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Threshold: Columbia Broadcasting Service
Surface: National Broadcasting Service
Invasion American Broadcasting Service
All three are brand-new series, and are premiering within days of each other. All three seem to have the same premise -- nasty aliens from outerspace are taking over Earth in secret.
If one of big networks aired a new series, and it turned into a huge hit, I'd expect others to copy it as quick as they could. But these are all coming out at the same time, so you can't really say this is the usual case of Hollywood's unoriginality syndrome.
And when was the last time a mainstream network decided to touch any science fiction with anything less than an eleven-and-a-half foot pole (Fox and UPN have for years, but they started that tradition long before either were considered "mainstream")? Hasn't sci-fi long been considered "risky" and "for wierdos"? So, what's up? Why take a risk now? Was there something in the water at a television scriptwriters' convention a couple of years ago? And why do all the aliens have to be evil and threatening? Whatever happened to My Favorite Martian and Mork and Mindy? And did you notice that every sentance in this paragraph is a question?
If the aliens turn out to be metaphors for Muslim terrorists, I will be greatly disapointed in the obviousness of it all...
And one more thing, on a slight tangent: I wouldn't be surprised if Lost will turn out to be something like H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau.
Surface: National Broadcasting Service
Invasion American Broadcasting Service
All three are brand-new series, and are premiering within days of each other. All three seem to have the same premise -- nasty aliens from outerspace are taking over Earth in secret.
If one of big networks aired a new series, and it turned into a huge hit, I'd expect others to copy it as quick as they could. But these are all coming out at the same time, so you can't really say this is the usual case of Hollywood's unoriginality syndrome.
And when was the last time a mainstream network decided to touch any science fiction with anything less than an eleven-and-a-half foot pole (Fox and UPN have for years, but they started that tradition long before either were considered "mainstream")? Hasn't sci-fi long been considered "risky" and "for wierdos"? So, what's up? Why take a risk now? Was there something in the water at a television scriptwriters' convention a couple of years ago? And why do all the aliens have to be evil and threatening? Whatever happened to My Favorite Martian and Mork and Mindy? And did you notice that every sentance in this paragraph is a question?
If the aliens turn out to be metaphors for Muslim terrorists, I will be greatly disapointed in the obviousness of it all...
And one more thing, on a slight tangent: I wouldn't be surprised if Lost will turn out to be something like H. G. Wells's The Island of Doctor Moreau.
