marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (05/23/85)
From: marotta%lezah.DEC@decwrl.ARPA I have to take pity on Tamir, who asks: >I missed the first episode of V, and have no idea who Elizabeth >is... or her rolse as the Star Child Well, it's clear that the role of Elizabeth in the movie is to provide the inevitable "blond beauty" without whom no television show can provide more than one season's worth of plots. But seriously, if you try to watch the V series without having seen the preceding two TV movies, you might well be lost. But don't keep watching the drivel just to find out who the Star Child is -- I'll spare you the embarrassment and pain: In the first movie, a red-haired teenager falls for a lizard guy, who's wearing a preppie face. She gets captured by the Lizard Lady, herself, Diana, who has become bored with her affair with the same lizard guy, and decides she wants to watch him "make it" with the red-head -- all set up as a "scientific experiment," of course. Well, the result of that is a pregnant red-head. Eventually the red-head joins the rebels, and goes into labor. Lucky for her, the leader of the rebels is a nice lady doctor, huh? She has two offspring, first the normal-looking girl-child. The punch line is that the baby girl has a lizard tongue. Then, if that wasn't punchy enough, a baby lizard pops out, and, fortunately, dies soon after. The baby girl is, of course, the Star Child, who has some major significance to the Lizard Lady, who keeps trying to capture Elizabeth. I can't believe this series continues. I stopped watching last fall when the plots stopped making sense. I watched it this week, and couldn't keep my attention on it -- the dialog sounded like a repeat of an earlier show. How this clears up the confusion for you, though