Shark Bytes

V was great as both a miniseries and a t.v. series. However, there were some major plotline holes:

1) If the aliens were planning on turning Earth's humans into livestock, why would Diana even plan to set up the human/alien breeding experiement with human girl Robin and alien Brian?

2) In speaking of human/alien breeding, how can two different species be compatible for sexual reproduction in the first place?

3) The infamous "Half-human/half-alien Elizabeth using powers to shut down the main alien ship's weapons" crappy ending of the second V miniseries.

I must agree that it was a dumb idea to try to make the story a weekly series. The way the second mini seris ended was a little silly. Based on the end of the first miniseries I was looking for friendly aliens to come to Eaths aid, along with help from the fifth columm.

The miniseries was good, campy fun. You'd better believe schools across America were buzzing the next day about Diana swallowing a guinea pig (whole! And alive!), the birth of the Lizard Babies, etc.

The absolutely moronic ending to The Final Battle (Elizabeth saves the world by giving off a shimmery pink "magical" aura) gave a hint of the idiocy to come when the fall TV schedule brought us V: The Series. Aliens invade the Earth...again and again, week after week. A dumb concept, terribly rendered. Channel: changed. Show: cancelled.

This show never jumped the shark. I have fond memories of relaxing in front of the Tv on Friday nights (No School the next day) and watching this crazy show...it was pretty cool

Great science fiction premmise. Very thought provoking, it very well may happen this way some day.
Kinda used the WWII premise where there were colaberators and undergroud freedome fighters.
Like others have eluded to, the mini-series was better than the TV series, but both were good.

I really loved the mini-series. In fact I have the whole mini-series and even the television series on DVD and I still watch it as well as read some of the books.

For me the series was a disappointment in a way. For one I am a huge fan of Mike and Julie. In the series there really was not too much of their relationship like there was in the miniseries. It also really never said exactly what happened to them.

I feel that the series deviated too much from how the miniseries was. The series really didn't focus on any relationships except for the one between Elizabeth and Kyle. The series not focused on the fighting but also the relationships between the characters. The series was seriously lacking in that. They just didn't spend the time thinking as to what the audience may want and also what really made the mini-series so popular.

But Diana's hair was curly in the first miniseries - I never liked it straight - although her character was understatedly ice-cool evil in the original miniseries, in the Final Battle she'd turned snarling villainess & by the time it got to the series it was hystrionic Joan Collins from space!

I'm glad that the forthcoming sequel is ignoring The Final Battle (goddamned awful sequel) & the series (sucky).

Another thing. The original music was not synth but orchestral, composed by the late, great Joe Harnell.

This show was pretty good until the last 6 episodes, that is where it jumped big time we lost Martin, Elias, Robert, Nathan Bates, Bates' henchman, Charles, the whole Science Frontiers subplot gone, L.A. no longer the city it is, Ham Tyler & Robin written out, leaving only Donovan, Julie, Willie, Kyle, & Starchild Elizabeth in what appeared to be an A-Team-rip-off fighting visitors in what looked like Hazzard county that Warner Bros. apparently used in the "Dukes of Hazzard", "Dukes" had just ended its run about this same time, talk about going on the cheap, & to make matters worse, you had Diana & Lydia acting as if they were on "Dynasty" instead, no wonder it crashed & burned!!!!!

The visitors were people eaters as of the first mini-series. What are you talking about?

Donavan's son was mentioned many times in the series. Just check the Christmas episode.

NOT ONLY WAS DONAVON'S SON NEVER MENTIONED IN THE SERIES BUT NEITHER WAS ROBIN'S SISTERS.STILL V IS THE GREATEST SCI FI SHOW EVER AND HOPE IT DOES COME BACK THIS YEAR BUT THE SERIES IS STILL NOT ON DVD IN UK.HURRY UP WARNERS AND RELEASE IT PLEASE.

The show jumped when the lizards were made into people-eaters.

Before that, there were good reasons to collaborate with them. The world was overrun, no help was coming, etc.

One it is established they want to eat everyone, though, the motivation for being passive disappears.

V was an awesome show! Who cares if the series didn't live up to the miniseries. It was the 80s. So many campy sci-fi dramas were on. Loved the whole Charles/Lydia/Diana love triangle. When Charles and Diana married and Lydia tried to poison Diana only to find out she poisoned her lover Charles instead that was classic. And Jeff Yagher without his shirt on - DAMN! Loved this show. The spaceships, the sky fighters, the outfits, it was awesome. Wish they would bring back the much talked about 20-year later movie.

Wow, I remember "V". I had my favorite characters ..both good and bad. I too remember the alien baby and how cute she was until ..gasp..she opened her mouth. whoa. Most of the series I wouldn't mind seeing again. But as with all tv series not every storyline is worth keeping.

Diana was the favorite character. Didnt hurt that she was hot like h*ll either The eyes, the look, the attitude. Perfect. :P