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No, not that one. The other one, that doesn't have 4channers dressing up as it to harass scientologists. The modern remake of the old miniseries, which I never saw. We watched the first episode, which was most notable for the inclusion of two ex-Firefly people. So, basically, the plot is aliens show up in big spaceships over major cities, and broadcast they're peaceful, invite people on tours of the ships, etc. Okay, interesting enough idea. But of course, there's duplicity going on, and the aliens are evil. Sigh. What made me more suspicious was the aliens look EXACTLY like humans and speak our languages and know how to cure at least 64 diseases humans have. Which is all just handwaved with a line about "our scientists can explain it" from one of the aliens. Not well enough to even mention it in the episode, though. They know our languages well enough to know colloquialisms. And yet, in the series, at least so far, NONE of that is mentioned, nobody twigs to it, no mention of scientists going "This is astronomically unlikely", etc. This is not a sci-fi show, it's a conspiracy show. Which I realized when it headed into one of my least favorite tropes, the "Authorities are useless!" one. So, these aliens show up with way too good knowledge about humans, located over all our major cities, and allegedly have infiltrators in all our important areas. Which is why the authorities are useless. Except, seriously, the alien infiltrators should be outnumbered by many times, and with all the blatantly suspicious stuff going on, people are going to catch on, which should be enough to get something done. Instead of having to rely on a ragtag band of paranoids, and "trust no one." Hell, the heroine works for the FBI, and when she has blatant physical evidence of alien infiltrators and the aliens' intentions, she... runs away, instead of calling for backup, because there might be infiltrators at the FBI. Again, maybe, but there's only so much that can be covered up. I really hate shows that depict all of the apparatus we've built to figure out the world as completely useless.

And in other Firefly cast things, here's Nathan Fillion's Halloween costume.