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OK, just for those unfamiliar with the term -- though I suspect many of you are -- "Easter eggs" refers to tiny visual details that viewers look for, which have intentionally or unintentionally are left on screen by show creators that may be clues, tributes or just coincidences, kinda like a treasure hunt.
In the nine-minute first look at "V" on the abc.com website, I already noticed a few things that maybe y'all did too.
1) Chad Decker, as borne out by the graphics on the TV which shows his image, is apparently the host of a news program called "Prime Focus." The crawl on the bottom of the screen has the words, "denies further cuts to the health care system."
2) When Ryan's girlfriend is using her remote to change channels to watch TV broadcasts of coverage of The Arrival, she first tunes in to WZPZ-TV, then to WIXN-TV (News 8), which both have field reporters providing coverage. The words crawling across the bottom of the screens on those channels carry the same message: "The White House will neither confirm nor deny that the President has been taken to a secure location." The fourth station she switches to is WYBS-TV (News HD), which displays the crawl message that reports of "earthquake-like damage continues to rise" in each city where the Vs motherships are hovering.
3) In an apparent plug for itself, in the background where Erica looks for Tyler, there's a TV news van marked "ABC 7." That would be spot on for New York City, where the channel assigned to the New York ABC affiliate, WABC-TV, is Channel 7.
4) The area where Tyler and his mother Erica are reunited in the chaos that accompanies The Arrival is -- as letters on the side of a building spell out -- Oceanic Plaza. There is no Oceanic Plaza in New York City, the dramatized location of "V." However, there is an Oceanic Plaza in Vancouver, BC, where the show is filmed, at 1066 West Hastings St., down the street from the Vanocuver Renaissance Harbourside Hotel.
So...what did you guys and gals out there see? Anything else? Let's keep this thread going and count up how many Easter Eggs we can put in our collective basket for the pilot episode.
In the nine-minute first look at "V" on the abc.com website, I already noticed a few things that maybe y'all did too.
1) Chad Decker, as borne out by the graphics on the TV which shows his image, is apparently the host of a news program called "Prime Focus." The crawl on the bottom of the screen has the words, "denies further cuts to the health care system."
2) When Ryan's girlfriend is using her remote to change channels to watch TV broadcasts of coverage of The Arrival, she first tunes in to WZPZ-TV, then to WIXN-TV (News 8), which both have field reporters providing coverage. The words crawling across the bottom of the screens on those channels carry the same message: "The White House will neither confirm nor deny that the President has been taken to a secure location." The fourth station she switches to is WYBS-TV (News HD), which displays the crawl message that reports of "earthquake-like damage continues to rise" in each city where the Vs motherships are hovering.
3) In an apparent plug for itself, in the background where Erica looks for Tyler, there's a TV news van marked "ABC 7." That would be spot on for New York City, where the channel assigned to the New York ABC affiliate, WABC-TV, is Channel 7.
4) The area where Tyler and his mother Erica are reunited in the chaos that accompanies The Arrival is -- as letters on the side of a building spell out -- Oceanic Plaza. There is no Oceanic Plaza in New York City, the dramatized location of "V." However, there is an Oceanic Plaza in Vancouver, BC, where the show is filmed, at 1066 West Hastings St., down the street from the Vanocuver Renaissance Harbourside Hotel.
So...what did you guys and gals out there see? Anything else? Let's keep this thread going and count up how many Easter Eggs we can put in our collective basket for the pilot episode.
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