avaunlocked What the hell happened? I was going along, having a great time with the fun and games of the alien invaders, and then all the sudden the series ended. Did the network pull the plug on this show early or something? Because the last several episodes were rushed, full of plot holes, and didn't tie up even half the story lines. It just ended. Horribly. And I was left feeling cheated. Otherwise, I would have given this series 9 stars. All the acting was superb, and Morena Baccarin who played Anna, was absolutely captivating. A brilliant performance. Bravo.

Conrad_QS Overall, it was OK. The ending left me a bad taste, some people affected by bliss, some don't, Hobbes missing, loose ends... It could have been worse, but they knew that would not be a season 3 and wanted to be left to be continued by public request... In their hopes.Programming this show at late hours made poor audience and canceled the show eventually, some people say, i think it was really with potential. Good the episodes that lasted, maybe in the future some enthusiast director will continue, there is time. With actual technology, special effects will be a delight, one season with 10 episodes I think can resolve all the problems and would be appreciated by all generations. Worth watching, rating 7/10.

Tss5078 V stands for Visitors and it is one of the best show that you've never watched. Most fans of the original series weren't happy when they learned that V (2009) would be a re-imagining of the franchise as opposed to a modern day re-creation of the show, but that didn't stop them from watching it. V was the highest rated premier of any new show on any network in 2009, but as usual, ABC managed to screw it up. The show premiered with 14 million viewers and kept it's audience over it's first four episodes. ABC, in their infinite stupidity, decided to keep the fans hungry for more, and decided to hold the next eight episodes until nearly four months later! By that time, more than half the audience was gone and the show was barely renewed for a second season, but thank God it was, because as good as the premiere season was, the second season was ten times better! It wasn't until almost a year later that ABC decided to air the second season of V and the numbers were decent, but not enough to motivate the network into renewing the expensive show. The fans launched a huge campaign to try and save the show and to ABC's credit, they did try to sell it to another network, but ultimately failed to do so and V became another Nielsen casualty. As for the show itself, it had some similarities, but was ultimately very different than the original 1983 version. On a random day, at a random time, 29 alien ships appear over major Earth cities. Shortly thereafter, a beautiful woman appears explaining that they are peaceful beings who are here to help us and give the people of Earth some amazing gifts, but as always there's a twist. We learn that Visitors or V's are actually highly aggressive, reptilian creatures, who have been on Earth, disguised as humans, for years. Many have kept their cover, while others have learned to experience human emotion. These emotions have led them to join up with the human and rebel against their queen. The star of the show is Elizabeth Mitchell, better known as Juliette from Lost. She plays an FBI agent who doesn't trust the visitors and wants to find out what they're really doing here and I can honestly say that she makes the show. If you thought she was good as Juliette, wait until you meet Erica, a smart, tough, fearless woman who will do whatever it takes to find the truth and protect her family. She is joined by an outspoken priest, a rebellious V, and a wanted terrorist, as together they form their own resistance cell. The leader of the V's is Anna (Morena Baccarin), and yes, she is the daughter of Diana from the original series, and that's how the two series are linked. Diana was a pretty tough character, but Anna is absolutely ruthless. She has no limits and is willing to do anything to achieve her goals. She trusts no one and won't let anyone get in her way, even the people she loves the most. The first season is really about discovering who the V's are and seeing how ruthless, cunning, and cold they can be. The second season is more about getting inside the resistance and seeing why they are fighting and what they are fighting for. As you all know, I am a huge science fiction fan and I have no problem saying that this may have been the best sci-fi show to come along in the last twenty years. The writing is just incredible and when you pair that with acting that is just utterly mind-blowing, it's a recipe for a show that can't be missed. V had the potential to be the show that changed the very face of TV Science Fiction forever. I am not exaggerating when I say this, because this show really was that good. It is so imaginative and exciting, like a soap opera and action movie combined with the unique and unusual genre that is the essence of science fiction. There wasn't a single episode of this series that I didn't love, the cast is as good as a cast can be, and the writing is the kind of creative stuff that Hugo and Saturn awards are made of. V was the heart and soul of a potential Sci-Fi return to the top of network television, but they made the mistake of putting it on ABC and for that V paid with it's life.

jinthepan-256-39279 Just finished the season two. As the time of the end of the season comes near, only one question kept popping into my mind: Can this series keep itself safe into season three? So I came to IMDb and found out that this series was canceled after all.The first season was promising. One of the clever moves of remaking old series.V stands for Visitors, not for Victory. Visitors are not a military type of cult, but a civilized one-mind union whose tactics are mainly on the diplomatic side. The leader is not a male anymore but a strikingly attractive and charismatic female. Visitors are not new in this planet, but have been here for a long time already.The John May plot was really good, a very refreshing twist, and the fifth-columns too, not a powerful resistance but only a group of few people who are not starting as heroes but rather public enemies harming the new harmony between the two races.Season One finale was impressive. It sure made you looking forward to season two.But. Alas. The season one was all that this series can show. And there was nothing good left for season two.I could see the endeavors by the writers to make the season two one of their best works too. Actually, the starting of the season two was promising as the season one. Until the new leader of fifth-columns took charge.Something happened in the midway. Don't know what. But the entire plot started to collapse rapidly. I've been thinking over the possible reasons of this plot disaster and my own answer was in the season one itself.It discarded the John May plot too early.John May plot was the gem of the season one's story. John May was the force of the whole fifth-columns plot. Who is this John May. What has he done in the past? Why does Anna have this great fear of him, what kind of threat to them? What will John May do in the future with the resistance? Lots of questions raised in the early episodes of the season one. The answer was great indeed. John May is already dead and you have to fight your own fights. Great plot with great twists but they revealed this twist too early. If John May had been kept a secret through the entire season two, not to mention of the early season one, it would have been a major force to keep this series gallantly move forward even to season three or four. It's so sad that this great twist for a possible grand ending plot was wasted too early.And It didn't need a heroine really.The first season was very good in introducing many good characters who will be united in the fifth-columns. The characters of the season one was alive with his or her own story to tell. And with their own secrets to be revealed 'gradually.' Season two blew up all of these by making Erica the only center of the resistance. It's finally made the whole series as Erica vs Anna, making all the other interesting characters as just props to make only those two stand out.As other characters' importance wears out, all the nonsenses begin.A traitor is resurrected who was already fated to be corrupted by the human emotions. Human emotions are feared by those aliens who already showed us splendid varieties of emotions. Seeing all these emotions all the time, even Anna doesn't know the difference between emotionless states and emotionlessly pretending faces. Getting in and out of the mothership is becoming so easy that at one point you can't tell the difference of those two spaces: the mothership and the downtown NY.You can't do multitasking in this kind of plot.The greatest blunder of the season two, the very reason of this series' self-implosion. Twenty-nine ships. Twenty-nine boys. Twenty-nine local resistance. But you have only one Anna and Lisa. Why not Beijing or Tokyo? Why should this series be focused on NY? Ty is expandable so what suspense is left there to watch? Even Erica is expandable, right? for a better leader among the proved candidates of the fifth- columns.Finally, one of the few delights of the season two: seeing old faces back into the series. Even this should have been tried earlier, I hope, in the season one. These relief pitchers were too late to save the losing game.Anyway, nobody can't save this series back. The final episode of season two was too fatal.Ty is dead, a new lover parted, Lisa is useless, Diana gone, Ryan dead and Amy is another super Queen calling Anna mommy. Suddenly a new clandestine group. But the entire human race is now slave to the aliens.Sigh.It just sounds like a fanfiction written by a really imaginative twelve-year boy or girl.Only John May still feels like a real person in this wonderland, but you killed John May too early, Anna.