Oh man! What news!First there was the excitement a few years ago when I got word of a re-imagining of the classic Battlestar Galactica.
And that new series was everything I had hoped...and more. I was in Sc-Fi Remake Heaven.
But alas, it ran it's very successful five season run and it suddenly was no more.
I've been left with a sci-fi TV void ever since.
Oh yes, of course there's LOST but it appears on my TV set so infrequently it's like the orbit of Halley's Comet for cryin' out loud. The next "season" of that show isn't 'till 2010. And besides, it's not space-based. I like my space-based stuff. It's what gets me going most.
And I can't satiate my thirst for good space-based sci-fi with no low-budget mindless crap like Stargate SG-1 either. Ain't gonna do it. It's gotta be big network, heavily-pushed stuff.
Well, it looks like ABC has heard my sobs of SF loneliness.
They're going to debut a new space-aliens-visit-Earth prime-time sci-fi drama starting in November. And it's a re-imagining of none other than one of my all-time early 80's favorites..."V"!!
Yes "V". The plot for which I "borrowed" (ie: stole) heavily from for my own Nastralia Cobalt Sky story.
In "V", spaceships filled with very human-looking aliens arrive from another planet and offer to make our less-technologically advanced lives oh so much happier. No more war, famine, sickness and the like. Utopia offered to us freely on a silver platter. But we soon find out they would like a platter handed back to them in return. A platter of human meat, that is! Yes, Virginia, they want to eat us!!!
The trailer looks like it'll be well-funded offering great special effects and the actors seem top notch too. For television, that is. But have you noticed TV has attracted a lot of Hollywood movie stars lately. I guess the economy being what it is, even if your an A-lister it can't hurt to do a stint or two for the small screen.
But I digress. I can't wait 'till this show premieres. Hopefully it'll be as smartly written and funded as BSG and gets high ratings. Otherwise it'll end up like a Visitor's meal...swallowed whole and out of sight, with just a polite burp to indicate it had ever been there at all.