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Date Posted: 12:12:09 03/18/09 Wed
Author: Officer Torch
Subject: Men from Mars

Would like your take on this guys...if you're familiar with FG 1938 "Mars" serial, or have an opinion, let's hear it.

In Chap 1, apparently two of Queen Azura's soldiers pay the ultimate price by ramming a device into the earth to interact with "Nitron Lamp" on Mars. Apparently they came to earth riding a light beam!?!....we're led to believe, and it occurs after Dr. Zarkov's speech; and he doesn't rule out travel at the speed of light.

These two men look different from those we see as Martians there, except for scruffy tree men, and those who became Clay. But there is a part where Azura is having an audience and 3 men having similar different features are in line. Perhaps they're visitors from another planet, another race, or some group capable of travelling at the speed of light on a beam.

Any opinion if the 2 guys at the beginning sent to earth are really what Martians in FG look like?... and WE the audience see what we're accustomed to seeing? Curious point...think about it next time you watch the serial. As for travel, guess for short hops, they use bat wing/capes, stratosleds for longer trips, but light beams for interplanetary travel...maybe...and to think Zarkov's ship travels at only 1200 mph! (That's less than Mach 2!)

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[> Re: Men from Mars -- Tim, 11:39:47 03/21/09 Sat [1]

I took another look at chapter one, and the aliens in question do appear quite different from the other Martians seen in the serial. To me they resemble a crude version of the Talosians of Star Trek's "The Menagarie". Could this mean the whole thing was an illustion, Captain Pike, errr I mean Officer Torch?

Sergeant Tim


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[> [> Re: Men from Mars -- Officer Torch, 09:23:31 03/22/09 Sun [1]

A very good parallel indeed Sargeant Tim. They look quite like those Thalosians, expert at mind illusion and control. We saw them bedeviling Capt. Christopher Pike (Jeffrey Hunter)in Star Trek pilot The Cage and The Menagerie episodes. (Digressing some, I might add my favorite episode is 1967s The City on the Edge of Forever...has sci-fi, time travel, human elements, and a most lovely Joan Collins. Seems this is quite a favorite overall.)

Ok, so....back to the Mars thing, seems like we can speculate to the Nth degree, and questions can just lead to more questions. Sometimes, we can read into this material and make it more complicated than it really is....but, it's still interesting to wonder if maybe, just maybe this was in someone's mind when it was scripted...unlikely we'll know for sure. Fun to speculate sometimes though. Most likely however, some material was borrowed here and there.

Some alien looking beings with similar appearance, and likely super brain power may be found, more of less in eg, The Outer Limits, 1963 episode entitled The Sixth Finger with David McCallum as Gwyllim Griffiths...huge head, deep facial features, (chase the kids away....this one can give nightmares) also a creature with chiseled features in a Fifties B movie oldie called The Man from Planet X, and In a splashier space opera from 1955, in color, the alien Metalunans from movie This Island Earth. Huge foreheads, dangerous, and their servants are kinda scary ...again, chase the kids away to avoid nightmares...in fact, before retiring, maybe check under your bed just in case.


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