It's what we call a refit, mate

[wyldemusick]

I just got around to taking a look at Invasion Earth and realized that, my goodness, it's UFO with a refit and Fred Ward in place of Ed Bishop. Needs exotic women in Bacofoil suits and shiny purple wigs, though, not to mention lots of primary colors. What it has in place of the shiny stuff of UFO is Deros...well, something like them. The

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[djfanboy]

I enjoyed it myself, particularly the un-Hollywood ending. And it was nice to see Fred Ward acting better than when Tremors was around...

[lonemagpie]

It was also utter shit and didn't bother to have an ending. It was particularly embarrassing after all Jed Mercurio's talk beforehand about how it would reinvigorate the genre, etc

[wyldemusick]

And Stephen Baxter was involved with it as well, though I can't imagine what he'd contribute beyond some of the background to the nD's methods of transition. Very sad that it has this potentially huge idea in the series and does fuck-all with it.

It's definitely dire, even if the sets don't wobble and there's no rather dodgy concept cars on hand (it never failed to amuse me that one of the most manly characters in UFO drove a lavender car; equally amusing was that none of the gullwing doors worked.) there's some good bits here and there, but the whole thing is a bastard mix of bits swiped from all over -- Doctor X-Quatermass Doomwatch.

What's really annoying me, though, are the biker fetish spacesuits.

As for the ending, was this conceived as a miniseries, or was it meant to have several series to tell the story? I didn't pay it much attention when it came about initially.

[tamtrible]

trying to deconstruct your mushed title there...
Dr. Who, X files (?), Quantum Leap (?)... not sure of the rest, however.

[wyldemusick]

Doctor Who, X-Files, Quatermass (1950s British TV series by Nigel Kneale, which spawned three sequels -- one appalling -- as well as three movies and a live remake of The Quatermass Xperiment that included David Tennant in the cast), and Doomwatch, which was a TV series by former script editors of Doctor Who; the series was about a small elite group of scientists who acted as an oversight unit...sometimes rather harshly. That spawned a film, and a much later TV movie. The first Quatermass film was known as X The Unknown in the US.

[tamtrible]

Of course the sets don't wobble, that's what the chewing gum is for.

[wyldemusick]

Makes sense to me!

And rendered properly in a large pot on the stove, it makes for good alien snot-like goop.