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Science Fiction as Political Allegory: the upcoming "V" reboot
SciFi Wire ^ | 5/20/09 | Vanity

Posted on 05/20/2009 7:51:00 PM PDT by Salgak

So you may have heard that ABC is doing a remake of the 80s television miniseries, "V".

Trailer is at the link above.

What's interesting is the angle: Devotion is the weapon, a carefully crafted message from the Visitors of Change and Hope. And a good-looking, charismatic spokeperson, with demands for a perfectly controlled image.

I wonder if ABC realizes JUST how subversive it is, especially as the bloom comes off the Administration. It's even identified by a single letter.

And, of course, the bringers of Change and Hope are hiding their true face, and have sinister ambitions.

Sound familiar ???? (evil grin)


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: genx; hopenchange; obama; v
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To: Dallas59

Sp0ck


21 posted on 05/20/2009 8:50:38 PM PDT by PLMerite ("Unarmed, one can only flee from Evil. But Evil isn't overcome by fleeing from it." Jeff Cooper)
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To: qam1; ItsOurTimeNow; PresbyRev; Fraulein; StoneColdGOP; Clemenza; m18436572; InShanghai; xrp; ...

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Ping list for the discussion of the politics and social (and sometimes nostalgic) aspects that directly effects Generation Reagan / Generation-X (Those born from 1965-1981) including all the spending previous generations are doing that Gen-X and Y will end up paying for.

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22 posted on 05/20/2009 9:20:48 PM PDT by qam1 (There's been a huge party. All plates and the bottles are empty, all that's left is the bill to pay)
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To: Salgak
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23 posted on 05/20/2009 9:52:08 PM PDT by odin2008 (Everything in the universe is subject to change.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

LOL! Roddy Piper spent almost that whole movie just AGAPE!


24 posted on 05/20/2009 10:30:32 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: BipolarBob

“Can they repackage it as “O”?”

Maybe “OY!” is more appropriate.


25 posted on 05/20/2009 10:39:20 PM PDT by WKUHilltopper
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To: Dallas59

That is insulting to Spock, really. Barry doesn’t do ANYTHING logical!


26 posted on 05/21/2009 3:26:48 AM PDT by LibertyRocks ( http://LibertyRocks.wordpress.com ~ ANTI-OBAMA STUFF : http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Salgak
Amazing that ABC is running this series.

They must be blind if they can not see the similarities.

During the original series I could never get past the part where they swallowed rats whole.

27 posted on 05/21/2009 3:34:07 AM PDT by mware (F-R-E-E, that spells free. Free Republic.com baby.)
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To: mware
But that was Jane Badler swallowing!

Mmmm...Jane Badler...I'll be in my bunk.

28 posted on 05/21/2009 4:12:49 AM PDT by Jonah Hex ("Never underestimate the hungover side of the Force.")
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To: Salgak

I always thought that Tom Daschle was just one of the lizard aliens with a plastic skin. As I recall from the original series a weak American President allowed the “Vistors” to easily take over.


29 posted on 05/21/2009 4:57:55 AM PDT by The Great RJ (chain.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Yes! ‘They Live’ is a classic.


30 posted on 05/21/2009 5:13:50 AM PDT by gogogodzilla (Live free or die!)
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To: Dallas59

Totally unfair to Vulcans. They embrace logic, and deny emotion.


31 posted on 05/21/2009 5:56:52 AM PDT by NotQuiteCricket ("Guns kill people like spoons make people fat.")
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To: NotQuiteCricket

But an “evil vulcan” might use the emotions of others to manipulate them to achieve a goal that he deems logical,

like “superior elite people such as myself need total power to implement our vision for society” might be a logical conclusion, devoid of emotion.


32 posted on 05/21/2009 6:02:46 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: MrB

I think O is a loony sociopath. But that is just my opinion.
He is doing best to destroy the country. Starting with the
economy, and moving on from there.
Of course, to want to be president, you have to have the belief
that you know what is best.
Voting public’s fault for falling for emotion, instead of
logic.


33 posted on 05/21/2009 6:08:55 AM PDT by NotQuiteCricket ("Guns kill people like spoons make people fat.")
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To: PressurePoint

The mesage will be that us violent, unthinking brutes on Earth really DO have something to learn from the aliens, and that we really CAN have change if we just have hope.

I predict very little flesh-eating violence on the part of the Obama admini... I mean, the aliens.


34 posted on 05/21/2009 6:31:00 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A GUTLESS SOCIALIST LOSER WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: Vince Ferrer

Only if they kept in Teh Best Fight Scene. Evah!


35 posted on 05/21/2009 6:51:45 AM PDT by thecabal (Hey Obama, when you gonna start sharin' the sacrifice?)
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To: Salgak; Landru

I always thought “V” was forgotten because it
tore the mask off of liberalism. This re”V”i”V”al
makes me “V”ery happy.

Life imitating art, imitating life.


36 posted on 05/21/2009 6:59:38 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Salgak
To Serve Man
Series: The Twilight Zone
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare

Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine. The Kanamits, nine-foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. They end war, they end famine. They make the military wonder: what's the catch?

CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.

Watch it, or any other TZ episode, online for free at:
http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/

See season 3, page 1. there are 3 seasons in all, each seasons page has 2 pages of listings.
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37 posted on 05/21/2009 7:02:38 AM PDT by ETL (ALL the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Jo Nuvark
"Life imitating art, imitating life."

Must take your word for [that], Mrs. N.
Never saw so much as a second of the program.
Nevertheless your judgment's as good as any I've [ever] read on the forum.

It's so if you say it's so, as far as I'm concerned. :^)

38 posted on 05/21/2009 7:31:24 AM PDT by Landru (Arghh, Liberals are trapped in my colon like spackle or paste.)
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To: Landru

‘Mornin’ Landru!


39 posted on 05/21/2009 7:35:26 AM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Salgak

Here’s something from the 80s to reboot:

Wolverines!!!


40 posted on 05/21/2009 3:06:10 PM PDT by GOP_1900AD (Stomping on "PC," destroying the Left, and smoking out faux "conservatives" - Take Back The GOP!)
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