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have't seen it yet............but V 2??


Just reading the storyline............my first thought was V knockoff. I hope not. C'mon ACC, give us something, much much better.

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Its based on a Clarke novel from 1954. SO - the source material and its concepts significantly predate "V" by decades. "V" could be regarded as a bad "Childhood's End" knock off.

Having said that - we'll have to see if SiFi can do/ has done a worthy adaptation of what most critics regard as Arthur Clarke's best sf novel.



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Just reading the storyline............my first thought was V knockoff. I hope not. C'mon ACC, give us something, much much better.


Funny story;

I read the novel way back around 1980 or so. When the first TV promo for the original V aired, the first thing I thought was that they had made a miniseries out of Childhood's End. Of course it wasn't.


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Aside from aliens arriving in giant ships, there is no similarity.




Smoke me a kipper. I'll be back for breakfast.

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IT DOESNT MATTER WHAT YOU THINK...






its like when independence day came out i said oh its V but then the aliens were more aggressive and tore *beep* up and then they looked like little evil et's or xfiles aliens,or close encounters aliens if you will.funny how karellen looks like robert englund in devil makeup and he was also in V lol childhoods end on elm street :)






spectre can

suck it.

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and WHY do the Mouthbreathing studio execs think we need an ID4:2?

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Well, in V, the Visitors did arrive with the premise of helping mankind. So there is that similarity.

Of course, the Visitors really wanted our planets resources (I don't recall if they actually wanted to use man for food... I only remember them liking to eat mice)



Brains are good, especially when sauteed with carmelized onions.

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Don't forget; the Visitors in V ate live birds

And Guinea Pigs and Rats!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZYoAmZX4rI
EWWWW!

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And at least in the original V mini-series/series, they were taking people back with them too, apparently as food. In addition to sucking up a lot of Earth's water.

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In addition to sucking up a lot of Earth's water.

I guess there wasn't enough on Europa. Or Enceladus. Or Rhea.

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That makes it more likely they were after food too, not just water. Earth becomes one-stop shopping.

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We'd have given them all the rats they wanted. And rats breed fast and don't fight back. I guess they have no idea how to breed animals. Trade not conquest.

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