IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs"), but if they ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.

I used to like The Borg in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION until they started speaking.

Maybe it's just me. Does anyone else want to hear the aliens have a good natter with Straker and Freeman?

All The Best,

BRIAN




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...I basically agree with you, Brian; I personally would not mind though ifthe "Aliens", were using some other form of "communication" though, such as: ESP, etc...! Leo

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Yes, agree completely.

The producers of UFO were very brave with some of their decisions in the making of UFO: Dark plots with sometimes sad endings, race and sex equality, use of vivid colour, and aliens who don't ever speak... just one of the reasons the aliens were So sinister...

Very clever, and very ahead of its time!

Griff

--- In [hidden email], Brian Serridge <brianserridge@...> wrote:

I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs"), but if they ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.

Talking aliens? How 'Hollywood' is that? I couldn't think of anything more ridiculous. ESP would be a much better idea. Besides, how are they mentto talk? Their helmets are supposedly full of oxygenated water, so wouldn't taking them off kinda defeat that?

Nat





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From: Brian Serridge <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Wed, 3 March, 2010 9:34:37 PM
Subject: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.

I used to like The Borg in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION until they started speaking.

Maybe it's just me. Does anyone else want to hear the aliens have a good natter with Straker and Freeman?

All The Best,

BRIAN

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A very good point. However, the alien in "A Question Of Priorities" did manage quite well without his helmet full of green liquid. Can anyone explain that?

All the Best,

BRIAN



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Talking aliens? How 'Hollywood' is that? I couldn't think of anything more ridiculous. ESP would be a much better idea. Besides, how are they ment to talk? Their helmets are supposedly full of oxygenated water, so wouldn't taking them off kinda defeat that?

Nat

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From: Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk>
To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wed, 3 March, 2010 9:34:37 PM
Subject: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.

I used to like The Borg in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION until they started speaking.

Maybe it's just me. Does anyone else want to hear the aliens have a good natter with Straker and Freeman?

All The Best,

BRIAN

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Brian;
You are so right.
Shows that sucked after characters started talking:
Pink Panther cartoon
Tom & Jerry cartoon
BSG - the cylons should only be capable to say "By your command."
Phantom of the Opera (loved Lon Channey Sr.)

My 2¢
Matt
 

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He still has lungs. The transition from breathing highly oxygenated liquid
to breathing air (or vice versa) is painful, but possible. Anyone (nearly)
can do so.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Brian Serridge <[hidden email]>wrote:

> A very good point. However, the alien in "A Question Of Priorities" did
> manage quite well without his helmet full of green liquid. Can anyone
> explain that?
>
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>


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I wouldn't like to try it. Paul Foster has put me off attempting that forever.

All the Best,

BRIAN



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He still has lungs. The transition from breathing highly oxygenated liquid
to breathing air (or vice versa) is painful, but possible. Anyone (nearly)
can do so.

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk>wrote:

> A very good point. However, the alien in "A Question Of Priorities" did
> manage quite well without his helmet full of green liquid. Can anyone
> explain that?
>
>
>

--
Mario

http://mario. silent-tower. org/

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The best way to communicate with an alien is to fire an Interceptor missileup his jacksey.

All the Best,

BRIAN



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Sent: Wed, 3 March, 2010 17:03:48
Subject: RE: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
I agree entirely. Best left to the imagination.

Many aliens' last thoughts were probably "Oh no, that looks
like 'dead-eye' Carlin piloting Sky1!"

:o)

Best,
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Rob




     

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But wasn't there a suggestion in The Cat with Ten Lives that the aliens could take over living creatures? If so, they could talk through them, as if the people were possessed....! I agree though.Silent aliens are far more creepy.... Compare Nosferatu with Dracula!  
But as there is no further info on the film, i wonder if ANYONE will ever get to talk on it!! Hope we get some updates soon!

> But wasn't there a suggestion in The Cat with Ten Lives that the aliens
> could take over living creatures? If so, they could talk through them, as
> if the people were possessed....

Seemed to me that the Aliens DID speak in the series... through Croxley
at the end of ESP...

Marc

They don't like it up'em

--- In [hidden email], Brian Serridge <brianserridge@...> wrote:

Regarding the aliens managing comfortably without a helmet (Square Triangleis another example), I presume the aliens have drugs or some other treatment to allow them to breathe without one. I think they only breathe liquid while travelling at high speed. The alien who died in Identified had been captured so didn't have his own medication to survive. It may mention in an episode that the aliens can take drugs to breathe in Earth's atmosphere but I may be wrong. I think the Foster example of making the change can be discounted because it occurred in a dream episode.
 
Getting back to the original question, I think one of the beauties of UFO was knowing so little about the aliens. We never heard them speak (not directly anyway), saw properly inside a UFO or ever saw their home planet. It's better that they are so mysterious but I wouldn't be surprised if one or all those was revealed in the film. If UFO had become a long-running series it probably would have happened as well. One of the problems when a series runs a long time as the producers start struggling for ideas and start abandoning some of the key features, contradict the series' history or come up with silly stories. It's one of the consolations of UFO having only one series that this didn't happen.
 
AB

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From: Brian Serridge <[hidden email]>
Subject: Fw: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .
To: [hidden email]
Date: Thursday, 4 March, 2010, 13:11


 



A very good point. However, the alien in "A Question Of Priorities" did manage quite well without his helmet full of green liquid. Can anyone explain that?

All the Best,

BRIAN

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From: Natalie Foster <somethingthatsaysme @yahoo.com. au>
To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Thu, 4 March, 2010 9:21:50
Subject: Re: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
Talking aliens? How 'Hollywood' is that? I couldn't think of anything more ridiculous. ESP would be a much better idea. Besides, how are they ment to talk? Their helmets are supposedly full of oxygenated water, so wouldn't taking them off kinda defeat that?

Nat

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From: Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk>
To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Wed, 3 March, 2010 9:34:37 PM
Subject: [SHADO] IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.

I used to like The Borg in STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION until they started speaking.

Maybe it's just me. Does anyone else want to hear the aliens have a good natter with Straker and Freeman?

All The Best,

BRIAN

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On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:34:37 -0800 (PST)
Brian Serridge <[hidden email]> wrote:

> I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one
> thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens
> started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally
> (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs"), but if they
> ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.
>

Yes, the mystery and mystique of the aliens that we're familiar with from
the TV series would not be present. It was compromised once or twice in
the series though, for me anyway - in one episode Straker gets a memo from
them, and in another they have a secret meeting with a SHADO traitor in a
UFO.

I think the one you're referring to with the memo was "The Psychobombs." Atleast they communicated non-verbally, which is fine by me. I don't remember the secret meeting with Straker inside a UFO - which episode was that? Another couple of things that maintain the mystique of the aliens is that we never see what their planet is like, and we don't get a very good view of the interior of the spaceships either. Sometimes less is more. . .

All the Best,

BRIAN



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Sent: Fri, 5 March, 2010 12:54:47
Subject: [SHADO] Re: IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:34:37 -0800 (PST)
Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote:

> I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one
> thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens
> started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally
> (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they
> ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.
>

Yes, the mystery and mystique of the aliens that we're familiar with from
the TV series would not be present. It was compromised once or twice in
the series though, for me anyway - in one episode Straker gets a memo from
them, and in another they have a secret meeting with a SHADO traitor in a
UFO.




     

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Oh yes, I remember it now. Was that the one where Jackson had to give the poor SHADO bloke a huge dose of the truth drug?

All the Best,

BRIAN



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Sent: Fri, 5 March, 2010 13:16:43
Subject: Fw: [SHADO] Re: IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .


I think the one you're referring to with the memo was "The Psychobombs." Atleast they communicated non-verbally, which is fine by me. I don't remember the secret meeting with Straker inside a UFO - which episode was that? Another couple of things that maintain the mystique of the aliens is that we never see what their planet is like, and we don't get a very good view of the interior of the spaceships either. Sometimes less is more. . .

All the Best,

BRIAN



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From: James Gibbon <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Fri, 5 March, 2010 12:54:47
Subject: [SHADO] Re: IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:34:37 -0800 (PST)
Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote:

> I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one
> thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens
> started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally
> (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they
> ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.
>

Yes, the mystery and mystique of the aliens that we're familiar with from
the TV series would not be present. It was compromised once or twice in
the series though, for me anyway - in one episode Straker gets a memo from
them, and in another they have a secret meeting with a SHADO traitor in a
UFO.





     

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There was no secret meeting with STRAKER in a UFO.  It was a meeting with a TRAITOR in a UFO.  The Ep was FLIGHT PATH.

--- On Fri, 3/5/10, Brian Serridge <[hidden email]> wrote:


From: Brian Serridge <[hidden email]>
Subject: Fw: [SHADO] Re: IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .
To: [hidden email]
Date: Friday, March 5, 2010, 7:16 AM


 



I think the one you're referring to with the memo was "The Psychobombs. " At least they communicated non-verbally, which is fine by me. I don't remember the secret meeting with Straker inside a UFO - which episode was that? Another couple of things that maintain the mystique of the aliens is that wenever see what their planet is like, and we don't get a very good view of the interior of the spaceships either. Sometimes less is more. . .

All the Best,

BRIAN

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From: James Gibbon <jg@jamesgibbon. com>
To: SHADO@yahoogroups. com
Sent: Fri, 5 March, 2010 12:54:47
Subject: [SHADO] Re: IF THE ALIENS STARTING TALKING. . .

 
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010 03:34:37 -0800 (PST)
Brian Serridge <brianserridge@ yahoo.co. uk> wrote:

> I don't know much about the planned UFO film, but I was thinking of one
> thing that would destroy the atmosphere completely. . . if the aliens
> started talking. I don't mind them trying to communicate non-verbally
> (as in "A Question Of Priorities" or "The Psychobombs" ), but if they
> ever opened their mouthes, that would be it for me.
>

Yes, the mystery and mystique of the aliens that we're familiar with from
the TV series would not be present. It was compromised once or twice in
the series though, for me anyway - in one episode Straker gets a memo from
them, and in another they have a secret meeting with a SHADO traitor in a
UFO.

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Google for 'perfluorocarbon liquid'.

Paul


On 10-03-05 8:54 AM, Mario Butter wrote: