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I was absolutely floored by this TV show as a kid. It had everything!! Space ships, lasers, aliens and above all it wasn’t corny and the acting was superb
"ANONYMOUS REX" movie is different take. They already took over the world long ago during the dino Era. They were the superior species back then ( and today) not man They live book story they were Lizards. They made them change it to Goofy skinless aliens. Lizards would have looked cooler..
I once met Robert Englund at some kind of Comic Con and everyone had the usual Nightmare on Elm Street memorabilia for him to sign ... I was the only one with a V poster and he was so happy to see (and sign) it, that he took 5 minutes talking to me (and loud enough for everyone else in the line) about every one of the main actors and actresses, what they were doing "now" (that was more than 10 years ago) and so on. He was kind of thankful that someone brought something from V ... it was quite an experience. :-)
That's really great. I did a similar thing at a Starp Trek convention, talking to Andrew Robinson about his character in Dirty Harry as well as in Deep Space Nine, which pleased him.
When I was a grad student, I was working on a game based on "V". I was in direct communication with Kenneth and he told me the HUGE backstory to "V". Basically, the visitors were at war with an insect race, and the lizards were losing horribly. Not only were their soldiers dying, but resources such as their water and food was depleting. Hence, they came to earth -- for food, water, and human soldiers. You can actually see a hint of this war towards the end of the original "V" in which the human resistance attempts to contact the insect race to inform them the lizards are on earth. In "V The Final Battle", this plot line was abandoned because it was considered too expensive to bring in another major alien race and begin a war on earth. In the original concept by Kenneth, there was no such thing as "the red dust". That was invented by the production company because it was cheaper to film than an all out war with insects on planet earth. One final note: Remember how in the original "V" series they were giving humans military training and uniforms? Yup, that was to prepare them for war against the insects. It wasn't just their "pet" project. Not all humans were destined as food. Kenneth never did say if the insects would have been human allies. For all we know, it could have been a 3-way war between humans, lizards, and insects -- which I guess kinda freaked out the production company who then opted for "the red dust".
I never read all of the second generation but didn't they crash the mothership and couldn't save the humans in cryo sleep or something. I'd love to know how they would of are ate us,,asleep,,awake,,piece by piece as wouldn't be whole given are simular heights. Aways crossed my mind and love to know more about the science of the chambers,what was the membrane around them and what kept us in such a state of hibernation.
Mock it if you will, but that alien baby reveal was truly frightening back in the day lol I was obsessed with the show: from the chilling opening theme to Diana's super villainy. Really formed a big part of growing up in the 80's ✌️🥲
ONE of the highest rated mini-series of ALL time. I was 15 when this aired on NBC in the spring of 1983. back at a time/early 80's. when the WHOLE family would watch T.v together. NOT because we wanted to, many families just could only afford ONE T.v set. LOL LOL
Back when TV's were expensive and only replaced once every 10 years (and only if they were totally broken down)-- not every two years like now. Also, when a TV was replaced, it wasn't thrown away -- oh no! TVs were then regulated to either being used as a monitor for an 8-bit home computer of the time (like the Commodore 128/64) or for the Atari 2600 or NES.
The memories! V was frightening, amazing, unnerving, and groundbreaking. I will NEVER forget watching it back in 1983 as a 12 year old, fascinated along with my brother. We we GLUED to the TV and it was all the rage to talk about with friends at school the next day. Those damn lizards gave me nightmares!
I was 10: and 11 when watching the two miniseries. It was so engrossing because characters you rooted for were killed off on a regular basis, which was a big contrast to the relatively “safe” settings of Star Wars. The birthing scene at the end of the second night of the final battle was spooky beyond belief. It wasn’t the baby monster that got me, it was the anticipation, the sounds, and that lady’s eyes opening wide. My younger brother who was hiding and peeking behind the couch had had enough and scrammed out of the room.
Oh man! I was just in my 20;s when this premiered....Those motherships , miles wide, were awe inspiring back then and even today...nothing like that had ever been portrayed on tv b4 and it was spellbinding! Donovan and tony seeing that 1st ship come in ..whoa!
I was 10 when the original miniseries aired, and was instantly obsessed. My friends and I played V, I wrote what is now called fan fiction about V all throughout my teens, and will still watch the entire saga every few years. In the 80s V was a phenomenon!
this was exactly the scene and thought that came to me when i saw this vid pop-up. And i paused for a few seconds before clicking on it lol. Ah, sweet child-hood trauma.
Isn't that the part on how the Humans figure out how to defeat the Lizard people? Then they use the compound on the father to see if it works. It was the women that was raped by the lizard people. That killed him if I'm correct.
When your screaming daughter is pinned down to be genetically altered against the parents will using a vaccine out of china to fight a genetically altered virus that came out of a lab in china?
It's all just a ploy to attack Christians, but what they don't know is that we know what they are up to...and America is not Europe. All the Secularists have to do is push too hard and you are going to see Christians of all stripes join forces.
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd Oh please. You people only scream your being persecuted when you aren't allowed to persecute and oppress others. "Christians of all stripes join forces." Ha, don't make me laugh. You people are too busy fighting over which of a billion denominations has "the truth" and which ones are the occult or devil worshippers.
I LOVED watching this show with my Dad in the 80s. Someone below mentioned that it was like a movement when it aired. People talked about V as if it was really happening. Miss those feelings.
I was 12 years old when this came out. This show was HUGE at the time. I can still remember some scenes like it was yesterday. Anybody remember the limited tv series Ewoks The Battle for Endor?
@@lueysixty-six7300 because I said the show came out when I was 11, but at 9 I saw a UFO that looked exactly like ships featured in V? I'm not even a UFO nut, but that is what me, my brother and our neighbors saw. Cleveland, Ohio on the corner of E. 148 St. & Valor ave. The part that is funny is that that entire neighborhood is long gone.
The original series was fantastic. The theme music with the red V zooming out got it started right. My mom made me a visitor uniform with art supplies for Halloween one year, my all time favorite costume.
Haha... Just posted a comment saying the same. The whole series and specially the lizards scared the hell out of me... Everytime I watched the intro I'd leave the room 🤣
I was in the 3rd grade, and everyone was going berserk in the schoolyard the next morning, talking about the lizard face reveals and the "lizard tongue"!! My math homework was not going to get done the following night for Part 2, consequences be damned! ha ha ha I think this was the first mini-series I ever watched and it left a huge impact.
I remember the human "hitler youth" guy that met his end at the hands of Steven. Steven tells him something like "you will be the last place you can be useful...on a serving platter..." and a couple aliens drag him off with the guy begging Steven. Really chilling.
Daniel was such a weaselly scumbag (this is who Leonard Cimino throws his glass of water into the face of in the video); the kind of worthless tool who would turn in his family for a uniform and a power trip and who has zero respect from the people he works for. Seeing him carried off to the abattoir, knowing that he was going to be served up as porkchops, was very satisfying.
@@mr.2cents.846 Totally worth it in my opinion. I'm biased though. I was a 16 year old who immediately fell in love with Jane Badler when the mini-series aired. 😁
I think it is important to remember that any totalitarian government is always going to promise more than it is going to deliver, regardless of whether we "call" it fascist or not. Orwell pointed out how recklessly the term was thrown around in his time. For me the key word is totalitarian where whatever government had complete control over it's people. Jefferson said it best: "The government that governs best, governs least." Keep that in mind and you'll figure it out.
I like some of the scenes with Chamino. He is disgusted with his grandson serving with the visitors and that he wants the girl, so he throws the drink into his face. Also the one where he shows the kids how to use the spray paint on the posters to be in the V shape. "Remember V for victory. Tell your friends." You forgot to mention Martin, Barbara, and the fifth cullomn. The Visitors that are helping the Resitance. That also brought a cool dynamic to the show.
Yeah the show was revealing. You don't takeover humans by conquering them. You just take over their government. They will all fall in line once you run the show. Now put your mask on or else❗️
@Vulvasaurus Lix Yes the appointment of George W. Bush by the Supreme Court is something that trump just tried and was denied. I guess we should be fortunate that it’s more than one state this time because he damn sure would’ve tried to pull and run around on us this time❗️
Oh you mean how facts and science were false or fake crap and substitute the shutting up of scientists with an attack on media scrutiny? How one of Trump slicktards like Gaetz or Erich looks like the Ken doll dude in the V poster wanting to be your "universal" friend? Ted Cruz looks like an evil Willie. Ham Tyler would be impressed how there are less rodents in the White House now. Btw Singer and Ironside are both Canadian born actors go figure.
I was 7 or maybe 8 when this was aired in the UK and couldn't believe it when my Mum let me stay up and watch it. Always remember the hamster scene and lizard reveal! So good
Same here...whenever I see a trailer of V or someone speaking about the V series, I keep thinking about her grabbing by the tail and putting it in her mouth. That scene is so cemented in my mind.
I remember this when I was a kid... one of the scenes that stuck with me the most, involved a human betraying his own kind in order to free his wife, whom the V's had "arrested". After doing what they wanted, he was shocked when he was arrested himself. "Wait, wait... you said you would let my wife go, that we would be together by dinner time" "You misunderstood me, what I said was, the two of you would be together.... for dinner" 😋
Something tells me it's likely just people fantasizing about being persecuted so they can pretend to be freedom fighters on social media. _Lay off the David Icke..._
@@ominous-omnipresent-they So this time they're going to disguise themselves as Mexicans and it's up to the plucky, rebellious billionaires to save the day!
@Nathan White I was thinking about that earlier. If we all decided to band together and defy the shutdown, the Government would have zero chance. But because so many of us are just willing to take what they and the media say as gospel, there are so few left to stand up to the swamp.
16:55 Lydia was played by June Chadwick. Lane Smith was the male actor that was head of the Science Frontier and Juliet Parrish's boss, Nathan Bates. He also played the newspaper editor Perry White of the Daily Planet on the TV Series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He has passed away. Come on show some respect to the guy and to the gorgeous June Chadwick...Practice your material better.
I didn't exist in the 80s or 90s. I'm still quite young. I legit just watched V because I wanted to watch something with Robert Englund in it that wasn't hardcore horror. And I got hooked right in. It's one of my favourite shows now! I even have Funko Pops and one of the comics. I am constantly trying to convince people my age to watch it too because it's so much fun, so dark, and...so relevant.
V was an amazing series. Both Kenneth Johnson and Brandon Tartikoff were right to think kids of that generation couldn't believe "why we fight" because at that time it just wasn't something that seemed like it could happen. The idea of having them be aliens really worked. I just wish it was on streaming services so the current generation could learn these lessons.
It's bizarre the way this generation talks about the 80s and 90s as if they were the 1880s and 90s. Yes they talked about abortion. Yes there were gay and lesbian characters. Watch some of the prime time soaps like Dallas and Dynasty.
A vaccine with hiv in it that has caused deadly side effects, facial paralysis and all kinds of terrble side effects for a virus with a 99% survival rate. Only a fool would take a vaccination with Hiv in it, causes paralysis and require you to take it in a ER because it's so unsafe it could kill you in hours
I recently rewatched the 2 mini-series with the kids and was very much struck by the huge difference in quality between the two. I thought the first, with its serious "It Can't Happen here" message was quite effective, while the second felt like a much cheesier cash-in on the success of the first, replacing drama with action (largely dependent upon the aliens, good and bad, being incompetent) and an odd psychic cross-breed kid storyline. I shouldn't be surprised that a large corporation managed to ruin a decent franchise through interference and kicking the talent behind the first out the door. Funny that you comparre Michael Ironside to fellow Canadian Wolverine.
I saw V as it aired as a kid, didn't catch They Live until college. But both are great in their own ways, the same way both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 look at similar subjects, from different angles.
Your reasoning in the beginning reminded me forcefully of the c*vid "pandemic" and the subsequent social pressure to take the mRNA gene therapy shot(s). Everyone needed a green QR code to do practically anything in social life (sports, clubbing, voyages, ...) Feels like a solid base for a fascist society to me
@@CBF5star Not really, bruh. V came from an earlier novel called "Childhood's End" in which Reptilian aliens arrive on Earth in giant flying saucers that loom over cities. The Reptilians conceal their identities from the humans but promise to deliver a utopian paradise to everyone. Now that I describe it I take it back...it sounds nothing like V.
@@johnellizz Childhoods End...interesting show. Visiting aliens did resolve all the ills of earth but the cost was very high. No babies after a certain date which was hidden until too late. Finding out what the alien looked like was an epic delay that worked out well.
Found the DVDs to the original mini-series at a garage sale. I got so exited and ripped them to my plex server immediately. Love this series. Bonus fact observation. I think that ID4 took direct inspiration from the opening ship reveal sequence from V. Watch them back to back and it is striking.
The sound of the guns was the best part for me. Good sci-fi has iconic sounds. The THWWWWOOOOOM of the lasers was unlike percussive laser zaps of the past.
I always said if I won bonkers money like Florida state lottery or something, that I would make my own movie and it would fucking star Michael Ironside. Easily my favorite 80s actor
In the 1980s, I always got Micheal Ironside, John Saxon and Kurtwood Larson Smith confused. Was it just me? But Micheal Ironside plays Micheal Ironside in every movie, and he's awesome.
When I first saw this show, I was going through puberty, and I wasn’t old enough to figure out why it occupied my thoughts so much. It both haunted and inspired me, and was the game I wanted to play with my friends, all the time. It was the writing. So glad you did this one. The stir of echoes was all I needed to bring it all back for me. Such great writing and such great (for its day) action and special effects. How could a pre-teen NOT love this? And, oh Diana . . . Her wedding with Charles, at the time of the Royal Wedding, kept them in the headlines. But, I lost a lohhhht of sleep over Diana 😉✌️👍. Thank you
V died a miserable death when they had the wedding of Charles and Diana. They turned a teenage boy sci-fi show into Knots Landing / Dallas and then wondered what happened to the ratings.
Always ask yourself, does my side stand for freedom of speech, and liberty and a small government. If your answer is yes, you are on the right side of history.
I always get vary when somebody argues with „the right side of history“. To me it sounds like a threat, like „if you’re on the wrong side, we will shove your ass in a concentration camp and dispose your body in some unnamed mass grave“. I prefer people that don’t threaten me and don’t force me to choose a side, no matter which side that is.
@@jakebradminster709 Interestingly I didn’t pick any side nor did I answer anything, so I‘m really interested in seeing how you got to that conclusion. All I did is comment the usage of the term „right side of history“. And no, I don’t really care who is using it, it’s always a threat to me as left and right people have left thousands of mass graves on this world, driven by the believe that they alone are allowed to live as they alone are on the right side of history. People that deal in extremes are always dangerous, no matter their cause and intentions.
Abrahams wife was taken to the “showers with no water” that line got me, but he scene where his daughter in law was reading the letter he left behind when the visitors took him had me bawling! That was good acting!
@@sixfootse7en248 yep, Venezuelans though exactly like that )))) Medicine costs a fortune because US has extremely regulated healthcare market. Sorry, mate, but when government steps in there're only three options: - prices rise - deficit formed - quality go down That's market. Company need to somehow pay for complying with those new regulations, getting aware of oncoming rules, bribing decision making officials, employing layers to deal with ton of regulations. Also companies are less likely to innovate or invest in new methods if they're not sure that some pen-pusher from the government wouldn't make it illegal. Just compare public and charter schools. Or NY subway before and after it was nationalized. Or dig info about 2008 bubble and think about why prices were skyrocketing. Maybe it has something to do with bankers being sure that they'll be saved by government? Try watching some John Stossel on that. th-cam.com/video/8neTAW256Wo/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JohnStossel th-cam.com/video/j6ALN2AbI9c/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=JohnStossel And maybe about how private healthcare work th-cam.com/video/K4I44BcK39Y/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=LibertyPen
I saw this as an 8 year old. I recall being so devastated when the alien twin child had an allergic reaction to her sister & died. My sister has always been my best friend and the thought of being the cause of her death was devastating. Edit to add: I was also uneasy that the adults in the show did not seem to feel significant sorrow at the child's death.
@@commonsenseking6386 Yes, always a cool double act, Chris was the technical support with the Teflon coated ammo for his Mac -10 and the plastic explosives and seemed a top dude.
@@popcorn9791 They are called the Vril. If you examine these movie posters you'll see how they all use the red V for Vril: The Visitors upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/3d/V-2001DVDcover.jpg 1984 upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c4/Nineteen_Eighty_Four.jpg Phantasm Ravager bloody-disgusting.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/phantasm-exhumed-sequel.jpg Killers Within images.hdqwalls.com/wallpapers/killers-within-2018-io.jpg V For Vendetta nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/main-qimg-595e82a97a72832c9d8c0d3b57e87aef.jpg
Well done, this was hysterical took me back to being 11. Michael Ironside played the same exact character in every movie he was in. Seeing Freddie without makeup blew our minds 😂
I watched V in the early '90s. I remember having the flu but my Mum was such a fangirl of the show, she got me up at midnight to watch the rebroadcast in our area. LOL good memories
Though this has rekindled my love for the series as a whole (not the reboot), you got it wrong when you said Lydia was played by Lane Smith, when in fact it was June Chadwick as i had a mega crush on her and seeing her again still gives me a diamond cutter. Lane played Nathan Bates
I loved this show so much as a kid. As an adult, I rewatched the tv series that ended in a cliff hanger, and certainly noticed they were running out of money. Not only did they reuse scenes of ships flying, but they used the exact same scene of Willie running from a scene of a dramatic occurrence twice. Also in the later episodes, there were more than a few that didn't have many of the main actors as if they were trying to save money on actor salary. Still we were devastated to never learn what happened after Elizabeth, the star child stowed away on the ship heading back to the V home world.
ya gotta put the exclamation and quotation marks inside the underscores TH-cam's comment formatting is _quite_ stupid *like zo* > "They're after the _water!"_ or leave a space thus > "They're after the _water_ !"
I loved this show, I had all the paper book back books too when they came out. I was saddened to see this fine show to end so abruptly but here is to hoping that V could make a comeback.
I had all the books too. In those days that was the only real home media we had (unless it repeated and could be taped). I shared this series with my kids when they were young and couldn’t believe what a great storyline it was/is. Someday I hope they could do it even more justice.
Thirty years ago they laughed at david icke. And this series was just science fiction. Now they don't laugh anymore, and this is actually a documentary. Who knew.
This series needs a PROPER reboot. The original was amazing, great music, great cast, good story, loved the ships, the weapon sounds - everything. It was an ambitious TV show that worked.
@@Kthomasritchie No, it had a reboot. I said a proper reboot, i.e. one that treats the material seriously and no the fucking farce that the reboot was.
@@Gliese380 It certainly would, if it included a budget that would result in a script that respected for the source material and allowed for more than a 1980's 'made for TV' level of special effects. Battlestar Galactica comes to mind as an example of a cheesy TV series whose budget would not allow it to reach its full potential, until its reboot series was updated across the board and re-launched.
40 years later and I can still remember that line. "Don't you see? They have to stay, or we won't have learned a thing!!" Very powerful words!!! I actually really liked both miniseries, including the "Red Dust" ending and celebrations, and the delivery system via hot air balloons. Remember those? But I never could get into the TV series at all so I missed most of that. And what I saw of the 2009 reboot, I did not like at all. The characters of the Miniseries are what drew me to that program. All the later stuff had completely different characters.
The series was a real disappointment compared to the two miniseries. I mean, it had its moments, but the quality took a huge nose dive especially in later episodes.
hollywood would love to remake this...omg they could fill it with so much political bias to lecture us all with. and destroy another beloved franchise from the past which they love to do.
V had it all: overt political theme, diverse cast, female leads and - above all - a great story. Blatant, In your face, but somehow still subtle and allegorical. Something that a lot of writers nowadays could learn from.
Nice video, loved this show as a kid. Slight correction here - Lydia was played by June Chadwick, Lane Smith played Nathan Bates. Love this series of videos, please keep them coming!
This series made me laugh. Made me cry. Made me think. Made me cheer. Was a big influence towards my decision to enlist in the USMC. They don’t make shows like this anymore. Was it perfect? No. But better than most stuff that’s on TV even now.
Huh? Inspired by the reptilian aliens to go around pretending to help people around the world, while actually killing people to help US corporations to plunder their economies?
I remember this series fondly. Especially the original mini series. It had A LOT of heart that you really don't see in film today. Family values and everything. You grew with the characters. I miss this type of tv. I'm glad I was there to experience it when it first aired.
What also was fairly unique about the series is that it was serialized. It didn't hit the reset button at the end of every single episode. They were doing actual longform storytelling which is commonplace today but unheard of then.
good point. most of the 1980's shows were episodic and were one off stories without any linking threads from previous episodes. this form didn't come again until the late 1990's with the airing of the Babylon 5 series.
To me, the most gripping scene in the original miniseries is the dying of Ben Taylor. Michael Wright (Elias) and Faye Grant (Julie) really deliever in this scene. Elias' constant talking and Julie's pleas fall to deaf ears. This two actors were awesome. I wholy agree with your assesment of 'the Starchild'. I have often used V as the prime example of a show that started out about as well as any and eventually deterioated into the mess it became. Oh and the reboot SUCKED.
Channel owner: Stop saying the F word, GD, & Jesus’ name as a curse word! I was enjoying your video until you did that! I find it highly offensive & very unnecessary!
The utter irony of V is that years later.. we found out a few of the accusations about scientists were true. They have been holding back breakthrough treatments to get more money from research grants, for example. But still, the original two miniseries are a terrifying and realistic reality of how easily the masses can be manipulated by social "correctness and justice". I also met both Jane Badler (Diana) and Marc Singer (Donovan) at DragonCon two years ago.. and they both still remember working on the miniseries very fondly.
I was 11 whenever this show aired and I remember everyone talking about it. The conversation started on my school bus then went all day. My friends were spray painting a big red V on everything. The birth of the goulie lizard baby really stood out in my mind, I remember it looking so much more real and freaky, but I was ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Crazy how your mind remembers things from when we were kids. I did thinm
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Imagine if foreign powers offer 500 million injections for your chil dren... ??
Hey JoBlo, somehow you triggered all the antivaxx and stolen-election community with your V episode. Political indeed…
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Please remove your stormtrooper helmet before recording the voice over :)
I'm old enough to remember the original series. It was an absolute must watch back in the day.
Absolutely.
Yeah it was!
Same here, I was 13 years old and obsessed with it.
yep.
Me too!
Robert Englund's character Willie was such a lovely character. Showed how versatile Robert's acting could be. Not just scary nightmare knife man😊
Yeah, I loved him in Friday the 13th 🤭
He's a museum director in Wishmaster - also a nice character (and a first class film).
Yeah. Freddy terrified me as a kid - seeing Robert as Willie, knowing it was the same actor - that gave me comfort 😁
Freddy kruger
yeah he was the best part of V. he is a sweetie, so great as freddie,too.
I was absolutely floored by this TV show as a kid. It had everything!! Space ships, lasers, aliens and above all it wasn’t corny and the acting was superb
ah Industrialists offered us this... and then we got sicker and poorer and sadder...
'They live' and 'V' are my two favourite documentaries
Yes.
Add DEMOLITION MAN & IDIOCRACY too.
So true
"ANONYMOUS REX" movie is different take. They already took over the world long ago during the dino Era. They were the superior species back then ( and today) not man
They live book story they were Lizards. They made them change it to Goofy skinless aliens. Lizards would have looked cooler..
Build back better
I once met Robert Englund at some kind of Comic Con and everyone had the usual Nightmare on Elm Street memorabilia for him to sign ... I was the only one with a V poster and he was so happy to see (and sign) it, that he took 5 minutes talking to me (and loud enough for everyone else in the line) about every one of the main actors and actresses, what they were doing "now" (that was more than 10 years ago) and so on. He was kind of thankful that someone brought something from V ... it was quite an experience. :-)
If you listen to him in Final Battle when he said, "It is true," he sounds like Freddy.
I am glad you had that experience.
@@swampfox7110 thx
So wholesome
That's really great. I did a similar thing at a Starp Trek convention, talking to Andrew Robinson about his character in Dirty Harry as well as in Deep Space Nine, which pleased him.
When I was a grad student, I was working on a game based on "V". I was in direct communication with Kenneth and he told me the HUGE backstory to "V". Basically, the visitors were at war with an insect race, and the lizards were losing horribly. Not only were their soldiers dying, but resources such as their water and food was depleting. Hence, they came to earth -- for food, water, and human soldiers. You can actually see a hint of this war towards the end of the original "V" in which the human resistance attempts to contact the insect race to inform them the lizards are on earth. In "V The Final Battle", this plot line was abandoned because it was considered too expensive to bring in another major alien race and begin a war on earth. In the original concept by Kenneth, there was no such thing as "the red dust". That was invented by the production company because it was cheaper to film than an all out war with insects on planet earth.
One final note: Remember how in the original "V" series they were giving humans military training and uniforms? Yup, that was to prepare them for war against the insects. It wasn't just their "pet" project. Not all humans were destined as food. Kenneth never did say if the insects would have been human allies. For all we know, it could have been a 3-way war between humans, lizards, and insects -- which I guess kinda freaked out the production company who then opted for "the red dust".
That's bascially the novel V - The Second Generation.
Sounds like the USA show Colony stole that back story.
Yep that was indeed the plot for Kenneth Johnson's follow up novel V The 2nd Generation.
I never read all of the second generation but didn't they crash the mothership and couldn't save the humans in cryo sleep or
something.
I'd love to know how they would of are ate us,,asleep,,awake,,piece by piece as wouldn't be whole given are simular heights.
Aways crossed my mind and love to know more about the science of the chambers,what was the membrane around them and what kept us in such a state of hibernation.
@@jasonthatjason1912 I ordered it. It was o.k. but I found it annoying when they repeat comments from the two original miniseries.
Mock it if you will, but that alien baby reveal was truly frightening back in the day lol
I was obsessed with the show: from the chilling opening theme to Diana's super villainy. Really formed a big part of growing up in the 80's ✌️🥲
I still can't hear the name Elizabeth without internally translating it as Elizardbreath.
@@rhoetusochten4211 😆😆😆
i used to love to think i was Diana!! she was a boss!!! lol!
@@Camille_Anderson the OG lol
I saw it when I was about 4. Them peeling their skin off. That freaked me out.
Jesus, Jane Badler was hot.
In Mission Impossible as well for sure.
She still is! And a great singer too
Her and Faye Grant were both smoking
@@mrcat3493 Defiantly
if she wrapped her legs around my head and snapped my neck I'd die a happy man
ONE of the highest rated mini-series of ALL time. I was 15 when this aired on NBC in the spring of 1983. back at a time/early 80's. when the WHOLE family would watch T.v together. NOT because we wanted to, many families just could only afford ONE T.v set. LOL LOL
Back when TV's were expensive and only replaced once every 10 years (and only if they were totally broken down)-- not every two years like now. Also, when a TV was replaced, it wasn't thrown away -- oh no! TVs were then regulated to either being used as a monitor for an 8-bit home computer of the time (like the Commodore 128/64) or for the Atari 2600 or NES.
ah Industrialists offered us this... and then we got sicker and poorer and sadder...
The memories!
V was frightening, amazing, unnerving, and groundbreaking. I will NEVER forget watching it back in 1983 as a 12 year old, fascinated along with my brother. We we GLUED to the TV and it was all the rage to talk about with friends at school the next day. Those damn lizards gave me nightmares!
Good ol,days.
Agreed! crazy show! Lizard people!
It was great. I remember it well
I remember watching it as a kid....I don't remember much but I remember all the adults raving about it
I was 10: and 11 when watching the two miniseries. It was so engrossing because characters you rooted for were killed off on a regular basis, which was a big contrast to the relatively “safe” settings of Star Wars.
The birthing scene at the end of the second night of the final battle was spooky beyond belief. It wasn’t the baby monster that got me, it was the anticipation, the sounds, and that lady’s eyes opening wide. My younger brother who was hiding and peeking behind the couch had had enough and scrammed out of the room.
You haven't lived life unless you saw this when it came out. It was like a movement. So awesome
Agree. This was an 80s zeitgeist thing for sure.
agreed! This show stuck with me more than any other from my childhood! And that’s saying alot since we had so many good shows back then!!!
Oh man! I was just in my 20;s when this premiered....Those motherships , miles wide, were awe inspiring back then and even today...nothing like that had ever been portrayed on tv b4 and it was spellbinding! Donovan and tony seeing that 1st ship come in ..whoa!
I loved it, still do.
Absolutely!
I was 10 when the original miniseries aired, and was instantly obsessed. My friends and I played V, I wrote what is now called fan fiction about V all throughout my teens, and will still watch the entire saga every few years. In the 80s V was a phenomenon!
I made my own red V costume n my dad riveted a pecie of perspex to the front of my Pro am skateboard helmet!😁😂✌️
i was ten and not allowed to watch it
I watched this when i was like 6 or so and i loved it! Where do you watch it?
My friends and I also played V! I was Lydia
That scene where the woman gives birth to a lizard baby freaked me out as a kid.
Lizard baby!!!!!!
this was exactly the scene and thought that came to me when i saw this vid pop-up. And i paused for a few seconds before clicking on it lol. Ah, sweet child-hood trauma.
Isn't that the part on how the Humans figure out how to defeat the Lizard people? Then they use the compound on the father to see if it works. It was the women that was raped by the lizard people. That killed him if I'm correct.
The first time they ate a guinea pig freaked me out as a kid.
Same. Now that I saw it again, just as Jesse said, I laughed my ass off.
Wouldn't be surprised if this is going to be how 2021 turns out.
When your screaming daughter is pinned down to be genetically altered against the parents will using a vaccine out of china to fight a genetically altered virus that came out of a lab in china?
It's all just a ploy to attack Christians, but what they don't know is that we know what they are up to...and America is not Europe. All the Secularists have to do is push too hard and you are going to see Christians of all stripes join forces.
@@TheBelrick Yeah. Pretty much like that. :-\
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd lol
@@JohnDoe-yi4xd Oh please. You people only scream your being persecuted when you aren't allowed to persecute and oppress others.
"Christians of all stripes join forces." Ha, don't make me laugh. You people are too busy fighting over which of a billion denominations has "the truth" and which ones are the occult or devil worshippers.
I LOVED watching this show with my Dad in the 80s. Someone below mentioned that it was like a movement when it aired. People talked about V as if it was really happening.
Miss those feelings.
I was 12 years old when this came out. This show was HUGE at the time. I can still remember some scenes like it was yesterday. Anybody remember the limited tv series Ewoks The Battle for Endor?
I was 11, but when I was 9 years old, I saw a UFO that looked exactly like the V mother ships.
I can still remember you like it was yesterday......
I was 3 and my little sister was One. I remember like yesterday as well then came Rowdy piper in they Live ..what makes you think it's just a TV show?
@@Ric9hardify you stupid!🤣
@@lueysixty-six7300 because I said the show came out when I was 11, but at 9 I saw a UFO that looked exactly like ships featured in V? I'm not even a UFO nut, but that is what me, my brother and our neighbors saw. Cleveland, Ohio on the corner of E. 148 St. & Valor ave. The part that is funny is that that entire neighborhood is long gone.
The female brunette villain was the standout of the show. She was perfectly casted and stole every scene she was in.
That would be "Diana"
jane badler
Jane Badler was the bomb!
One of my first ever crushes
She had nothing on Connie Sellecca
The original series was fantastic. The theme music with the red V zooming out got it started right. My mom made me a visitor uniform with art supplies for Halloween one year, my all time favorite costume.
The series scared the living daylights out of me as a kid. The creators of the series didn't hold back on the body horror at all.
Haha... Just posted a comment saying the same. The whole series and specially the lizards scared the hell out of me... Everytime I watched the intro I'd leave the room 🤣
Oh yeah... And the rat eating as well
I was in the 3rd grade, and everyone was going berserk in the schoolyard the next morning, talking about the lizard face reveals and the "lizard tongue"!! My math homework was not going to get done the following night for Part 2, consequences be damned! ha ha ha I think this was the first mini-series I ever watched and it left a huge impact.
They were sending you blatant messages in the show that’s why.
You'd be even more scared to find out that they actually exsist for real
I remember the human "hitler youth" guy that met his end at the hands of Steven. Steven tells him something like "you will be the last place you can be useful...on a serving platter..." and a couple aliens drag him off with the guy begging Steven. Really chilling.
That was Daniel, he was the grandson of the Holocaust survivor.
Daniel was such a weaselly scumbag (this is who Leonard Cimino throws his glass of water into the face of in the video); the kind of worthless tool who would turn in his family for a uniform and a power trip and who has zero respect from the people he works for. Seeing him carried off to the abattoir, knowing that he was going to be served up as porkchops, was very satisfying.
@@parcivale Daniel got what he deserved.
Daniel got what he deserved thanks to Ham Tyler and the resistance.
Steven is
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I got to meet Marc Singer, Jane Badler and Robert Englund at a convention in ATL a few years ago. They were all awesome, friendly and engaging!
Did you see Jane eat any small animals?
I have the entire series on DVD. Love this show. It's just nuts. lol.
Me too and the movies!
Me too! I even bought the 19 episode season, even though I wasn't crazy about it.
I still have them on VHS...I don't own a VHS player anymore though...D'oh!
I am thinking of getting it on DVD and researching it again.
@@mr.2cents.846 Totally worth it in my opinion. I'm biased though. I was a 16 year old who immediately fell in love with Jane Badler when the mini-series aired. 😁
I think it is important to remember that any totalitarian government is always going to promise more than it is going to deliver, regardless of whether we "call" it fascist or not. Orwell pointed out how recklessly the term was thrown around in his time. For me the key word is totalitarian where whatever government had complete control over it's people. Jefferson said it best: "The government that governs best, governs least." Keep that in mind and you'll figure it out.
If Orwell was around today he would be all,, com'on people I warned you about this.
Was that after or before he was raping his slave?
@@brucesnow7125 I don't know, I'd have to ask Sally Hemmings if she thought it was rape.
Hints of the WEF.
I like some of the scenes with Chamino. He is disgusted with his grandson serving with the visitors and that he wants the girl, so he throws the drink into his face. Also the one where he shows the kids how to use the spray paint on the posters to be in the V shape. "Remember V for victory. Tell your friends."
You forgot to mention Martin, Barbara, and the fifth cullomn. The Visitors that are helping the Resitance. That also brought a cool dynamic to the show.
Does any of this sound familiar fascism has come to America, guised as freedom.
Yeah the show was revealing. You don't takeover humans by conquering them. You just take over their government. They will all fall in line once you run the show. Now put your mask on or else❗️
@Vulvasaurus Lix Yes the appointment of George W. Bush by the Supreme Court is something that trump just tried and was denied. I guess we should be fortunate that it’s more than one state this time because he damn sure would’ve tried to pull and run around on us this time❗️
I noticed it after Obama was elected and the lefts attack on science
Oh you mean how facts and science were false or fake crap and substitute the shutting up of scientists with an attack on media scrutiny? How one of Trump slicktards like Gaetz or Erich looks like the Ken doll dude in the V poster wanting to be your "universal" friend? Ted Cruz looks like an evil Willie. Ham Tyler would be impressed how there are less rodents in the White House now. Btw Singer and Ironside are both Canadian born actors go figure.
More like Guised in social justice of your gonna do that kind of political insult
I was 7 or maybe 8 when this was aired in the UK and couldn't believe it when my Mum let me stay up and watch it. Always remember the hamster scene and lizard reveal! So good
Thank you! All these people calling it a rat - when `its clearly a long haired hamster.
Ah yeah, I don't remember when it aired in Germany, but I remember this series being captivating as a child!
Nope, hated it then when i was a small child and now. The lizard reveal is what scared me as a small child.
Same here in Canada. I was 9 at the time.
I was the same age and remember that my mother and I watched the mini-series and show together. We also watched Other World, which aired in 1985.
V was a documentary..that’s why it was cancelled!
The rat eating scene stayed in my head for almost 40years...
I never eat a rat whole. You never know how much of a number two it has inside it.
Thats all we talked about at school lol
Same here...whenever I see a trailer of V or someone speaking about the V series, I keep thinking about her grabbing by the tail and putting it in her mouth. That scene is so cemented in my mind.
Me too. That and the baby human with the forked tongue. Don't remember much else
I was born 1983 I’ve been screwed from the start. This plot sounds exactly what is going on today in 2021.
This movie is how a lot of us knew to watch out for this situation.
Your absolutely right about that
Yup.
Its truth in plain sight the reptilians are real and they live deep underground beneath us
Never trust the Visitors (Government) who promise you "vaccines" for a virus they created. NEVER!
I remember this when I was a kid... one of the scenes that stuck with me the most, involved a human betraying his own kind in order to free his wife, whom the V's had "arrested". After doing what they wanted, he was shocked when he was arrested himself.
"Wait, wait... you said you would let my wife go, that we would be together by dinner time"
"You misunderstood me, what I said was, the two of you would be together.... for dinner" 😋
Thanks for reminding me!😱😂✌️
Yeah funny how all this fiction doesn't seem like fiction anymore.
Kinda like a blueprint for climate change and now covid.
@@knighth2452 popo
Something tells me it's likely just people fantasizing about being persecuted so they can pretend to be freedom fighters on social media.
_Lay off the David Icke..._
knighth2452 Fredrick pohl beyond the blue horizon mirrors our COVID outbreak eerily
@@ominous-omnipresent-they So this time they're going to disguise themselves as Mexicans and it's up to the plucky, rebellious billionaires to save the day!
Jane “Diana” Badler was possibly my first crush ever!!!! Smoking hot!!!
Same here, but the original alien skin tear was a real shock for a teenager like me..
Same here. Mint, especially when she swallowed the gerbil. Haha. .
The Truth is: *_'THEY_** LIVE.....WE **_SLEEP.'_*
V series, scared the shit out of me
I'm here to write the same thing.
Ever watch the series, and not the miniseries? It was so lazy, with the constant reuse of footage. Some of it didn't even match.
As a kid, the lizard reveal definietly spooked me. As an adult, the fascist themes and seeing our country today definitely makes you worrisome.
@@Ogrelord5150 You're absolutely right.
@Nathan White I was thinking about that earlier. If we all decided to band together and defy the shutdown, the Government would have zero chance. But because so many of us are just willing to take what they and the media say as gospel, there are so few left to stand up to the swamp.
16:55 Lydia was played by June Chadwick. Lane Smith was the male actor that was head of the Science Frontier and Juliet Parrish's boss, Nathan Bates. He also played the newspaper editor Perry White of the Daily Planet on the TV Series, Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman. He has passed away. Come on show some respect to the guy and to the gorgeous June Chadwick...Practice your material better.
Prime Minister Trudeau's Canada.
I didn't exist in the 80s or 90s. I'm still quite young. I legit just watched V because I wanted to watch something with Robert Englund in it that wasn't hardcore horror. And I got hooked right in. It's one of my favourite shows now! I even have Funko Pops and one of the comics. I am constantly trying to convince people my age to watch it too because it's so much fun, so dark, and...so relevant.
V was an amazing series. Both Kenneth Johnson and Brandon Tartikoff were right to think kids of that generation couldn't believe "why we fight" because at that time it just wasn't something that seemed like it could happen. The idea of having them be aliens really worked. I just wish it was on streaming services so the current generation could learn these lessons.
It's bizarre the way this generation talks about the 80s and 90s as if they were the 1880s and 90s. Yes they talked about abortion. Yes there were gay and lesbian characters. Watch some of the prime time soaps like Dallas and Dynasty.
Suddenly being offered a mRNA vaccine for all our woes for the promise of a better life makes this show even better than ever.
A vaccine with hiv in it that has caused deadly side effects, facial paralysis and all kinds of terrble side effects for a virus with a 99% survival rate. Only a fool would take a vaccination with Hiv in it, causes paralysis and require you to take it in a ER because it's so unsafe it could kill you in hours
And just think... It became available just after the election.
I remember the movie and the show. The 80s were phenomenal
Yeah they were awesome.. now I’m 47 and most people sicken me lol
The best of times luv!
Seems we can learn a lot now from what happened in the show.
Lydia played by Lane Smith?16:53 Try June Chadwick
Sounds a little weird, like you're speaking into a pvc pipe.
He's hiding in a pipe so the visitors won't find him....
_"...recording live from inside the laundry basket..."_
@@EggBastionporta potty
This video is copyrighted JoBlo Media 20202. That's how all audio will sound then.
@@michaelhenderson9754 20202?
I recently rewatched the 2 mini-series with the kids and was very much struck by the huge difference in quality between the two. I thought the first, with its serious "It Can't Happen here" message was quite effective, while the second felt like a much cheesier cash-in on the success of the first, replacing drama with action (largely dependent upon the aliens, good and bad, being incompetent) and an odd psychic cross-breed kid storyline. I shouldn't be surprised that a large corporation managed to ruin a decent franchise through interference and kicking the talent behind the first out the door. Funny that you comparre Michael Ironside to fellow Canadian Wolverine.
Where can i watch it?
@@hipperdanhop2877 Torrents
It has always reminded me of “They Live”. If you haven’t seen that movie I would suggest checking it out.
FIRST WAVE on SYFY. 'nuff said.
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.......and I'm all outta bubblegum". I love, love, LOVE, Rowdy Roddy Piper!
So now you see that "They Live" was probably influenced by "V."
I saw V as it aired as a kid, didn't catch They Live until college. But both are great in their own ways, the same way both 1984 and Fahrenheit 451 look at similar subjects, from different angles.
@@mikehunt4986 John Carpenter said They Live was kinda inspired by crazy Reagan era nutjobs and how the world was going with them
This was my s* BACK IN THE DAY I MISS THE 1980s
Best time to be a kid.
The cartoons too.
Your reasoning in the beginning reminded me forcefully of the c*vid "pandemic" and the subsequent social pressure to take the mRNA gene therapy shot(s). Everyone needed a green QR code to do practically anything in social life (sports, clubbing, voyages, ...) Feels like a solid base for a fascist society to me
True.
Robert Englund I remember him in V. V kind of reminds you of a extended version of The Twilight Zone episode ,To Serve Man.
That's exactly where it came from.
@@CBF5star Not really, bruh. V came from an earlier novel called "Childhood's End" in which Reptilian aliens arrive on Earth in giant flying saucers that loom over cities. The Reptilians conceal their identities from the humans but promise to deliver a utopian paradise to everyone. Now that I describe it I take it back...it sounds nothing like V.
@@johnellizz
Childhoods End...interesting show. Visiting aliens did resolve all the ills of earth but the cost was very high.
No babies after a certain date which was hidden until too late.
Finding out what the alien looked like was an epic delay that worked out well.
@@MrAudienceMember2662015 The only difference from V was that they aliens didn't eat humans they just exterminated us haha.
I remember his name was "Just" and he was one of the good lizards 🦎
Found the DVDs to the original mini-series at a garage sale. I got so exited and ripped them to my plex server immediately. Love this series. Bonus fact observation. I think that ID4 took direct inspiration from the opening ship reveal sequence from V. Watch them back to back and it is striking.
Independence Day totally ripped off V with the mother ships.
Remake was Crap ...no over the top 80s Red outfits shades 😎 just Not the same without them.
The sound of the guns was the best part for me. Good sci-fi has iconic sounds. The THWWWWOOOOOM of the lasers was unlike percussive laser zaps of the past.
I find that V feels like "they live".
I agree in some ways in does
It’s the 80’s. They Live was the movie version of the similar plot that was shortened while V was the extended version.
They Live, ya gotta love some Rowdy Roddy Piper. "I have come here to chew bubble gum & kick ass.....and I'm all out of bubble gum!" Loved it and V
They Live WE sleep
@@selenepickins4874 - Roddy Piper appeared in an episode in the 2nd series, check IMDB for details.
One of the few series that had a perfect ending imo. The lizards got their due and the world celebrated.
Here’s hoping the battle against the real lizard people turns out as well.
Michael Ironside basically played the same character in "Total Recall" and it was still awesome.
He always plays the same character, and is always awesome!
Spot on. Brilliant actor. Watch Scanners.
I always said if I won bonkers money like Florida state lottery or something, that I would make my own movie and it would fucking star Michael Ironside. Easily my favorite 80s actor
In the 1980s, I always got Micheal Ironside, John Saxon and Kurtwood Larson Smith confused. Was it just me? But Micheal Ironside plays Micheal Ironside in every movie, and he's awesome.
His character Ham Tyler was perfect for him.
When I first saw this show, I was going through puberty, and I wasn’t old enough to figure out why it occupied my thoughts so much. It both haunted and inspired me, and was the game I wanted to play with my friends, all the time. It was the writing. So glad you did this one. The stir of echoes was all I needed to bring it all back for me. Such great writing and such great (for its day) action and special effects. How could a pre-teen NOT love this? And, oh Diana . . . Her wedding with Charles, at the time of the Royal Wedding, kept them in the headlines. But, I lost a lohhhht of sleep over Diana 😉✌️👍. Thank you
V died a miserable death when they had the wedding of Charles and Diana. They turned a teenage boy sci-fi show into Knots Landing / Dallas and then wondered what happened to the ratings.
Always ask yourself, does my side stand for freedom of speech, and liberty and a small government. If your answer is yes, you are on the right side of history.
I always get vary when somebody argues with „the right side of history“. To me it sounds like a threat, like „if you’re on the wrong side, we will shove your ass in a concentration camp and dispose your body in some unnamed mass grave“. I prefer people that don’t threaten me and don’t force me to choose a side, no matter which side that is.
@@davidgantenbein9362 That is the answer you give when you know your side is wrong but don't want to admit it.
@@jakebradminster709 Interestingly I didn’t pick any side nor did I answer anything, so I‘m really interested in seeing how you got to that conclusion. All I did is comment the usage of the term „right side of history“. And no, I don’t really care who is using it, it’s always a threat to me as left and right people have left thousands of mass graves on this world, driven by the believe that they alone are allowed to live as they alone are on the right side of history. People that deal in extremes are always dangerous, no matter their cause and intentions.
um, NO, moron. The right side of history is the one WITHOUT THE FUCKING NAZIS. There's NEVER a reason to let a conservative legislate, or breed.
Abrahams wife was taken to the “showers with no water” that line got me, but he scene where his daughter in law was reading the letter he left behind when the visitors took him had me bawling! That was good acting!
That thumbnail looks like trump😂
Free medicine, no poverty, but you must obey... m-m-m, sounds familiar
Will it be illegal to put a photo on the new of Trump with the letter V overlaying?
@@patrickwilliams6464 Trump + V - nobody cares;
Harris + V - misogyny, racism.
P.S. a lot of journalists probably wouldn't get the reference, so IDK
Medicine that costs a fortune, lots of poverty, and still having to obey doesn’t seem better to me.
@@sixfootse7en248 yep, Venezuelans though exactly like that ))))
Medicine costs a fortune because US has extremely regulated healthcare market. Sorry, mate, but when government steps in there're only three options:
- prices rise
- deficit formed
- quality go down
That's market. Company need to somehow pay for complying with those new regulations, getting aware of oncoming rules, bribing decision making officials, employing layers to deal with ton of regulations.
Also companies are less likely to innovate or invest in new methods if they're not sure that some pen-pusher from the government wouldn't make it illegal.
Just compare public and charter schools.
Or NY subway before and after it was nationalized.
Or dig info about 2008 bubble and think about why prices were skyrocketing. Maybe it has something to do with bankers being sure that they'll be saved by government?
Try watching some John Stossel on that.
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And maybe about how private healthcare work
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Scientists and journalists are enemies of the state.... m-m-m, sounds familiar
its part of the future we could have along with it being 1984 brave new world and terminator sky net in one big horror movie
I saw this as an 8 year old. I recall being so devastated when the alien twin child had an allergic reaction to her sister & died. My sister has always been my best friend and the thought of being the cause of her death was devastating.
Edit to add: I was also uneasy that the adults in the show did not seem to feel significant sorrow at the child's death.
I loved this show in the 80's when it was first shown on UK TV, it introduced me to Michael Ironside and his cool anti-hero character Ham Tyler.
Agree, I always thought of Ham Tyler and his associate Chris Farber were cool and also reminded me of Han Solo and Chewbacca.
@@commonsenseking6386 Yes, always a cool double act, Chris was the technical support with the Teflon coated ammo for his Mac -10 and the plastic explosives and seemed a top dude.
@@scootertart He also did great appearances on " Home Improvement".
Ham was like Avon played by Paul Darrow in Blakes 7
This hit show was on before satellite TV so everyone watched it prime time
Stargate SG1 did a very similar two part episode which was pretty great.
I was 12 when this came out. It was absolutely massive and dominated everything. The entire household would gather to watch it.
Loved this show as a kid lol man I wish the 80's never passed ,such a fun time!
My favorite show back in the day.
Loved the scene where the old man from the holocaust shows the kids how to do some righteous rebellious graffiti with a huge "V."
Best scene of the movie. Showed numerous of friends that scene whom not seen the show itself.
The V doesn't really stand for Visitors or Victory or Vendetta. It actually stands for Vril. They are the real Reptilians that control us.
@@johnellizz I did not know that!
Does anybody realize that the saucers used in "V" were used in the movie "AlienNation".
@@popcorn9791 They are called the Vril.
If you examine these movie posters you'll see how they all use the red V for Vril:
The Visitors
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1984
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Phantasm Ravager
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Killers Within
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V For Vendetta
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MAN, this is still one of my Favorite Shows Of All TIME!!😃😀😎😎
Well done, this was hysterical took me back to being 11.
Michael Ironside played the same exact character in every movie he was in.
Seeing Freddie without makeup blew our minds 😂
When you're iconic, might as well run with it!
I remember watching V when I was a kid and excitedly talking about episodes with my friends at school.
V was the best, I remember being 9 and losing my mind if I thought there was a chance I could miss an episode
I watched V in the early '90s. I remember having the flu but my Mum was such a fangirl of the show, she got me up at midnight to watch the rebroadcast in our area. LOL good memories
Though this has rekindled my love for the series as a whole (not the reboot), you got it wrong when you said Lydia was played by Lane Smith, when in fact it was June Chadwick as i had a mega crush on her and seeing her again still gives me a diamond cutter. Lane played Nathan Bates
June Chadwick was Janine Pettibone, David St. Hubbins’ girlfriend, in “This Is Spinal Tap”...
I loved this show so much as a kid. As an adult, I rewatched the tv series that ended in a cliff hanger, and certainly noticed they were running out of money. Not only did they reuse scenes of ships flying, but they used the exact same scene of Willie running from a scene of a dramatic occurrence twice. Also in the later episodes, there were more than a few that didn't have many of the main actors as if they were trying to save money on actor salary. Still we were devastated to never learn what happened after Elizabeth, the star child stowed away on the ship heading back to the V home world.
"They're after the _water!"_ I remember this show well, it was great.
At least they didn't make them vulnerable to water like that movie Signs. That made zero sense.
ya gotta put the exclamation and quotation marks inside the underscores
TH-cam's comment formatting is _quite_ stupid
*like zo* > "They're after the _water!"_
or leave a space
thus > "They're after the _water_ !"
@@EggBastion Thanks buddy!
I loved this show, I had all the paper book back books too when they came out. I was saddened to see this fine show to end so abruptly but here is to hoping that V could make a comeback.
I had all the books too. In those days that was the only real home media we had (unless it repeated and could be taped). I shared this series with my kids when they were young and couldn’t believe what a great storyline it was/is. Someday I hope they could do it even more justice.
Thirty years ago they laughed at david icke. And this series was just science fiction. Now they don't laugh anymore, and this is actually a documentary. Who knew.
I’m pretty sure they’re still laughing at him. 🤷♂️
We're still laughing at David Icke.
This series needs a PROPER reboot. The original was amazing, great music, great cast, good story, loved the ships, the weapon sounds - everything. It was an ambitious TV show that worked.
It had one.
@@Kthomasritchie No, it had a reboot. I said a proper reboot, i.e. one that treats the material seriously and no the fucking farce that the reboot was.
@@gdwnet Yeah, I never watched it.
if the original was amazing then it doesn't need a reboot, does it
@@Gliese380 It certainly would, if it included a budget that would result in a script that respected for the source material and allowed for more than a 1980's 'made for TV' level of special effects.
Battlestar Galactica comes to mind as an example of a cheesy TV series whose budget would not allow it to reach its full potential, until its reboot series was updated across the board and re-launched.
I watched V when I was a kid....in 2022 I look at this movie with a whole new set on lenses ....truth is stranger than fiction 🤔.
There was a mystical aura around that show even in the 80s. Can't explain. Like they were trying to say something people wasnt ready to get.
JoBlo should do TV series "Jericho", from mid 2000s, aired on CBS, if I remember correctly 😎👍
Jericho was incredible. Every episode kept you in the edge of your seat from start to finish.
Doesn't Donald Trump want this for our country? He's a believer in Fascism.
I remember thinking how wierd it was when the Visitors were having sex with each other, they stayed in their human disguises.
same here...I also thought why arent they in their native form On the ship? why would they live onboard, in disguise?
40 years later and I can still remember that line. "Don't you see? They have to stay, or we won't have learned a thing!!" Very powerful words!!!
I actually really liked both miniseries, including the "Red Dust" ending and celebrations, and the delivery system via hot air balloons. Remember those?
But I never could get into the TV series at all so I missed most of that. And what I saw of the 2009 reboot, I did not like at all.
The characters of the Miniseries are what drew me to that program. All the later stuff had completely different characters.
I liked the 2009 series. To me, it wasn't a remake. Visitors just kind of showing their face to the world at large.
The series was a real disappointment compared to the two miniseries. I mean, it had its moments, but the quality took a huge nose dive especially in later episodes.
hollywood would love to remake this...omg they could fill it with so much political bias to lecture us all with. and destroy another beloved franchise from the past which they love to do.
Because they would champion the lizards over the people just like the 2020 news media has.
They did. Next generation
@@MUsicplusSExisMUSE we um,...we just dont talk about that one.
They did make a reboot some years ago.
If V comes back it has to look like the original series with Dennis McCarthy's theme.
I doubt Faye Grant would want to reprise her role since that horrendous disclosure about her husband some years ago. But i agree with the soundtrack.
V had it all: overt political theme, diverse cast, female leads and - above all - a great story. Blatant, In your face, but somehow still subtle and allegorical.
Something that a lot of writers nowadays could learn from.
"White" female leads.
@@negloblaxon7616 You gotta start somewhere!
@@negloblaxon7616 Sigh
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White Supremacist
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A timeless classic that definitely resonates today. (Sadly)
Nice video, loved this show as a kid. Slight correction here - Lydia was played by June Chadwick, Lane Smith played Nathan Bates. Love this series of videos, please keep them coming!
This series made me laugh. Made me cry. Made me think. Made me cheer. Was a big influence towards my decision to enlist in the USMC. They don’t make shows like this anymore.
Was it perfect? No. But better than most stuff that’s on TV even now.
AMEN
Benjamin Hsu : Congratulations on your decision to enlist in USMC, and I agree with your comment that 'V' is better than most stuff on TV now.
Agreed, Benjamin, and thanks for your service!
Agreed thanks for your service
Huh? Inspired by the reptilian aliens to go around pretending to help people around the world, while actually killing people to help US corporations to plunder their economies?
I have this entire series on dvd and I love it so much!!!
Where'd you get it luv? Would love to add it to my collection, thanks
I remember this series fondly. Especially the original mini series. It had A LOT of heart that you really don't see in film today. Family values and everything. You grew with the characters.
I miss this type of tv. I'm glad I was there to experience it when it first aired.
What also was fairly unique about the series is that it was serialized. It didn't hit the reset button at the end of every single episode. They were doing actual longform storytelling which is commonplace today but unheard of then.
good point.
most of the 1980's shows were episodic and were one off stories without any linking threads from previous episodes.
this form didn't come again until the late 1990's with the airing of the Babylon 5 series.
To me, the most gripping scene in the original miniseries is the dying of Ben Taylor. Michael Wright (Elias) and Faye Grant (Julie) really deliever in this scene. Elias' constant talking and Julie's pleas fall to deaf ears. This two actors were awesome.
I wholy agree with your assesment of 'the Starchild'.
I have often used V as the prime example of a show that started out about as well as any and eventually deterioated into the mess it became.
Oh and the reboot SUCKED.
Elias Coteas (however it's spelled)?? I lovvvvve him!
Channel owner: Stop saying the F word, GD, & Jesus’ name as a curse word! I was enjoying your video until you did that! I find it highly offensive & very unnecessary!
The utter irony of V is that years later.. we found out a few of the accusations about scientists were true. They have been holding back breakthrough treatments to get more money from research grants, for example. But still, the original two miniseries are a terrifying and realistic reality of how easily the masses can be manipulated by social "correctness and justice". I also met both Jane Badler (Diana) and Marc Singer (Donovan) at DragonCon two years ago.. and they both still remember working on the miniseries very fondly.
Can you do the War of the Worlds TV show, that was all sorts of awesome.
I liked that show too, it also got weird though later on. The premise was great though.
@@mrcat3493 Yeah when they replaced most of the cast for season 3 randomly.
@@taylordudley3673 Season 2. They didn't replace everyone, just half.
I was 11 whenever this show aired and I remember everyone talking about it. The conversation started on my school bus then went all day. My friends were spray painting a big red V on everything. The birth of the goulie lizard baby really stood out in my mind, I remember it looking so much more real and freaky, but I was ELEVEN YEARS OLD. Crazy how your mind remembers things from when we were kids. I did thinm