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| Fact File | | Creator | | Kenneth Johnson | | Copyright | | Warner Bros | | Run | | 1983-1985 | | Members | | Forum | | | Gallery |
| It was made in the beginning of the eighties, a time when the world was waking up to science fiction in the main stream as a result of the Star Wars phenomena. Unlike Star Wars, Star Trek and Alien/s films, this was set in modern day Los Angeles and not space. Instead of visiting the skies to meet the aliens, they came to see us. It didn't take long to see that the aliens were based on the Nazi of the 1940s. This is evident in their red suits, its alien symbol and the fact that they were killing swathes of people. There were the traitors like those found during the second world war. The difference between the two organisations were that the visitors wanted to enslave and eat the entire human population whereas the Nazi just wanted to exterminate certain groups of humanity. It franchis lasted for three series, the original, the final battle and the mini-series. It's fanbase has not diminished over the years, Kenneth, the writer of the first series is planning to make a three hour film about the aliens finally taking over the planet. After writing the original series, he left and made 'Alien-Nation'. Both Jane Badler ( Diana ) and Marc Singer ( Donovan ) have been hired for the new series. In the mini series, there was a rumoured 20th episode which had the Visitors win back control of the planet and Julie Parish was killed.
That twentieth episode is buried because Julie leaving it on the 19th episode where a truce is agreed enabled them to close the story. The worst thing about the whole three series was the star-child's power. Why did they have to have some sort of magic person in it, it ruined it. Ken has indicated there won't be any people alien or human with special mystical powers. It had been scheduled for release in Autumn/Fall 2004 but that has been put back for a year ( hopefully no longer ). Clues to what will happen in the new series are given in the earlier series. In the first series, Martin, one of the alien collaborators tells Donovan that the Visitors are at war in their own solar system with another race of beings. The resistance sends messages into space asking for their help. The new series will consist of the earth enslaved but the Visitors enemies turning up to offer help. He has referred to them as 'Gay-aliens'. In the earlier series, the aliens were sneaky, we didn't know what they were up to. Now that we do, can we expect the battle lines to be more explicit. Will we see a darker version but this is unlikely because of Warners Bros probably attempts at maximising their earnings from it. In the previous series, the food processing centres were secret. The new series might have them totally visible. As the Sirians have complete control of the planet, they could simply do whatever they want so there's no need to hide their factories. Incidentally, the letter stood for Victory not Visitors. |
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