Meatsack Jones  - 2010-03-09
I admit, when this came out I did really like it. I recently watched some of the episodes and to my surprise, I still liked it. The show touched on a lot of the questions of even in the simplest of things, the world would deal with a quarter of a million superior aliens dumped overnight in our society.
...as you guessed, it does not do it very well.
Digressing, 5 stars for the janitor at the precinct who turns out to be a high cleric for their religion.
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Binro the Heretic - 2010-03-09 And he was named "Albert Einstein."
The tecton language relied heavily on pops and clicks, much like the language of African Bushmen. As a result, the newly-arrived aliens were given anglicized names by immigration officials. There were a lot of great moments of subtle humor in the show resulting from tectons having names like "Ira Gershwin" and "Betsy Ross."
Fun trivia fact:
The TV show was based on a movie that starred James Caan as the human cop and Mandy Patinkin as the alien cop. In the original draft of the script, Patinkin's character was going to be named "George Jetson" but Hanna-Barbera balked at the last minute after most of the movie had already been filmed.
Rather than re-do numerous scenes, the director simply shot a new scene where Caan's character learns his new partner's name is "Sam Fancisco." Refusing to introduce his partner with such a silly name, the human cop says "I'm just going to call you 'George' is that okay?"
This would explain why he referred to the alien cop as "george" in all subsequent scenes.
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pentheus - 2010-03-09
it is a metaphor
for Mexicans
who are killed by salt water.
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sosage - 2010-03-09
This came on when I was in 6th grade and I liked it as well. I remember the episode where his alien partner is pregnant and thinking the entire time it was going to come out of his head.
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Binro the Heretic - 2010-03-10
I liked this show, but the last couple of seasons took a sharp nosedive when, for some reason, they tried to introduce a lot of "magical" elements.
For example:
Salt water was highly corrosive to alien flesh. This was a plot point in the original movie and in several episodes of the TV show.
Yet, one alien was able to overcome the effects of saltwater with "mind over matter."
This pissed me off deeply, but we didn't have an Internet to bitch about it to in those days.
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FABIO - 2010-03-10
I thought their sex organs were supposed to be in the armpits.
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dueserpenti - 2010-03-10 No no, that's just the location of nerve clusters which in a fight can be considered analogous to the human 'nads in terms of their vulnerability.
I like this show.
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dead_cat - 2010-03-10
My parents watched this religiously when I was a kid. Except all I remember about the show was that in one episode the alien policeman was keeping a giant egg in his shorts.
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Xenocide - 2010-03-10
This District 9 sequel is kind of a letdown, guys.
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ShiftlessRastus - 2010-03-10
Nobody ever suggested that they wear hats?
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dead_cat - 2010-03-11 Or paint their heads like easter eggs?
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