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Things are heating up on 'V' (Tue., 9PM ET on ABC). Anna, the evil commander of the aliens (played by Morena Baccarin), sends a super-solider to track down the good guys. Ryan and Val (Morris Chestnut and Lourdes Benedicto) are on the run, and the solider wants to catch them. Will the pair manage to escape? And will they be able to protect their unborn human/alien child?

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(S01E08) "Your girl's got a baby lizard in her terrarium?" - Kyle to Ryan

Somewhere in the past few episodes, 'V' has gotten really good. I've always loved the show -- and haven't watched the original series yet, so can't compare -- but I found myself waiting impatiently to see what would happen in this episode. And also see how much scarier Anna could get. I swear she gets scarier every week. She's one scary lizard-chick.

Can the Visitors ever be trusted? Last night on 'V' (Tue., 9PM ET on ABC), head Visitor Anna attended a world leaders' summit and made the human race an offer it couldn't refuse. "We made a promise when we arrived to share our technology and to leave your planet better than we found it," said Anna.

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Last night's Ryan Nichols-centric episode of 'V' (Tue., 10PM ET on ABC) revealed that he wasn't always such a good guy.

In a flashback, he fought with resistance fighter John May, as May pointed a gun at Nichols' head. "How could you do this to your own kind, start a resistance?" Nichols asked May. "You betrayed us for human emotion?"

May said, "Human emotion is not sickness, it's beautiful," and told him one day he would understand. But in a flash back to present-day, Nichols revealed that he killed May. Will they understand?

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(S01E02) See, now things are starting to make more sense. The important thing, as a fan of the old V, is to remember that this is a whole new kind of war. The Visitors aren't coming down in bright red suits with funny voices. Instead they've been infiltrating our society for years, possibly decades.

The question of why Erica wouldn't just go straight to her bosses at the FBI with what she knows is self-explanatory when you consider that her partner of seven years was a Visitor. They look and act like us, and they could be any one of us. So who do you trust takes on a whole new meaning.

I think it's a smart move to establish more of a guerrilla war against the Visitors. And now that the one resistance cell Erica and Jack found has been scattered to the wind, it's a matter of starting over. But, as seen with the developments this week, it may be a race to uncover the truth before it's too late.

To prepare for next week's debut of the remake of V, I picked up the V: The Complete Series DVD of the weekly 1984/85 series that followed the original two mini-series, V and V: The Final Battle. I remember loving the original as a kid, sparking my imagination that anyone I saw could be an alien lizard making plans to haul my carcass to a warehouse for storage.

I tore the plastic off of the package with a bit of trepidation. Not everything you loved as a kid holds up to your scrutiny, or even your tastes, when you watch it all grown up. Which is why I'm sure some people cringed when they heard about the remake.

Would it stink? Would it be just as good as I remembered it? Should I have left well enough alone and saved my fifteen bucks?