"V" was one of the most highly watched TV Series in the 1980s.
It portrays in a time when a fleet of space ships comes into Earth and its inhabitants looking like Humans asking to be friends.
Over the period of time, these Human looking Extra-terrestrials are more than what they seemed to be.
They are a race of reptilian beings who sought to occupy the Earth, strip the resources and make every living things on it their source of food.
( Of course, a gun fan would say: "The Perfect Time to use the Beowulf, D.E and the Barrett Fifty ! Big reptiles like Crocs have scaly skins that is bullet and knife resistant.....go figure.....)
AND Man was the main course!
Of course like any good entertaining show, the Human are not going bend over and surrender.
They form underground Resistance network all the planet to resists and drive these invaders.
It was cool and kickass !
Unfortunately, the Humans lacked a vital component to defend themselves from the second invasion;
A Planetary Defense Network.
An array of Planet-borne weaponry installed on various continents would deter any space borne invading force from entering the Earth's atmosphere.
The show's maker used a vital of Earth's history to draw ideas from.
World War 2
The "Lizards" as these beings are known by the humans, are an allegory to the Nazis.
Their stripping of Earth's resources is liken to the Nazis occupying European countries to strip their ores and coal mines to fuel their War Machine.
Of course, the most chilling of all; Humans being rounded up and then frozen, packed to be sent back to the Lizards' home world as FOOD !
That idea came from the Holocaust, when Non-Aryan race are being exterminated, the remains being used for fertilizers, hairs used as socks, skin for lamp shades.
That's not all.
V also shows Human Collaborators working with the Lizards for their own ends,
Very similar to the WW2 Axis Collaborators.
It was so thought provoking that it hit a raw nerve.
Some viewers are saying Robin Maxwell ( the show's character who had an affair with the extra-terrestrial) should be shot dead and tossed into the streets as an example.
Yes, it was that fierce.
