"V" - A Libertarian Review

Well, the remake of the 1980s miniseries "V" has ended its four episode fall run and I say, so far so good!

*WARNING SPOILERS AHEAD*

Essentially the show is about an alien race that refer to themselves as "The Visitors", or "V", that have come to Earth promising friendship with their catch phrase, "We are of peace, always." They claim that they need water and some other minerals and in exchange they will offer their superior medicine and technology. However, we soon find out that not everything is as it seems. Through an underground resistance, we learn that the Visitors have slowly infiltrated every facet of our world, through government, religion, business, and have twisted each thing to make the world a chaotic place that is in search of a savior. That is when the Visitors make their presence known.

The show (so far) has appeared to be very libertarian, and this makes me ecstatic! It is fairly rare to come across something libertarian on TV, so we libertarians tend to get REALLY excited when a show like this comes along. We have had lots (and I mean LOTS) of criticism of blind devotion and unquestioning loyalty to the wonderful V's (which can easily be read as the government or the presidency specifically), a little shot at universal health care (though probably for the wrong reasons), and a shout out to the dangers of vaccines, mandatory vaccines in particular (what with the possibility of a mandatory swine flu vaccination).

Another good reason to tune in is that the leader of the Visitors is played wonderfully by Morena Baccarin, who played Inara Serra in the show "Firefly", which was also very libertarian.

"V" manages to combine a great alien invasion story, with some very awesome libertarian themes and, so far, I am loving it!

Yours in Liberty,

Andy