There's one thing I really appreciate about these older television programs, other than delays for time zones, we were all watching these programs at the same time. Everyone who lived in America at this time was experiencing the same thing at once whether it was the nightmares after a particularly dark episodes or the excitement of another twist or turn of the storyline. That shared experience really meant the world.
You are wrong dear Sir. I live in Portugal and I saw this series in the 80’s at the same time than you. I have friends in Spain, France or England and we all saw these series. You can call it western civilization culture. Of course it is not only tv shows, it was music, cinema, literature. This is now ended or at least reduced and that is why the western world is now divided and eventually a comon ground will disappear.
@@henriquetelles36 I can only speak from my experience living in the North Eastern region of the United States. I have learned that even regionally some programming can differ not to say what happens internationally. I trust that your perspective applies to Asia, Australia, India and Africa too. If so its wonderful we all shared watching the same shows together.
This scene was particularly scary when Martin told Mike Donovan what the other shortage was on the Visitors' home planet. When Mike said "food," I felt a shiver down my spine.
I grew up in the 80's (age 7-16). One of the most memorable times of my life. Then, I had to hear it from just about everybody over the entire 1990's "The '80's sucked. The 80's sucked. Look at those stupid exercise socks and poofy hairdos, Polo shirts with the collar up, and dumb cassette tapes", etc., etc, etc. ad nauseum. Now we only have memories one a once proud and God-fearing nation.
V the mini series was a sci fi series unlike any other, amazing plot, elegant acting and just enough action to make it memorable!! It was a big part of my 80’s!!
Great series but certainly didn't have nightmares about it. You lot must have been week and nervous kids at that age. I hope you've all toughened up since!
When I first saw the Star Trek Next Gen episode 'Q Who' and they did the shot when they revealed inside of the Borg ship and specifically the internal ships structure and legion of Borgs at their charge stations I immediate thought of this shot from V @4:16
The funny thing is, we've learned that water is probably the most abundant commodity in the Solar System. The Visitors could have mined Europa or Callisto, with no resistance, and extracted more water than they could ever get from Earth. But, back in the 80s, we didn't know that.
This really needs updating. The TV series that ABC putcout in 2010/11 was absolutely dire. It had no significance with the original. We need to pay homage to it properly.
I don't know if anyone noticed; but the old man in one of the cocoons was Quinton, the archeologist which used to work with the Maxwell father ... remember ? When he was captured one night, in his car ... was in the very first episode (or the second); well it's him in that sort of wet cocoon with intestine-like stuff (at 2:46) ... Donovan is not supposed to know him, though
I was 6 yrs old and loved this tv series there was also tales from the darkside mini series etc. Real tv u would sit watching for hours in the 80s especially the TV commercials. Im 45 now. And this still plays in my head.
The visitors travelled trillions of light years to get here in super advanced craft yet they don't have CCTV in the mother ship! 😂😂 I'm being picky as V is the greatest sci-fi drama ever!
As a kid watching back then it was hair raising enough to see invaders who turned out to be talking reptiles but whwn it was revealed what their real motives were it got scary.Makes you really think!
It would have been funnier if he had turned on the lights, only to reveal... row upon row of Borg, slowly transforming their mothership into a Borg vessel!
Those four letters Donavan mentioned scared the hell out of me as a child so not only the birds , rats , scorpions, spiders and ginnipigs they eat humans too.
0:50 i allways joked that had that been ship's highly corrosive/toxic fuel/coolant... Donovan would had died there.. and then : -Soldier: Mam.. we got Donovan..he is dead -Diana : Oh ..good job.. how did you got him? a full squad? cornered him into some level? a shotout? infiltrated his resistance? a sniper? -Soldier: no.. he just smuggled back onboard, went to the fuel tanks and drank some and died.. -Diana: .........
It's hilarious the visitors are stealing water when water is everywhere in the universe. They could have even gone to the Kuiper belt and mined it without us even noticing.
When I saw this as a kid I wondered why they simply didn't take the ice in Saturn's rings since Saturn is much bigger than Earth, the rings likely have more water than the earth and it likely wouldn't be full of salt like Earth's oceans.
Being a huge fan of this series, along with the Alien franchise, I always wondered what it would be like for the Xenomorph Alien Queen to sneak onto the Mothership, lay eggs, and have the chestbursters all come out of the coccooned people.
I watched it in the 80’s as a kid, in French speaking party of Switzerland and only now I understand the chance of having such series. It was definitely highly scary but if I had understood V’s full plans , I’d made more nightmares for sure 👽👽👽🦎
This was awesome back in the day a madcap scheme to take the water and turn yumanity into food this was the easiest invasion but it was cool my favorite sci-fi show the remake it would never compare to this this is true classic Sci-Fi TV
To be honest I too thought there would be more than 50 spaceships but they'd most likely have stolen water from closed public beaches, houses everywhere but I let's not talk about aliens drinking water from the sewers I highly doubt in a funny way they would go there to do that unless they want to steal sewer rats to eat too
Only TIME I was ever truly scared as a kid was when I WAS watching V IN its first mini series and THEY TAKE OF THEIR ENERGY COVER AND SHOW THEIR REPTILIAN. I WAS 5 years old, it was Friday night and I was in my bunk bed in my room I shared with my favorite toy Robin of batman. I immediately ran downstairs to tell my MOM AND DAD THAT THERE WERE REPTILIANS. WHEW!! I never let those bastards ruin me with nightmares, because I was unafraid in my DREAMS. I DIED SO MANY TIMES IN MY DREAMS AND JUST LAUGHED IT OFF, INSIDE MY DREAM. I ALWAYS KNEW IT WAS ONLY A DREAM. THEN I LEARNED HOW NOT TO DIE IN MY DREAMS.
Water isn’t rare, it’s everywhere lol. The Visitors could have extracted ice from asteroids, moons and other planets. Kinda really doesn’t make sense they’d come here to get some water. Still though V was awesome, loved this show
Water found on and in comets, asteroids and planets throughout the galaxy is not and never will be rare. Other than that this was a good show back on the day.
On a slightly different track, have you noticed how many times in films and TV, when lights come on for a big reveal, they always make a clanging sound? I've never turned a light on and had it clang.
@@LizCiccone 1. Any planet with life requiring water will logically have some water. 2. Any civilization capable of interplanetary travel could derive water from any number of sources other than an occupied planet. The rings of Saturn, for example.
The TV series after the Final Battle certainly sucks, I prefer to think it never existed and that Diana's escape shuttle at the end of TFB burned up in the atmosphere upon re-entry.
Definitely agree ..the mini series was excellent and creepy but the series after sucked..i was a teenager when it was aired on TV in France but the series quickly annoyed me..After 3 or 4 episodes and the amazing growth of Elizabeth the series lost its interest and was bad..It was watchable but even the last episode of the series disappointed me a lot..It wasn't the same producer who made the series..it was juste a waste of money to see the loves and rivalries of Diana and Lydia..The series became a sort of Dallas or Dynasty in the space..
'In addition to water, there is another basic shortage on our planet...' - 'Food'. 'No...toenail clippings. We can harvest ten toenail clipings from each person per month.'
So this very advanced alien civilization that can travel across the cosmos in very big ship, couldn't figure out how to extract water from asteroids, comets, and ice moons. There's an endless amount of water in space more than you will ever find on Earth🤔
Not to mention the fact that we can make it chemically. If we can do it, why can't they, & in abundance to boot? Hell, what about all-water planets, like our own Neptune? When I watched this as a kid, those simple basic questions weren't even on my radar. I look at the same series now, & I have those questions in addition to yours.
Yeah but back when the show was made that wasn't really 'common' knowledge on just how much. I remember back in the eighties that they had only even been able to confirm a few exoplanets as possible, and yet today we know that probs 50% of all stars have them (or more)
Not really. A lot of SF novells and documentaries in the Fifties talked about the ice asteroids allready. Comming from a family interested in those topics I had known allready in the Sixtieth when I grew up. But point is not all script writers for the show had been SF or Astronomy fans. I know out of own experience
Creeped me out as a kid. But as a adult.....the volume problem jumped out at me right away: even with thousands of ships (1 mile in diameter) how many people and water can you fit in? Probably wouldn't even make a dent in the Earth's water (or person) supply.
@1:30 "It's the rarest, most valu-" What the hell were the Visitors smoking to come up with an insane claim like that. H2O is one of the most common elements in the Universe, (in the top 5, if I'm recalling correctly), and even if the Visitors were correct that water was "rare", it would have been so much easier to simply mine the trillions of comets which float aimlessly at the edge of the Solar System. And yes, we know, that would have meant no invasion, no miniseries. But at least the writers could have come up with a reason for an invasion of the Earth which made some sense...
@@TheSjuris that's actually a dumber reason... The energy cost v. gain equation just doesn't work, if you are traveling light years to hunt humans for food - the Visitor mother ships were big, but they weren't THAT big, where there would remotely be enough cargo space to make the trip worth it.
@@Azazel2024 Google is Your Friend™ "Water is considered one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, meaning it is very common, found throughout the cosmos in various forms, primarily as gas, and is a key component in the formation of stars and planets; its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, are also very prevalent in space."
Like the 2009 remake, the Visitors came to Earth with secret missions. One test for potable water. Two scan radio & TV transmissions to learn our languages. Three sociological studies to learn how people acted. & Of course Four test famous cookbook, To Serve Man !
..There's plenty of Water in just ONE Asteroid to supply the Visitors with more than they'll ever need. Also, when it comes to "Food"..A Star Gairing race is not going to worry about starving. They'd already have their their shit together..
1:34 The rarest most valuable commodity that just also happens to be made up of the 1st and 3rd most common elements in the entire universe that can easily be combined into water by putting a sample of each gas in a space and lighting a match. I would expect a bunch of lizard people in skin suits who managed to figure out a way to break the speed of light to know this. Still, loved this miniseries as a kid. Still do. Double Fake Edit: You know, when this was made these sorts of things really weren't common knowledge. That's the thing about the internet. So much information at our fingertips that so readily destroys any and all suspension of disbelief.
Yuck. Disgusting at thé time and still creepy today. Water pumped from the seas and the special section with bodies shut in machines or devices and a creepy breathe Not dead but not Alive ... Yuck "FOOD. !!!the face of Mike at martin's words. Unforgettable.creepy as hell!! 🥶🥶😨😱😱
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There's one thing I really appreciate about these older television programs, other than delays for time zones, we were all watching these programs at the same time. Everyone who lived in America at this time was experiencing the same thing at once whether it was the nightmares after a particularly dark episodes or the excitement of another twist or turn of the storyline. That shared experience really meant the world.
🥲❤️🙏
Its true
Spotted: The Beast-Master….!
You are wrong dear Sir.
I live in Portugal and I saw this series in the 80’s at the same time than you. I have friends in Spain, France or England and we all saw these series. You can call it western civilization culture. Of course it is not only tv shows, it was music, cinema, literature.
This is now ended or at least reduced and that is why the western world is now divided and eventually a comon ground will disappear.
@@henriquetelles36 I can only speak from my experience living in the North Eastern region of the United States. I have learned that even regionally some programming can differ not to say what happens internationally. I trust that your perspective applies to Asia, Australia, India and Africa too. If so its wonderful we all shared watching the same shows together.
One of the best reveals in SciFi show ever!
Both actors really sold the scene.
That Series, particularly the first one, was amazing!
Both actors had good Chemistry
Frank Ashmore also played flight Navigator Victor Basta on the comedy movie , AIRPLANE!
This scene was particularly scary when Martin told Mike Donovan what the other shortage was on the Visitors' home planet. When Mike said "food," I felt a shiver down my spine.
To serve Man!!
rstyeast73 they needed water for their own weaponry.
@@Total_Recall So the Visitors were really the aliens from that Twilight Zone episode all along!
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 It's a cook book.
@ShaneN37tron_Danc3Howard The Twilight Zone, as the other commentor said, "To Serve Man"
DAMN!......we had the best in the 80's and didn't realize it.
Automan, Manimal, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, Air Wolf
Yep until 1990 hit the culture shifted and all hell broke loose
IT IS TELLING YOU .....THE ALIENS ATE HUMANS ......AND SAW THE WATER AS A BLESSING
@@evelynfreeman4545 the water was primary the humans in stasis with secondary
I grew up in the 80's (age 7-16). One of the most memorable times of my life. Then, I had to hear it from just about everybody over the entire 1990's "The '80's sucked. The 80's sucked. Look at those stupid exercise socks and poofy hairdos, Polo shirts with the collar up, and dumb cassette tapes", etc., etc, etc. ad nauseum. Now we only have memories one a once proud and God-fearing nation.
V the mini series was a sci fi series unlike any other, amazing plot, elegant acting and just enough action to make it memorable!! It was a big part of my 80’s!!
That single word sends chills down my spine to this day.
Food! Yes, me too & I was just a little boy watching in the ‘80s. I wanna know more about who the enemy of the Visitors were.
@@Jacen13
Same with me, only I was a teenager when this series was on the air.
Soylent Green is people. 😂
'The View'
When I saw this episode back then I said to my mom that the visitors promises was too good to be true. OHH what memories these clips brings...
Another thing that made the original miniseries great was Joe Harnell's music.
One of the first "Holy shit!' scenes I remember seeing as a kid. Great series back in the 80's.
Was great in the 80s and still is!!
Back then, 11-year-old me cringed so much at this revelation, I had nightmares for days. But I returned the next night to see the rest of it!
Locktwiste72 same here was 10, back in-86 when it was shown on tv in Sweden. Terrified but curius, could not stop whatcing and yes nightmares😨
Sounds familiar and I was even younger than that. This series was so scary and so good.
me too! and now as a 47 year old, this shit is still cringeworthy
Great series but certainly didn't have nightmares about it. You lot must have been week and nervous kids at that age. I hope you've all toughened up since!
That 4 letter word (Food) struck fear in the hearts of all little children back in the 80s who watched (V) .
When I first saw the Star Trek Next Gen episode 'Q Who' and they did the shot when they revealed inside of the Borg ship and specifically the internal ships structure and legion of Borgs at their charge stations I immediate thought of this shot from V @4:16
To be fair, the special effects look pretty good. It's a short video but the music and the atmosphere put you right into it :)
Yeah, Joe Harnell definitely did a great job with the music in the original miniseries.
a long time ago, but effective special effects without needing computers!
The funny thing is, we've learned that water is probably the most abundant commodity in the Solar System. The Visitors could have mined Europa or Callisto, with no resistance, and extracted more water than they could ever get from Earth.
But, back in the 80s, we didn't know that.
Three birds with one stone: water, soldiers and food.
I was a kid when this aired in South Africa on television. It terrified me but I loved every second of it.
I remember watching this as a kid. It was powerful then it is powerful now!
Now there’s a puddle on the floor, and he didn’t put down a “Caution, Wet Floor” sign. There’s an OSHA violation right there! 🤣
😂
@William Squires Sounded like a grated catwalk, but hey, what do I know about FTL galactic ships ?
😂😅🤣
Best Sci Fi made for TV in the 80s. End of.
This really needs updating. The TV series that ABC putcout in 2010/11 was absolutely dire.
It had no significance with the original. We need to pay homage to it properly.
I couldn't agree with you more, the remake was a joke.
Wrong star trek tng
@@zt1053, TNG was good but not original, a decent continuation, maybe? V was brand new & way better as it was original.
@@GGGritzer Next generation had more longevity. V totally flopped as a series
I don't know if anyone noticed; but the old man in one of the cocoons was Quinton, the archeologist which used to work with the Maxwell father ... remember ? When he was captured one night, in his car ... was in the very first episode (or the second); well it's him in that sort of wet cocoon with intestine-like stuff (at 2:46) ... Donovan is not supposed to know him, though
Oh yeah!
Toi Aussi Fais Toi Percer Gratuitement ! First episode it was
Donovan doesnt seem to knowing him
I noticed that too.
This series was by far way better than the 2009 remake.
Seems to be a theme in every sci fi show from the fifties to now. The book, It’s A cookbook!
Back in the 80's I lived for all of this!!! I was only 3 or 4 when this series was originally released on 📺.
I was 6 yrs old and loved this tv series there was also tales from the darkside mini series etc. Real tv u would sit watching for hours in the 80s especially the TV commercials. Im 45 now. And this still plays in my head.
Best show ever Donovan should of left the taps running on all the water tanks
fun fact. This was filmed at Anheiser Busch in Southern California
Are people still frozen there?
The visitors travelled trillions of light years to get here in super advanced craft yet they don't have CCTV in the mother ship! 😂😂
I'm being picky as V is the greatest sci-fi drama ever!
I watched the first 2 parter recently and it's still excellent nearly 40 years on. A very clever yet simple allegory on fascism.
They show it to you right in your face
When I was 14 I loved this show! It was really good.
As a kid watching back then it was hair raising enough to see invaders who turned out to be talking reptiles but whwn it was revealed what their real motives were it got scary.Makes you really think!
This was also the time of back of milk cartons having pictures of missing children all across America!!!!
It would have been funnier if he had turned on the lights, only to reveal... row upon row of Borg, slowly transforming their mothership into a Borg vessel!
I wish Netflix would reboot it close to the original version.
the best fucking show in this lifetime whenever i am dead gone i will look back and long remember "V" with all its suspense and drama !
I can't believe they never got Marc Singer to guest star on star trek tng
Those four letters Donavan mentioned scared the hell out of me as a child so not only the birds , rats , scorpions, spiders and ginnipigs they eat humans too.
This was a good show.
I love how Donovan just drinks something out of a tank he doesn't even know what contains. Ok, it's water. But it might have been something else.
What a brilliantly acted, well written tight scene. We dont see shows like this anymore.
0:50 i allways joked that had that been ship's highly corrosive/toxic fuel/coolant... Donovan would had died there.. and then :
-Soldier: Mam.. we got Donovan..he is dead
-Diana : Oh ..good job.. how did you got him? a full squad? cornered him into some level? a shotout? infiltrated his resistance? a sniper?
-Soldier: no.. he just smuggled back onboard, went to the fuel tanks and drank some and died..
-Diana: .........
Excellent indeed!
It's hilarious the visitors are stealing water when water is everywhere in the universe. They could have even gone to the Kuiper belt and mined it without us even noticing.
Or Neptune, it's a literal ALL WATER planet.
When I saw this as a kid I wondered why they simply didn't take the ice in Saturn's rings since Saturn is much bigger than Earth, the rings likely have more water than the earth and it likely wouldn't be full of salt like Earth's oceans.
Being a huge fan of this series, along with the Alien franchise, I always wondered what it would be like for the Xenomorph Alien Queen to sneak onto the Mothership, lay eggs, and have the chestbursters all come out of the coccooned people.
Cool visuals to have the Visitor Laser guns against the Xenomorphs...AND to see what Xenomorphs look like when Chestbursters come out of Visitors
@@TheGrafton12 Yeah, they'd probably be able to use them as hosts too. Nothing says the hosts have to be mammals.
😆😅🤣😂
It's a cookbook!
I watched it in the 80’s as a kid, in French speaking party of Switzerland and only now I understand the chance of having such series. It was definitely highly scary but if I had understood V’s full plans , I’d made more nightmares for sure 👽👽👽🦎
Creepiest sci-fi horror Revelation ever.
Also:
"Would you like some fries with that?"
"No, just cottage cheese."
This was awesome back in the day a madcap scheme to take the water and turn yumanity into food this was the easiest invasion but it was cool my favorite sci-fi show the remake it would never compare to this this is true classic Sci-Fi TV
It’s a cookbook 😂
wow i think they told us the real plan> seems to be happpening now
The Reptilian Agenda enslavement of humanity and planet Earth.
If the Visitors were really hungry why didn’t they just ask for all the rodents on earth
This scene reminds me of the old twilight zone episode. To serve man.
Så jäkla bra scener....
fifth colony enemies which the
visitors fight against such a great series I'd like it to return once again .
Never trust an alien..
As a boy, long time ago, i loved this show! Thanks for sharing man, T.
How did the Visitors expect to store all the water from Earth in their motherships. The fleet only had 50.
Other ships were on the way, and in the book(s) , they mention some form of compression .
To be honest I too thought there would be more than 50 spaceships but they'd most likely have stolen water from closed public beaches, houses everywhere but I let's not talk about aliens drinking water from the sewers I highly doubt in a funny way they would go there to do that unless they want to steal sewer rats to eat too
Only TIME I was ever truly scared as a kid was when I WAS watching V IN its first mini series and THEY TAKE OF THEIR ENERGY COVER AND SHOW THEIR REPTILIAN. I WAS 5 years old, it was Friday night and I was in my bunk bed in my room I shared with my favorite toy Robin of batman. I immediately ran downstairs to tell my MOM AND DAD THAT THERE WERE REPTILIANS. WHEW!! I never let those bastards ruin me with nightmares, because I was unafraid in my DREAMS. I DIED SO MANY TIMES IN MY DREAMS AND JUST LAUGHED IT OFF, INSIDE MY DREAM. I ALWAYS KNEW IT WAS ONLY A DREAM. THEN I LEARNED HOW NOT TO DIE IN MY DREAMS.
Water isn’t rare, it’s everywhere lol. The Visitors could have extracted ice from asteroids, moons and other planets. Kinda really doesn’t make sense they’d come here to get some water.
Still though V was awesome, loved this show
Yes but earth is easy work for them and humans are gullible! LOL
Yes, but they were here for other things. Like eating human flesh for food purposes.
A 👍 and creepy sci fi 📺 series!
Praying for our water.
Water found on and in comets, asteroids and planets throughout the galaxy is not and never will be rare. Other than that this was a good show back on the day.
4:10 food...
No thats disgusting
we ran out of catboys
On a slightly different track, have you noticed how many times in films and TV, when lights come on for a big reveal, they always make a clanging sound? I've never turned a light on and had it clang.
Water is one of the most plentiful substances in the universe. No need to invade a planet for it.
Not on all planets have water.
@@LizCiccone 1. Any planet with life requiring water will logically have some water.
2. Any civilization capable of interplanetary travel could derive water from any number of sources other than an occupied planet. The rings of Saturn, for example.
They should have left it as a mini series. Making it a series was a big mistake.
The TV series after the Final Battle certainly sucks, I prefer to think it never existed and that Diana's escape shuttle at the end of TFB burned up in the atmosphere upon re-entry.
Foebane72 TFB was good in it’s heyday, V:The Series was watchable to a point but ran it’s course after so many episodes and OTT storylines.
Definitely agree ..the mini series was excellent and creepy but the series after sucked..i was a teenager when it was aired on TV in France but the series quickly annoyed me..After 3 or 4 episodes and the amazing growth of Elizabeth the series lost its interest and was bad..It was watchable but even the last episode of the series disappointed me a lot..It wasn't the same producer who made the series..it was juste a waste of money to see the loves and rivalries of Diana and Lydia..The series became a sort of Dallas or Dynasty in the space..
It wasn't a mistake to make a 'V' serie.
It was a mistake to make a 'V' serie without any decent budget.
They should have just done another miniseries
This gives me the chills.
Pity for scifi that water is really, really common in the universe.
the part about being defeated before becomes apparent in the book...you find out who they are really good read.
Have you read V: The Second Generation ?
Is that Hebrew writing on the water tanks? It’s been them all along. I knew it!
Ffs I’m JOKING!
No bagels for you!
@Greg Pettis That was the intention. V was an allegory for the holocaust and the Nazis.
V was very much an allegory for the holocaust
'In addition to water, there is another basic shortage on our planet...'
- 'Food'.
'No...toenail clippings. We can harvest ten toenail clipings from each person per month.'
So this very advanced alien civilization that can travel across the cosmos in very big ship, couldn't figure out how to extract water from asteroids, comets, and ice moons. There's an endless amount of water in space more than you will ever find on Earth🤔
Not to mention the fact that we can make it chemically. If we can do it, why can't they, & in abundance to boot? Hell, what about all-water planets, like our own Neptune? When I watched this as a kid, those simple basic questions weren't even on my radar. I look at the same series now, & I have those questions in addition to yours.
Yes, but it’s water and food. Why make two pit stops when you only need one?
To be fair, in the 80s water was believed to be rare. We know better now.
Neptune is not a water planet.
3:00 DUKE NUKUM COMES KICKING DOWN THE DOOR OK BITCHES IT'S GAME TIME!
Even here he's lying there is massive amounts in our own asteroid belt 😅
I suppose a human lasagne sounds quite delicious
Shortage of Water and Food……that’s Earth’s near future….
Here is the thing, there is tons of water in comets that circle the solar system, probably more than on all of Earth.
I was thinking that same thing lol. Not mention some of the moons like Europa
Yeah but back when the show was made that wasn't really 'common' knowledge on just how much. I remember back in the eighties that they had only even been able to confirm a few exoplanets as possible, and yet today we know that probs 50% of all stars have them (or more)
Samas - good point. We did have very limited knowledge back then. Imagine what we'll know tomorrow :)
Not really. A lot of SF novells and documentaries in the Fifties talked about the ice asteroids allready. Comming from a family interested in those topics I had known allready in the Sixtieth when I grew up. But point is not all script writers for the show had been SF or Astronomy fans. I know out of own experience
The only reason aliens would come here is because of us. They are just ordering a _Large Coke_ with their _Burger and Fries_ for convenience.
Scary.
This show was so ahead of its time.so deep.water is the most important on earth
Creeped me out as a kid. But as a adult.....the volume problem jumped out at me right away: even with thousands of ships (1 mile in diameter) how many people and water can you fit in? Probably wouldn't even make a dent in the Earth's water (or person) supply.
50 ships, each 5 miles in diameter and more were on the way
Better be a LOT more on the way. That won't even scratch the surface.
@@09rja In the books (or at least 2nd generation..) , they mention some form of compression technique.
@1:30 "It's the rarest, most valu-" What the hell were the Visitors smoking to come up with an insane claim like that.
H2O is one of the most common elements in the Universe, (in the top 5, if I'm recalling correctly), and even if the Visitors were correct that water was "rare", it would have been so much easier to simply mine the trillions of comets which float aimlessly at the edge of the Solar System.
And yes, we know, that would have meant no invasion, no miniseries. But at least the writers could have come up with a reason for an invasion of the Earth which made some sense...
Hence the need to eat humans as food. The food is the main reason
@@TheSjuris that's actually a dumber reason...
The energy cost v. gain equation just doesn't work, if you are traveling light years to hunt humans for food - the Visitor mother ships were big, but they weren't THAT big, where there would remotely be enough cargo space to make the trip worth it.
Wrong actually H20 isn't
@@Azazel2024 Google is Your Friend™
"Water is considered one of the most abundant molecules in the universe, meaning it is very common, found throughout the cosmos in various forms, primarily as gas, and is a key component in the formation of stars and planets; its constituent elements, hydrogen and oxygen, are also very prevalent in space."
Like the 2009 remake, the Visitors came to Earth with secret missions. One test for potable water. Two scan radio & TV transmissions to learn our languages. Three sociological studies to learn how people acted. & Of course Four test famous cookbook, To Serve Man !
..There's plenty of Water in just ONE Asteroid to supply the Visitors with more than they'll ever need. Also, when it comes to "Food"..A Star Gairing race is not going to worry about starving. They'd already have their their shit together..
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1:34 The rarest most valuable commodity that just also happens to be made up of the 1st and 3rd most common elements in the entire universe that can easily be combined into water by putting a sample of each gas in a space and lighting a match.
I would expect a bunch of lizard people in skin suits who managed to figure out a way to break the speed of light to know this.
Still, loved this miniseries as a kid. Still do.
Double Fake Edit: You know, when this was made these sorts of things really weren't common knowledge. That's the thing about the internet. So much information at our fingertips that so readily destroys any and all suspension of disbelief.
the sun revolves around our flat earth
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V was a metaphor for Nazis and colonizers.
It's a science fiction story. It's called "suspension of disbelief." Lighten up, Francis.
"How to Cook Forty Humans" Cookbook.
Funny how a race with interstellar ships could get a lot of water very easily from any comet in the Oort Cloud.
But they need food too. Why not kill two birds with one stone?
love it, however kinda of a stupid plot as water is abundant everywhere in the universe lol
Yuck. Disgusting at thé time and still creepy today. Water pumped from the seas and the special section with bodies shut in machines or devices and a creepy breathe Not dead but not Alive ... Yuck "FOOD. !!!the face of Mike at martin's words. Unforgettable.creepy as hell!! 🥶🥶😨😱😱
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And I am sure these poor humans in the stasis capsules are undergoing a bad case of Reptile Dysfunction. :-D
My chemistry is a little off, but wouldn't those ships, all that metal, be very, very costly in terms of water/water pollution?
Everyone who watched this, flunked basic chemistry. Aliens can fly through space…. But they can’t mix Hydrogen and Oxygen together??
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Today with nearly 8,000,000,000 people on this planet, we could spare a few billion.
Are you volunteering?
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Yes, I'm volunteering one orange dotard.
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That part of the mother ship looked so similar to the nostromo in alien
People: it ain't Soylent Green this time.
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A race that can travel through space comes to Earth for what reason? A 'hamburger' and a drink... 🙂