Last year I had an opportunity to start watching an old favorite series, Earth Final Conflict (a Gene Roddenberry story), again. I never really got into the final seasons of the show when it originally aired because I had both work and loads of undergraduate homework to do, so by the time I got home the show was almost over.

In any case, having just finished watching the show in its entirety, I think that it was a good series gone bad.  Basically what it boils down to is this: Aliens come to earth saying that they come in peace, but they have ulterior motives (kinda sounds like V, eh?) The aliens that come look humanoid, in the form of a standard Little Green Man (sort of like the Asgard in Stargate SG-1, but blue and taller.) Stuff happens, there is conflict (HA!) and then some other aliens leave earth. The end.

The series started out great, I liked the cast, I liked where the show was going, but in the end it just felt (in the 5th season) that the show was past its prime, having replaced most of the cast. In the end the original aliens that came are no more, and a new type of alien (which happens to have been on earth all along) leave earth. It sort of felt like Farscape where there's a ship and 4 different types of aliens making their way into the great unknown).

Yes, I watched the 5th season, even though it kinda stank, and I watched it all the way to the end to find out, even though the ending was completely unsatisfactory.  It's too bad that not enough time has passed since the original airing.  I would really like for this series to be remade, sort of like how Battlestar Galactica was remade for a newer audience.