Originally posted by Getter Robo G
There was a TV series??? WTF?
Was it as bad as the Logan's Run and Planet of the Apes series? (both good ideas on PAPER, but bad translation to celluloid!)
I've not seen either but I can't imagine that WotW the TV series even worked on paper. The story was so full of plot holes it was amazing that there was enough left to actually get not just one but two whole seasons out of it.
Amongst some of the more impressive plot holes were these.
1. The series followed on from the 50's movie where the martians nearly wiped out humanity yet no one in the general public even appears to believe in aliens let alone remember the war.
2. The aliens weren't killed by Earth's bacteria but were in a coma. On escaping from the military facility (where the humans had sealed mankinds worst enemy into old oil drums and forgotten about them) the aliens seek refugee in the caves used for nuke tests cause apparently the radiation is of a high enough level to kill bacteria but not the aliens.
3. The aliens stand around 7' tall in the series despite being smaller in the movie. This in no way stops them being able to take over human beings and wear their skin as suits. Even people who know the possessed human are unable to tell the difference.
4. The radiation in the caves has no effect on humans being worn as suits
5. When aliens wearing human suits are killed they melt turning into a large pile of melted human and alien flesh. No one ever takes this as an indication that something strange must have been going on even when the mass of flesh and human clothing is still bubbling.
6. The aliens have an enemy race who pretend to ally with humanity but really want to eat us. Their ambassador looks like a human and when she puts her hands up in the air as if forming the C in YMCA she can shoot laser bolts out of her fingers, but ONLY then! Apparently only aliens that look like a reject from the Village People can be trusted with weapons.
