In article <5jalr35ha882h4lgp90ndr8q1hb7cifi8f@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jack Bohn
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> wrote:
> *This Island Earth, a very old movie, I don't know if it's worth
> stealing the title for audience identification with a new series,
> but they might actually need to acknowledge a debt to the
> original book for the idea: Earth is in the position of Pacific
> island during WW II; geographically placed in the middle of a war
> they aren't involved with, put to work helping build things they
> don't really understand. It has a difference from those other
> recent Earth-bound invasion series in that the aliens don't WANT
> to take our planet or our bodies, or even to have dominance over
> us, may even feel slightly protective of us. And, possibly, with
> a direction laid out, it wouldn't spend too many early episodes
> treading water.
Actually, this isn't a half bad idea for TV. They wouldn't necessarily
need a lot of FX all the time. I could see episodes of the 2 alien
races working undercover among the earthmen, among other themes. A
differently viewed "UFO" (Gerry Anderson) type of thing.
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In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times
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