On various internet sites, it states what happened to the characters, always mentioning in the unaired finale, if it was unaired on tv runs, was it ever released on video or DVD and does it exist or was it just a script?
shareI have the series, are you talking about episode 19 The Return or is there another? I will be honest I liked the weekly series, though some of the episodes on the 3RD disc were painful to watch. Donovan was my favorite of the show, next to Bates. I believe after they killed off Bates the series didn't make much sense. He wore a pulse-oximeter and if his pulse suddenly stop the red dust would be released and the Visitors would choke on it. The weekly series was nothing like excellent mini series V/VTB. I believe it would of been better if there were not to many different writers, and that large of a cast. What do U guys think?
THX,
Kris L. CocKayne
Interesting.
shareI recall that the pulse-ometer thing was quite convenient. And conveniently forgotten.
Didn't Bates say it was a bluff? At least the effectiveness of the dust? Or, after being killed, wouldn't Diana remember and even ask about it since she wouldn't know?
Yes, "writing by committee" often yields inconsistent results!
Here's some interesting info from the Pop Apostle website:
"Nathan Bates dies in this episode, yet the tanks of red dust he set up to blow if the pulseometer he wears should cease to detect a pulse do not explode. No explanation is given in the episode. However, there was a scene in the script in which Kyle slips the pulseometer off his father's wrist and onto his own (though we never see him wearing it in any subsequent scenes). The scene was shot but cut for time. I haven't seen the script, so I don't know how much detail was written into that scene. Presumably, the pulseometer could not have been slipped off of Nathan's wrist at just any time, that wouldn't have been a very foolproof plan on Nathan's part. Nathan may have been able to disable the device long enough to let Kyle put it on and reactivate it. But then what happened after Kyle's escape from Science Frontiers? Does he wear it for the rest of the series? Did the Visitors later find a way to disable the explosives on the tanks?"
That has always bugged me, see there were so many different writers, they may have forgot? I liked the series, but knew it would be one season since many of the main characters left or were killed off.
Kris
I was very sorry to see the characters in question go, but there was a heightened feeling of "God, anyone can die!" that did rather increase the tension. Other shows of the time rarely killed off characters like "V" did.
shareYeah, When some of the characters started to leave, I knew the series was doomed. It just takes one good character from the show to leave, then they all leave. That happened in CSI when William Petersen left, the show started to go down hill from there.
shareScript only. There were actually 4 more eps that were never aired because the show was cancelled.
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