Alienators: Evolution Continues
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Alienators: Evolution Continues (also known as Evolution: the Animated Series in the UK) is a traditionally animated series based on the moderately successful live-action feature film, Evolution.
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[edit] Premise
As with the movie, the premise of the series is that a meteor crashes in Arizona; single-celled alien organisms on this meteor quickly evolve into montrous creatures, dubbed the "Genus", from destroying all human life.
The "Genus" is led by a "humanoid manifestation" named Scopes.
[edit] Characters
- Scientist Ira Kane
- Scientist Harry Block
- Lt. Lucy Mai
- Teenage "wannabe fireman" Wayne Grey
- Scientist Allison Reed
- General Russell Woodman
- "Odiferous" alien tracker GASSIE: "Genetically Altered Symbiotic Stasis In Evolution"
- Scopes and the Genus
[edit] Production credits
Twenty-six episodes, half an hour each. Produced by DIC Entertainment in association with Sony Pictures Television and DreamWorks.
[edit] Episode List
| No. Episode | Episode | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Survival(1) | 9/15/2001 |
| 2 | Survival (2) | 9/22/2001 |
| 3 | Survival (3) | 9/29/2001 |
| 4 | Don't Drink The Water | 10/6/2001 |
| 5 | Slick | 10/13/2001 |
| 6 | Swarm | 10/20/2001 |
| 7 | Junkyard Dogs | 10/27/2001 |
| 8 | French Underground | 11/3/2001 |
| 9 | Runaway Strain | 11/10/2001 |
| 10 | Dead Wayne Cells | 11/17/2001 |
| 11 | Roman Holiday | 12/1/2001 |
| 12 | To Carthage Then I Came | 12/8/2001 |
| 13 | Year Of The Genus | 2/9/2002 |
| 14 | Hot Java | 2/16/2002 |
| 15 | Ira Knows Best | 2/23/2002 |
| 16 | Genus In Your Tank | 3/2/2002 |
| 17 | Cradle Will Fall | 3/9/2002 |
| 18 | Head Case | 3/16/2002 |
| 19 | General Disorder | 3/23/2002 |
| 20 | Itching For The Genus | 3/30/2002 |
| 21 | REAPER (1): Countdown | 5/4/2002 |
| 22 | REAPER (2): The Ark | 5/11/2002 |
| 23 | REAPER (3): Alpha Omega | 5/18/2002 |
| 24 | Fire And Ice | No Date |
| 25 | Meltdown | No Date |
| 26 | End Game | No Date |
[edit] Trivia
The name of the villain Scopes is likely a reference to the defendant in the Scopes Monkey Trial which concerned the teaching of evolution in public schools.
There are many differences between the series and the movie:
- While General Woodman had a balding hairline in the movie, he had a full head of hair in the series.
- Deke and Danny Donald appear in the series, but Danny is renamed Derek.
- Despite appearing in the movie, Governor Lewis does not appear in the series.
- Wayne's surname is changed from Grey to Green.
- Ira likes cooking as it is a form of science.
- Ira wished that he was born to scientist parents.
- In the series, Wayne has three things containing "green" - a green suit, green eyes, and the surname Green.
- Harry has his moments of being blur - he actually guessed that a turtle's shell was vandalized when the real reason was that someone must have been studying the reptile.
- Ira's mother admitted to throwing petri dishes was fun as she was saving Ira from the genus.
- General Woodman's hair was dyed blue in "General Disorder".
- The romance between Ira and Allison as seen in the movie is ignored in the series.
- In the first episode when the gang is watching the news and they see themselves destroying the giant alien from the movie, they are wearing different clothes, and Deke and Danny are not present.
- Harry Block's hair is long and braided into large cornrows, rather than short in the movie.
