One of the defining moments of my childhood was the TV mini-series "V", with the benevolent looking human invaders that were really lizards underneath here to steal water and humans for food.  I watched it mostly for the blue laser assault weapons (AR-15 fan in the making).  But my mom wouldn't let me watch it, so I had to sneak in a half hour or so in another room and have my friends fill me in later at school.

I saw a DVD copy of it for sale at Wal-Mart and bought it on the spot!  Full length, uncut!  And I don't even own a DVD player yet!  I borrowed one and watched the whole thing today!

What shocked me was this:  I remember the story having a bit to do with power, who had it, and what people did as a result of it, either fighting the aliens, sucking up to them, or ignoring the situation.  But as a ten-year-old, I missed the whole connection to the Nazi's, and how it was a repeat of their sinister takeover of society.  I found myself in shock over the parallels both to the Nazi's, and to similar events, though on a much smaller scale, in AMERIKA!  I even blurted out loud at one point "Gee, they'd never make a movie like this today!"  to many similarities in our own culture.

Anybody remember this?  EXCELLENT SHOW! I strongly recommend that you folks pick this up and watch it.  I'm going to use it as an ant-fascist education tool for my kids when they're old enough.

Plus there's a good shootout with M-16A1's...

I rented it once.  Don't remember it.  Must be I snorted too much spam...

I was just waiting for Willy to have 6" scissor blades spring out of his hand and go give Diana a fatal nightmare...[;D]