Pete B <xxxh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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)
>
>
But that private group was carrying out government policy. Remember
when CSM and Deep Throat went to kill the alien, saying that all the
governments had agreed to do such a thing. But there was a conspiracy
against that conspiracy that was developing the vaccine.
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