I liked the new book but was a bit put off that the author chose to disreguard The Final Battle & the series which followed and stuck strictly to the original mini-series he made. Hopefully, "V: The Second Generation" will be put to film. It's worth a read for fans.
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Have you read the 14 (or so) previous "V" novels? Some add interesting elements to the "V" universe but "V: the Second Generation" stands head over shoulders above those. The novel should please most fans.
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I've loaned the book out twice since finishing it & its' come back with favorable reviews & well wishes for a mini-series tie-in. I hope it happens but talks seem stalled over doing a remake exclusively of the original mini.
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I bought The Second Generation only last week and I will start reading it soon. The reviews I've come across seem positive enough.
shareV is coming to the silver screen. Trust me I know for certain. It is going to be a timely story reboot in the vein of the new Star Trek.
shareIn the vein of STAR TREK, eh. Just need an adaptation of SECOND GENERATION and rewrite it to follow the FINAL BATTLE. Havent read it, just heard it doesnt answer most of the questions brought up by the original mini-series.
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Also pubished is the AC Crispin novel "V: The Original Mini Series" re-edited from the much longer work which included "The Final Battle". K Johnston added a fine new ending leading into the sequel novel & both are selling well enough that I can hope for further books based on the original "V" universe as well as (hopefully) a new crop of books based on the new "V" series.
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Just read the book. It's interesting. I would have liked to have seen it produced. Instead we have this new POS on ABC. Makes V The Series look like Citizen Kane.
shareThere was a lot I liked about 'V: The Second Generation', although I agree with a previous poster that the prose was a bit, well, dry. I wish he could have co-written it with A.C. Crispin (who I think writes 'V' brilliantly) as he did with the 'Original Miniseries' novelisation.
Although KJ invented the V-universe, and few could dispute that the original series is the best written, my main problem with his 're-taking' the saga is that the two most interesting characters to come out of it, Ham Tyler and Nathan Bates, were not his creations and sadly will never be featured again.
I've talked to Kenneth Johnson several times and he is working of both or either a tv remake of the original miniseries and this as a sequel or in theatres.
I'd love to see me both hit theaters. It will be a four hour movie he has told me
Kenneth Johnson did not like the way "The Final Battle" was written (full of soap opera and gaping plot holes and conveniences for the action scenes...)
Granted, early on with the 84-5 TV season there are some solid stories, but "V" is Kenneth's creation and deserves a say at how he wants it done too. Networks love to change things to what they think might improve ratings. Though the crowd-pleasing pablum of the first episode infiltration (but could they truly copy alien pass technology when NOT being aided by the 5th column), and later with the star child saving the day, we wouldn't have had the actual tv show take the Elizabeth issue to anything approaching a higher level...
I too would like to see The Second Generation made, but ABC would rather make it - complete with even bigger contrivances, loose writing, plot holes, and ill-contrived romances. (Diana had minions do it as medical experiments, ABC's pilot, amongst a book's worth of idiotic setup scenes, have the aliens drooling over humans. Unless a later episode treats the audience as having some intellect and says the V's are supposed to lead humans on, but given how the pilot alone doles out all the reasons (and adds a few which make absolutely no coherent sense - e.g. if the V's were here all these decades, they weren't smart enough to shut off their own terrorist cell transmissions when the big unveiling of the motherships took place. Sorry, for that alone I'm not buying it, but there are dozens of other asinine mistakes. Even TFB and 1985 show weren't as sloppy.)