And while I'm at it... --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_re...@...> wrote: <snip> Interestingly > reviewers of the show in France saw the same > thing, and perceived the show as being "about" > Scientologists, right from the beginning.
Wrote Barry mockingly a couple of weeks ago: "Quite seriously, I would bet dollars to donuts that Scientologists -- given the distaste Holly- woood has for that cult -- are completely convinced that "V" is an attack on *them*." So the Scientologists would perceive this only because they're crazy, whereas if French critics see the same thing, it's-- > because the French > know their SciFi much better than Americans do, > and know that the aliens-as-blissninnies thang > is just one more old, old SciFi convention > grafted onto the oldest SciFi plot in history. And from that same post in early November: "If I were to play the 'young, inexperienced critic' and project things onto 'V,' I'd say that it's a riff on *cults* and their dangers more than anything else." Jeez. Fish in a barrel.
