From: karlwtz@yahoo.com   
      
   "Brad Templeton"  wrote in message   
   news:4O-dnS4MLpSF4WnXnZ2dnUVZ_vOdnZ2d@posted.rawbandwidth...   
   > In article , Karl    
   > wrote:   
   >>   
   >>"DaffyDuck"  wrote in message   
   >>news:2009110323240716807-DaffynononoDuck@nononomeagaincom...   
   >>>   
   >>> Cloned humanoid skin over reptilian bodies.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nicely done.   
   >>>   
   >>> I'm satisfied.   
   >>>   
   >>> Looks like it won't suck.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> --   
   >>> "Sometimes, there just aren't enough Spocks" - JJ Abrams   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>I hope they at least do something plausible to explain the similiarities   
   >>of   
   >>the Vs to Earth Lifeforms.  Lizards?  Maybe they should be descended from   
   >>intelligent life on Earth millions of years in the past who had to bug out   
   >>because of the meteor impact?  Something like that.   
   >>   
   >>2 arms, 2 legs, hopefully 2 eyes.  It makes them 2 similiar to earth life,   
   >>UNLESS their people are from Earth?   
   >>   
   >>Well it's a good show, so far.   
   >>   
   >>How long before they mess it up?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Well, I wish they had not decided to keep the lizard thing.   They could   
   > tell the rest   
   > of the story just fine with them being uploads or robots with humanoid   
   > bodies etc.   
   >   
   > But it  looks like they kept both the lizards, and them needing humans for   
   > some nasty   
   > purpose.  (In the original they wanted to eat us, which is just stupid.   
   > Cattle are way   
   > better and just as likely to be tasty to an alien.  Enslave the humans,   
   > make them raise the   
   > cattle and you get more meat.  Or just buy the cattle like everybody else,   
   > it's a lot easier   
   > and with your tech you are infinitel rich.)   
   >   
   > However, saying that, I like the changes they did make.   So it has some   
   > promise.   
   >   
   > Instead of cloned skin though, if I had to do it, I would make it some   
   > sort of nanotech   
   > skin (though that's perhaps too advanced a tech to give them) and them   
   > being small inside,   
   > ie their arms and legs not nearly as long as ours.   
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   We'll just have to see how it plays out.  It must be really tough to   
   re-imagine something though.  You have so many people who remember and liked   
   the original....that's how it got the money to re-imagine it!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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