I went to see "Independence Day: Resurgence" when it was in theaters. It was shallow but enjoyable enough, and I totally love the imagery. Those aliens are spectacular! A day later on the train to Berlin I found OSC had written a review and I read it fully expecting him to comment on the Hive Queen similarity. Alas, he didn't. Maybe the theme is just too common in SciFi circles for anybody to question it anymore?
Which had me thinking with a wry amusement: Wouldn't it be fun if one day humanity ran into a war faring alien race and decided to kill their queen in a desperate attempt to save ourselves, only to be then overrun by an army terribly enraged and fighting with all the conviction of napoleonic soldiers? Not exactly fun, I guess...^^ But ID:R would have been so much better for it - in my mind. Maybe I'm just not American enough (stupid stereotype) to appreciate the notion of "we are invincible"? I kinda did like "Knowing" for that matter.
I'm sure there are more cases of "kill their queen - all drop dead"-aliens than just ID:R and the Formics, but I can't think of any right now. Can one of you contribute another example? Or even one for "my" scenario?
[ September 02, 2016, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: PanaceaSanans ]
Posted by Darth_Mauve (Member # 4709) on :
Borg. Originally they were different than that, but later the writers got lazy and went with the Hive Queen.
Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :
The Chitauri in The Avengers. (implied, at the very least, by the mothership being destroyed causing them all to drop)
Posted by PanaceaSanans (Member # 13395) on :
Oh yes, that was the one lurking in the back of my head but ungraspable. Thank you.
[ September 02, 2016, 04:25 PM: Message edited by: PanaceaSanans ]
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
"Let's conveniently kill the mothership to instantly take out all the infinite waves of superior forces" is a trope that doesn't even require a hive mind. Consider the Trade Federation control ships in the Star Wars prequels.
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