Dussicar
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When I was a kid, I would remained glued to this show.
As a child, my personal favourite was "V- The final Battle."
However, when I got my hands on a copy of the first mini-series at a local store two months ago, I began to realise the true implications of it's meaning.
It was a masterpiece of Orwell meets Hitler. The ultimate question of "what if good slams up against propoganda?"
For the early eighties, this was heavy stuff. Most shows had a defined black or white message.
This programme really tested those boundaries, raising the question; "Are you REALLY searching for the right answers?"
Though the Directior/writer was using Nazi Germany as a basis (scientists in the series were treated like the jews), he was also questioning the American ideology that, if given enough spoon-fed information, could a body of freedom-loving peoples become rabid tools to meet the ends to a power mongers means?
I guess our question went answered when "W" rose to power in the States and, to a lesser degree, when Harper rose to power in Canada.
All things aside, I really love the laser gun fights...And those cool helmets.
In grade school we used to colour a patch of our hands green with markers and then cover it with bond fast white glue to simulate the scene when a resistence member shows Harmony that her boyfriend (played by Nightmare on Elm Street's Robert Englund) was not a human by ripping a patch of the back of his hand away.
Good times.
As a child, my personal favourite was "V- The final Battle."
However, when I got my hands on a copy of the first mini-series at a local store two months ago, I began to realise the true implications of it's meaning.
It was a masterpiece of Orwell meets Hitler. The ultimate question of "what if good slams up against propoganda?"
For the early eighties, this was heavy stuff. Most shows had a defined black or white message.
This programme really tested those boundaries, raising the question; "Are you REALLY searching for the right answers?"
Though the Directior/writer was using Nazi Germany as a basis (scientists in the series were treated like the jews), he was also questioning the American ideology that, if given enough spoon-fed information, could a body of freedom-loving peoples become rabid tools to meet the ends to a power mongers means?
I guess our question went answered when "W" rose to power in the States and, to a lesser degree, when Harper rose to power in Canada.
All things aside, I really love the laser gun fights...And those cool helmets.
In grade school we used to colour a patch of our hands green with markers and then cover it with bond fast white glue to simulate the scene when a resistence member shows Harmony that her boyfriend (played by Nightmare on Elm Street's Robert Englund) was not a human by ripping a patch of the back of his hand away.
Good times.
