But like our present administration, it's just intertainment.



By Glenn Garvin

McClatchy/Tribune News

November 3, 2009
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Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

So, does that sound like anyone you know? Oh, wait -- did I mention the leader is secretly a totalitarian space lizard who's come here to eat us?

Welcome to ABC's "V," the most fascinating and bound to be the most controversial new show of the fall television season. Nominally a rousing sci-fi space opera about alien invaders bent on the conquest (and digestion) of all humanity, it's also a barbed commentary on Obamamania that will infuriate the president's supporters and delight his detractors.

"We're all so quick to jump on the bandwagon," observes one character. "A ride on the bandwagon, it sounds like fun. But before we get on, let us at least make sure it is sturdy."

The bandwagon in this case is conspicuously saucer-shaped. "V" starts with the arrival of a couple of dozen ships from outer space, piloted by creatures who look like humans except a lot prettier. "Don't be frightened," says their luminously beautiful leader Anna (Morena Baccarin, "Serenity"). "We mean no harm."

The aliens -- who become known as V's, for visitors -- quickly enthrall their wide-eyed human hosts.

A handful of dissidents hold out against the rapturous reception given the V's. Some are simply uneasy, such as the youthful priest Father Jack (Joel Gretsch, "The 4400"), who sharply criticizes the Vatican's embrace of the V's as divine creations: "Rattlesnakes are God's creatures too."

With or without the political sheen, "V" is sweeping television storytelling at its best. Whether you choose to view it as a blood-and-guts war story, a spy thriller (unlike the original show, these V's are perfect replicas of humans, so you never really know who might be sitting beside you at the bar), a high-stakes family drama (as households divide over the intentions of the V's), a religious allegory (the V's make a crippled man walk, filling up churches again) or just a sci-fi throwback to the days of "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" and "The Thing," "V" is irresistible. This bandwagon is definitely worth jumping on.


'V'
7 p.m. Tuesday, WLS-Ch. 7

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11 12 Most Paranoid Obama Conspiracy Theories

Was gona start a new topic, but yours earned this one.

• Obama Is Not An American Citizen
  
• Obama Wants "Re-Education Camps For Young People
  
• Larry Sinclair's Rabbit Hole Of Insanity
  
• The Case Of The Fake Thesis
  
• Bill Ayers Wrote 'Dreams From My Father"
  
• Obama As Antichrist
  
• Obama As Muslim
  
• Tells America In His Acceptance Speech To "Serve Satan"
  
• Hugo Chavez Funded The Obama Campaign
  
• Michelle Banished Barack's Girlfriend To The Caribbean
  
• Obama Is Malcolm X's Son
  
• Obama Is V
  
  

"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/11-most-paranoid-obama-co_n_343771.html?slidenumber=hBTPa7NcgAw%3D"

quote:

Originally posted by crackerjacks61:
11 12 Most Paranoid Obama Conspiracy Theories

Was gona start a new topic, but yours earned this one.

• Obama Is Not An American Citizen
  
• Obama Wants "Re-Education Camps For Young People
  
• Larry Sinclair's Rabbit Hole Of Insanity
  
• The Case Of The Fake Thesis
  
• Bill Ayers Wrote 'Dreams From My Father"
  
• Obama As Antichrist
  
• Obama As Muslim
  
• Tells America In His Acceptance Speech To "Serve Satan"
  
• Hugo Chavez Funded The Obama Campaign
  
• Michelle Banished Barack's Girlfriend To The Caribbean
  
• Obama Is Malcolm X's Son
  
• Obama Is V
  
  

"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/11-most-paranoid-obama-co_n_343771.html?slidenumber=hBTPa7NcgAw%3D"

Hey!! don't shoot the messenger. I didn't comment one way or the other.

WTF? wasnt this a TV show with Marc Singer back in 1984-85?

even had Freddy Krueger playing a Lizard?

If anything the Current admin is more akin to "They Live"

The thing is, someone must have seen a "similarity" of some kind...
I mean, someone must have thought so, hunh?...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

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Originally posted by SUNLINER81:
The thing is, someone must have seen a "similarity" of some kind...
I mean, someone must have thought so, hunh?...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

The Visitors did promise universal health care and a One World. The earth people were in awe with them, they began to believe everything their leader said, they began to worship them; etc etc.

quote:

Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:

quote:

Originally posted by SUNLINER81:
The thing is, someone must have seen a "similarity" of some kind...
I mean, someone must have thought so, hunh?...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

The Visitors did promise universal health care and a One World. The earth people were in awe with them, they began to believe everything their leader said, they began to worship them; etc etc.

Especially the sycophantic press...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

Just when I thought the Birthers were at the extreme edge of lunacy........

quote:

Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:

quote:

Originally posted by SUNLINER81:
The thing is, someone must have seen a "similarity" of some kind...
I mean, someone must have thought so, hunh?...
LOL Respectfully, SUNLINER81

The Visitors did promise universal health care and a One World. The earth people were in awe with them, they began to believe everything their leader said, they began to worship them; etc etc.

If space ships start entering our atmosphere I bet alot of people on this board who have read this article with start to mess their pants lol.

Let's be careful here; Obama is the President of the United States. Please make sure not to abuse his Office. That would be a violation of the Terms of Service.

Thanks to all for letting us participate at www.military.com

quote:

Originally posted by LineDoggie:
WTF? wasnt this a TV show with Marc Singer back in 1984-85?

even had Freddy Krueger playing a Lizard?

If anything the Current admin is more akin to "They Live"

Isn't that pic from that corny movie with Rowdy Roddie Piper? So bad it was good!

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Originally posted by 67NOV:

quote:

Originally posted by LineDoggie:
WTF? wasnt this a TV show with Marc Singer back in 1984-85?

even had Freddy Krueger playing a Lizard?

If anything the Current admin is more akin to "They Live"

Isn't that pic from that corny movie with Rowdy Roddie Piper? So bad it was good!

Hey! I take exception to that. That was one of the best cheesy movies, ever!

I thought Roddy did a pretty good job...

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Originally posted by psychoABN:
I thought Roddy did a pretty good job...

I agree. And I also think we should refrain from insulting the V.

Talk about reaching up your 4th point of contact and pulling this gem out....

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Originally posted by PhoenixDark:
Just when I thought the Birthers were at the extreme edge of lunacy........

Birthers and the rest of the neocons and they call liberals wack jobs

quote:

Originally posted by SignalSgtWilliams:

quote:

Originally posted by crackerjacks61:
11 12 Most Paranoid Obama Conspiracy Theories

Was gona start a new topic, but yours earned this one.

• Obama Is Not An American Citizen
  
• Obama Wants "Re-Education Camps For Young People
  
• Larry Sinclair's Rabbit Hole Of Insanity
  
• The Case Of The Fake Thesis
  
• Bill Ayers Wrote 'Dreams From My Father"
  
• Obama As Antichrist
  
• Obama As Muslim
  
• Tells America In His Acceptance Speech To "Serve Satan"
  
• Hugo Chavez Funded The Obama Campaign
  
• Michelle Banished Barack's Girlfriend To The Caribbean
  
• Obama Is Malcolm X's Son
  
• Obama Is V
  
  

"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/11-most-paranoid-obama-co_n_343771.html?slidenumber=hBTPa7NcgAw%3D"

Hey!! don't shoot the messenger. I didn't comment one way or the other.

I'm not Sarge, just that you posted this the same time I was gonna post the other and thought it would fall in nicely here instead of a new tread. My apologies if you took it different. Your one of the decent ones on here..

quote:

Originally posted by crackerjacks61:
Your one of the decent ones on here..

That cracked me up because that is a very debateable subject to a few others.............