The original producers of V actually brought in some real science fiction writers to try to save the show. I think it was Niven and Pournelle. I story I read was that the Visitors had left the Earth (or a very similar planet) a long, long time ago and had come home and found the humans infesting the place. They wanted to be here because it was home to them -- the air smelled right, the sun was the right color, the day was the proper length.
Of course, that wasn't enough to save the show, I don't think it was even used.
I beg to differ on the current. If you look at the buildup of the water on the door and window supports, it looks like there's at least half a foot of pileup due to water velocity. There are some pulsating waves so you know it's not just head difference between inside and outside. That water appears to be moving a couple of feet per second, especially after the breakthroughs. It's not a seeping flood, they're getting real velocity.
I don't think I've ever heard of flood water velocity as a measure of distance from channel before, though.
I stand somewhat corrected. I'm going to claim that Lost in Space and My Favorite Martian were broadcast during a period when television shows couldn't acknowledge sex. Keep in mind, Laura and Rob Petrie slept in separate beds and they were both humans married to each other. Battlestar Galactica sure had alien prostitutes in the "Guns of Navarone" episode, I think it was called The Gun on Ice Planet Nine or something like that. I don't recall Earth II, and IMDB only finds a movie.
Okay, how about I modify my statement to be, "Every live-action American television show broadcast in color eventually has includes sex with aliens, if aliens are present." That gets rid of the Firefly exception for me as well.
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