Some reboots of sci-fi TV shows become legendary and eventually eclipse the original series upon which the reboot is based. The best example of this is Battlestar Galactica, which in 2003 rapidly became a reboot that made the 1978 series more of a curiosity by comparison. The flip side of this is a series like the 2007 version of Flash Gordon, which is not even close to being as good as the 1930s and 1940s serials, and is basically forgotten today. Somewhere in the middle exists the 2009-2011 remake of V, based on the 1983 miniseries and subsequent series of the same name.
Ten years ago, on March 15, 2011, the new V — led by sci-fi fan-favorite Morena Baccarin — came to an abrupt end. The Season 2 finale, “Mother’s Day,” also became the end of the series in general. Was it all worth it? Was the V reboot great? Terrible? Or, perhaps it was none of those things, and instead, something a bit more interesting: a bridge between one era of sci-fi TV and another.
