Gary Graham passed Away. 😔 I followed him on Alien Nation as Detective Sikes, which was based on the 1988 film. It was a really enjoyable series and they got TV movies in the mid 90’s as well for the series. Saddened to hear of his passing.
No one, not a soul, no one on earth:
Me, drunk and Neurodivergent as fuck, smashing through the wall like the Kool Aid Man: “Zootopita is almost a beat-for-beat retelling of the 1988 sci-fi buddy cop classic Alien Nation staring James Caan and Mandy Patinkin, from the initial setup, right down to the McGuffin being a bright blue liquid drug that make the fantastic minority go violent, meaning that Zootopia and District 9 partly draw on the same source media. In this essay I will-"
I watched an interesting movie called “Alien Nation”. It was about extraterrestrials called Slags and the prejudice earth people showed towards them.
Slag
Fag
Flag
Fag
Flag
Fag
(Get it)
I’m feeling kind of like a Slag—flag—fag tonight.
John in court over a straight attorney we know’ head asked “what can I bring?” (I had invited he and his lover Al to my house for the next night). I said “You don’t need to bring anything”. John said “I’ll bring flowers”. The straight attorney looked startled “flags!”
Who else heard? John is being very up front about the fact he will visit my house.
Maybe the others should know.
And, It’s funny how easily I can resolve ethical issues regarding John.
When you are on a sinking ship, everyone is equal. “Flags” in Modesto are necessarily on a sinking ship.
mostly i just wish the skrulls were living among humanity like any other refugees. a million people is… i mean, it's not nothing, but there are currently over a hundred million refugees in the real world, i would imagine there are *at least* that many in the MCU post-snap. you could add some interplanetary refugees to that, particularly if humans are starting to travel offworld, too. this is one of those times where the attempt to keep things relatively grounded feels at odds with how things could have gone.
they've kind of addressed this in the show, fair enough: the first group of refugees started living on earth when SHIELD's approach to aliens was to deny and contain, and the bulk of the new arrivals just showed up post-snap when human society was in active collapse. but still! mcu earth has gone through an unimaginably traumatic series of events over the last fifteen years, in-universe, and trying to keep things buttoned down feels stranger than just letting them exist.
like, i don't know that "the head of nato is secretly an alien bent on world domination" was ever going to be a comfortable plot point, but if we'd started with "the head of nato is an alien because aliens live on earth now and everyone knows it" that might have made things a little better