"We are of peace, always..."

[Vigilias]

So said Anna, the leader of the Alien visitors when they came to earth on UK TV screens on Monday evening.

I'm talking, of course, about the new revamped remake of the original "V" screened for the first time in the U.S. in 1983 and 1984 in the UK.

I remember it well. I was spellbound by it and in fact it was what began my so far life-long journey in to fandom of Sci-Fi... sensible sci-fi that is. Yeah, I'd seen the Star Wars movies and sat through more episodes and feature length screenings of Battle Star Galactica than was probably good for me, but they never featured much if at all in my kid fantasy.

When "V" hit the screens in 1984 I was a confirmed fan and recorded EVERY episode for about a week or was it a fortnight on VHS! (Anyone remember VHS!!!) I've lost most of the tapes (Yes, tapes!) great big plastic hulking things with spools that you could repair with any old self adhesive tape if the video tape its self came to grief, and although you weren't able to record anything on to that portion of the repair there was only ever a few moments of bad tracking to contend with ("Tracking"... erm... Oh google it!).

I think I still have at least one old tape lying about but my VCR is no longer hooked up to anything and now with digital TV in most areas of the UK, VCR's are only good for recording what you're actually watching or playing stuff not already digitally backed up.

So... an altogether slower though similar plot and radical changes to the configuration of the Mother Ships and Shuttles - probably to take account of progression of technology in screen resolution etc. Back before 50cm+ plasma wide screen, HD all singing all dancing TV's a bog standard saucer was all you needed and all you had. "Eeeee, when I were a lad, I went down 't' shops fo' me mam" LOL.

I'm getting lost in 80's nostalgia now! I better stop before I accidentally disclose that I was into BROs and once went... D'oh!

SO yeah, very much liking the new series/season of "V".

Anyone else?

What about Science Fiction in general, what do others have a fondness for? Personally I'm a huge fan of Star Trek O.S,. T.N.G., D.S.9. (ish), Voyager and Enterprise as well as Babylon 5 AKA "Diet Star Trek", Doctor Who is a little more interesting these days but I don't feel bereft if I miss an episode.

Of course I'd do Matt Smith for a quid!:tongue: