V The Visitors 1983
Quotes: You know Diana, rather than putting Mr. Donovan away, he might prove very useful to us as a convert.: My instincts tell me he'd be too difficult as a subject. That's why I decided not to bother. Take him to the final area.: I always thought you thrived on challenges.: I do, but I like better odds.: That's curious, I would've have thought you'd find the difficult game far more interesting. But anyway, you're probably right. I don't think even you with all your abilities could ever turn this head. 'V' and me is a long story: it has been broadcast in France in 1985 and it was a huge hit: Sadly, as it was Monday night, my brother and me couldn't watch it.
The Visitors are an alien species that was featured in the original 1983 V: The Mini-Series. V (or V: The Original Miniseries) is a two-part American science fiction television miniseries, written and directed by Kenneth Johnson. First shown in 1983, it.
Indeed, our parents allowed us only Tuesday to watch TV after dinner. But as past legends, we were told the stories by our friends at school.
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Next, i was able to watch it on a rerun maybe 5 years later but i missed the essential episode, that is to say the first one. Thus, i never knew how the visitors arrived. Next, the DVD came out but there was only the first series (the two episodes of Johnson). It's only in 2004 in a London trip that i found the DVD of the 'Final Battle' in English only. Finally, it's when i collected them all that a lavish collection with all episodes was released in France that I couldn't buy so. Now, i can watch peacefully my DVD thirty years after the release and the show is still a incredible one.
It begins with great credits with this iconic painted V and the great musical theme. Sure the special effect are outdated but that's not the point otherwise we would never watch old movies as well. Maybe what's more annoying would be the short-cuts in the story: Why did Visitors conspire in English when they are alone in their own mothership?
Also, the events are ultra fast (as the scientist conspiring or the pregnancy) which made them unlikely and they do too much operations inside the mothership. For sci-fi fan, it wouldn't be very original because 'V' strips a lot of classics ('Episode IV', '4th dimension', 'War of the worlds'). However, those cunning visitors allow the best lesson of democracy mass audiences can find. That's why this show would be always accurate. In short, it says that dictatorship comes ala ways under a mask. When its evil roots have taken, the pluralism is the first victim and the only way to restore liberty and freedom is the fight.
What's original and totally truth in this show is that the resistance or terror are personal choices and it can bring strangers together or divide families as well. It's very different from what we see today when heroic characters are Potus, the army, police, which may be a signal that fascism is indeed coming. The so awaited first episode of the arrival is brilliantly directed and totally anticipatory. The invasion can be followed live on streets as well on TV. The news keep going on the screens of all the key families and it's a good trick to tell the story as well to introduce the characters. Finally, it's one of the few shows that deals with an extended cast in which all of them are real good.
I have never seen them in anything else (except from the deadly Freddy) but they were unforgettable in those 'V' shows! In addition, it's cool to have a show wrapping all the story lines at the end. Our young generations should take a look at this show and find inspiration for the nowadays threats that keep going stronger!
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Should've gone to Specsavers. Humankind's last stand. This page is for the 1983 miniseries and its sequels.
For the 2009 try. A militaristic alien starfleet arrives on Earth from Sirius, and its people, appeal to Earth to help produce chemicals to save their dying world. As months go by, the so-called Visitors infiltrate every level of human society. But a select few become suspicious; forming a resistance, they soon discover the truth — the Visitors are not like us, they are not our friends, and they don't want our help; they want our water. Originally aired as two miniseries and a one-season regular series, V is, in the words of creator Kenneth Johnson, a story of power — how different people react to it, and how they react to those who have it.
It is an unabashed metaphor for the rise of Nazism prior to World War II; in fact, the story was originally to be a direct allegory involving a home-grown fascist regime being elected to govern the United States, based on Sinclair Lewis's, but since had been such a hit. The story is told in several interweaving arcs, each following a different set of characters (not unlike or many disaster films of the 1970s) as their individual plotlines eventually merge and they unite to combat the all-powerful evil.
V (1983): Fifty three-mile-wide spaceships take positions over key cities of the world. The aliens reveal themselves to be human in appearance (but with an electronic voice effect), and ask for help to save their doomed home planet. As they weave their way into society, biologists, archaeologists and scientists of similar fields begin disappearing; and a med student, Julie Parrish, organizes a small resistance.
Meanwhile, news cameraman Mike Donovan also grows suspicious and sneaks aboard the Mother Ship where he discovers the aliens' secret: they're really. He also learns that they've come to steal Earth's water and to harvest humans for food. The Visitors use their contrived influence with human governments to institute martial law, effectively taking over the world. The Visitors attack Donovan's home town and kidnap his family; meanwhile, in a biological 'experiment', a kidnapped girl is impregnated by a Visitor. The rest of the miniseries focuses on the fledgling Resistance's struggle to become a significant threat to the Visitors' plans. V: The Final Battle (1984): Moving forward several months, we find that the Resistance is still struggling a near-futile battle with the Visitors, and Robin Maxwell's alien pregnancy advances with no way to stop it.
But the tide turns when the Resistance stages an attack on the Visitor admiral, unmasking him on live television. Unfortunately, leader Julie is captured and put through a brainwashing 'conversion chamber', though she is later rescued.
Robin eventually gives birth to twins, one a human-like girl and the other a reptiloid with blue eyes. The reptile dies, and a bacterium is found in its system. The girl, Elizabeth, quickly, after which she is taken to the Visitors by a priest who believes she is a bridge of peace. He is killed for his trouble and Elizabeth stays with the Visitor leader Diana. Meanwhile, the bacteria which killed the reptile baby is developed into a biotoxic weapon that will poison the Earth to the Visitors without harm to humans or the ecology. The Resistance mounts a bold attack to spread the so-called 'Red Dust' into the atmosphere, but the villainous Diana has an ace — a thermonuclear device in her spaceship that will destroy Earth.
And so, as the Visitors withdraw from all over the globe, the Resistance must take over the L.A. Ship and fly it into space before the. But Elizabeth deactivates the bomb with,. V: The Series (1984-85): A year after the events of The Final Battle, Star Child Elizabeth molts again, into a 20-year-old. Diana escapes custody on her way to stand trial and flees into space where it is revealed that the Visitor fleet has retreated only as far as the moon.
It is also revealed that the Red Dust not only has had an impact on Earth's ecosphere, but that it requires a sustained cold spell to reproduce, rendering it ineffective in warm climates (like Los Angeles). The Visitors re-invade Earth, and Diana quickly strikes a truce with businessman Nathan Bates, making L.A. However, the core members of the original Resistance (now including Bates' son Kyle) are having none of that, and they reunite to cause mayhem and disrupt the Visitors at every turn.
Eventually, after heavy casualties on both sides of the struggle, the Visitors' 'Great Leader' arrives on Earth to call off the war and to take Elizabeth home with him. The cliffhanger ending reveals that Kyle, who has pursued a romance with the Star Child, has stowed away on the Leader's ship. V: The Second Generation (2008): Written by Kenneth Johnson and, this new novel picks up the progress of the Visitor occupation of Earth some twenty years later, here in the modern day. Answering a distress signal from Earth (sent at the end of the first miniseries), a new alien race has arrived to help the humans win their freedom. Not to be confused with, or with the novel.
V contains examples of:.: When the mothership has to leave earth in the final episode, it does so by flying sideways, despite its.: Diana (and most of the other women as well) suffer acute cases of this at various points.: The humans send out a message for help for the aliens' enemies, with the idea 'the enemy of my enemy is my friend'. Said potential allies never appeared in the show, but The Second Generation continues this point.: The dream sequence that opens The Final Battle is a rather literal visualization of a parental nightmare.
Mike Donovan's son has previously been abducted by the aliens to be. In the dream Mike and his son try to flee the ship as they're pursued by enemy soldiers. Sean is blasted to death in front of Mike and he screams in horror before he wakes up.: John, the leader of the visitors. His kind smile and congenial public image hides the Visitors' true intentions.: Used several times, in fact.: The 'Lillian Weezer' who shares story credit on V: The Final Battle is V creator Kenneth Johnson, who washed his hands of the followup due to.: Oh, and they have, too.: Unless they're part of the Fifth Column.: Since the Visitors are trying to fit into human society, they must speak the local language at all times.
V The Visitors 1983
The trope was also subverted with the character of Willie — played by, no less — who was initially assigned to the Middle East and trained in Arabic, but ended up in Los Angeles by mistake and.: Right before tossing a into a Visitor craft, Ruby says, 'This one's for Abraham'.: Major characters are routinely killed off throughout the weekly series' run.: Water is a very common element in space - even in the 1980's it was pretty well known that comets are almost entirely ice water. The idea of needing to suck it up from a planet and ship it interstellar distances is silly in real life. Of course, they also came, and one could justify stealing water as terraforming.: Is the Red Dust a bacteria or a toxin? The two things are very different, but the dust is referred to as both, seems to have the properties of both, and doesn't make sense as either.: Martin's brother Philip appeared several episodes after Martin was killed off, and more or less filled Martin's role. Given that the Visitors were alien reptiles disguised as humans, there was no actual reason for Philip to be Martin's twin brother, as opposed to just another Visitor wearing the same human mask as Martin, except it would provide a good reason for why Philip was a Fifth Columnist, too.: Abraham, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who provides his home as a safehouse for refugees fleeing from the Visitors, and when he's discovered remains behind to buy them time to escape. He also teaches children how to 'properly' deface Visitor propaganda posters and comes up with the iconic 'V' symbol of the resistance.
Is no slouch either, concealing a stockpile of Molotov cocktails in her cart which she is perfectly happy to use when Visitor targets of opportunity present themselves.: Diana is the Sexpot variety. She's beautiful and sadistic, although those who know that she's an evil reptile underneath her human skin are understandably disgusted. She proves herself more extreme than any of her comrades and ends up as the primary villain. Considering Jane Badler was an experienced villainess, it wasn't a stretch for her.: Relationships between humans and Visitors, as all the aliens look human, but are really reptiles. The alien Willie (played by a pre-Freddy ) is a kindly, nerdy bumbler who strikes up a relationship with a human woman named Harmony. When, the horrified look on her face as his fake hand is ripped open was one of the most poignant scenes in the mini. Later, they hook up again as she admits that she didn't fall for his looks in the first place.
Unfortunately, she is tragically killed in the end. This mini also subverts the trope on a routine basis, but the nastiest example is with the character of Robin Maxwell. Long story short, she falls for one of the aliens, but it turns out she was only being manipulated into sleeping with him to conceive a hybrid child and their night together technically counts as rape. After she gives birth to two children, one mostly human and the other mostly reptilian, she murders the father with a bio-weapon engineered from the blood of the less human child.: Technically John during the miniseries, but he remains a fairly uninvolved character during the Visitor occupation.
Diana and kills her own superiors while cracking down on the resistance.: Visitor females develop a ring of discoloration around their necks when pregnant, which is how Willie recognizes that Robin is expecting.: The original miniseries begins and ends in the mountain camp of two different.:. The captured Visitor laser pistols seemingly never need to be reloaded or recharged.
The is basically an attempt to fill every in the series; the lasers, like all their technology, are powered by cold-fusion, and run on deuterium (heavy water). Still doesn't explain why they need water from planets, though. It's actually far more common in space.: The Visitors have a brainwashing method called conversion, but humans are so resistant to it that it is only considered worth the bother for a few vital individuals.: Julie, but she gets better.: Diana has attempted to brainwash Julie Parish into being her slave. She fights off the brainwashing, mostly successfully, but occasionally catches herself using the wrong hand.
In V: The Final Battle, Diana telepathically commands Julie and she has flashbacks to the brainwashing. Julie doesn't quite give in, but the internal struggle gives Diana a chance to escape.: Abraham Bernstein about and his disturbing personal tendencies before the Visitors arrive, not believed by anyone, even his friend Ruby.: Mike Donovan has a claustrophobic nightmare where he and his son Sean try to escape a Visitor mothership (Sean had previously been processed to be used as food for the aliens) and are pursued by Visitor soldiers. After Mike sees his son shot to death in front of him, he jumps awake at resistance headquarters with Julie sitting besides him.: The reptilian aliens wore clever disguises to pass as human.
And, since reptile-face makeup is expensive and hard on the actors, the aliens wore their clever disguises even aboard their spaceships when no humans were around to see. Also, in V: The Series, the Visitors lost the reverb effect added to their voices in both mini-series.: The series gives no small amount of attention to people who collaborate with what turns out to be a not-so-benevolent alien occupation.
Their motivations run the gamut from unscrupulous humans who seek the favor and reward of collaboration with the Visitors, to a disturbingly plausible case of a socially awkward teenage boy who finds a place in the 'Visitor Youth' (the parallels to its historical equivalent are strong) and is soon corrupted by the amount of power and impunity he possesses in his position. His grandfather, a Holocaust survivor, finds this particularly horrifying.: Ham Tyler's Ingram MAC-10. In the TV series, everyone seemed to have one.: Although the story is said to have a global scale, most of the pivotal events occur in Los Angeles. The weekly series, where Los Angeles itself becomes a, tried to avoid this by constantly mentioning the that took place in other parts of the world, but pretty much all the show's plots still took place in the same area.: Early in the first miniseries, a scientist who becomes suspicious of the Visitors is kidnapped from his car and never seen again.: Ever got one of those chain emails from schizos about Lizard Folk?.: The Visitors have to wear sunglasses because they're unaccustomed to bright lights. It later turns out that this is because they're actually humanoid reptilians.: Kenneth Johnson wanted to make a mini-series based on Sinclair Lewis'. The project was originally called 'Storm Warnings.'
It became V when the network suggested Americans would be more likely to find the specter of Soviet Russia taking over scary than a homegrown fascist movement. Johnson felt this would destroy the entire point of the source material, and instead chose to make the oppressors aliens.: At one point in V: The Final Battle, the heroes discover that Visitor body armor is now impervious to conventional bullets. Teflon-coated bullets solve this problem rather quickly.:. The Red Dust, which initially does exactly what the plot needs it to do to ensure a happy ending.
Elizabeth saving the day through never-before-hinted-at magic powers.: Especially egregious during the original mini-series. Try playing a drinking game which requires imbibing upon the appearance of Nazi, Holocaust, or Hitler Youth references. It is unlikely you will see the end of the series due to intoxication.: Elias takes the rebels to set up their HQ there.: The rebels often borrow the Visitors' uniforms in the miniseries and series. In the original miniseries, Donovan takes the uniform of a much smaller, female Visitor, who explains that it will stretch to fit him. Apparently they're one-size-fits-all.: V: The Final Battle opened with a slow-motion nightmare in which Mike Donovan tries to escape from a Visitor ship with his captured son before he's shot to death in front of his father by a group of pursuing soldiers, prompting a.: Subverted Trope. In V: The Final Battle, the street smart member of the resistance is selling drugs to Visitors and their collaborators.
When his father confronts him on this, the character justifies it as a means to help undermine their enemy in some small way and his father admits he has a point.: Mike Donovan's only expression. Except when he closes his mouth. Then it's just dull.: The aliens intend to harvest the human race for use as snack food and drain all the water, and were turning the planet into a thinly disguised version of Nazi Germany to make it easier. In the end there would be nothing left but a dead desert planet. Diana puts a spin on this when the resistance is close to winning — if she can't have it then no one will. She tries to deploy her mothership as a bomb to turn the world into an irradiated wasteland.:. Eleanor Dupres catches Donovan breaking into her house and threatens to shoot him as he's escaping out the window.
Donovan just laughs. 'You'd shoot your own son? Game lego marvel superheroes ds rom coolrom games. Not even you're that cold, mother.'
He's right; as he runs off Eleanor fires the gun in the air and rips her dress to make it appear she'd been overpowered. Supreme Commander John ultimately detests irradiating the entire Earth by deploying their ship as an atomic bomb and tells Diana to concede defeat.
She demands John's key at gunpoint and tries to do it anyway just to spite her enemy.: Actually, birds and rodents. Justified, given the reptilian nature of the aliens.: It is clearly stated that Diana enjoys what she does.: Combining this with, we have Phillip, who adopts the same human guise as his brother, the late Martin. Phillip later pulls a.: A number of novels explored the adventures of Resistance fighters from other key locations around the globe.