Documentary about Xen wildlife

#1

https://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/alienplanet/splash.html

MUST SEE!

#2

Hey, a mediocre website for a mediocre “documentary” from years ago!

MUST SEE

#3

Doesnt load for me.
TV show, looks like.

Good though that this is in the off-topic section.

#4

well it does feature XEN like stuff. And that seems to be copied straight from HL1.
The guy who made that obviously have played HL1.

Also I didn’t know it was old. It just aired on Discovery so…
Must have been a reairing then,.

#5

What about no?

#6

#7

I watched the show, I don’t need a refresher course, and I have this to say:

Just because the show is about aliens doesn’t mean it’s based on a fucking video game. Seriously. If there was a show about the possibility of a two dimensional world based on years of experiments and studies, would you think that the scientists were wanking to Mario?

Just because this is a forum for an HL remake doesn’t mean we aim to see it in every freakin moment of our lives.

#8

Oh, I do. I do.

#9

Can we backtrack a sec from looking at this from a half-life perspective to a general perspective? Thanks. Okay, why is discovery creating a fictional universe about aliens? It seems that that concept would better be used by a company skilled in the creation of fictional shows, as opposed to one which tries to create informative ones. Just wondering.

#10

The show aimed to use prediction and biological science to guess what aliens might look like. Problem is, their imagination sucks and most of their creations are still roughly Earth-like (They have heads, torsos, legs, etc.) And they also tried some bullshit story with two robots that are investigating the planet. The only part that didn’t blow so much was when they both had hard premarital robot sex with a bottle of cheap spermicidal oil, but that wasn’t even in there.

The only speculative show they tried to air that remotely seemed to work was the one which predicted what animals on Earth could evolve into. Sure, they pegged octopuses for living in the trees, but they stillbased it of solid evidence (Evolution and already existing creatures).

Regardless, even if you just forget for a moment they were trying to teach anything, the show was mediocre at best.

#11

lol at your wanking to mario comment Winged One. You go so off on a tangent.

I was just saying they had a couple similarities to the Xen wildlife. And one specific creature/plant is exactly like the one from HL1. The butcher tree.

#12

I remember checking this out from the university archive.

It was a little bit enjoyable. The “butcher tree” thing is DEFINITELY a reminder of the Xen Tree, which is often found back-to-back in such clusters. It’s not that evolutionarily likely to find its way into the show - - so it was clearly inspired by Xen.

And the “pronghead” could have a peck of relation with our beloved bullsquids.

#13

…You can’t be serious.

#14

I’m going with winged one On this one. that tree thing is the only thing that even half resembles anything xenian.

its like saying that xenomorphs are like vortigaunts cause they both have two legs.

#15

With the tree, each arm has pretty much the same number of segments, same proportion, same trans-plant-animal composition, same lifestyle tactic, and same pink, wrinkly skin-like texture that ends up with a claw.

Sure, that could be one hell of an example of convergent evolution, but since we don’t have anything like that here on Earth, I’m not convinced the butcher tree was formed without xen-tree inspration.

As for the pronghead? [image]
Anything with a tail, two legs, and spots is clearly a rip-off of the bullsquid :3
But they do have foot-spurs, have funny faces, and produce acid to dissolve food…

admit there could be some relation.

#16

None.

I doubt every single scientist who worked on the program went to a video game from 1998 for inspiration.

#17

The tree things is considerably similar to the Xen tree. I do not at all think that anyone working on that show, however, had even known what Half-Life was – except for the one guy that did play it through, and finally snuck in his one suggestion (the tree).

This is all completely speculation, of course.

#18

You say that, but I’m pretty sure, you don’t know what it means.

#19

That show was one of my favorite shows on these edumacational channels.

#20

Fuck you and your made-up pseudoscience, Discovery Channel. The only reason you exist is because people want to watch Mythbusters.

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