Pitch Black....

If the hammerheads hibernated, it's also possible other indigenous species did, too. At one time, there were dinosaur-like behemoths walking the land -- if you recall the giant fossil they mistook for a grove of trees. So there might've been a thriving ecosystem that wasn't 'active' at the time of the story.

Farscape...

I agree that the Pilot was a very interesting creature. I would've like to see him/her in entirety, not just the upper limbs and torso we saw in the control pit. It was implied in later eps that the Pilot's species was rather large, and the body extended a couple decks down into the ship's interior.

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"I am Ripper...Tearer...Slasher...Gouger. I am the Teeth in the Darkness, the Talons in the Night. Mine is Strength...and Lust...and Power! I AM BEOWULF!"

Geek fans, we take a movie critter, and we extrapolate the be'jiggers out of it, way, way beyond anything the authors and directors thought of.
Ain't we great?
Next we will think of a plausible explanation for Plan 9 From Outer Space.
Oi Vay. . .

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Of, and BTW...Do Orion slave girls count? Or should that be in the 'Why Aliens Will Be Scantily-Clad Sex Kittens?" thread?

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The BBC series Tripods had an interesting alien, apparently the story was inspired by War of the Worlds

Both films of War of the Worlds were pretty bad, the first is watchable only because it is a classic 'B' Movie, i think the aliens in it were vagualy humanoid, you only seen an arm if i remember correctly. The effects for the second were nice, but TC spoiled it.

There is also a musical, and its brilliant.

Izunya, The Puppet Masters film is very good, and faithful to the original story. Well worth watching.

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There is no light in space. - Moon Man

There's a third one that actually follows the book's storyline quite closely.

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441!!!! :)

Actually, if you think about it, if we really did find aliens that turned out to look like us, except maybe some bumps on their noses, that would be definitely weird, to say the least.
So, you guys got it all wrong, the movies and shows with the human form aliens are the weirdest of all.

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It is truly, truly dreadful, though.

There's also a fourth version, which is again set in the modern US, where instead of tripods the aliens are equipped with six legged walkers. It hit mediocre in a couple of places.

Regarding The Tripods, the BBC serials were the first two of a trilogy of young-adult novels by Sam Youd, under his John Christopher psuedonym. Youd said in a preface to a recent edition of The City of Gold and Lead - the second book - that he had not consciously mimicked Wells' tripods, but couldn't say the same for his subconscious.

That's why I was so appaled at the end of Abyss. An intelligent pillar of water, now that would have been something... tiny Greys, not so much.



Edit: What about great A'Tuin? I loved the tiny star turtles at the end of the Colour of Magic/Light Fantastic miniseries...

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One could argue that we are intelligent water, with some rather fascinating impurities.

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There was an episode of Star Trek: Next Generation in which some sentient creatures -- tiny creatures forming a 'superorganism', residng in a briny aquifer, I think -- called humanoids 'Ugly sacks of mostly water'.

A funny development, I thought. Getting dissed by plankton!

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Unless they were far more different from us then our plankton here on earth, we could call them a 'millions of pathetic little bubbles of water'. Life, as we know it, is mostly water. But yeah, being dissed by plankton, poor Riker must have been crushed.

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There was also that episode with the energy beings (that caused some people major grief because they appeared as cute girls for most of the episode...)

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We were called "mostly water" by something that, unlike plankton, was NOT mostly water. (Why use a put-down on someone else that also applies to yourself?) They were mineral (probably crystals).