So while many of you were watching polls last night, myself included, ABC launched its new show, V, last night. Its a scifi about an eloquent leader descending from the sky, making promises and offering change.
Anna informs the world that she and her followers will bring us universal healtcare, by name, and share technological wonders with us. Then she starts manipulating the media, who has fallen in love with her, to "not ask any questions that may paint us in a negative light" and says that "you must be more than fair if you want this interview".
Ultimately, she, and her people, are really reptilian monsters bent on dominating and consuming us. They have infilitrated every facet of human life, politics, terrorism, law inforcement, and have set events in motion to make us recepetive to a savior.
Furthermore, they are building a sizable force of young people and amassing "the most dangerous weapon there is... devotion".
Does this not sound like someone else's view of reality to you, or is it just me? Normally I am not one to jump to conclusions about alterior motives in fiction but this just seems too thinly a vailed attack on Obama and Democrats to go unsaid.
Are there points worth addressing here, sure. Blind devotion is a dangerous thing. It is good to be wary of those who refuse to debate on any terms other than their own. Deciept can be pleasant to the eye. But this show isn't even trying to discuss these things in a hypothetical/philisophical way. It is a one sided allusion to the teabaggers' view of reality.
Obama is decieving the world, bent on its destruction. He promises change and the naive fall in line. He promisses to take care of us and we submit. He demands that nothing critical of him be allowed to enter the public sphere, and yes i am aware of the irony of my diary here, hehe.
But this is not reality, it is a twisted right-wing view of our current administration. Should we welcome this? Should we be prepared to let it run its course so we can point out just how not pertenant it is to reality? Or should we be prepared to counter it and its message?
Personally, I liked the original mini-series and found it rather apolitical and would prolly really enjoy it if the reinvisioned one were the same. I have emailed my complaints to ABC and hope that someone will at least dial it down, I don't expect that. If anyone wants to see the episode for themselves its not available at hulu or abc.com till the 6th or 7th. Personally I may just stop watching ABC if the theme continues.