Comments on: Reviews: V

By: Pimpernel Red

Pimpernel Red — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:33:24 +0000

From the discussions I’ve been hearing hearing on streaming radio from the US, (from average viewers, not people paid to write positive reviews), this “reboot” is little more than a thinly disguised allegory about current american politicos. In other words it’s a huge load of Republician party properganda, and if you know who owns the ABC network in the US, you’ll understand. So if you were expecting a fasinating piece of science fiction, forget it. It’s rubbish.

The original mini-series was always about the right-wing takeover over the planet by “rat eating lizards”. It was a cautionary tale about how easy it is to seduce a population and was designed to parallel the rise of the Nazi’s in 1930s germany. Give the average Joe who doesn’t think to much someone to hate, (in the original it was scientists), and it’s easy. It seems the american network has decide to flip the concept on it’s head, and now the “rat eating lizards” have a left-wing “liberal” agenda.

I think the show will rate well the first episode or two, because it’ll get a big advertising campain, lots of hype, and people will tune in for the big cgi effects, but fall away after that once local viewers realise how bad it actually is.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 07:38:24 +0000

Lunch time WIN have the coming soon promo on again, is this the same soon as Smallville, Primeval or Survivors?

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:49:50 +0000

@jay jay – the ratings period (or times the US takes a break) pretty much matches us over the xMas period, they break around late Nov and came back around 8 weeks later, give or take a week but this year things are messed up because of the Winter Games in the 2nd two weeks of Feb.

It will be 5 months before V airs on Nine, mark my words. Some won’t wait 5 days before finding other ways to watch some TV shows.

By: Andrew Dodds

Andrew Dodds — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:13:52 +0000

Why don’t Chanel 9 place this on GO. While I do recieve my TV shows from America in other ways, if they are on FTA here in Australia less with less than 1 week I do wait.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:37:38 +0000

Well im gunna watch it on 9, and then wait till next year.
i dont get my shows/movies by other means.

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:06:27 +0000

Is Morena a hooker Lizard in this one?

By: jay jay

jay jay — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:51:19 +0000

I think 9 is doing the right thing. Not everyone downloads – which mind you is illegal. Unless Australian networks completely change their ratings year to match the US, what else can they do? You couch potatoes forget it is a business and money needs to be made. You will be the death of free television!

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:47:33 +0000

When I lived in Boston it was very hard to watch Babylon5 and other shows.

They would have ratings period for one or 2 months, then 1 or 2 months off, then back on…. so you would watch the first 4 episodes, then they jumped back 8 episodes and showed those 8 leading straight into another 8, then jumped back 4 and repeated those running straight through into another 4…..

Rather hard to follow.
Add that to what our channels do, and the result is a nightmare. Fortunately, to some degree, the delay on Aussie TV meant that the US weirdness didn’t affect us, we just got our own version.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:12:19 +0000

Yeah I remember more recently with Enterprise it started in the 8:30 or 9:30 time but each season kept getting moved back until the final season was on at like 1am and over a year after it first aired in the US.

I hope this works but I can see a move to GO! with-in a month of launching in March, yes I still predict this not to start until March and after the winter games.

By: FJ

FJ — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:05:29 +0000

I can’t understand why the USA just doesn’t wait till next year. People will forget what is going on after only just 4 eps and such a long break. If it is as good as they say I’m glad 9 are waiting. I loved this show back in the 8’0s.

By: snickers

snickers — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:01:20 +0000

Any serious fans would not be waiting for this show on Nine.

Back in the mid-1990s, Nine couldn’t even keep STTNG on at a regular time or screen episodes without breaking a season.

By: Craig

Craig — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 00:44:25 +0000

@bugger – yes they always have the winter off but usually they have aired 10 or so eps before the winter break over xMas, plus this year they have to consider the Winter Games in the 2nd 2 weeks of Feb, even if V is not on the same network. Just like here they won’t be running there new shows up against NBC and nightly Olymipcs highlights.

By: Steele

Steele — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:39:54 +0000

This show is doomed in Australia… the core audience will be watching it this week.

By: bugger

bugger — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:36:34 +0000

I can understand 9′s decision in holding out to build an audience. But then again knowing 9 they wouldn’t have got past 4 episodes before bumping it around the timeslot.

Does this type of break happen a lot on US tv? It sounds counterproductive. What’s the reasoning behind it?

By: Kenny

Kenny — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:43:53 +0000

Wonder why WIN was still running promos last night “Coming Soon”?

By: Craig

Craig — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:55:30 +0000

Can’t wait to see this show, it’s a tough call for Nine and I think they made the wrong one, Wednesday night will be fun