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It is something that has plagued science fiction movies and television since the beginning. In some cases it doesn't matter, since the main character is supposed to look human. The robot in Metropolis, for instance. It is difficult to create believable aliens when you only have human actors to work with. In the old days that was coupled with primitive special effects.I'm actually beginning to think that they were just human actors with costumes and makeup. They weren't real aliens at all. It was all a fake.
In the movie Forbidden Planet, 1956, with Leslie Nielson, Walter Pidgeon and Anne Francis, the solved the problem by never showing a Krell or what they looked like. Only alluding to their non-humanoid appearance in references to their artifacts and by making the monsters invisible mostly. I applaud the fact that the story is about non-humanoid aliens even if we are never shown what they looked like.
There have been some well-done early attempts in all the costumes and poor effects. The Horta in the original Star Trek episode "The Devil in the Dark" was a great success given it was for 60's television. The Blob with Steve McQueen was another good early example in my opinion. Definitely not a humanoid lifeform. War of the Worlds,1953, with Gene Berry and Ann Robinson is another. The Martians, while a little cheesy due to contemporary special effects, were still non-humanoid and very different from humans. A couple of more recent examples are Solaris, 2002, with George Clooney where the non-human alien lifeform is an entire planet. Similarly, the 2015 Australian film Infini with Daniel MacPherson and Luke Hemsworth has an alien that is an entire planetoid.
Perhaps with CGI and AI, we may have better offerings that look much more realistically non-human where they are supposed to be.
Even through the standard human costumed and made up as an alien or the ancient and often hokey special effects, I still enjoy the shows and movies. Especially those well-written and performed. Just a little suspension of disbelief and the fact that the more human characters often are more acceptable from my anthropomorphic bias. After all, the characters are a reflection of human designers and creators.
Hmmm! Seems I really like science fiction.
He could be. You never know.Well...Bosley might be an alien in disguise
I mean these are aliens
and these are too
Which makes me wonder...is @sun rise an alien?
Its hard to tell
I rather like the 3rd alien. I can't put my finger on why, but there's something.
In the Pale Moonlight.
I don't think there was any eating of others going on.
That would be TNG episode Lonely Among Us with the carnivorous Anticans and the humanoid snakes the Selay.
@Dan From Smithville, The life forms in Australia are alien.........case closed.!
I suppose it would largely depend on how life might evolve on other planets, but that's something I wouldn't even hazard to guess. I recall the TNG episode "Home Soil" had an alien life form which was a crystal and saw humans as ugly giant bags of mostly water.
They've also had gaseous species.
The knowledge of biology has been something I've had to suspend in order to enjoy the story without harping over what are trivial details.I suppose it would largely depend on how life might evolve on other planets, but that's something I wouldn't even hazard to guess. I recall the TNG episode "Home Soil" had an alien life form which was a crystal and saw humans as ugly giant bags of mostly water.
They've also had gaseous species.
There could be instances of convergent evolution, but realistically, an entire galaxy of reasonably similarly-shaped and unrelated species isn't very probable.
Yeah, that was another good episode.
I personally think God gave us Australia as training ground for humans that can survive and fight the aliens.
If they can live through all the animals, planets and weather that is constantly trying to kill them, they can stand up to a bunch of skinny gray/green guys with googly eyes and big heads.
I googled Steven Spielberg......they almost left out Close Encounters of the Third Kind...... obviously not written to be frightening. I did enjoy it, though...
I saw that at a drive in when it first came out. It was a little baffling to me. I was a 11. What I remember most clearly is this line. "They can fly rings around the moon. But we're years ahead of them on the highway. I laughed so hard at that.
I skipped the uneven years.......still......older than the atom....
Wu Wei
ursus senum severiorum and ex-Bisy Backson
You know...I felt the same way about the 3rd alien.... there is something there...but I can't quite figure it out
At the time, mine went to 11. When you are a kid at 10, but you need that little extra. I went to 11.
I think there are a couple of points that I may have noticed subliminally. But something.
A win that you can get without the expense of the brand names. Well done.