 August 3, 2013 - 5:52pm | Just caught this movie 25 years after it debuted. Sorry that I missed it at the time as I enjoyed it and James Caan in it, you clearly needed a bad arse like him to deliver it straight and keep the movie from been too wonky. Funny I thought the girl playing Cassandra sounded a lot like Sigourny Weaver but it turns out it wasn't her playing an alien I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 3, 2013 - 6:29pm | Try to find the series and the movies made from the series. Not as good as the original but worth it. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
 August 3, 2013 - 7:24pm | I really liked the movie when it came out. Did you notice that the images for the alien craft on the news were very close if not the same as the Visitor motherships from the TV show "V"? I agree with RT that the series is worth watching. It is dated in the acting department but still better than most of the scifi shows of the time. I think that Alien Nation and District 9 are a better twist on the alien encounter stuff than they show up and make war on us and we kick their but in the end somehow. Having aliens with a drug problem and all of the prejudice that is shown in both movies makes it easier to feel for the aliens and shows how our human centric view could be harmful to any alien encounters we may ever have. |
August 3, 2013 - 9:21pm | I agree that these were quite a bit refreshing over stuff like Independence Day I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
August 4, 2013 - 8:34am | Actually the space ship was the same one. It was a stock footage shot. The aliens as heroes or not truly understood is a good theme. Are you planning the NICE Sathar adventure? Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
August 4, 2013 - 9:18am | Actually the space ship was the same one. It was a stock footage shot. The aliens as heroes or not truly understood is a good theme. Are you planning the NICE Sathar adventure? No I pretty much like them as evil blood thirsty killers. I just found Alien Nation fun and refreshing. the aliens or slags have a real innocence to them in the characterization by Mandy Patinkin. The sathar will never have an innocence to them IMO. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 4, 2013 - 12:01pm | There was a short lived Alien Nation TV series too. Nm. Already noted. |
August 4, 2013 - 1:29pm | There was a short lived Alien Nation TV series too.
I never caught that either. I'll have to hit wikipedia and see if any novels were published. It could be interesting to put together a setting guide on the Newcomers. Nm. Already noted. I might not be a dralasite, vrusk or yazirian but I do play one in Star Frontiers! |
 August 5, 2013 - 5:29am | I remember watching the movie as a kid, and I also remember the TV series. They are both good, but the series (and related TV movies) goes deeper in the setting as a whole. Where the movies was an allusion to immigration and human prejudice, the series tackled other issues about racism, allusions to Naziism (in the form of the alien overseers, who did nasty things to the slaves) and the aliens trying to fit-in their new world. They also dealt with human-tenctonese miscegenation, alien pregnancy, their customs & believes, and even the possibility of contact with their homeworld (with all the fears and implications that could come with it). If you liked the movie, then I highly recommend the TV series... If you can find them. It had 22 episodes and 5 TV movies, plus some related comics and novels. You can find more info on it on Wikipedia. |
August 5, 2013 - 12:29pm | Still think one of the most interesting scenes in the TV series was when the Human cop went to his sorta Alien girlfriend to ask about his Alien partner's religion and she couldn't tell him anything since she was a different religion and it had never dawned on the Human cop that the Aliens might have more than one religion. Sounds like a great job but where did you say we had to go? |
