I’m sorry, but I truly believe that’s how this WAR OF THE WORLD series was pitched. “Imagine THE WALKING DEAD… with aliens!” In your heart, you know I’m right:
In fairness it might not suck, although some of the commentary sounds pretty annoyingly down on humanity. Are we not, really, monsters ourselves? I dunno, buddy: when’s the last time we went to somebody else’s planet and pulled a NIGHT OF THE COMET on them? — Because I’m pretty sure that even if we had the capacity to do so the ACLU would probably at least come by to complain, or something.
Look, I know that it’s been a rough couple of years for a certain subset of creatives, but geez: pull up your damn socks, already.
So .. if zombies are about societal displacement and vampires are about changing social norms and werewolves are about self-control .. what are aliens with really bad head colds about?
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I will say this .. the current coronavirus hysteria ties nicely into a “they all die of a virus” idea ..
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Mew