tv channels). It was a huge success
OMG - I can't believe that you guys are watching V! Soo excited for this. Fave character is Diana ofc - such an evil badass.
Oh, yeah. Even to this day, even knowing what's underneath that human skin, I would still betray the human race for Diana. No hesitation.
@@benjauron5873 100% same
This is based off a book written in the 30's called "It Can't Happen Here" with the idea of a Nazi Regime rising in America. Originally the miniseries was written as a story called Storm Warnings and it was about a Nazi type of regime rising in America in the 80's. But the executives at NBC weren't looking impressed and thought it was too cerebral for the American tv audience, so the one writer yelled out, but the twist is they're really space lizards. NBC bought it and as they were leaving the other writer is like "WTF was that about" the other guy's response "It Worked they bought it.".
too cerebral....like history? ahahah
Interesting. Sounds like a Pet Shop Boys song.
@@Emulous79It’s a sin.
@@jkt4748 Yes!
I'm sitting her laughing at how many of your crazy guesses are right.
44:23 I always loved this old man's character.
Yeah, Leonardo Cimino was great - another great role from him was in The Monster Squad (1987) as 'Scary German Guy'.
His scene at the end of part one is my favorite. How, for a second it looks like he is just a typical old man (from a kids point of view) about to scold some kids (which are about the same age I was back then) for vandalism. Instead, he gives them a simple but profound lesson that we must all stand united against bullies - which is what all fascists really are when you get down to it. That scene has stuck with me through the years. It was one of the seeds that would grow me into the anti-fascist, fuck Trump, vote blue guy I am today.
I remember when this first aired. It was a TV event. Still holds up...
It certainly was. In Canada, it was the first TV miniseries to beat Roots in viewers!
I am so here for this one. I was 14 when this came out and I was glued to the TV
Fun fact - the original miniseries was written by Kenneth Johnson in iambic pentameter, just like Shakespeare. Makes it easier for the actors to remember & more quotable, all at the same time!
This was such an EVENT back in the day. I was 11 years old and this was just amazing to me at the time. Hadn't seen this in years. Thanks for the memories.
OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is the best TV Show EVER!!!!!
This was my fave show as a kid. Had a VHS copy from the TV which I wore out watching it every year. Bought the remastered DVDs a year ago. Still love it.
Julie is the absolute best. Her arc is magnificent. But every character (except Robin) is so close to my heart.
Great to see you guys on the Poppies !
love the 80's tv mini-series from when i was a kid, i distinctly remember this series especially well, Shaka Zulu, and the Shogun series....when you sat in the living room at night around that big ole TV with its fancy wooden cabinet built around it
Looking forward to your reaction. Hoping you hit "V: The Final Battle" too, if you're into it. Wish somebody would bring V back with the level of reverence that the Cobra Kai writers had for The Karate Kid franchise.
There was an reboot that aired some years ago on ABC with Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost) and Morena Baccarin (Firefly, Gotham), but it felt too flat.
@@Madbandit77I watched that. I tried to find likeable things about it, but it just wasn't in the same league as the 1983 V. There were some decent moments here and there, and the cast was great, but it had such big shoes to fill.
@@vaultofthefallenangels True. I wish the reboot was more like the underrated "Falling Skies" on TNT with Noah Wyle and Will Patton.
Well supposedly the original creator was trying to get back to it with a film trilogy but I haven’t seen an update in years :/
I didn't care for the reboot but a cool sequel would be great. I always thought it could be a real mind bender if the visitors had made a way for everyone to forget it ever happened, to have people slowly remember and then be denounced by their new rising human puppet government as "conspiracy theorists"...
I loved this show as a kid when it was repeated in the late 80s, and love it even more now. I bought this and the final battle on DVD about 20 years ago for my mum (who was also a fan), but i've watched those DVDs a lot lol.
I agree with Mrs Movies, Julie is my favorite character followed closely by Ruby. You’ll see in part II and V the Finale Battle. Abraham’s speech is the topper in this show to be sure. I remember the next day at school we talked about this on Earth science class the entire period. Dr. Shepard was a major sci fi geek gal who often talked about intelligent sci fi in class, ET, Close Encounters, Logan’s Run it was always a good time in that class for science nerds. Good memories around this show, even if the subject matter is hard to face.
But we better keep reminding generations about these parallels. Even though the Movies cookie didn’t want to name names about the current era and what’s turning neighbor against neighbor we all better start talking about it and dealing with it as a society. That one line “it’ll pass,” is a direct quote from survivors of the camps who use to say the same thing before the notsees started rounding them up.
Martin was always my favourite. He turned against everything he knew to do what is right despite being scared. I also remembered him from a Battlestar Galactica episode I liked, so that was neat. (the actor I mean)
fell in love with faye grant here and on greatest american hero but she didn't star in much else
@@vinsanity40k She did some TV movies here and there, and had a bit part in the dark comedy, "The January Man", with Kevin Kline.
@@SJHFoto Oh right Martin! Yeah these mini series had some major bangers for cast members. Can't wait until they do final battle and the Movie's meet my boy the pork product named character and his teddy bear of a side kick. Five bucks he becomes Mr. Movies number one homie.
@@noneya3635 Is a "number one homie" a good or bad thing? I'm not sure if you mean "Mr Movies" will like him, or not. I assume by calling him "your boy", you like him?
This was a great show. It's a shame the studio didn't have faith. V stands for Victory.
I thought it stood for Visitor?
@@shercahn Watch the first episode. The old man sprays a V on a poster and say "For Victory".
@@McMahonHater - it may have dual meaning because they are also known as The Visitors
@@shercahn I'll stick with Victory.
When this aired originally I was a very young boy WELL before the age of "noticing" girls, but I remember that Diana made me feel something that I didn't really know what it was or how to express it.
Needless to say all these years later and I still have a "type" that is inspired by Jane Badler. Brunette, piercing eyes, strong will, and 100% lizard-person inside.
Into bad girls, eh? I'd run into her spiderweb, for sure.
1 of my favorite shows as a kid. So glad y’all are watching this!
Well this is one franchise I thought would never get a reaction. Awesome. Hope you are able to do "The Final battle" as well as the original series from the 80's.
Yeah, I'm so happy they're doing this. As far as I know, no one else has reacted to it.
I was 13 when this debuted on television, and I remember having the "heebie-jeebies" at the whole idea of it, especially when their true identity and purpose were revealed. Fascinating watch, however.
The older daughter from POLTERGEIST was hired to play the character of ROBIN in this series. But she was killed outside her home while rehearsing scenes with one of her co-stars. At 6:50 that's actually Original Robin Actress Dominique Dunne's back in the Blue Jeans holding on to her mother. They kept that shot in the show. They hired a new actress to Re-Film all the scenes Dunne already filmed.
I love this mini-series so much. My buddy and I even do a podcast going over every episode of both mini series' and are almost finished with the 80's tv show (for better or worse lol).
Kenneth Johnson (the creator) really had a great idea taking 'It Can't Happen Here' and making it about literal aliens.
I was 11 years old when this first aired. They teased the miniseries but didn't tell us anything about it. They kept things very vague, hinting it was a thriller about contact with an alien species, and that was it. EVERYTHING was kept under wraps.
Now, we all know the most notorious scene in the show. Steven nomming down the mouse, Diana gulping down the guinea pig, then the Visitor guard showing his eyes, doing the lizard tongue, then the mask comes off.
Nobody.... NOBODY saw that coming. That was one of the most shocking moments anyone had seen on scripted network TV. I'll call it now; it was the TV equivalent of "No, I am your father." (It's no accident that Kenneth Johnson did this before. In the pilot for the Incredible Hulk, no one had seen anything like the first transformation in a TV movie.) It's hard to imagine what a kick in the face that was. Yes, people were talking about that for days afterward, and it left me with nightmares for weeks.
By way of contrast, when the remake series came out in 2009, publicity material showed Morena Baccarin with reptilian eyes. The surprise was gone. We all knew. If you look at the guinea pig scene today, it's painfully obvious it's an animatronic. But no one noticed back then. We were all too busy reeling back in shock and probably shouting in horror. When they did it again in the 2009 version, the effects were far more advanced, far more realistic, and a lot more graphic. But we knew it was coming. We were waiting for it. It just didn't have the raw power of the original.
We all fancied Diana back in the day. Despite what you learn later.
We all fell in love with Julie but with Diana it was ...something else. 😏
Diana and that scene with Julie in the white suit. There were feelings that I didn't understand at age six or seven! 🙂
I watched this as a child, and I was really scared of Freddy Krueger as a little kid. My siblings were teens, and they took me to see Nightmare on Elm's Street when I was 5 my mum wanted to kill them when I came screaming into her room later that night yelling Freddy was in my dreams and wanted to kill me. Yeah, try to explain to a 5-year-old Freddy's not real after they had a nightmare of him. Well one day I saw Robert Englund being interviewed and they said he was Freddy Krueger, and I was like "Freddy is Willie?". Mind blown and was never scared of Freddy again.
Yeah, I was pretty shocked, too, when I found out that the guy who played the sweet, endearing, adorkable Willie was the same guy who played Freddy Krueger. I had trouble wrapping my head around it.
My knowledge, those toys were never produced. All other fans really wanted them.
Unfortunately it seems we are collectively forgetting the lessons of WWII and what was attempted in its wake to make sure it never happened again.
Whatever dark forces run the world ensure eternal conflict. People are puppets and the puppet master is satan.
Very true and very sad. 😢
A_blip: ALAS, it seems " we haven't learned a thing" looking around at the world today......... we all know it's happening again.
From WWII, "V" for "Victory."
People who are afraid but don't know they are afraid will vote in people who speak to their fears..... who then do horrible things.
I watched "V" when it first came out and i was so amazed with the story and special effects for its time. Still my favorite mini series of all time.
OMG!!! I remember this from high school. Robert Englund (Freddy Kruger) is in this too. They rebooted or at least tried to with Morena Baccarin as the villain in the late 2000s.
As a kid growing up in the 80s this show was amazing!
The 80's were the best time to be a teen!
@@shallendor completely agree! I loved it.
This was a BIG deal when I was a kid! Stayed up late to watch it too, it was the big event show of 1983, the buzz was real. Brought back some good memories this reaction, a great choice for the channel! Always had a soft spot for Diana too.. ;)
I’ve got to agree with Mrs. Movie, Julie is great. Unlike Donovan, she was a stranger to action, but stepped up in a real, believable way
Underground lair.. just sell it to him as a fully equipped man cave :) I loved this series when it first came out.
One of my favorite all time shows. So glad you’re watching
So I really hope I'm not spoiling anything -it's been decades since I've seen this - but Robert England (Freddy Krueger) has a recurring role in this series.
Funny to see him awkward and nerdy before Freddy.
To add an air of "realism," the TV anchorman was played by retired ABC News anchorman Howard K. Smith.
The band playing at 16:26 is my old high school, Rosemead! I don't have fond memories of my school but Mr. Hensley, the band teacher was a great teacher. I didn't play in band but I took two years of guitar with him and had nothing but a good time.
You can see how the Visitor Motherships inspired the ships from Independence Day.
Omg..... i can remember watching this way back when !!
Ahhh, the 80's; when stuntmen and practical effects were REALLY EFFING COOL. Remember those days?? When dudes would legit jump out of planes if the scene required it? To this day I still say that nothing, NOTHING beats well prepared and executed practical effects. That's one major reason Jackie Chan fights are still the best ever filmed. It's all practical.
CGI overload these days. Fury Road was fantastic, though, in spite of the green-screens and occasional CGI.
@@Emulous79 Yeah I agree. One particular comment I hear quite often from stuntmen is how much they love when a scene calls for them to get tossed around. lol. Like as an example, there's a scene in Stargate SG-1 where O'Neill is supposed to be invisible and he uses the rings to transport into a room full of Jaf'fa; He essentially is supposed to be taking them all out, but it was the stuntmen that were twisting and tossing themselves into walls and across the room. when the director asked if they were good they were all like Hell yeah!! Let's go again!
Today with CGI doing everything I feel like stuntmen have a right to feel a bit upset that their jobs are being replaced by computer programs all for the sake of realism. I remember when a famous director once said the BEST CGI is when you don't even know it's being used. Now-a-days, we can tell. It's just everywhere.
I remember being 5 or 6 years old and i was just watching TV with my parents, something like the muppets, when my older brother joined and insisted that we watch this new show V.
It was the episode where she gave birth to one of the alien offsprings and i was screaming and holding my ears, was traumatized for years and started peing in the bed during sleep again. Good times ! My brother loved to do that, also convinced our mom that The Last Unicorn was for kids "mom come on, it's a cartoon !"
Here come the nightmares again !
I was told that the only thing Jane Badler needed to do for the role of Diana was to step in through the door, she just said "Good evening", and the role was hers.
Given how she plays the role so perfectly, I'm not surprised 😊❤
William is my favorite character of the series. I love his innocence, and he doesn’t want to be there so he ends up joining the resistance.
When i was a kid, it was Julie, but as an adult, it is Diana!
I have to say that I remember when this came out. This was SO SCARY for my friends and I, but fascinating. I know it ended each night after the bedtimes of all of us (my friends and I), yet our parents allowed us to watch it. (I think it was so there wouldn't be jealousy if one could watch and another couldn't) I think I still have my trading cards somewhere (they were mostly from the tv series I think). To explain, even VCRs weren't universal then, so companies like Topps would sell trading cards of popular TV shows and movies so you can capture the action frame by frame and have behind the scenes info, or a puzzle on the back. It was SO COOL! I still have my original Star Wars movies, first 3 Superman movies, Magnum PI, Transformers, Tron, Battlestar Galactica, and Black Hole cards. I think I have V somewhere too
Jane Badler 😍😍
Man, does this bring back memories!! I watched the original airing of this when I was in high school and it was definitely must see TV! It was a real mind blowing, game changer at the time!
Loved the series as kid back then. Yes, that's how old i am.
I'm 47, remember loving this show.
Seeing the helicopter go down and explode reminded me of that scene in the movie The Day After Tomorrow, where the helicopter gets frozen in mid air and goes down. I had a debate with a friend who was so disgusted by that scene because the helicopter didn't explode on impact. And I tried to tell him that it was impossible because they established that the helicopter only went down because the fuel froze. I tried to make him understand that frozen fuel CAN'T explode and he just would not comprehend that. lol.
Why get mad? Logical errors in films make me laugh.
@@Emulous79 No one got mad dude; he just didn't understand that frozen fuel doesn't explode. It was NOT an error in the film, I have no clue where you'd even THINK that was the case. lol. It's explained that the fuel froze while the helicopter was IN flight. When it crashed there was no explosion and he called bullshit because fuel explodes in crashes. Unless the fuel is frozen which is what that movie told us. He seemed to think that even IF it was frozen it should still explode.
One of my favorite Shows of all time!! 🤩🤩
Thank you for reacting to my favourite TV show of all time ❤
As I was watching the reaction to Beastmaster, I imagined this conversation:
"Marc Singer was also in V."
"You mean with Hugo Weaving?"
"No, V the miniseries...."
And here we are.
It can't hold a candle to "V," but another fantastic sci-fi TV miniseries was "Childhood's End," which came out about 10 years ago. It was based on a much older novel of the same name by Arthur C. Clarke, and it was "Childhood's End" (the novel) that invented the "gigantic alien spaceships hovering over cities" trope. Though "V" is no doubt unique in many ways, much of it was inspired by "Childhood's End," and it's very satisfying that "Childhood's End" got its own high-quality miniseries 30 years later.
I had to force/beg my dad to rent these VHS's one at the time and there was plenty of them back then. Such amount of work for a kid.
I love V SO much and am excited to see people reacting to the full 5 parts of V and V the Final Battle!
I remember watching this on TV when I was maybe 7 or 8. Pretty big deal at the time. And then watching the TV show afterwards. It was the first time I recall a show ending on a cliff hanger and then getting canceled. It was like “what!? Can they do that? What happens??”
the ending was ok for cancelled series by warner. they did the same for reboot of v in 2009-2010 cancelled for 2nd time but with a very bad ending hopefully kenneth johnson wants to get a film done on v
Missed out on this when it first aired as we didn't have a TV at the time, but EVERYONE was talking about it at school the next day. Finally got to see it during a re-airing of both mini-series back in '87 and only then understood how monumental it was to early 80s TV. Favorite character? Tony, as I've always been a fan of the helpers.
I really enjoyed this as a child,, it was also a massively popular in the UK. I can't believe it's about forty years old now!!!
Thanks for making me feel so old too
They come for the people who can expose the truth first; scientists, journalists, teachers.
There were a couple women on TV in the 80's that really pushed my buttons as a teenage boy. Diana from V and Wilma from Buck Rogers. Wow, those women had it going on!
I was a bit younger. The girls I liked from TV were closer to my age. Most weren't on US television (British and Canadian), so you probably don't know them (I imagine you are from the States)
Holy cow can’t believe you’re reacting to V! Love this!!!!
OMG?? Whoever made this reaction happen, you're my hero.
The look was ahead of its time and influenced Star Trek going forward.
Favourite character Mike Donovan (Marc Singer) of the Resistance and Diana (Jane Badler) of the Visitors
32:08 Indiana Jones was an archeological professor, not anthropology.
_Archaeology focuses on understanding human culture from the deepest history up until the recent past, while anthropology examines human behavior, culture, and societies, both past and present_
_In archaeology, studies typically aim to gain a deeper understanding of human societies that existed in the past, while professionals in anthropology can focus on communities from the past and present_
YES, finally someone reacting to this!
One of my favorite shows, period!
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Mr. and Mrs. Movies would be having this conversation looking up at their ships. 😂 LMAO!
The whole premise is based on a picture that was taken after Germany marched into Paris. The title was called "It can happen here". The picture was of two German officers sitting at a cafe in Paris.
I remember watching the original mini series and V The Final Battle when they came out. They are great shows and I have all of them on DVD.
Do you watch VERY VERY closely you might just notice an incredibly subtle WWII allegory hidden in this series. ;-)
Haven't seen this is years. There are 3 actors that I don't see alot, but are really cool. Marc Singer ( Beastmaster ), Richard Herd ( who was in Seinfeld for a time and many other things ), and Frank Ashmore ( who was in lots of stuff in the 70s, including Airplane as Victor ) @42:55, this was very impressive for TV in 1983.
Can't believe you guys are watching this! One of my favorites as a kid.
The guinea pig eating scene and face reveal have been with me for decades and will probably be for the rest of my life.
Thanks for the reaction.
Wow… never seen *anyone* reacting to V … my definite favorite from the 80s :)
Watched this when it first aired as a kid. As a young adult I did see a few UFOs. Got a bit freaked out seeing visitor parking signs for awhile.
FYI. Marc Singer was 34 when he filmed Beast Master and his sister Lori Singer was the preacher's daughter in Footloose
I like that Marc Singer was born 1948, the year of the rat 😂