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Who are your picks of the best ever (or your personal favorite ever) alien character/s in the film and tv sci-fi media so far and please give a reason why, for any choice/s.
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I always thought Starman was pretty cool. I remember watching the series as a kid and really just digging the show. I still remember the theme song and everything.
I remember the episode where they finally found the kid's mom.
Plus... those little pinballs they carried around were just neato.
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So many to choose! Some of my personal faves;
Movies, The Alien,fron the ALIEN movies. It's adaptible, very deadly, and hard to kill.
Books, the Moties, from The Mote in God's Eye and it's sequels, by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.
TV, a 3 way tie. Mr. Spock, the master of intergalactic deadpan.
Gordon Shumway, making a comeback!
Ayrn Sun, OK, she's a human looking alien, but a really hot one!
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I'd have to say The Shadows are in my top three (untill their final appearance when they became pussies whose motivation was "not to be left alone").
From Trek I liked the invisible (translucent) aliens shown on a Voyager episode. They were paranoid and monitoring the local humanoid population.
From literature I like the ecosystem of Hsia from Greg Bear's novel Legacy. ....and Well's martians from WAr of The Worlds.
What do all these aliens have in common? They aren't humaniods with skull deformaties (or idiotic overstimulated simpletons like Zathras. ). They are'nt creatures that can be easily identified with. They're really alien : with motivations and thought processes that are'nt predictable or understandable toi humans because they ARE'NT human.
.......and it's always nice to see non-humanoid creatures in sci-fi.
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Space Girl from Lifeforce. No, but barring Spock, probably Scorpius.
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Johnny Five. He was from space, right? If he wasn't, well, I don't know. He would fuck you right up, though. He had eyelids. Fuck yeah.
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I can't think of any element of the movie where the Predator fell short.
Best head prosthesis ever, all the way down to the yellow-green crocodile pigment. They sure were brave to make it as ugly as mother nature could think of, yet organic and believable.
Good sound fx, the rasping purr combined with the alien heartbeat heard when we see his POV. The roar sounded like a crocodile mating call combined with a pissed off elephant bull.
The tech base available to it (functional wrist-knives, shoulder cannon, laser sight) was simply marvelous in its detail. And a complete First Aid Kit for fuck's sake!
And the helmet, don't get me started. Here's a designer who knows what "less is more" really means.
Also, its coldblooded yet honorable persona (Klingon/Breen child in retrospect?) gave it the dignity and character of a true adversary, not some damned 50's, arm-waving seamonster that walks in 1mph so the heroes have time to run and stumble.
I hope they don't ruin both the "Predator" and "Alien" legacy with their upcoming Versus-movie. Danny Glover did enough, reducing his Predator to some adolescent on his first hunt or something. Pleh.
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At least they did a better job with the final film version of the Predator than they did with their first go-around (the one that had Jean-Claude Van Damme in the suit). That one wasn't scary at all. The producers wised up and realized they basically needed something to out-Arnold Arnold.
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). They are'nt creatures that can be easily identified with. 
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