'V' aims at Obamamania

Posted by: have2cit

'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/03/09 10:42 AM

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Imagine this. At a time of political turmoil, a charismatic, telegenic new leader arrives virtually out of nowhere. He offers a message of hope and reconciliation based on compromise and promises to marshal technology for a better future that will include universal health care.

The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."




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This show is racist!

On second thought Morena Baccarin (the hooker from Serenity) who is the lead alien in this is smoking hot!

It's on tonight 8 pm EST on ABC.
Posted by: Northrop

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/03/09 02:48 PM

Under the same theme, here's a funny essay I wish a hell of a lot more people would have paid attention to before they voted for Obama. The guy who wrote the piece must be a racist too. You don't too often get a black guy like that tearing into black people: Click
Posted by: Anonymous

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/03/09 07:47 PM

Pardon my ignorance. I've been busy with a lot more pressing shit. Is this a re-make of the '80s series on NBC? 'Cause if it is, I always felt the original was, in many ways, a dig at Reagan. The more things change...
Posted by: Darrah Ford's ghost

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/03/09 08:10 PM

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Pardon my ignorance. I've been busy with a lot more pressing shit. Is this a re-make of the '80s series on NBC? 'Cause if it is, I always felt the original was, in many ways, a dig at Reagan. The more things change...



Yes it is a re-make of the '80s series. The first four episodes will air this month. Then the show will go away and come back in March after the Olympics are over. Which is odd and bad advertising.

Posted by: Anonymous

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/03/09 08:13 PM

Strangely, I think that's what NBC did during the '84 Olympics.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 05:08 AM

Well I caught the premier and it looked like they took a two hour series opener and edited it down to an hour. There must have been some objectionable stuff about Obama so he told ABC to cut it out.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 07:23 AM

In a related note: 11 Uncovered videos shows school children performing praises to Obama.

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Posted by: Steezo

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 10:13 AM

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I always felt the original was, in many ways, a dig at Reagan.



Fuck. I always thought it was a SciFi show about lizard invaders from space. I was such an innocent child.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 11:55 AM

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Yes it is a re-make of the '80s series. The first four episodes will air this month. Then the show will go away and come back in March after the Olympics are over. Which is odd and bad advertising.





You're right Dara, apparently it is going on hiatus "in order to get scripts in shape". They also lost their original showrunner (creator or writer of the pilot) too. The plot thickens.

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Posted by: Soopergrizz

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 12:42 PM

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The plot thickens.




Well, the show could always be sold to FOX.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 12:54 PM

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Well, the show could always be sold to FOX.




Why does it have to move to Fox? Why can't someone just be allowed to critique the current administration in the main stream without fear of censorship?
Posted by: Soopergrizz

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 01:08 PM

I was kidding, but you knew that.

It's certainly possible that the show is already on hiatus and hemorraghing senior staff because of a secret government program to stop criticism of your president.

That notwithstanding, isn't it MORE likely that it's just a shitty show that failed to live up to its expectations (as in the original run) and the rats have started to leave the sinking ship.

I realize that the second scenario doesn't play to the libertarian paraoid fantasies of government interference in the entertainment industry, but come on .... doesn't the White House have enough to do without interfering with fictional TV shows?
Posted by: Dean Wormer

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 01:29 PM

Impressionable children made to bless George Bush.

C'mon, Have2. Let's be fair and balanced.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 01:36 PM

I was kidding, but you knew that. I never thought the administration got directly involved, just the members of the media (in this case ABC heads) who seem to follow Obama with a similar zeal that some of the characters of this show devote to the aliens.

As far as being shitty why would they scud the lead producer and edit down the premier before it was even screened if it wasn't to change the content? Anyway the rating were good.

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Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 01:38 PM

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Impressionable children made to bless George Bush.

C'mon, Have2. Let's be fair and balanced.



That's a private camp isn't it? We are talking about public schools here. You know my tax dollars and all.
Posted by: Claude Goddard

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/04/09 03:35 PM

Fuck, have2cit has become the new Coke.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/05/09 05:32 AM

Gee I don't want you to feel like you should make any point of your own or address any of mine. Just sit there, call others who disagree with you names, and otherwise do nothing like your liberal friends in the white house and congress are doing with the economy.
Posted by: ivorenginedriver

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/05/09 07:36 AM

Gonna take years to clean up the mess made by Bush and the GOPers.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/05/09 07:41 AM

and the party that was in total control of Congress at the time. Which one was that again? Yeah things do take a long time to get done when you do nothing about them.
Posted by: Sacred Navajo Herbs

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/05/09 11:28 AM

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I always felt the original was, in many ways, a dig at Reagan.



Fuck. I always thought it was a SciFi show about lizard invaders from space. I was such an innocent child.



You're thinking of Q.
Posted by: Dean Wormer

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/05/09 12:10 PM

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Impressionable children made to bless George Bush.

C'mon, Have2. Let's be fair and balanced.



That's a private camp isn't it? We are talking about public schools here. You know my tax dollars and all.



So the indoctrination of innocent schoolchildren is acceptable if done with private funds? Or only if the doctrine is something that Have2 agrees with?
Posted by: Claude Goddard

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/06/09 02:56 AM

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Just sit there, call others who disagree with you names, and otherwise do nothing like your liberal friends in the white house and congress are doing with the economy.



Yeah man, this is all the liberals fault. The liberals and the homos are destroying America.

Posted by: Northrop

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/07/09 03:35 PM

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So the indoctrination of innocent schoolchildren is acceptable if done with private funds? Or only if the doctrine is something that Have2 agrees with?



Dean, do you really not understand the idea of being able to do whatever ridiculous thing you wanna when it's your own money? This is not a flame. It's just disbelief. Wondering how far the run of the mill liberal has taken things as to differentiating between private and government funds...
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/09/09 06:53 AM

* * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *

Jesus Freak parents pay to send their Jesus Freak kids to Jesus Freak camp to sing Jesus Freak songs. How shocking.

I wonder if Dean would get upset if the school teachers were directing the children to sing praises to Bush and not Obama? I bet the depth of his indignation would be unfathomable.


@claude

Still no views or insights of your own. No critique of mine? Why am I not surprised? I think it's time for you to go back to doing that one thing that you do so well, lurk.
Posted by: Dean Wormer

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/09/09 04:53 PM

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* * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *NEWS FLASH * * * *

Jesus Freak parents pay to send their Jesus Freak kids to Jesus Freak camp to sing Jesus Freak songs. How shocking.

I wonder if Dean would get upset if the school teachers were directing the children to sing praises to Bush and not Obama? I bet the depth of his indignation would be unfathomable.


@claude

Still no views or insights of your own. No critique of mine? Why am I not surprised? I think it's time for you to go back to doing that one thing that you do so well, lurk.



I would think that it's pretty stupid to sing praises of Bush just like it's pretty stupid to sing praises of Obama.
Posted by: Claude Goddard

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/09/09 09:10 PM

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@claude

Still no views or insights of your own. No critique of mine? Why am I not surprised? I think it's time for you to go back to doing that one thing that you do so well, lurk.




This isn't even worth talking about. I don't think the V TV show was even intended to be a metaphor for Obama, they were just following the storyline of the original series and it happened to line up with current events.

A mountain out of a mole hill. Who gives a shit? More importantly, who comes to porn forum to debate politics? Go outside more, get a girlfriend, stop drinking so much.


Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/10/09 05:40 AM

Yet you're usually one of the first to give your opinions, not that you actually say much. Just a little name calling to let everyone know what side you're on. Maybe a little more practice of what you preach is in order and just don't participate in the these threads that seem to hurt your feelings so thoroughly.

As far as the TV show, there is no way they edited down a 2 hour premier to 1 hour like that for any other reason. If it was just crap let it stand, what they're doing to the show will kill it anyway, and they know it. No they edited it for what they felt was objectionable content. It just goes to show how the media in this country is absolutely frightened to death even to appear to criticize Obama. Pathetic.
Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/10/09 06:55 PM

I know no one cares, but that has never stopped me before so....

I watched the episode tonight. A lot better and not such a fragmented plot. The one thing I did notice was from the beginning where they say "Last week on V" they changed some of the dialog from the previous week. Where the character said something like "They have a powerful weapon, hope." this week hope was changed to "a diversion".
Posted by: Claude Goddard

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/10/09 07:39 PM

When did I call you a name Have2cit? When I said you were Coke? Where's the insult in that, you both seem to hold the same politics, my you are sensitive though aren't you.

Didn't bother responding to my actual post either. This is the exact same storyline as the original series, which came out under Reagan, it has nothing to do with Obama except in the paranoid imagination of the far right.

Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/10/09 07:59 PM

I leave the paranoid delusions to the truthers, the warmers, the birthers, and even the grassy knollers. I'm just not an Obamaton like you too caught up licking his ass to look up and notice he's picking your pocket. You're no different than the people who say Fox News is fair and balanced, you do know that don't you? They believe what they're saying is true too.
Posted by: Claude Goddard

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/12/09 04:29 AM

Was that supposed to be a response?

Try to keep focused on the topic at hand: you thought V was some sort of attack on Obama, but the exact same storyline about aliens offering a cure for cancer, etc was presented when Reagan was in office. And he wasn't offering free healthcare, was he? Therefore, the entire reason you started this thread is bullshit.

You ask for people to respond to the substance of your post and when they do you bury your own head up your ass and don't respond. That would be considered trolling if this entire board wasn't just one big pit of trolling.

Posted by: have2cit

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/12/09 05:16 AM

No I said it criticized Obama, at least the original article did, just like the original series criticized the unquestioning devotion of some people to Reagan, this one criticizes the unquestioning devotion of people like you to Obama. Pull your tongue out of his ass and attempt to stay focused, OK?
Posted by: Gunker

Re: 'V' aims at Obamamania - 11/13/09 11:55 PM

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and the party that was in total control of Congress at the time. Which one was that again? Yeah things do take a long time to get done when you do nothing about them.



1994-2006: Republican.

Remake of "V" was greenlit.

Stinks much like the G.W. Bush presidency (2000-2008).

I guess teh "ennui" of the world's public in this shoddy show was the fault of...Clinton?