Ultimate Geek Fu

 
V for...

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Vapid? Vacuous? Vomit-inducing? Or possibly, just maybe...

Okay, let's have a show of hands, and this is for science, so please be honest. Who here watched the premiere of the remake of V last night?

And what's your verdict? Good? Bad? Ugly? Or perhaps, possibly, could this show be interpreted as evidence that every once in a while, purely by accident, a major television network might get science fiction right?

Personally, I kinda liked it. Evil collectivists from space, here to bring us universal health care, building their base of support by pressuring "hardball" reporters to play along and subverting and indoctrinating America's youth, right down to the quasi-military blue shirts? If they'd just claimed they were also here to save us from global warming, it would have been perfect. The only thing that bugged us about the show, and it's a very minor quibble, is that for about half the episode we kept asking each other, "Who is that guy?"—until finally we realized it was Alan Tudyk, who played Wash in Firefly.

Anyway, that was our initial reaction. What did you think?

Let the arguments begin.

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