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[dracphelan]

Apparently you didn't watch the original - they want to destroy us but in a way that means they have to keep us whole and in fine fettle.

I did. That is another nit pick. There are other easier and faster growing food sources for them. In the original, they were eating all sorts of rodents. Shoot, if they came and just stole all the cattle and horses, that would make more sense than eating people. We take to long to grow.

[tombogan03884]

Respectfully submitted for your perusal: a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.

They just want to serve man.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man_%28The_Twilight_Zone%29

[JSC3ATLCSO]

You guys just gave me the HEEEBEEEGEEEBEEE'S with the title of this thread let alone the further posts.. I am now going to try and forget I ever saw this and hope that I don't have too many nightmares..

[Badgersmilk]

I did. That is another nit pick. There are other easier and faster growing food sources for them. In the original, they were eating all sorts of rodents. Shoot, if they came and just stole all the cattle and horses, that would make more sense than eating people. We take to long to grow.

There's just no accounting for taste!

[WatchManUSA]

I watched it, amd so far find it an interesting update on the original mini-series. However, as a sci-fi geek, I had a few nits to pick:
1. David Icke has already done this story. Oh, wait, he is trying to sell it as the truth.
2. Every physicist, astrophysicists, engineer and many sci-fi geeks would have been screaming wait a minute if aliens said they came here for elements commonly available on Earth. If it is commonly available here, it is commonly available on other spots in the solar system (without dealing with dangerous sentients like humans).
3. If they want to wipe out humanity, they could easily do it without subterfuge and from orbit.

In the original series, in one of the last couple of episodes, they make it clear that Earth was not the first place they have "harvested," so to speak.  This isn't their first rodeo.  I guess they are really hungry critters that prefer their food served "fresh."

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