11-10-2009, 12:44 AM
Yeah I find the whole "human alien + English" thing to be pretty forgivable.
The production cost of doing a show featuring actual alien looking aliens would probably make the project unfeasible (or it would turn out like those awful Sci-Fi channel made for TV movies with terrible CGI/rubber suit aliens).
I mean, I liked Kosh, but he was basically a shower curtain. Not sure how many times you can get away with that.
Farscape wasn't too bad I guess -- some puppet action there.
And English, well, I'm not sure how many episodes you can get out of, "Oh great another race of people we can only communicate with via hand gestures". That's where they just need to throw out the whole "we have universal translators...Asgard technology...very fancy...next!" explanation and be done with it.
The production cost of doing a show featuring actual alien looking aliens would probably make the project unfeasible (or it would turn out like those awful Sci-Fi channel made for TV movies with terrible CGI/rubber suit aliens).
I mean, I liked Kosh, but he was basically a shower curtain. Not sure how many times you can get away with that.
Farscape wasn't too bad I guess -- some puppet action there.
And English, well, I'm not sure how many episodes you can get out of, "Oh great another race of people we can only communicate with via hand gestures". That's where they just need to throw out the whole "we have universal translators...Asgard technology...very fancy...next!" explanation and be done with it.