Appealing TV: V

Waiting for tarantula eaten from a glass case, and cameo appearance by Freddy Krueger.

Well, the original was initially intended to be an adaptation of "It Can't Happen Here", the 1935 Sinclair Lewis novel about, well, the rise of a Hitler-analogue in the US. Apparently there were issues when it was done as a straight political message, but once it was changed to a sci-fi concept the network turned around. In our current times perhaps it's a message that bears repeating... though, again, it's not like that's for lack of trying over the past eight years.

One minor complaint though is referring to anything as "tonight". It's kind of annoying when no date is alongside it because I'm reading this on the Internet at an indeterminate time.It's not like it's in a daily newspaper where I can generally be assumed to either be reading it on the day of publication or otherwise well aware that it's out of date. Having to then search down where the date of the story's publication is located (not always particularly easy either) just complicates matters. Yeah, it's a bit wordier, but saying that it premiers on "Tuesday, November 11th" conveys the same information far more readily.

I'll pass. But y'all have fun watching.