Zzzzzzzz…. V ABC, Tuesdays, 8 PM “Pilot” Written by Scott Peters, Story by Kenneth Johnson Directed by Yves Simoneau The fighting in Afghanistan continues; neoconservatives blame the Democrats for setbacks in international relations. The Olympics controversy simmers on the back burner, the unemployment rate is above ten percent, and gas prices are inching towards $4 a gallon. Sound familiar? It’s 1983, the first time we saw this story. It should come as no surprise that V was originally envisioned back in the day as a made-for-TV movie about Resistance fighters in WWII. The 1983 movie even carried a dedication to resistance fighters…
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V: “There Is No Normal Anymore”
Zzzzzzzz…. V “There Is No Normal Anymore” ABC, Tuesdays 8PM Written by Scott Peters & Sam Egan Directed by Yves Simoneau “You space girls are funny!” —Tyler Evans The alliance between science fiction and television has been a shaky one for most of the last 20 years, Battlestar Galactica notwithstanding. It’s not just that practical considerations of television production force compromises on showrunners that undercut the actual science in science fiction (such as inventing transporters in Star Trek to reduce travel time for the characters). It’s that television has, especially in the last few years, so relentlessly dumbed-down science fiction that it is devolving…