So you think it's impossible that the writers/producers/directors of V are using it as tool for social criticism?

Hopefully, the writer was just being somewhat ironic.

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So, were the episodes shot and written before the Obama campaign? Is the new version a word-for-word copy of the original show? I seriously don't know the answer to either question. Regardless, I'm not sure it matters. The fact that it is 20 years old seems to me a pretty week argument as surely you can agree that a remake of say, Animal Farm, done in 2005 could have been a not so subtle critique of the Bush administration, right?

Either way I haven't seen it, nor am I likely to watch it, so I have no clue if the article is way off base, but it certainly seems within the realm of possibility that the creators of the new show had some sense of how the themes of the show may resonate with certain audiences and the conclusions that those audiences might draw from those themes. And I think that's perfectly legitimate.

"the original series was somewhat metaphorical and played on the broader themes of Soviet expansionism throughout Eastern Europe"

The original series was pretty much a direct play on the Nazis, not the Soviets. With the uniforms, the youth supoort groups, and even the symbol used by the Visitors (which is a couple strokes short of a Swastika), the original author has commented on the Nazis and French resistance groups as his inspiration for the series.