they’re baaaaack. sort of. okay, so they’re in development. and there are no signs that we’ll be seeing the return of marc singer (yeah, the beastmaster) and robert englund (yeah, the guy that played freddy). but when all of the networks seem bound and determined to give me nothing but new reality shows and reproductions of CSI, i have to admire this attempt to revitalize one of the best television series of the mid-80s.
still haven’t figured it out? v, the then-amazing alien-invasion mini-series is doing a come-back in the form of a new three-hour movie. if you saw it back in the day, you remember it fondly and remember how freakin’ cool it was and how it jived perfectly with the pre-1984 jitters in the air. you remember how the aliens hid behind big aviator sunglasses and you couldn’t tell what was more frightening: the fact that their human skin would peel away to show the scaly alien beneath… or how the iconography and militarism was incredibly creepy in that just-like-nazi-germany kind of way.
but do yourself a favor. don’t seek it out on video and avoid the reruns. this is another of those childhood memories that we would be better to leave intact, coloured by imagination and faded by time. the effects really weren’t that good, the makeup was rather low-end… and really… you don’t want to see marc singer trying to emote again, do you?
