ABC did something similar by making the first scene of FlashForward available online before the premiere. Now ABC has done it with V, as well. Having seen the pilot (which I liked) for my viewing pleasure, this was the best part of the pilot, and I will watch it again when it premieres on November 3 at 8pm because it was meant for the big screen.
V has had some noted issues, with production being put on hiatus for a while to address those issues. Then ABC announced it would air the first for episodes but then put the show itself on hiatus before bringing it back sometime in the new year.
Here's the video preview of the opening scene:
That was a really good clip. It almost looks like it should be a movie.
looks promising
this is exactly the kind of show which will either be a huge success or a big flop
Looks good. Too bad ABC is splitting up the episodes.
I won’t watch this so I’m not spoiled for the premiere. I hope the show does well since it’s likely pretty expensive but I wonder how much that hiatus will hurt.
I’ll wait until the premiere.
I hope they re-shoot the scene where the parachuter lands limp. I kept shouting “don’t just stand there! go see if he’s ok!”.
i cant wait. Robert did you like V or FlashForwad pilot better?
hard for me to say. Working against V is that I’m old, and remember the 1903 version
So, FlashForward was perhaps more interesting to me because it was a lesser known quantity.
My take after watching the V pilot was that I liked the first 9.5 minutes best and would likely like the pilot better than the rest of the series. I’m not really personally interested in the premise of V at all though, so take my comments with a grain of salt.
I hope the show does really good in numbers, but I think that putting into 8:00 p.m. and on tuesday is kind of wrong, because we all know the success that NCIS’s have, and adding that this kind of series are not for everyone (LOST, big success in its begginigs seasons but now….; FF, lot of hopes but now……)
It’s going up against NCIS? That may as well be suicide. Especially for a new show with no lead-in. :-/
Plus NCIS has an older audience and those that remember the old V (like my dad) will be tuning into that over the new V easily.
“Working against V is that I’m old, and remember the 1903 version”
I had no idea you were that old! Did the Visitors drive around in Model Ts – from the future!
All kidding aside, I had heard ABC has reshot portions of the pilot. The question being just what of the 30 other minutes got changed.
And again, this has trainwreck written all over it. You don’t schedule it in November if you don’t think initial nostalgia viewers are the only ones you’ll get/keep, and you don’t entirely halt production for months otherwise.
Does anybody know how much the pilot did cost?
Because that ^ is really important if it doesn’t work (THE WAY THEY’RE INVESTING) then :S
I liked the opening clip. The cast seems solid, decent work on the visuals… I’m just not sure this is the right moment for projects at this scale. FlashForward is doing well, but it will take some time before people decide to commit to something on the LOST level.
I think V is highly anticipated and will get a 4.7 for the pilot.
Very, very impressive. I liked the subdued feeling a lot more than the all out action sequence that started the original miniseries.
Where was I on 9/11? Not watching a crappy miniseries on ABC. I was in Manhattan volunteering my time because people were killed and injured on that day. Way to use that in your marketing ABC!
I liked it a lot…I just hope it’s not one of those shows with the ‘mood music’ running through every freaking scene.
Yawn–for such advanced aliens, you’d think they would realize that killing a bunch of people by arriving like that wouldn’t exactly help the whole “We come in peace” con they are trying to run.
And you’d think the producers of this show have never seen ID4 before . . . or the original V.
So this was supposed to be the best mine minutes?
Ack, they are in trouble.
And boy that stupid woman looking for her son was annoying, I was hoping the soldier would shoot her.
But of course nothing can live up to the 1903 version.