REFUGEES
Clark Kent/Kal-El/Superman - Smallville
Say what you will about global warming, we are still doing better than a number of alien civilizations out there who have lost their home plants. We haven't blown up Earth in some kind of planetary civil war or conflict with a neighboring species. We haven't poisoned it to the extent where we have to leave in order to survive. We haven't messed with the gravitational pull so that it is going to fall into the sun or dug so deep into the earth's crust that the surface has become uninhabitable. Okay, sometimes it's not their fault, like when their sun goes supernova, but really, shouldn't they have picked a better planet in the first place?
Isabel Evans, Michael Guerin, and Max Evans - Roswell
No matter the reason, Earth seems to be the destination of choice when aliens are out of options. Superman arrived here (again) in 2001 when Smallville gave us the teenage years of Clark Kent. He was sent on an intergalactic road trip as a baby when his planet was destroyed. But really, all that advanced technology and they couldn't manage to put together a rag-tag fleet of vessels to give more of the civilization a chance to survive? I guess governments are the same the universe over. Eight years later the boy from Kansas/Krypton is still going strong in Metropolis, U.S.A.
It's awfully hard to tell an alien from a teenager. Hormones and out-of-this-world abilities are easy to confuse. They must be or Max, Isabel and Michael from Roswell wouldn't have been able to last for as long as they did. In an uncommon turn, it turns out that these three had special powers which were contagious when used on unsuspecting humans. It took a few years to develop but humans were infected by exposure, providing all the more subjects to be kidnapped by secret goverment agencies for illegal experimentation.
Human Matthew Sikes and the Francisco family - Alien Nation
Some aliens are not humanoid. They can't blend in to Earth's population. So if they land in the right backyard, some friendly human might build them a nice insulated doghouse or basement suite to live in. Provided they don't eat the family cat, of course. Enough said about those kinds of Alien Life Forms.
Rarely, the refugees arrive not in individual pods or single ships but en masse. And then what do we do with all the illegal aliens when want to stay?
Sometimes their arrival is not planned, like when a ship full of Newcomers arrived. These slaves were glad to escape from their Overseers and Earth seemed like a paradise. If you think liquor laws or loose, imagine the thrill of being able to get drunk off of spoiled milk - you don't even need to be 18 (or 21) to buy the stuff. On the other hand, throwing a baby shower because your male partner is pregnant because both sexes can give birth may be enough to make your neighbours flinch.
The Taelons - Earth, Final Conflict
The winners of my personal alien creep-fest must be the Taelons. They arrived on Earth professing nothing but good intentions and the importance of recycling. It was what they wanted to recycle that squicked me out. They wanted human bodies; deceased was fine, so long as there was minimal damage. They needed to download the consciousnesses of their fellow Taelons into bodies in order for them to survive. I don't know what it was about this show but out of every sci-fi alien series I have ever seen, this one gave me the most nightmares.
Hee! Marvin the Martina- awesome!! I had totally forgotten about him :)
The Taelons freak me out as well- I think it is something about the way the move.
Great article, Featherlite!
He should have had a girlfriend named Martina – then perhaps he would have been less obsessed with planetary domination :)
It turns out that I now have proof that I watch MUCH too much sci-fi. I think there are maybe four cited shows that I didn't watch regularly.
Bloody Taelons. They were too damn creepy for me.
Hee! Marvin the Martina- awesome!! I had totally forgotten about him :)
The Taelons freak me out as well- I think it is something about the way the move.
Great article, Featherlite!
He should have had a girlfriend named Martina – then perhaps he would have been less obsessed with planetary domination :)
It turns out that I now have proof that I watch MUCH too much sci-fi. I think there are maybe four cited shows that I didn’t watch regularly.
Bloody Taelons. They were too damn creepy for me.
*facepalm* MARTIAN, not Martina.
*facepalm* MARTIAN, not Martina.
TV versions of the alien encounter are pretty lame compared to great movies like Alien, Invasion of the Body Snatchers and Them. But you can't make a series out of things that simply eat people quickly, I guess, they have to be friendly enough for social interation and situational comedy or slow enough that it takes them a long time to take over the world, or there's no viewer base. Alien the TV series would be one episode long, Aliens win, story over.Favorite TV aliens: The Borg. We should know more about the Borg, there were probably a lot of perks to being hooked up to the Hive Mind.
unfortunately i didn't get to see the "ALIENS" series for tv, i just learned about it recently.How can I view it now????The most profound book I ever read that was so intelligent & believable when it comes to the true nature of ET"S is "THE COMING OF TAN" That's the kind of movie series I'd like to see. There's a whole lot of real and I mean real makes sense as to WHO they really are.