V De-Gayed

First of all, my overall opinion of the new V Pilot:  I liked it, but not as much as I'd hoped.  I'll still watch, but I'm going to be downgrading my expectations considerably.  The original V miniseries was groundbreaking (for TV SF), but the new version is instead repeating what's been working recently, imitating other shows like Lost, Heroes, and FlashForward.

More specific to this site, I thought it was odd how SPECIFICALLY they degayed the original.  Putting aside the usual slashing, there were two relationships on the original that seemed to have a deliberately homoerotic subtext:  Diana and the female reporter (who I'm convinced were intended to be in a sexual relationship), and Brian and Daniel, who I don't think were supposed to actually be gay, but whose relationship was, I believe, deliberately tinged with homoeroticism to hit the old "gay Nazi" trope to fit with the Nazi metaphor of the series.

There aren't a lot of relationships we've seen yet that closely parallel those of the original series.  In fact,  I think those may be the only two recreated so clearly in the pilot.  Rather than either recreating the subtext, though, or simply letting it be erased in the many changes, they've recreated and heterized them.  The female reporter is now a man played by Scott Wolf.   And the "Hitler Youth" type recruiter is now a woman instead of a man.

Unrelated to that, I'll add that I hope the Visitors' secret is something entirely different than it was in the original.  There's no point dragging out the reveal for months, making us pretend to be intrigued by the reveal of something we already know.  But if we're expecting reptilian people-eaters, and get something else... that WOULD be surprising.