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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:07 PM
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"V: The Second Generation"
Edited on Tue Mar-21-06 02:12 PM by AGENDA21
Twenty years after their arrival on Earth, the Visitors have deeply entrenched themselves on the planet, enslaving the human race turning them into followers. The Resistance is losing the war with their alien masters until they gain a powerful and mysterious new ally.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0366112/plotsummary

ORIGINAL V MINI SERIES

The Original V Mini Series was one of the most popular Sci-fi Television events of all time. An estimated 65 million people in the US alone tuned in to watch it.

Some began to question the true motive of these visitors. They began to quickly dissapear. Anthropologists and scientists were being discredited worldwide. Then it slowly became apparent than these visitors did not come in peace but rather came to conquer and control. They masterminded a conspiracy against scientists and doctors to turn people against these people who could do them harm. The visitors were not human as they appeared but rather reptilian creatures wearing human skins. Their environmental needs were a distraction to turn attention away from why they were really there. Through brainwashing and selective kidnappings the visitors began to have an ever greater hold on the cities of the world.

Where once there were just visitor technicians on the street now there were armed visitor shocktroopers on every corner. By enlisting the aid of those easily swayed and naive, the visitors used humanity as its own helpful oppressive agent. The visitors set up youth training programs aimed at turning out loyal young men and woman. The governments of the world were powerless against visitor aerial superiority and weaponry from the beginning. But now the visitors were on the ground enlisting new traitors to humanity and placing agents of their control into positions of power. They occupied military bases, dominated means of communication and controlled the cities.

http://www.movieprop.com/V/originalV.htm

http://www.movieprop.com/V/index.htm
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Mythsaje Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:09 PM
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1. I've referenced this series a number of times...
It was a warning that went unheeded.
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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:18 PM
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2. I agree its well worth watching
Do you know if its available to view it online..?
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BobcatJH Donating Member (504 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:20 PM
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3. "V" was based on "It Can't Happen Here"
A book that, though written in the '30s, eerily applies to the present day.
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AGENDA21 Donating Member (862 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:40 PM
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5. Also....
Inspired by the book, director–producer Kenneth Johnson wrote an adaptation titled Storm Warnings, in 1982. The script was presented to NBC, for production as a television mini-series, but the NBC executives rejected the initial version, claiming it was too 'cerebral' for the average American viewer. To make the script more marketable, the American fascists were re-cast as anthropophagic extraterrestrials, taking the story into the realm of science fiction. The new, re-cast story was the mini-series V, which premiered on May 3, 1983.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Can't_Happen_Here
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-21-06 02:36 PM
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4. Okay, so the Iraqis are human, and we're the alien lizards?
The difference is, we're not as smart as the Visitors, and none of the White House staff look remotely like Kirstie Alley used to.

We're toast.
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