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V: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray]

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2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

The original "V" mini-series and "V: The Final Battle" were ground breaking, riveting dramas that were essentially a play on the history of the Nazi party and it's rise to power. The original "V" was one of the most watched mini-series of the 1980's and won international acclaim for it's powerful story and strong performances. The 1980's TV series spin-off that followed did not come even remotely close to living up to either mini-series. The show started with an interesting idea but was destroyed by poor writing, low budgets and uninspired direction and was inevitably cancelled. Toward the end, the only thing the original TV series had going for it was the performance of the always exceptional Jane Badler as evil lizard overlord, Diana.

Season 1 of "V", the remake, updated the original 1980's mini-series for a new century while maintaining the promise of the original by adapting the story to fit into a world more concerned with international terrorism than space-Nazi's.

The new "V" was not an exact copy, it was a re-imagining - which was good, because fans of the original could enjoy something they loved and still be surprised and shocked hand in hand with those new to "V".

The first season of the new "V" was very much about a show finding its feet and a cast finding their characters, but despite those ups and downs an excellent product emerged that resonated with a decent enough audience to get the show a second year despite some unwise network decisions that almost killed it after it's highly rated premier.

When season 2 hit, it hit with a bang! The writers still seemed to be struggling with the whole "show don't "tell" concept that every writer is taught to obey, because exposition is rife throughout most episodes, but with the season now concluded you can see why the exposition was necessary - the writers and producers only had ten hours of television to tell a very complicated story in and try and gain a third year for the fans.

Season 2's most welcome surprise was the introduction of lizard Queen Anna's mother, Diana, played to perfection by the original series' Jane Badler. Though Jane played a character with the same name over 20 years ago, this Diana was not the same Diana audiences loved to hate in the 1980's. This Diana was a Queen in exile playing cat and mouse with her own daughter. The dynamic between both actresses was electrifying and you frequently felt Anna had met her match. While the humans stumbled around trying to figure out how to save humanity from a vastly superior alien force, Diana tormented her daughter, creating doubt and sewing division with the raise of an eyebrow and a carefully planted suggestion.

In addition to Jane's highly publicized return, season 2 also gave audiences a great many twists and turns, including:
- the return of Mark Singer, the original series' Mike Donovan;
- an international resistance that finally started to do something other than debate the need to take action;
- technology versus the power of the human soul;
- Visitors without their human skin;
- critter eating in all its disgusting iconicness;
- Erica Evans finding her inner bad ass;
- the death of half the cast, and...
- we learned the Visitors were like a race of genetic locusts in search of perfection in an attempt to save their race.

If season 1 was good, season 2 was excellent. Yes, it has it's short falls like any young series, but in a remarkably short time the series found it's feet and created a drama that was exciting and surprising. With outstanding performances from actors like Elizabeth Mitchell, Morena Baccarin, Joel Gretsch, Scott Wolf, Morris Chestnut, Laura Vandervoort, Charles Measure, Christopher Shyer, Josh Hildreth and Jane Badler, season 2 was a lot of fun and incredibly easy to watch and get lost in. If the powers that be give fans a season 3, those actors that survive the shocking episode 10 cull can be counted on to give audiences an even better new season, because they're just that damn good at their jobs.

We can only hope the series is renewed for a third year because this show, more than many that have already been renewed as of the end of April 2011, deserves a little more time to grow and continue to wow audiences with promising story lines and brilliantly conceived characters.

V Season 2 is a giant improvement over the first season. The season premiere picks up where the first season finale left off...the red sky. We start to learn a lot more about the V's this season including exactly what they look like under their human skin. This season also marks the return of Jane Badler from the original as Diana. She plays the mother of Anna and the scenes between them are awesome. Mark Salling from the original V also appears in the finale, leaving his role open for season 3. The show is a lot more interesting this season with betrayals, shocking deaths, twists, new characters and more. If you thought the first season was okay, you are sure to like this season.

There aren't many good scifi shows and movies that are aired on TV these days. "V" was one of the good ones. The SyFy channel airs lousy "B" rated cgi movies and shows about 80% of the time. Only good shows that are aired now are Eureka, Warehouse 13, Haven and if I don't fall asleep, Alphas. When ABC cancelled "V", I cancelled my pre-order of the 2 season of "V". Not to protest ABC decision to cancelled this great show, but I don't like buying something that will not have a good ending. In my opinion, "V" did not have and will not have a good ending. I bought the entire series of "Lost" because it was a great show and it had a good ending which was planned long before the finale.

So here's a message for the yahoos at ABC. Shame on you.

So go ahead guys, click on the option, "No" when asked was this review helpful. I don't care what you think. I'm glad I gave my two cents to those yahoos at ABC really stink!

This is why I hate network TV. They get us to watch these shows and without consideration for the audience, which invested the time to watch 2 seasons (22 episodes), they leave the season finale on a cliff hanger then cancel the show. This has happened to me way too offen. This disturbing pattern seem to be happening more and more. Shows like "The Unit" (CBS), Reaper (CW), 4400 (USA) and "Heroes" (NBC) all were left on cliff hangers at the end of the season only to be canceled. This almost never happens to shows on HBO, Showtime and Starz. WTF. If the show is not getting the rating they want or expect all they have to do is a two hour movie TV special and tie up the story. Would you buy an unfinished book? Then why buy an unfinished TV series? Save your money and buy shows with awesome finales. Try "Six Feet Under", "Friday Night Lights" or the BBC version of "The Office".

The first season of "V" was like most others, a lot of time spent on trying to 'get it's legs', as it were. Season 2 seemed to bring the story along quiet nicely with an amazing, cliff-hanger finale that will leave you on the edge of your seat.

As fans are anxiously awaiting the story to continue...not so fast. The network, in its usual short sighted decision making process, which rarely gives any series the necessary time to develop, and has canceled future seasons. So unless you like watching the first two parts of a 3, 4, or more part series and enjoy an incomplete story, I'd skip it.

The new remake of "V" is very good, and season 2 is quiet excellent, but we will not even consider watching a new series like "Falling Skies", or "Terra-Nova", and others, unless we know the story continues, or at the very least, concludes.

We were under the false impression the series would "do justice to the original series" and other such quotes from the network and producers, that the series would continue and come to an end. Well it ended all right, abruptly, and with viewers hanging. This is not "justice to the original series".

I'm surprised this series on DVD makes a ranking of any kind. This is the reason for my low rating. The series is quiet good, and season 2 is excellent, but it's half of a story. Unless you're the type that likes ripping out the last few pages of that sci-fi drama book, and feeling satisfied, I'd pass.

This is a wonderful series. The writers and the producers are beyond reproach with putting this series together. the actors are well beyond profetionalism and really bring you into the story. the series has not been canceled as of yet but only delayed acording to ABC. There arent very many SCI FI action dramas out there and right now ABC basicly has a huge fan base to pool from. if they actually cancel this show it would set ABC back with all the other bland progaming the other networks have at the moment.

I hope this series goes on for many more seasons and my hats off to all the wonderful hard working men and women who make V the Series what it is.

Edit:7/18/2011 Now that the show is officially canceled i absolutely refuse to support ABC nor will i watch any of their programming. The executives appear too be mindless bafoons that would not know good programming if it hit them in there butts. mabie they should run as politicians .... they will fit in with all the other brain dead politicians!!!!!

I have always been a big fan of V since it premiered back in the 80's. I was thrilled to see them remaking it. The first season was terrific. The only problem i have with this is that it is very different from the original series. For example, V- the first season said that when anna found out about the hybrid baby she said she thought it wasn't possible and in the beginning of season 2(which they brought back diana, which is great) diana also thought it wasn't possible for humans and
Vs to have a baby. That didn't make sense because in the original series, it was diana that had the V(Brian)to sleep with Robin Maxwell, which produced "elizabeth". That's just one example. But this series is still really great. I was thrilled to see Marc Singer at the season 2 finale. He said he was leader of project aries to save humanity. It was neat to see that Erica's bosses, who acted like they were trying to destroy her, which turns out they were just making sure she could be trusted to join project aries. I just wish that Marc singer would have come back as "mike dovovan" instead of "Lars" I hope how season 2 ended isn't as it seems. Don't want to give too much away. It would be great if they brought back Faye Grant "julie parish", Frank Ashmore "philip", Jennifer Cook "elizabeth". I can't wait for season 3 to premiere. I would recommend this series to anyone who loved the original or who had never seen it. A Must See! 5 stars.

Like many, I was a big fan of this show. Season One was pretty good and held a lot of promise. Season Two started off good enough but ended with a really bad cliff hanger that left three main characters dead and two more in serious jeopardy. And guess what? ABC cancelled the show.

If you have not seen Season Two yet, be warned, if you are a fan of the show and buy this DVD, you are headed for a big let down. This is exactly why I don't watch network television. As viewers we find shows we like, get invested in the story line, and then the show gets canned and all those characters you like whose stories you got invested in are left in limbo with no closure. Thanks for watching our network! I should have known better than to allow myself to get involved with a show on network television.

I guess the show wasn't "real" enough for some people. Sad.

And had the show canceled so we wouldn't find out till it was too late. Another great show going somewhere, ending nowhere.

This is the only review I've ever written online. The series and and staff/actors were so great as well as the story line. I bought season 1 hoping to support this show. I will not buy the 2nd season as the jerks at ABC cancelled such a great show! ABC seems to only understand things that hit their "wallets". I urge anyone not to buy this show...ABC deserves nothing after such a great show with a great ending got cancelled!!! I hope people think twice about helping ABC as they warrant no merit for letting down so many awesome fans! If I could erase ABC from my cable box I would !!! It's not the first time they have done something so stupid with great shows, so maybe they will learn if no one buys the show.