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Offline Ace

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V for crappy green lizard aliens...
If a Jewish person watching Nazi propiganda leads to claims of being a self-hating Jew, does my watching "V" lead to my being a self-hating anthropologist?

Seriously... totally... awful. ...and Gideon is one of ze generic alienz!!!! The funny thing is though that it's obviously a huge influence on Half-Life 2.

But still "we eat gerbils! we're evil lizards!" is pretty tacky...
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Offline karajorma

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
More confusing is why on Earth aliens from outer space would come to Earth to steal our water, bypassing the Kuiper Belt where it's already available in handy frozen lumps? :)
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Offline Kosh

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
That show was so 1970's.......
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Offline Prophet

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
Are you really bashing decades old tv-show? :lol:
Seriously. V was a real piece of work back then. Just wait and and 20 years from now BSG will so be laughed at. Then you all will be barely standing with your walking sticks and lazy eyes and 2 feet grey beards. And crying like little children while others are making jokes about viper and dildo. Ha! Serves you right! :drevil:
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Offline Wobble73

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
And here was I thinking you were talking about a new  :v: game when I read the title :lol:
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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
And here was I thinking you were talking about a new  :v: game when I read the title :lol:
Glad I wasn't the only one...

 

Offline IPAndrews

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
I've seen some bad sci-fi shows in my time. V wasn't one of them.
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Offline karajorma

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
V was about a thousand times better than War of the Worlds the TV show.

Watch the episode with the alien who shoots beams out of her fingers if you don't believe me. Or rather don't. It really isn't worth the permanent brain damage.
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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
You're not kidding. The writers on that show have a lot to answer for. The George Pal movie gave them some great source material. Yet what do we get? Aliens in oil drums. 10/10 for persistence though. After the utter failure of the first season it reinvented itself as some post apocalyptic bollocks and actually became even worse. For more examples of truly bad sci-fi how about that aborted BBC show Star Cops? Cookie if you remember that one.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
Space Precinct by Jezzza Anderson was ok, And space 1999 for moonbase birds with purple hair and short skirts. :yes:
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Offline IPAndrews

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
Space Precinct by Jezzza Anderson was ok

You think? That was the next stinker I planned on mentioning ;). That was BBC too wasn't it? Quite expensive IIRC.
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
The Brunette Female was fit,  :nod: It was aimed at young kids dont forget and i bore that in mind when watching. I wasn't expecting Shakespear. It was a bit of fun to wind down from school to in the post-gamesmaster days of my youth.......
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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Offline karajorma

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
You're not kidding. The writers on that show have a lot to answer for. The George Pal movie gave them some great source material. Yet what do we get? Aliens in oil drums. 10/10 for persistence though. After the utter failure of the first season it reinvented itself as some post apocalyptic bollocks and actually became even worse.

What I found especially impressive was the fact that despite the setting of the show no one in America believed in aliens. The main characters would say to someone that aliens were responsible and everyone would be all shocked and "There's no such thing"

:wtf: They invaded like 30 years ago! The destroyed entire cities! Parts of America are still glowing from when they tried to nuke them! :wtf:

Did the US government just rebuild everything and then go around and flashy thing the entire country?
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Offline Colonol Dekker

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
Yes  :nod: it never happened :nervous:



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Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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Offline Nuclear1

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
And here was I thinking you were talking about a new  :v: game when I read the title :lol:
Glad I wasn't the only one...

I actually thought this was going to some weird connection between V for Vendetta and aliens somehow.
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Offline Wobble73

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
And here was I thinking you were talking about a new  :v: game when I read the title :lol:
Glad I wasn't the only one...

I actually thought this was going to some weird connection between V for Vendetta and aliens somehow.

Actually you've just wrote the sequel with that!  :lol:
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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
:wtf: They invaded like 30 years ago! The destroyed entire cities! Parts of America are still glowing from when they tried to nuke them! :wtf:

Yes. WTF. That's exactly how it left me feeling  :lol:. Could have made a cracking mini series too. I would have loved to have seen those sleek 60s style war machines lifting off and causing some more destruction. Maybe it's time for a remake. Someone get the sci-fi channel on the line.
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Offline karajorma

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
The idea that the aliens were hibernating rather than dead was a good one. The idea that they could find somewhere radioactive enough to kill bacteria and not them was rather hard to believe as was the idea that they could take over human bodies.

Having the flying war machines in a show would be great though. Although I for one have always felt that WotW is missing something unless is has Martian tripods in Victorian England :)
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Offline Wobble73

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
Jeff Waynes WotW was the greatest, although if Orson Welles could panic a whole country into believing the martians had landed..................

Oh right, they were Americans..................  :drevil:
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Offline Getter Robo G

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Re: V for crappy green lizard aliens...
One I think I was in Jr high then and said the same thing (Water? WTF)!)... Still if they are giving up the cure for CANCER ,screw it take the friggen water as much as you want! :D

Even when we found out they were Evil Sleestack in Human suits (LOTL reference there ;D) I wouldn't of minded if they ONLY ate people that annoyed me... Some of the ladies were quite hot. Like Philip's aide (the blonde).  (Hey baby, why don't you climb aboard my Rocket ship and we'll invade Uranus? ;7 ) - * Note Uranus is never used enough in these shows!

ANYWAY... They had some cool ship designs for smaller craft I asked awhile ago if anyone was interested in making some for FS2. (Incidently, the mothership was reused as the one for ALIEN NATION).

Micheal Ironside's character named Ham Tyler always made me hungry when they said it outloud!  :p

Think I'm done now... Time to go to Walmart and get some more Red Dust. All this talk of "V" might get them Sleestacks started on a revival or some nonsence like that (sarcastic).  :nervous:


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