This was great back in the day
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — V
residentevil6901 — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 11:35 AM)
and still is today, I love it. I was 10 and 11 when both mini-series aired and it was all me and my friends could talk about at school. Teachers had to tell us to shut up as we would get so into it. Funny thinking back that far and to still love this show just as much today as then. It's basically just like Star Wars with a small rebellion vs the evil empire but I liked that it was mostly a bunch of average Joe's doing the fighting. To this day though our Army, Air Force, Navy & Marines would've been doing a lot of the fighting so it's funny the complete lack of military in the shows. But that only matters now, as a kid we were too young to notice. Lol
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GalacticLaughter — 9 years ago(October 02, 2016 05:45 PM)
I'm about the same age you are, and I can remember talking about the miniseries nonstop with my friends at school. The original miniseries aired only weeks before Return of the Jedi premiered in theaters (May 1983), so our enthusiasm was primed for virtually any alien/sci-fi type show.
BTW the military is addressed in at least one quick scene in the original miniseries: Mike Donovan investigates a U.S. Air Force base and discovers that all Air Force personnel are under house arrest by the Visitors. Presumably the same thing has happened to the other branches of the U.S. Armed Forces at bases all over the world. (Some syndicated TV versions of V have several scenes missing, and the scene at the Air Force base is not included in those versions. I had forgotten about that scene until I watched the miniseries on DVD.)