Qoute: "Some times a remake of the series is actually an improvement.  Case in point is Battlestar Galactica.  You had to watch it on a weekly basis to begin to understand what the heck was going on (eg who were the good guys and who were the bad ones-once you figured it out, it changed). " Unqoute.

Actually I'm old enough to remember the first Battlestar Galactica series (the 1980s spinoff sucked - except for the motorcycles with the really cool fins and the turbo launch option).
I watched the original series as a kid every darn week like clockwork - and if I hadn't already seen every episode 27 times like I have - I'de do it again.

I lost interest in the new version after like five episodes and stopped watching it. It was WAY too all around gothic and dark, it didn't stay true to the canon of the original, and it was too hashed up, convoluted, and had story lines and twists that the audience had to work on as much as a classroom algebra exam (I caught snippets of other episodes here and there, but didn't watch them all the way through - although I did review story synopsises from time to time on various sites).
 
I think "V" will make the same errors. Too brooding, Too dark (almost to an oppressive level like in "Galactica"), and the story lines will have as many convoluted twists and turns as a bowl full of tangled yarn and spaghetti. A sure fire death nell for any Sci Fi series. People like clearly defined directions in their fiction - subplot is fine - so long as you don't turn it into a maze of confusion to the point where viewers get aggravated and switch the remote over to "Dancing With The Stars" or "BrideZilla".

You'de think that after so many decades of flops and failed pilots - Hollywood would buy a clue and have some toast and coffee and wake the Frak up, but you can't expect corporate monkey suits to have any kind of imagination aside from managing their spreadsheets or playing shuffleboard on the yacht with Chad and Sophie over Highballs.