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Originally Posted by Chip
Yeah! I love those Anderson designed ships and the purple haired girls in charge of launching them.
I saw the series for a while as a kid and the only two things that bothered me back then; we (the Earthlings) opened fire on the aliens the moment they showed up in episode 1, and later we never really get to see the aliens. Later they were shown to have evil intentions.
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Are you confusing this with Captain Scarlet? (Heck, I sound like Comic Book Guy!)
In the first episode, "Identified", we see an encounter that took place ten years earlier. A UFO had landed and a group of young people (including the sister of Peter Carlin, the Sky One pilot) went to investigate. They were butchered.
The action returns to the "present", with Commander Straker and General Henderson in a car (with a security escort) looking at photographs of the victims of alien attacks. While they are doing this, a UFO arrives and attacks the small motorcade. Straker survives, Henderson is blinded and confined to a wheelchair for several months, and the driver and escort are killed.
Later in the episode they are able to fight back. They shoot down a UFO and recover the body of the alien. He doesn't survive for long. When they do an autopsy, they find the internal organs of Peter Carlin's sister inside him.
We do get to see aliens in later episodes, but they are just humans whose skin got discoloured. In one episode, "The Cat With Ten Lives", it's implied that the aliens can occupy any living body (including a cat's) - the only reason we see them as human-like is because those are the bodies they stole in the first place.
It's also strongly implied that the aliens aren't evil - just desperate.