Kneel Before Squilax!
Jun. 30th, 2010 04:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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garething and I passed the village of Squilax, BC. The name struck me and I started riffing on it G's amusement. "Doesn't that sound like an alien invader's name to you?" I asked. I started to use my alien-invader-voice and referred to myself in the third-person. "Squilax demands a Diet Coke foolish human." That sort of thing.
What a great idea for a TV show! An alien invader comes to Earth to conquor it, but ends up just taking over some small town in the middle of the sticks. Except he hasn't precisely taken it over, the local inhabitants just humour him. They pretend that he's conquored the whole Earth (and that their town is the whole Earth). Visitors are quickly clued in so that they can act correctly. The let him run the local bar or something.
It would be like a cross between Corner Gas and Invader ZIM. The only downside would be its likeness to 3rd Rock From the Sun. I think we could get away from that by focusing on the human character's efforts to reverse engineer Squilax's technology.
garething and I passed the village of Squilax, BC. The name struck me and I started riffing on it G's amusement. "Doesn't that sound like an alien invader's name to you?" I asked. I started to use my alien-invader-voice and referred to myself in the third-person. "Squilax demands a Diet Coke foolish human." That sort of thing.What a great idea for a TV show! An alien invader comes to Earth to conquor it, but ends up just taking over some small town in the middle of the sticks. Except he hasn't precisely taken it over, the local inhabitants just humour him. They pretend that he's conquored the whole Earth (and that their town is the whole Earth). Visitors are quickly clued in so that they can act correctly. The let him run the local bar or something.
It would be like a cross between Corner Gas and Invader ZIM. The only downside would be its likeness to 3rd Rock From the Sun. I think we could get away from that by focusing on the human character's efforts to reverse engineer Squilax's technology.
