“I’ve gotten emails over the years and letters from people on the fringes who say, ‘Oh, you get it!’” Johnson says. Many harbor a sincere belief that a reptoid cabal really does control the world.
But in recent years, far-right conspiracy theorists, QAnon followers, and garden-variety lunatics have instead homed in on the fact that V’s extraterrestrials were secretly reptilians disguised as humans to mislead us. “I got to thinking, God, how would everyday people feel if suddenly there was a sea change in our life that turned it all around, if suddenly some hyper power rolled over us, just like the Nazis rolled into Europe?” he says. When he gets new letters from viewers, Johnson opens them hoping they got the message, which seems as obvious to him now as it did back then. The invaders in red jumpsuits, dark glasses, and ball caps were actually beings from another planet, but Johnson intended the sci-fi drama to be more than mere escapism.
The writer, producer, and director Kenneth Johnson has never stopped getting fan mail about the miniseries he created back in 1983, which rattled America with its depiction of cold-blooded authoritarians conquering the world. E ven 40 years later, V is still getting under people’s skin.
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