My only real experience with the original V miniseries was that sometimes I would sleep over at my cousins' house, and my older cousin Danny got to watch it, but I was not allowed. It was deemed too scary or too mature for me. Not enough farts and pancakes, I guess (farts and pancakes being the things that children like to see). Somehow, despite the fact that I have always known about V, I've never actually looked into it or had any idea what it was about (beyond that it was about alienz), as if somehow my relationship to it was still that of a child to a show intended for adults. Well guess what, I am an adult now, and I can do what I want! I can spend all day looking at pornography, and I can vote for John McCain, and I can rent a car and drive it into a grocery store. I can go to jail! So now that they are remaking V, it is my turn to watch it. I'm 56 years old, and I am ready!
There have been clips floating around the internet all week, but I have been avoiding those because I'm so in the dark about what V even is that a clip would be meaningless to me. But now there is a full trailer, after the jump, and I have to tell you guys, SPOILER ALERT, it looks great.
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Whoa! This looks like the best thing to happen to the mini-series since Wild Palms! (Sorry, John Adams!) Actually, I'm not even sure this is a mini-series. Probably all the aliens graduate and go to college and one of them starts cage fighting. But whatever. The True Blood vampires are wishing so hard that they were heavy-handed parables for false prophets rather than heavy handed homosexual metaphors right now.
DVR Club.
