I was not pleased with the new version but it was V and I do like the original very much.
But you are right they like to mess with peoples heads about leaving us on a cliffhanger.
But it was a different take on the original and was well written.
I wish Kenneth Johnson would get on with his Big theater movie version of V the second Generation.
Now I win!
It's really funny, actually. When you first started writing this story, your lead sentence (voluptuous 35-year-old) had me rolling my eyes and expecting a fapfest. Yet here we are in one of the most emotionally gripping stories currently active on this site, pretty close to the level of Personalias' Unfair.