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Four episodes into the new V reboot, and have given it enough of a chance. Unfortunately I'm finding that it is just a bit too generic for my tastes. As I was discussing with a friend, bland is probably the best way to describe it. There is way too much in common with Flash Forward, main characters who are your average everyday FBI agents, blond heroine who used to be on Lost, not to mention the dull, washed out color scheme. It is at a point where I found myself confusing the two shows while watching tonight's episode.

The aliens just aren't alien enough, I know the rubber masks from the first series were kind of cheesy, but they were used enough so we got the sense that they were truly aliens. So far we have seen part of one lizard face, and some lizard skin. When they get hurt, they end up in the exact same goo tub as the Cylons on Battlestar Galactica. Not to mention that the idea of "they are already among us," is also too BSG.

Anna is frightening, and I love Morena Baccharan's expressions. Unfortunately by this point in the series, she has yet to prove herself as a truly exceptional villain, Diana would kick her ass. No consumption of rodents, no showing her real skin, no showing that she is a ruthless villain in general even in terms of her own people who aren't part of the fifth column.

There hasn't been the same kind of excitement, yes we have had a few gun fights, but we haven't had any chases with spaceships, we haven't had any gunfights on horseback. Nothing to keep me glued to the TV, regardless of special effects, nor anything memorable.
In addition, as a friend pointed out, the characters just aren't as interesting. In the first series, while there were the typical main characters, they were supplemented by characters we ordinarily don't see on TV, there is no equivalent of Ruby, the elderly actress who goes undercover for the resistance, Abraham the holocaust survivor, or Elias, the outlaw turned good guy. Is this because there isn't the same type of creativity in Hollywood that there was 25 years ago, or because the networks are now afraid of old people?


I know I shouldn't be comparing this to the original mini series, but honestly if they didn't want people comparing the two, they could have changed the premise an eansy bit, and had a completely new series without people making comparisons. Right now this new series is just truly making me appreciate the old mini series, and see that in the early 80s, there was just more creativity than there is today.