V: Visitors, Victory, and Alien Lizard Babies

Does anyone still read this?

I am just about to watch V: The Final Battle - Part 1. It has been a number of years since I last watched this. In fact I remember that I bought Part 1 and Part 2 together on VHS from Bescot Market back in either 2000 or 2001. I did not get to see Part 3 for quite some time, perhaps years. If I remember rightly I bought V: The Miniseries and V: The Final Battle in a VHS boxset around 2004 or 2005 from a car boot sale. (I love my second-hand bargains) The long wait between Parts 2 and 3 left me feeling disappointed with the ending.  So I'm approaching this now with the foreknowledge that I am not going to like the ending of Part 3. I think what disappointed me the most was how quickly the Visitors were driven out. I felt the story should have a been about a large victory, yes - but not the ultimate victory against the Visitors. Elizabeth as the Sparkly Child, I mean Star Child is an element that is oddly jarring with all the realism depicted thus far. What is sacrifice and hard choices in the face of an all-powerful child godess who can resolve the plot conveniently and cleanly.

I actually first learned about V from browsing a relative's video cassette shelf back in the early 1990s. Then it caught my attention again in a magazine about science-fiction in film and television over the 20th Century that was printed in 2000. I read it obsessively whilst on holiday in Gran Canaria and learned about many films and fandoms I would come to love: Blake's 7, Babylon 5, Blade Runner, and of course V. When I returned to England I bought V: The Miniseries on VHS from the old Forbidden Planet store in Birmingham.

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