Extraterrestrial

Scientists have locked themselves in a box. They repeat like a skipping record. "We are looking for life". They mean life like what we see on Earth but slightly different. What they are really seeking is consciousness. It may not come in forms anything like what we see on Earth. It may not require water at all. The trick will be to discover a consciousness that may not resemble anything we have ever seen on Earth. It may not be a plant or animal. If scientists can open their minds a bit more they will be surprised at what they are able to discover. Or at least how it changes the search process.

I've always had a passion for speculative evolution, and I've scrambled to consume every TV show made on the subject. This show is one of the only ones there really are, and its two planets are pretty well done-- but they're small scale looks at the worlds they made, and I really wish they had gotten more episodes. The creatures they explore are thoroughly unique while still being more than terrestrial-enough to appeal to people who aren't weirdly deep into the genre. It's basically like Netflix's Alien Worlds with a lower budget. I really wish these fake nature-documentaries had wider appeal because theyre my absolute favorite type of media. If you have any amount of love for speculative evolution, you've probably seen this show. If you watched this show without having that prior love, and you really enjoyed the concept, Alien Planet: Darwin IV (2005), The Future is Wild (2002), The afformentioned Alien Worlds (2020)-- all really good. Theres also a pretty big youtube community, mostly centered on Biblaridion's Alien Biospheres project, but The Ilsa Project is really good and much more alien in its designs.

If you place a group of overgrown boys (w/PhDs in science fields) in the same room together with an assignment to use unrestricted imaginary descriptives of the alien worlds they'd like to see, based only on earths carbon based life's Darwian evolution, this might be the consensus best expressed for video production. The fictional universe of Extraterrestrial Alien Worlds two part series is a milky-way galaxy spanning hodgepodge of primitive interacting extraterrestrial plant and animal forms. The technological level in the series was advanced enough at the time, though often unreliable. Accepting a shared premiss that intelligent life is a fluke found rarely and certainoy not in these worlds of our galaxy. The result is convergence of over-extrapolation, ethnocentric imagnations full bore and slippery slope argument. Kids under ten years will likely enjoy the imaginary creatures, originality.