"V" IS FOR VICTORY, NOT FOR VISITORS!

"V" creator Kenneth Johnson has been pretty supportive of the new version of his concept, but it seems that one thing he can't handle is the show's designation that the letter "V" stands for Visitors, which was never his intention. Responding to a fan asking for clarification, Johnson noted on Ilana's "V" SITE:
   "V has absolutely no connection to the word Visitors. V is and always has been the universal symbol of Resistance against Tyranny. I got the idea for using V as the title for my original miniseries from seeing Winston Churchill holding up his two fingers as a V in the darkest days of World War II -- and from seeing so many Nazi propaganda posters with a big red V slashed across them.
   "Leonardo Cimino even states it loud and clear in my original as he says to some teenagers spraying graffiti, 'No, if you are going to do it, do it right! I'll show you!' He takes the boy's hand and guides the spray paint onto a Visitor propaganda poster into a big red V. 'You understand?' he says, very loud and clear. 'For Victory! Go tell your friends!' Anyone who has ever paid an ounce of attention to my original -- or to history -- certainly knows that. Calling the Visitors 'The Vs' is pretty silly and not only totally misses the entire point in an effort to sound psuedo-hip, but denigrates the efforts of millions of Resistance fighters, many of whom died heroically in their determination to win and preserve freedom."

Comments

[Laurie]

I agree completely. The scene in the original with Leonardo Cimino was the most powerful scene in the miniseries. I feel something very important is being lost by using the "V" to refer to the Visitors instead of it's original meaning.

[hamtyler]

I disagree. This is actually make sense in the New Series, that humans called aliens-visitors as "V's". One major difference between Original and Remake - the sleeper cells of Visitors. Hidden Visitors is around us at least 20 years already and as long as they exists inside all the Media and TV they inspired declaration of "V" symbol as "V for Visitors", which is also a part of hidden alien agenda. In order to confuse people at all. Nice move from funny man Scott Peters.

You're just don't get it yet, do you? But you should, and you will. 'Cause we are of peace. Always... =8-E

[cwg]

in complete agreement with KJ on this one of course... but above all else, calling then the "Vees" just sounds RIDICULOUS!

[Aaron]

This is one thing that has always bugged me about the new series. Calling the visitors "V's" is annoying at best.

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