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Post by novastar6 on Mar 30, 2024 23:35:10 GMT
I saw part of a show on Sci-Fi channel back when it WAS Sci-Fi and not SyFy, there was a breed of aliens who looked like bald humans, and I think they had some kind of defect on their heads, like they had green patches or something, don't really remember that part but not just straight up normal bald people. And there was some outsider who was able to see what nobody else could, one of them made a big show of walking on air, but she was really walking on a board between two points, then she kicked the board over and told everybody else to follow her. I think I remember the room being pink, or maybe it was the robe she was wearing, I'm not sure.
This ringing a bell for anybody?
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Post by brimfin on Apr 17, 2024 16:19:33 GMT
Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. The series was called ALIEN NATION, based on a theatrical movie of the same name. The aliens were all bald but had orange dots and stripes on their heads and running down their backs. They were a race of aliens whose large ship had become disabled and forced to land on Earth. Most of them were slaves, but some of the aliens were overseers; since the overseers were indistinguishable from the slaves, they were able to mix in with the population. The US had taken them all in, and the series was about them trying to fit in with our society while we tried to be accepting of them. The lead characters were a human detective partnered with one of the aliens (who was a detective as well now.) The show was highly intelligent, and I loved watching it - but it only lasted one season and ended on a cliffhanger. Thankfully, they later came out with five TV movies, the first of which resolved the cliffhanger.
The events you refer to came from one of those movies: ALIEN NATION: MILLENIUM, made in 1996. In it, a female alien was running a cult using a device that had been shown in an earlier episode of the series - a chest that emanated images of their home planet. She got all the alien cult members to sign over their worldly goods to her so that she could lead them to paradise. Then she opened the chest and showed them the images of their planet, which looked real but were really a hologram. She walked over a plank between two buildings, and then kicked the plank away, inviting them to join her. (They could not see the plank, as it was not part of the hologram illusion they were seeing.) She planned that they would all fall to their deaths, looking like a mass cult suicide and she would get all their money. But the detectives arrived in time and, if I recall, shot the device shattering the illusion in time to keep the aliens from stepping off the edge of the building. In the confusion that followed, she ended up falling off from the other side to her death. A good movie, but it was sad that they had to destroy the device, since it gave the aliens a link to memories of their home world. This was also one of the very few shows to acknowledge, in a comment early in the movie, that the new millennium would actually begin on Jan 1, 2001 and not Jan 1, 2000.
Another funny thing is that I am currently copying some old VHS recordings to DVD of shows I taped off the SCI-FI Channel when it first started airing. Several times now, I've seen their ad for rerunning the series ALIEN NATION.
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Post by novastar6 on Apr 17, 2024 19:28:57 GMT
Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. The series was called ALIEN NATION, based on a theatrical movie of the same name. The aliens were all bald but had orange dots and stripes on their heads and running down their backs. They were a race of aliens whose large ship had become disabled and forced to land on Earth. Most of them were slaves, but some of the aliens were overseers; since the overseers were indistinguishable from the slaves, they were able to mix in with the population. The US had taken them all in, and the series was about them trying to fit in with our society while we tried to be accepting of them. The lead characters were a human detective partnered with one of the aliens (who was a detective as well now.) The show was highly intelligent, and I loved watching it - but it only lasted one season and ended on a cliffhanger. Thankfully, they later came out with five TV movies, the first of which resolved the cliffhanger. The events you refer to came from one of those movies: ALIEN NATION: MILLENIUM, made in 1996. In it, a female alien was running a cult using a device that had been shown in an earlier episode of the series - a chest that emanated images of their home planet. She got all the alien cult members to sign over their worldly goods to her so that she could lead them to paradise. Then she opened the chest and showed them the images of their planet, which looked real but were really a hologram. She walked over a plank between two buildings, and then kicked the plank away, inviting them to join her. (They could not see the plank, as it was not part of the hologram illusion they were seeing.) She planned that they would all fall to their deaths, looking like a mass cult suicide and she would get all their money. But the detectives arrived in time and, if I recall, shot the device shattering the illusion in time to keep the aliens from stepping off the edge of the building. In the confusion that followed, she ended up falling off from the other side to her death. A good movie, but it was sad that they had to destroy the device, since it gave the aliens a link to memories of their home world. This was also one of the very few shows to acknowledge, in a comment early in the movie, that the new millennium would actually begin on Jan 1, 2001 and not Jan 1, 2000. Another funny thing is that I am currently copying some old VHS recordings to DVD of shows I taped off the SCI-FI Channel when it first started airing. Several times now, I've seen their ad for rerunning the series ALIEN NATION.
Thank you! I asked a friend who watches sci-fi shows and she thought it might've been something from one of the Stargate series.
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