History YMMV / V1983

* SpecialEffectFailure: The animatronic used to show Diana swallowing a guinea pig whole. It stands out as jarring among otherwise remarkably good effects work for the era (even the above-mentioned lizard baby is [[UglyCute oddly endearing]] in its Narm). At the time, though, [[OnceOriginalNowOverdone audiences didn't notice how fake the effect looked,]] since they were reacting in shock to Diana swallowing the guinea pig. '''''No one''''' saw that one coming.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The animatronic used to show Diana swallowing a guinea pig whole. It stands out as jarring among otherwise remarkably good effects work for the era (even the above-mentioned lizard baby is [[UglyCute oddly endearing]] in its Narm). At the time, though, [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny audiences didn't notice how fake the effect looked,]] since they were reacting in shock to Diana swallowing the guinea pig. '''''No one''''' saw that one coming.

** Both of the regular series' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgndDtqlzU0 main]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sWCZmhh6wI themes]] by Dennis [=McCarthy=]. Both feature minor-key synthesizers (representing the Visitors) contrasted with major-key brass instruments (representing the resistance) to epic effect.

* EvilIsSexy: Jane Badler as [[TheBaroness Diana]] makes space fascism look hot, though it's played up [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/1f/8c/3e1f8c519379c9991ad049eb7df4c8c2.jpg in advertising]] more than the actual show. Plus, she's actually a lizard wearing human skin.

** [[TheBaroness Diana]] is the former lover of the Visitors' militaristic Leader and the [[DragonInChief real power in the invasion force]]. Diana is the architect of the plot [[ToServeMan to harvest humans for food]] after draining Earth's water, dealing with any potential threats via the horrific "[[MindRape conversion procedure]]" where she personally oversees these tortures, during which the victim is haunted with vivid nightmares until they've either been {{brainwashed}} into obedience or rendered a vegetable. Diana delights in performing experiments on her prisoners, organizing the discrediting or murder of any who may pose a threat to the Visitors while performing further painful brainwashing procedures. When cornered, Diana shows no compunction murdering her own people to escape and survive.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The animatronic used to show Diana swallowing a guinea pig whole. It stands out as jarring among otherwise remarkably good effects work for the era (even the above-mentioned lizard baby is [[UglyCute oddly endearing]] in its Narm).
** At the time, [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny audiences didn't notice how fake the effect looked,]] since they were reacting in shock to Diana swallowing the guinea pig. '''''No one''''' saw that one coming.

** The moody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqRuiqtoGjI main theme]] from ''The Final Battle'' by Barry De Vorzon sounds both alien and fascistic and the same time, reflecting that the Visitors are a ReptilianConspiracy of alien [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Nazis]].

* FoeYay: Diana and Mike Donovan. Especially seeing as they share a kiss when Diana uses hologram technology to pretend to be the mother of his son.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The main theme from ''The Final Battle'' has been described as sounding like Music/PeterGabriel's "Rhythm of the Heat" crossed with Brad Fiedel's ''[[Film/TheTerminator Terminator]]'' theme by way of Creator/JohnCarpenter.

* MoralEventHorizon: Daniel Bernstein steadily becomes worse as [[LesCollaborateurs he joins the visitors]], using his newfound power for petty acts of cruelty and to threaten other people to get what he wants. He eventually kills Ruby Engels, an old woman who was spying for the resistance in the Visitor Headquarters, in cold blood despite her pleas to him to let her go and how she's known him since he was a kid; that action is portrayed as the point of no return for him, [[spoiler:and the resistance sets him up to be killed when they raid his house later on.]]

* MoralEventHorizon: Daniel Bernstein steadily becomes worse as [[LesCollaborateurs he joins the visitors]], using his newfound power for petty acts of cruelty and to threaten other people to get what he wants. He eventually kills an old woman who was spying for the resistance in the Visitor Headquarters, despite her pleas to him to let her go and how she's known him since he was a kid; that action is portrayed as the point of no return for him, [[spoiler:and the resistance sets him up to be killed when they raid his house later on.]]