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Original Title: V: The Second Generation
ISBN: 0765359324 (ISBN13: 9780765359322)
Edition Language: English
Series: Kenneth Johnson's V
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Title:V: The Second Generation, The Original Miniseries (Kenneth Johnson's V)
Author:Kenneth C. Johnson
Book Format:Paperback
Book Edition:Anniversary Edition
Pages:Pages: 448 pages
Published:January 1st 2009 by Tor: Tom Doherty Associates (first published February 5th 2007)
Categories:Science Fiction. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy

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Cool to read but with its deficiencies


THAT PHENOMENON KNOWN AS "V"

I was really excited when I knew about this book back then, in 2008.

I was and still am a huge fan of the original TV miniseries and following TV series of "V". I have on DVD, the 2 parts of the TV miniseries and the brief following TV series.

When the TV miniseries and the following TV series were aired in my country, Costa Rica, it was something huge! There are people who may not remember well the story but all of them remember Diana eating a mouse... oh, yes... Gross, but unforgettable.

In 2008, whem this book was published, it didn't exist yet the recent failed "reboot" for TV. In fact, this book was a rejected proposal by Johnson to develop as a sequel TV series, since he didn't get the green light for the production of a TV series, but having copyrights on his own over the first part of the script of the original miniseries, he opted then to publish a novel.

And it was other cool thing about the existence of this novel, knowing that the novel was written by Kenneth Johnson, the original creator, it was a powerful "plus", that he is a legend in making Sci-Fi TV series such as The Six Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman and Alien Nation, so, it was just too perfect.

Obviously, I ordered the book right away.


AN UNEXPECTED TWIST FOR THE STORY

However, I am afraid to say that the book isn't as great as, at least I expected.

This novel V: The Second Generation is a sequel to the original "V", BUT it's a sequel based in how the events of the original story ended in the first part of the miniseries.

The miniseries was produced in two parts: "V" (the original miniseries) and V: The Final Battle.

You may wondered why Kenneth Johnson didn't considered the events despicted in The Final Battle and the following TV series,...

...well, the reason is quite simple, he left after producing the first part, the original "V", and so, in the eyes of Kenneth Johnson, The Final Battle and the following TV series were "non-canon", at least for him.

So, you can bet that for me, it was an odd experience to read the book due this unexpected twist in the story.

I am not saying that it wasn't good, just odd, since the Visitors never suffered a defeat due the Red Dust, and so they have remained in control of Earth during 20 years and the Resistance is in very, VERY, bad shape since many of its people are dead or arrested. Not a bad setting, but again, quite unexpected.

I didn't like the idea of considering "non-canon" the second part of the miniseries and the TV series. For me, they are canon without discussion.

I mean, due this twist, in the book you don't have characters like Elizabeth (The Star Child), since in the Kenneth Johnson's unique "timeline" for the story, she never existed.

However, another dissapointment is that you get really few recognizable characters from the first part of the miniseries, and so you will deal with a lot of new characters, okay, I know, the book is titled "Second Generation", but still it was hard to cope. Since any fan is craving with the chance of "visiting" again those characters that they knew in the miniseries, at least.

Nevertheless, I thought that it was still interesting to read this take of the original story. I had already paid the book and it was on my hands... so why the heck not?


WRITING SCREENPLAYS ISN'T THE SAME AS PROSE FOR A NOVEL

Another critic is Kenneth Johnson's writing style for novel purposes.

I mean, he is an excellent screenplay writer but writing a TV script isn't the same than to write a prose novel.

Let me explain you...

...you are reading the book, and sometimes he makes too quick changes in two separate places, that I am sure it is normal when one is watching a TV episode that you receive several changes of situations, but in a book without even any mark to denote the change of scene, you feel lost many times since you didn't realize that you are reading something that it's happening, in other place, different from the one that you "were" just a paragraph ago.

About the plot, I think that it's kinda weak.

It has a fair good initial proposal using the radio signal sent to space at the very end of the first part of the original miniseries, which provokes that another alien race came to Earth telling that they are enemies of the Visitors and so, they will help the Resistance. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

I don't want to say more, to avoid a spoiler but I just can say that the development of the story is not much creative and way, WAY, predictable.

But I don't regret my decision of ordering the novel since, still, it's a really cool collectible item for fans of "V".





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Look, I loved the original V miniseries. The Sci-Fi Channel re-aired the thing in its entirety when I was in middle school and I can clearly remember being completely into the first few nights of it... and I can also remember being gradually let down by the subsequent sequel and short lived TV series.So I have no problem with Kenneth Johnson retconning The Final Battle out of existence... and I enjoyed The Second Generation. I did. It's just... I'm a FAN of V and I couldn't remember all the

V: The Second GenerationHardcover: 448 pagesPublisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (February 5, 2008)As A kid there was only one show that came close to Star Wars in my love. That show was V. I had every hour of both mini-series and even the horrible weekly show all on Beta-max. I had a V pulse rifle that I could take apart, a visitor punching bag. I even had a mothership technical manual that I sent away for after I saw a classified ad in the back of Starlog. I was a V Geek.Sure I loved

When I was a kid, I loved the two V miniseries and the subsequent television series. Actually, I was obsessed with them. I ended up reading every single book in the series and the comic books. So when I heard there was a new book, I was incredibly excited. The new book was fun to read, but it took me awhile to get over the many changes the book had taken with V history. Kenneth Johnson completely ignores any events that happened in both V: The Final Battle and the tv series, which is really

Where do I begin...Ken REALLY needed to read the original V book by AC Crispin before writing this. He resurrected characters that DIED in the original, neglected to acknowledge the "Red Dust" that killed half the visitor population in the TV series V the Final Battle, certainly had NOTHING to do with the the one season TV series (which, because it only ran for a season many may not have seen) and placed the flagship in San Fransisco rather than LA. The characters are weak compared to their

As a huge, I mean freaking HUGE, fan of the V miniseries from the 1980s, I cant tell you how awesome it was when I found this little gem for sale at the local library. Written by the creator of the miniseries, Kenneth Johnson, V: The Second Generation picks up twenty years after the original novel based on the miniseries.One of the first things that caught my attention and sent me to Wikipedia is the timeline. While I read the first book that matched the original two-part miniseries, I forgot

As the previous V continuity goes, I was really only ever truly offended by the deus ex machina ending of The Final Battle. I didn't get to see a lot of the series, so I don't know what may have come of that.This book, though, tells us the second miniseries and the series didn't happen, and gives us a darker alternate future, and remembers that hey, didn't the Resistance call for help from supposed enemies of the Visitors?Twenty years later, they arrive.It's a neat enough book, although it reads

Most of the other reviews will tell you about the context necessary to understand when/elsewhen this book takes place. I was disappointed that the fates of so many characters in the first miniseries was never revealed... Ruby for instance... I shall just have to assume she died the way she did in Final Battle.The single biggest problem I had was that it read like a pilot story for a low budget tv spin-off. And I mean low budget. In the origonal V, if a helicopter or V fighter was shot down, it