I think you really have to reach to find an anti-Obama agenda, which is probably why the teabaggers will flock to the show. The aliens actions really aren't that different from the original series. It's no less silly than the people who claimed that 300 was Republican propaganda.

Mentat: I think you really have to reach to find an anti-Obama agenda, which is probably why the teabaggers will flock to the show. The aliens actions really aren't that different from the original series. It's no less silly than the people who claimed that 300 was Republican propaganda.

Don't they cure cancer in the original series and offer to give everyone healthcare....? I think it would be way cooler if the producers decided to go Half Life 2, with scattered bands of resistance fighters going after the aliens and their human collaborators.

Didn't the creators come out recently because of this and say they voted for Obama and all this is bullshiat?

Can we just enjoy our television shows in motherfarking peace?

*looks up* Those are some weird tags for this article there, mods. Catholic priest? Natalie Portman? WTF?

Dalar: Natalie Portman?

That'll be the V for Vendetta connection.

Dalar: *looks up* Those are some weird tags for this article there, mods. Catholic priest? Natalie Portman? WTF?

Fark tags Natalie Portman? Damn, I miss all the good Fark parties.

I tell ya, it's just downright eerie...

Seems the shiat is hitting the fan in Tehran.

Gangway Fathead: Seems the shiat is hitting the fan in Tehran.

Link, or it didn't happen.

In other news a fictional TV show might have some political stuff. Just to provoke and emote you.

EARTHQUAKE!

Mentat: I think you really have to reach to find an anti-Obama agenda, which is probably why the teabaggers will flock to the show.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-tc-tvcolumn-v-1102-1103nov03,0 ,7 062976.story (pops)
"The news media swoons in admiration -- one simpering anchorman even shouts at a reporter who asks a tough question: "Why don't you show some respect?!" The public is likewise smitten, except for a few nut cases who circulate batty rumors on the Internet about the leader's origins and intentions. The leader, undismayed, offers assurances that are soothing, if also just a tiny bit condescending: "Embracing change is never easy."

No, that doesn't sound familiar at all. That would make us racist - or at least specieist...

And Mentat, thanks for your gay subtext.

What a tweeest!

Mentat: I think you really have to reach to find an anti-Obama agenda, which is probably why the teabaggers will flock to the show. The aliens actions really aren't that different from the original series. It's no less silly than the people who claimed that 300 was Republican propaganda.

This, and the fact that the fascism angle works much better in the Reagan Cold War era of the original series. (Fighting fascism in the polarized America of the Aughts means Glenn Beck and David Icke are your heroes. Yikes.)

What really needs to be said about the show is that they've got a good cast shackled with bad scripts and even worse direction. The show went on a "creative hiatus" for a while, and now just announced their third showrunner; it's just an awkward premise poorly done.

Actually, about half way through, I was getting an "OMG Lizardpipplez" Ickes vibe. I really wanted to like it, but I wouldn't be surprised if the next episode is about the Bildebergs

Mentat

I think you really have to reach to find an anti-Obama agenda, which is probably why the teabaggers will flock to the show.

Any actual sign of that happening, or is this just a little whargle?

What's funny about this when conservatives complain about liberal biases in the media, and give some actual examples, liberals pooh pooh it. Yet some liberals are saying the show has an anti-Obama subtext, despite the fact that the producers are the usual H'wood liberals themselves.

Klingon Penis

This, and the fact that the fascism angle works much better in the Reagan Cold War era of the original series. Fighting fascism in the polarized America of the Aughts means Glenn Beck and David Icke are your heroes. Yikes.

Only to those who buy the left/liberal propaganda that Republicans are latent fascists while liberals and lefties are actually for freedom. I personally love my freedom of ownership and self-determination diminished by having my money taken for a wasteful, unfair "cash for clunkers" program.

And do you really think that there's any overlap between the fans of Glenn Beck and David Icke? I'm sure Beck would describe Icke as a bigoted nutcase, while to Icke Beck is a lizard or lizard toady simply by virtue of being a prominent commentator on the leading cable news outlet.

This just in...

Obama is of the lizard people,
whew! That explains a LOT!

So, after watching the pilot, David Icke is apparently right about everything. Holy FARK!

Seriously, though, and just as one example among many others of the "seemingly benevolent aliens act as the savior of humanity before trying to kill us" story...the Kanamit in the episode of "The Twilight Zone" called "To Serve Man" also lured humanity into its plot by solving all our problems - setting up invisible forcefields around every country to make war obsolete, curing cancer, solving world hunger, etc. That was broadcast in 1962, long before Barack Obama became president.

/that was, however, the year AFTER he was born in Kenya
//coincidence...OR PROPHECY?!?
///the short story on which "To Serve Man" was based was published in 1950, but that doesn't go with the joke

Sounds like it's more sympathetic towards David Icke.

So why is opposing nationalized health care being linked to birthplace nutcases? If you oppose Obama, your a nutcase? According to Slate you are.

grotto_man: Only to those who buy the left/liberal propaganda that Republicans are latent fascists while liberals and lefties are actually for freedom.

The notion that the latent fascism of the American right is left-wing propaganda is just right-wing propaganda, that nobody takes seriously except right wingnuts of the sort who think the Cash for Clunkers was an unconstitutional infringement of their rights of ownership and self-determination.

QED

grotto_man: What's funny about this when conservatives complain about liberal biases in the media, and give some actual examples, liberals pooh pooh it. Yet some liberals are saying the show has an anti-Obama subtext, despite the fact that the producers are the usual H'wood liberals themselves.

Are you only now realizing that there's assholes both sides? "liberals" in general aren't objecting to this, a few butthurt whiny douches are.

I watched the first 2 minutes then changed channels.

Was that the wrong thing to do?

ldsr: I watched the first 2 minutes then changed channels.

Was that the wrong thing to do?

The first half was awful but the second half was a lot better than the first. Unfortunately it's like saying they stopped hitting my balls with a sledgehammer and start just throwing baseballs at them.