ABC's remake of V returns on 30 March, having already aired four episodes last year before "creative problems" forced the show into extended hiatus. It wasn't a promising situation, and the episodes themselves were watchable but mediocre. But it's early days, so things can improve. Scott Rosenbaum (The Shield, Chuck) is now V's showrunner, and he has some interesting ideas on how to transform the show into a critical, commercial success:
"I never was quite sure from the first four episodes what [the show] was really about, outside of just 'Visitors have come.' What I told [the studio] about how I see it is that, at its spine, it's really about two mothers and how far that they're willing to go to protect their children. To me, Anna is the mother of all Vs..."
"One of the things that I wanted to make clear in my version of the show was that Anna is not evil at all: Anna is simply an animal. She's a mother and she just wants to protect her children, her species, and she doesn't have anything against humanity. She's not evil... we're just something that stands in the way of her children's future. In [that] way, Erica's the same... even though it's just Tyler, her son, I feel, metaphorically, she's the mother of all children."
"It's not just about mothers, though. It's about parents protecting their children. It's Ryan trying to protect Val and his unborn baby. It's Father Jack trying to protect his flock. For me, it's very much about what we would do, as fathers, sons and daughters, to protect the people we love and how far that pushes us."
"One of the things that's going to be really fun is Val's pregnancy. Without saying what exactly is inside her, there's an accelerated gestation period. We're going to see signs and hints of what this baby really is, and then, ultimately, the baby will be born. I think the pregnancy story is a really fun story and weird and twisted but also very grounded and emotional. And there will be multiple pregnancies. Val will not be the only one who's pregnant."
"You're going to see Anna's true colors, her true faith so to speak, sort of as a nod to the original series. You'll see rodent desire. We definitely do a nod to that, and then I think we top it. We trump it by one, all in the same episode."
