V - The visitors

Television series
German title	V - The visitors
Original title	V
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Year (s)	2009-2011
length	42 minutes
Episodes	22 in 2 seasons
genre	Science fiction drama
idea	Kenneth Johnson
production	Scott Peters, Jason Hall , Steve Pearlman , Jeffrey Bell
music	Marco Beltrami
First broadcast	November 3, 2009 (USA) on ABC
German-language first broadcast	July 18, 2011 on ProSieben
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synchronization

V - Visitors is an American science fiction - television series , a remake or reinterpretation of the television series The Final Battle - V is from the year 1983rd The series is about the fact that extraterrestrials as visitors in human form visit earth with spaceships and want to trade with people. The aliens pretend to come with peaceful intent, but have sinister plans.

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season 1

Elizabeth Mitchell plays Erica Evans .

Morena Baccarin plays Anna .

In November 2009, 29 spaceships appeared over various major cities around the world. The leader of the aliens , Anna, gives a speech to humanity promising them to be peaceful. The aliens, who call themselves “visitors”, need raw materials, in return they offer people the use of their technology. They appear in human form, but are in fact a reptilian species. Anna and her daughter Lisa are on the New York mother ship. The FBI agent Erica Evans and the pastor Jack Landry find out through the resistance fighter Georgie Sutton that the visitors have been living among the people for years and are not coming in peace, but are planning an invasion . Erica's son, Tyler, on the other hand, is fascinated by the visitors and, without his mother's knowledge, lets Lisa hire him for the visitors' peace ambassador program.

Anna selects news reporter Chad Decker to televise her messages to the world. By positively influencing public opinion, he indirectly ensures that the United States establishes diplomatic relations with visitors and issues them visas . Tyler falls in love with Lisa and ignores his mother's requests to stay away from visitors. Erica, Jack and Georgie try to organize the resistance with the help of the renegade visitor Ryan Nichols, to reactivate the so-called Fifth Column and to recruit more fighters. Ryan lives with a human woman who unexpectedly becomes pregnant. She does not know that her significant other is not human.

The visitors set up healing centers on earth. Chad is also examined there, and a life-threatening aneurysm is discovered that can only be removed using visitor technology. After some thought, after talking to Anna, Decker decides to accept the treatment of the visitors. Meanwhile, Erica hires the mercenary Kyle Hobbes to join the Fifth Column. Meanwhile, Ryan goes to the mothership to steal blue phosphor pills for his pregnant friend Val and to send a message to the Fifth Column. Georgie follows him and is captured.

To keep Tyler away from the visitors, Erica brings him to his father Joe. Tyler reveals to him that he blames himself for his parents' separation. With the help of Lisa, Tyler finds out that his parents' separation was due to a medical examination that found that Tyler could not be Joe's biological son. Tyler then loses his trust in his parents. With the help of the Fifth Column, Erica tries to track down the visitors' first resistance fighter, John May, in order to ask him for help in saving Georgie. Ryan confesses to them that he killed May when he was not part of the fifth column. However, they find a device at May's home with which they can contact Joshua, who is also an apostate visitor, who is Anna's right-hand man. The only thing Joshua can do for Georgie, who was previously tortured, is to kill him with a syringe. With Joshua's help they manage to smuggle the message “John May Lives” into an address by Anna. This therefore sees an increased danger from the Fifth Column and gives birth to thousands of eggs with a soldier, from which visitors later hatch and destroy the Fifth Column.

Ryan eventually reveals to Val that he is a visitor and that Anna is after her "hybrid child". Val is taken to a remote area for her protection, while Ryan continues to work for the Fifth Column. Meanwhile, Erica and her colleague Sarita Malik become head of the FBI task force that is supposed to try to eliminate the Fifth Column. This allows Erica to always warn the fifth column.

In order to gain more solidarity from the people and to create a mood against the Fifth Column, Anna beats her daughter Lisa, breaks her legs and makes it look as if an attack by the Fifth Column was behind it. Erica learns for the first time that Tyler's friend is a visitor and that Lisa is now also a member of the fifth column.

Meanwhile, Anna manages to kidnap Ryan's friend Val, who is in labor. She keeps her child as leverage against Ryan and kills Val. She also invites Erica and her son to dinner on the mother ship. With the help of Lisa and Joshua, Erica can destroy the "soldiers' eggs" without Anna noticing that Erica and Lisa belong to the fifth column. However, Joshua sacrifices himself. Anna is so shaken by the destruction of the eggs that she causes the sky above the earth to turn blood red. At the end you can see that Joshua was able to be resuscitated and that he is welcomed with joy by Marcus - Anna's current right-hand man.

season 2

After the sky had been red for several days without an explanation from Anna, protests against the visitors broke out around the world as people feared an attack. When red rain sets in, Anna publicly declares that it is a gift to humanity, as the rain cleans the oceans and eliminates global warming . Joshua was able to be resuscitated by the visitors, but can no longer remember anything that happened before. Meanwhile, Chad joins the Fifth Column due to distrust of Anna. This finds a scientist named Sidney "Sid" Miller, who is hunted by the visitors. This is how Erica and the other members find out that visitors need humans to hatch.

Anna now begins to visit her mother Diana regularly in a dungeon on the ship. She had overthrown it years earlier and told her people that she was dead. Anna asks Diana about what she knows about human emotions . Diana sees emotions as a gift, while Anna tries to eradicate them. Through the human skin, which the reptile-like visitors wear as a camouflage, emotions keep reappearing in them.

Meanwhile, Erica and the Fifth Column discover that the visitors altered the DNA of 29 babies while the mothers were pregnant. Visitors start implementing Concordia with the help of the people. The visitors want to build buildings in which people can be shown how to use the new technologies. In reality, however, the buildings serve as landing sites for other spaceships of the visitors who want to complete their invasion with them.

In order to kill Anna, the Fifth Column feigns the kidnapping of Lisa and demands that Anna come to a warehouse unaccompanied. The plan is for Lisa to shoot her mother there. However, Anna sees through the plan, fakes human feelings and tells her daughter how scared she was for her. That's why Lisa makes the gun disappear. At the same time, Joshua and Ryan freed Diana from their dungeon, who now wants to be the queen of visitors again. However, when Anna returns to the ship with Lisa, Anna kills her mother and has Lisa locked up. She has to watch as Lisa's bred twin sister sleeps with Tyler and then kills him.

Erica is kidnapped after her team disband. In an underground bunker she is presented to the last resistance. The "Project Aries" (English "Project Aries") is a secret multi-governmental and military organization to which both her superior and her partner belong.

Ryan's daughter Amy, who is now a teenager due to the accelerated growth, kills Ryan when he tries to get her off the ship. Anna has meanwhile found out that "soulfulness" (English "Bliss"; a kind of telepathic queen pheromone) also works in people. However, she doesn't have enough strength to use it. Amy takes on this task and puts the whole world into a willing "drug frenzy".

Cast and dubbing

main actor

Surname	actor	Season	guest	German dubbing voice
Erica Evans	Elizabeth Mitchell	1-2		Ghadah Al-Akel
Ryan Nichols	Morris Chestnut	1-2		Oliver Field
Jack Landry	Joel Gretsch	1-2		Frank Röth
Tyler Evans	Logan Huffman	1-2		Leonhard Mahlich
Chad Decker	Scott Wolf	1-2		Gerrit Schmidt-Foss
Anna, leader of the visitors	Morena Baccarin	1-2		Schaukje Könning
Lisa, Anna's daughter	Laura Vandervoort	1-2		Giuliana Jakobeit
Valerie Stevens	Lourdes Benedicto	1		Victoria Storm
Kyle Hobbes	Charles Mesure	2	1	Thomas Nero Wolff

supporting cast

Surname	actor	Season	German dubbing voice
Marcus, visitor	Christopher Shyer	1-2	Erich Rauker
Joshua, renegade visitor	Mark Hildreth	1-2	Alexander Doering
Pastor Travis	Scott Hylands	1-2	Rudiger Evers
Agent Sarita Malik	Rekha Sharma	1-2	Sarah Riedel
Paul Kendrick	Roark Critchlow	1-2	Patrick Winczewski
Joe Evans	Nicholas Lea	1-2	Uwe Büschken
Georgie Sutton	David Richmond-Peck	1	Stefan Krause
Dale Maddox	Alan Tudyk	1	Till Endemann
Dr. Leah Pearlman	Lexa Doig	1	Silvia Missbach
Diana, Anna's mother	Jane Badler	2	Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif
Sidney Miller	Bret Harrison	2	Tobias Nath
Eli Cohn	Oded Fehr	2	Stefan Staudinger
Chris Bolling	Jay Karnes	2	Lutz Schnell
Thomas	Martin Cummins	2	Wolfgang Wagner
Kerry Eltoff	Ona Grauer	2	Debora refuses
Lars Tremont	Marc Singer	2	Frank-Otto Schenk
John May	Michael Trucco	1	Jaron Lowenberg

production

The series is produced by Scott Peters ( 4400 - The Returners ), Jason Hall , Steve Pearlman and Jeffrey Bell and is based on the idea of Kenneth Johnson .

The original plan was not to broadcast the series until the 2009/2010 midseason in 2010. ABC decided, however, and the first four episodes of the first season were shown in 2009, the remaining eight episodes from March 30, 2010. On May 13, 2010 it was announced that ABC had renewed V for a second season, but exactly one year later, on May 13, 2011, the series was discontinued. Then fans founded the organization Project Alice via Facebook , which wants to use a petition to persuade Warner Bros. to continue producing the series and to sell the rights to another broadcaster.

The creator of V - Franchise ', Kenneth Johnson, supported the concept for the remake of the original series. However, he criticized the fact that V as shorthand for Visitors (Engl. Visitors will be used). The V always stood for Victory (Engl. Victory ) and for the resistance. It is also referred to in the series. In episode twelve of the first season, Pastor Landry exclaims : “ Don't let V stand for Visitor - let V stand for Victory! " (" Let V no longer stand for visitor - let V stand for victory! ")

Rights to the work

The television broadcasting rights to V are currently held by Warner Bros. , while all rights for a possible feature film remain with Kenneth Johnson .

Charisma

United States

The first four episodes of the series were broadcast from November 3, 2009 to November 24, 2009 for the first time by the US television station ABC . On March 23, 2010, The Arrival was broadcast in the United States as a summary of the first four episodes, before the remaining eight episodes ran from March 30 to May 18, 2010 on a new slot. The first four episodes averaged 9.75 million viewers, while the remaining eight averaged just 5.7 million viewers. The second season of ten episodes aired between January 4, 2011 and March 15. The series was discontinued after the second season due to a lack of viewership.

Germany

In Germany, the first season was broadcast from July 18 to August 8, 2011 on ProSieben . Three episodes were shown in a row. The original plan was to show the series on Kabel eins from March 2011 . The series got off to a very successful start in Germany: the first three episodes were seen by an average of 3.18 million viewers and achieved a market share of 19.5 percent in the advertising-relevant target group of 14 to 49 year olds. The first season reached an average of 2.54 million viewers and a good market share of 16.4 percent in the advertising-relevant target group.

The second season was broadcast in double episodes on Mondays from October 10 to November 7, 2011. The second season had lost some of its strength compared to the first, so the first two episodes were only watched by 2.11 million viewers, resulting in a market share of only 12.2 percent in the advertising-relevant target group. On average, the second season watched 1.54 million viewers (11.9 percent) of the advertising-relevant target group and 2.09 million (6.4 percent) of the total audience.

Episode list

Awards and nominations

The series was nominated in 2010 at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards in the category Best Visual Effects for the pilot episode "We Come In Peace". The series was nominated for Best New TV Series - Drama at the 36th People's Choice Awards . In addition, Morena Baccarin received nominations in the category Best Supporting Actress in a Series and in the category Best Television Presentation at the 2010 Saturn Awards . At the Saturn Awards 2011, the series was nominated in the categories of Best Network Television Series , as well as Best Series Lead Actress for Elizabeth Mitchell and Best Series Supporting Actress for Morena Baccarin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Actor and voice actor of "V" . Serienjunkies.de . Retrieved January 26, 2011.
2. ↑ ABC Sets FlashForward and V Return Dates . In: comingsoon.net . December 4, 2009. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
3. ^ Rainer Idesheim: ABC extends "V" . Serienjunkies.de. May 14, 2010. Retrieved May 14, 2010.
4. ↑ Updated: 'V' Canceled; 'Brothers & Sisters,' 'Mr. Sunshine, '' Detroit 187, '' Off The Map, '' No Ordinary Family 'Canceled Too
5. ↑ Top quota for "V - The Visitors". But there are only two seasons. In: Bild.de . July 19, 2011, accessed July 22, 2011 . 
6. ^ "V" is for Victory, not for Visitors! (No longer available online.) In: visitorsamongus.com. November 6, 2009; Archived from the original on January 5, 2011 ; accessed on July 21, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ^ Bill Gorman: Final 2009-10 Broadcast Primetime Show Average Viewership. TV by the numbers, June 16, 2010, accessed July 18, 2011 . 
8. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: V won't be back until January. and other ABC program schedules. Serienjunkies.de, October 15, 2010, accessed October 19, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Do not be afraid. "V-Die Visitors" as Germany premiere on ProSieben (with picture) . presseportal.de. July 14, 2011. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
10. ↑ Fabian Riedner: «V» is supposed to be ProSieben's summer hit . Oddsmeter.de . June 4, 2011. Retrieved July 9, 2011.
11. ↑ Uwe Mantel: Dream start: ProSieben: Grandiose prelude for "V - The Visitors" . DWDL.de. July 19, 2011. Retrieved July 19, 2011.
12. ↑ Quota check: "V - The Visitors". Accessed on August 10, 2011.
13. ↑ Bernd Michael Krannich: V: The date for the start of the 2nd season at ProSieben is set . Serial junkies . August 31, 2011. Accessed August 31, 2011.
14. ↑ Manuel Weis: Summer hit «V» not an autumn success . Quota meter . October 11, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
15. ↑ Daniel Sallhoff: Quote Check: "V - The Visitors" . Oddsmeter.de . November 9, 2011. Retrieved November 20, 2011.
16. ↑ Nominations and 2010 People's Choice Awards winners. Accessed July 16, 2011.
17. ↑ Nominations and winners of the Saturn Awards 2010. Accessed on July 16, 2011 (English).
18. ↑ Brendan Bettinger: INCEPTION, LET ME IN, TRON, and THE WALKING DEAD Top the 2011 Saturn Award Nominations. In: collider.com. February 23, 2011, accessed July 16, 2011 . 

Web links

• V - Visitors in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• V - The visitors. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 25, 2015 .