wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (05/09/84)
A striking and gratuitous continuity goof in "V" -- Much was made, at the end of the second episode of "The Final Chapter", of the girl baby having a forked tongue. Yet, when she is used to save the world at the end of the third episode, close-ups show her licking her lips several times -- her tongue is an ordinary human one at that point. It wouldn't have been hard or expensive to use some sort of rubber prothesis in those scenes, but they just didn't bother. Humph. By the way, I probably missed this due to flicking between channels so I could also watch the destruction of Pompeii, but was the silly business of the little girl turning all sparkly and reversing the blow-up of the mother ship ever explained in any fashion? I thought she was simply going to know the secret code, punch it in, and turn off the destruct mechanism. Doing it the way they did was SO hokey... The obvious lead-in for a possible sequel, with Diana taking off in the shuttle craft (shades of Darth Vader in his fighter at the end of SW - ANH!) was just too "cute" for words... This story was so full of holes, to criticize it will be like blaming a colander for not holding water! Will
gds@mit-eddie.UUCP (05/11/84)
I too, was disappointed in the ending of V. Too predictable, and too
much like Star Wars. I was expecting the ending to go something like
this:
Since Elizabeth witnessed three murders (1 -- her mother murdered her
boyfriend, 2 -- Diana murdered Pamela, and 3 -- Diana murdered her
commander (?)) I expected that she would have gotten a taste of blood.
Following this, instead of stopping the nuclear destruction, I expected
that she, following the example of those she saw, was actually going to
START it! The Earth would have been saved of course, but at the cost of
the lives of the rebellion (there ought to be some cost for freedom,
shouldn't there?)
The greatest letdown was Diana's escape. Reminiscent of Darth Vader's
escape. Now they have to make a sequel. That is the problem with
sci-fi -- Hollywood just wont let it go ... admit they did a good thing
and let it go at that. Instead, they figure they have to go all the way
with a good idea, and drain as much money out of it as possible. This
problem plagued TV shows such as Battlestar Galactica and led to their
eventual demise. Look for a new TV show one fall:
V: The Battle Continues
and we will all be flaming about how the TV show is losing in the years
to come.
--
Be ye moby,
for I am moby.
Greg Skinner (gregbo)
{decvax!genrad, eagle!mit-vax, ihnp4}!mit-eddie!gds
Joy is in the ears that hear.alb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (05/12/84)
Too much like Star Wars? How about too much like Star Trek The Motion ''Picture''
jeh@ritcv.UUCP (Jim Heliotis) (05/16/84)
No one has mentioned another sickeningly obvious parallel to Star Wars:
The supreme commander arriving to visit Diana was exactly like the
emperor arriving to visit Vader.
Embarassed to admit I watched it,
Jim Heliotis
{allegra,seismo}!rochester!ritcv!jeh
rocksvax!ritcv!jeh
ritcv!jeh@Rochesteralb@alice.UUCP (Adam L. Buchsbaum) (05/17/84)
Vader didn't off the Emperor, though.
perl@rdin.UUCP (Robert Perlberg) (05/25/84)
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>Vader didn't off the Emperor, though.
Oh, yeah? Don't you remember the end of Return of the Jedi when
Vader threw the Emperor down that pit?
Robert Perlberg
Resource Dynamics Inc.
New York
philabs!rdin!perlables@ut-ngp.UUCP (05/29/84)
[that armor's too strong for blasters!] >> Vader didn't off the Emperor, though. > Oh, yeah? Don't you remember the end of Return of the Jedi when > Vader threw the Emperor down that pit? Yeah, but that wasn't Vader, it was Anakin Skywalker (from a certain point of view). :-) ---- -King ARPA:ables@ut-ngp UUCP:{ctvax,ihnp4,kpno,seismo}!ut-sally!ut-ngp!ables
grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (05/31/84)
[that armor's too strong for blasters!] >>> Vader didn't off the Emperor, though. >> Oh, yeah? Don't you remember the end of Return of the Jedi when >> Vader threw the Emperor down that pit? >Yeah, but that wasn't Vader, it was Anakin Skywalker >(from a certain point of view). :-) Also, Diane didn't off the "emperor", she offed John. The emperor was back on the homeworld. -Glenn
davidl@mako.UUCP (David Levine) (06/04/84)
<> >>>>> Vader didn't off the Emperor, though. >>>> Oh, yeah? Don't you remember the end of Return of the Jedi when >>>> Vader threw the Emperor down that pit? >>>Yeah, but that wasn't Vader, it was Anakin Skywalker >>>(from a certain point of view). :-) >> Also, Diane didn't off the "emperor", she offed John. >> The emperor was back on the homeworld. >But before that she shot John's superior (and the most superior >one on the ship), the character played by Sarah Douglas. Sorry, John was superior to Sarah Douglas. Sarah was only a military commmander. (Count the stripes on their shoulders.) David D. Levine (...decvax!tektronix!tekecs!davidl) [UUCP] (...tekecs!davidl.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA] (I can't believe I'm continuing this drivel...)
grw@fortune.UUCP (Glenn Wichman) (06/04/84)
[] >>>>> Vader didn't off the Emperor, though. >>>> Oh, yeah? Don't you remember the end of Return of the Jedi when >>>> Vader threw the Emperor down that pit? >>>Yeah, but that wasn't Vader, it was Anakin Skywalker >>>(from a certain point of view). :-) >> Also, Diane didn't off the "emperor", she offed John. >> The emperor was back on the homeworld. >But before that she shot John's superior (and the most superior >one on the ship), the character played by Sarah Douglas. But that's still not the emperor. A better equivalent would be Gov. Tarkin. -Glenn
boyajian@dec-akov68.UUCP (06/07/84)
> Sorry, John was superior to Sarah Douglas. > David D. Levine *No one* is superior to Sarah Douglas! :-) --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA