I agree with your assessment of the “Second Generation” novel. Empty and badly disappointed is a good description. While I personally didn’t care for the TV series much when I rewatched it last year, I do still like “The Final Battle”.

Thanks again for stopping by.

Shag

After reading the second generation I was left feeling empty and badly disappointed that it did not include what happened in the second half of the mini series or of the TV show. Even though I wasn’t born until two years after V first aired I got into it at the age of three because my older sister would let me stay up late and watch it with her. I’ve recently rewatched the TV show and even though it isn’t perfect and the use of the same stock footage is frustrated I found myself sitting on the edge of the couch as I watched even though I already knew what would happen.

Great blog entry!

Man the ongoing series “V” TV series continues to be REALLY bad. I’m pushing my way through, but it’s getting harder and harder to work up the gumption to watch.

Shame that Journeyman got cancelled. It’s certainly a re-tread concept, but they did a nice job with it.

I actually almost the whole last season of Galactica. I know that’s a capital offense in geekdom, but I just got bored.

Watch “Chuck”. Now that is a FUN geek show!

Shag

I was watching the Buck Rogers series, and unlike the original Galactica (like gold, my man), it stinks like Space: 1999. I can’t tell which is worse. Buck Rogers makes me laugh, and Space: 1999 looks good, but both require a labotomy for continued watching. The original Tomorrow People looks fantastic by comparison! (Or not! Depends on the person)

And V: The Series?? Gee, I’d say it’s better than Knight Rider, but at least now I can laugh at how cheesy Knight Rider was. The original V mini-series was Right-On-Time, though.

So many of these 80′s prime-time shows were just rehashes of the mainstream with gadgets. I.E., Hunter with a talking car (possibly… I didn’t watch Hunter). I.E., The A-Team with aliens who pretend to be humans.

The same thing seems to be happening now. Check out the new Galactica and Journeyman. These are just character development-driven dramas like all the other current semi-serious dramas with some sci-fi tweak to fool geeks into watching. They are both ‘good enough’ to get me to watch, but they aren’t that exciting. Who knew Cylons could be boring (perhaps watchers of the original series knew, due to seeing the same space sequences used from episode to episode). Journeyman particularly seems like it would get old fast (like after the first 15 minutes!), but they keep on writing plot twists that provoke my head.

Now take Heroes… not that Heroes doesn’t have well-defined characters, but Heroes delivers something else that has been missing from other shows as of late: FUN.

Man, I had those V comics and the art was bad… possibly because they didn’t have the rights to use the real actor’s likenesses? I understand that’s why comics versions of TV and film usually suck.

I had the books and I sold the books. The fact is, they couldn’t compare with science-fiction that wasn’t tied to the V storyline.

Read Christopher Tolkien’s ‘Children of Hurin’ (and not Brian Herbert’s ‘Sandworms of Dune’). You’ll be rewarded.

Now I’m continuing to punish myself by watching the TV series. I’m on episode four and I can feel my mind atrophying.

I think I’m also going to try and re-read “V: The East Coast Crisis” tie-in novel by AC Crispin. I remember it being good, we’ll see just how deluded I was as a child.

Shag

The ongoing television series was God awful and should be taken out back and shot.