In article <210220081526478965%cmn-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, cmn-
nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> lurking horror <lurkinghorror@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Jack Bohn <jackbohn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
>
> One thing they'd have to be careful about is falling into the
> conspiracy-arc trap that ruined The X-Files and Jericho, and keep it
> more along the lines of The Fugitive or Life, or even 24. The
> government conspiracy stuff is very old and tired. Show a government
> that is lazy and incompetent rather than totally in control and always
> two steps ahead.
That would be X-files then - where they didn't show a goverment (but
private group)
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