V: The Original Miniseries

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🗓️ 20 July 2015

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Special thanks to Bobby Z for commissioning this 1983 classic piece of original televised cinematic history; V: The Original Miniseries. A.Ron had fond memories of this series from his childhood, while Jim experienced it for the first time. We discuss 80's fashion, television tropes, heavy handed allegory, the plausibility of this as a first contact scenario, and the abject horror of prominent matte lines. Oh, and some pets get eaten and people get their faces torn off. That's pretty scary too, I guess. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:54.8	podcast series. This time we've got one that I had never seen before.
0:59.8	It's a Sci-Fi epic on television commissioned by Bobby Z. Thank you very much Bobby. It's called V the original mini series. This is the one from 1983
1:11.8	It has it's very 80s. It's of the era. The one that all the kids in the 80s talking into house fans because it made him sound like the aliens.
1:20.0	And it sounded like the visitors. Had you seen this before? I had. I was an OG fan. I was about seven when this thing came out.
1:28.0	Okay. And I just started messing around Legos and I was really into Star Wars and this movie I watched a lot of it from behind the
1:37.4	couch because when freaky scary she people were getting their faces ripped off and
1:42.1	yeah looking like sleigh stacks or what
1:44.3	sleigh's acts or whatever the land before time guys were that was that was really
1:49.3	scary and I I've kind of appreciated because some of that stuff is so fake. Well all of it's really fake. But I feel
1:56.7	like kids don't really process things that way. I'm kind of like going through this with my son
2:01.9	where like he identifies as terrifying what I see is deeply silly.
2:05.6	Sure, yeah. Because you're not saying like oh that's a really badly done latex appliance.
2:11.2	It's just that's a really freaky crap and this guy being attacked by a lizard monster.
2:16.1	Yeah, she just swallowed what I consider a pet hole.
2:19.7	I imagine those scenes are super freaky. is if you're a the right age and
2:25.4	watching it in the era that it's made for sure because now I mean those effects
2:29.8	look silly but I bet at the time they were fairly impressive.
2:33.0	I mean that's it's always been something that's hard to understand
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