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It's like they are alienating their own customers.

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Oooh , the Young Rebels ! Great call !

Any list that does not include Earth2 is lacking something lovely...

"This time , WE'RE the Aliens !"


Add , My So-Called Life , and American Dreams to my list , for starters...

I also liked 240Robert...

This could take quite a while...

Dang , I'm still sore that they didn't allow
New Amsterdam to get its legs...

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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OG Alien Nation because as far as I know. No one has tried to remake it.

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OG Alien Nation from the 80's? Or did they remake that too?

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OG Alien Nation because as far as I know. No one has tried to remake it.

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I think you're right about that. I just don't hear "Alien Nation" thrown around too often and I thought maybe they'd come out with a recent reboot or something. I pay so little attention to new stuff that it wouldn't surprise me to find out it's been remade twice at this point.



I couldn't give you much of a review for the show myself. I do remember watching it with my old man every week when I was a kid. It was just one of the sci-fi shows that we watched together over the years like War of the Worlds, the 80's Twilight Zone, Max Headroom, etc.

Personally, I didn't think much of it and it was one of my least favorite shows that we watched together, and I don't really remember much outside of what the two main characters looked like. I very much remember the alien costume/makeup, but I could be putting some other dude's face in place of the human partner.

But you can't take that review seriously at all since I was probably between 6 and 10 years old when that was on and most of anything that they were talking about would have been over my head and/or really boring to me. It's just nothing I would have watched on my own and it was just spending time with Dad that counted. The fact that it was basically a cop show doesn't help with me either. If there is one popular genre of TV show out there that I've avoided and never even finished a single episode of in my life it would be a cop/lawyer TV show.

I've heard good things about Alien Nation since, on YouTube and such. Obviously, the premise serves as a platform for Progressive messaging, and I wouldn't have had to watch any YouTube videos to even know that. As an adult, you can just look at the title of the show and a poster for it and glean as much.

But I don't think that necessarily means that it's bad or that I wouldn't even enjoy it on a second watch all these years later. I don't take offense to most mid-80's progressive policy or talking points, and even happen to agree with a lot of them. By the late 90's I think a lot of it had been working and doing good. My group when I was in my late teens and early 20's was what the kids would call quite diverse. But we didn't even think about that. We just hung out and had a good time.

I'd say it's a shame we all didn't keep in touch, but really we were all probably better off going our separate ways and growing up. We had a lot of fun and most of us didn't get into too much trouble, but we were all going nowhere together.

But I do think of a lot of those people I used to hang out with from time to time and wonder what a relationship would be like with them today. Would we accidentally bump into each other and pick up conversation like the last time we saw each other was a week ago instead of 20 years ago, or would all of the bullshit and politics have driven a big wedge in between that now?

I never talked politics back then. None of them did either. We didn't give a shit about the names Clinton or Bush, and the only time they ever came up is if SNL did a funny skit about them that week. I think it's a shame that the kids today don't get to feel what that was like.

9/11 was the true turning point. Nothing was ever the same after that.

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