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October 03, 2002
mice are yummy..
i was eatin breakfast this morn and flippin thru the channels on tv when i came across this tv show! wut a great show!! not by todays standards anymeans--but growin up, i wanted to be just like donovan (i refuse to put his picture up)..
they were showin the original mini-series--the very first chapter--and it was great to see how it all began. the visitors arrivin and sayin they came for peace as they slowly assimilate and take over the world. some humans choose to help the visitors while others band together formin a resistance in retaliation..
its interestin to see how the writers were tryin to re-create wut the holocaust must felt to those jews in germany...as they were also actin on the whole cold war scare present in all of america. its also interestin to see how bad the actin and low-tech the costumers (remember the lizard faces?) and special effects were--and how much i ate it up back then. gosh, if given the chance to go back and be a kid gawk over this show knowin wut i know now, id do it in a heartbeat..
and heres the last interestin thing: i luved donovan--i thought he was so coo and debonair in a ruggish way. later on (as many people know), macgyver became my favorite tv show. isnt it fascinatin that both characters sport brown leather jackets??
i gotta get me one..
Posted by cpaik at October 3, 2002 05:26 PM
Comments
Ahhhh... definitely one of the coolest shows to hit the airwaves during the 80's. Even though the effects were cheesy then, I remember being moderately freaked out by how scary the lizards looked. And who can forget Elizabeth, the half-human, half-alien child whose birth inadvertently gave the resistance their secret weapon against the invaders?
You can buy the whole mini-series on DVD at Best Buy.
ji
Posted by: ji at October 4, 2002 11:06 AM
When I saw this show, I made my version of the alien pistol out of legos. I used to love those face peeling lizards and the live food they ate. I have to admit I was attracted to Diana and some of those other alien chicks. Even at a young age. Those aliens used to eat raw meat by the pound. Never tried to eat any live mice though. I left that to the people on tv.
Don't forget the red dust, it was also one of their weaknesses. Gotta move up to the mountains where those freaks can't live.
Posted by: harry at October 7, 2002 12:02 AM