[Atrocities]

I read the the people behind the TV show, were not the same folks that created the mini-series. That the people who wrote for the TV show were trying to make the bad guys out to be over arrogant. How it came across was not as arrogance, but rather as campy stupidity. The dialog between them was intentionally made to be bad to give them the sense of weakness. In other words they did this on purpose and it was the standard of the day for bad guys. Make them sound evil but give them no real intelligence. THANK GOD the standards for writing a TV series has improved dramatically since then.

In the mini-series, the first one at least, Diana seemed to be a well written character. Then it all went down hill.

One thing that I did notice is that the science of the show was also very unscientific. You can often identify a sub B standard movie or TV series by this one single trait, the use of BS Science. You know it, where they try to sound all technical and what not but when you pause to think, comes across as bad scientific dialog. It is the hallmark of bad TV and Movies to make up science instead of doing the research and coming up with plausible well thought out scientific dialog.

Star Trek has Technobable, Stargate had Gatenobable, and a the CSI shows have BSobable. (Ya right, like you can convict a person because you found a strand of hair in the hotel room where they work next to the dead body.) They always cave and spill their guts. Now even real cops are using that made up CSI crap to trick people. And people fall for it. ROTFLMAO. Just goes to show you that smart writing will win out over dumb writing any day of the week. People actually believe what they watch on TV as the gospel truth so thank GOD the educational level of some of the dialog for some of these shows is a bit higher than the standard of complete moron.

Who would have thought that back in the late 60's some dudes just making crap up would have actually predicted the future. Communicators - Modern day cell phones, Hand held computer devices, floppy disks, music and video play back from a computer, and so on. (Note, the people behind Mpeg and MP3 got their idea from watching STNG. Go figure.)

I wonder what technology we would have today is someone tried to invent the Visitors Ultimate blue plasma sphere computer? Or those futuristic dorky looking sunglasses, or their "keep the humans fresh" freezer system?