so where's the army?
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stevenackerman69 — 16 years ago(July 21, 2009 09:27 PM)
Well, the Visitors were able to fool us by saying they came in peace. They were able to use the TV networks to make it seem like they were still helping us when they weren't. There was also the conversion process on the leaders that made them kowtow to the Visitors.
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vargamor — 16 years ago(March 28, 2010 12:04 PM)
Diana was only willing to destroy the planet because she was beaten. She's petty and vindicitive. Martin even says he's seen them use this massive weapon before. And I believe it was pretty heavily implied that once the humans were all pretty much harvested and all the water gone they were going to destroy the planet anyway, which makes sense from a military point of view. You've defeated the enemy but just in case you've left a few alive, don't want them coming after youdestroy everything.
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eddieinportland — 11 years ago(May 12, 2014 08:12 PM)
I'm sure that once the Visitors took over the planet. Some of the people that were in the military (in every country) would go AWOL and joined up with resistance cells to fight the Visitors.
There would be officers and enlisted members of all ranks and in every branch of the military that would defect and join the resistance.
In the LA resistance cell they had scientist, a police officer, gang members, a TV reporter and many other people from different walks of life. As Julie said, "We're not the only ones that are hiding and want to fight this thing." -
elgrandTA82 — 11 years ago(May 23, 2014 09:54 PM)
I always thought that Ham Taylor was meant to belong to a rogue group of the military that were fighting the visitors. It was def. implied that Ham and Chris were part of a larger group and the two along with his history with Mike implied something along the lines of Special Forces. I know the weekly series gave both Ham and Chris military backgrounds and having both served in Vietnam. Not to mention their equipment and the armor piercing rounds always hinted to me them being military, likely part of a rogue faction of the military. Also in the beginning of part 1 Sancho mentions Mike having gotten in contact with a group and them getting some volunteers (Ham and Chris). So I think that Ham and Chris represented the military who had gone AWOL and were likely arming and training resistance groups around the country, if not the world.
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roland-rockerfella — 10 years ago(October 20, 2015 04:00 PM)
Yes I agree, if the armed forces of the world engaged the visitors they would be wiped out very quickly. In the show that make some offhanded line about the military being under house arrest but that seems unlikely. The one weak point on an otherwise excellent story.
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dpcole7 — 9 years ago(August 14, 2016 01:32 PM)
Key word: "IF"
All stories do have weak points, but if the 1983 mini were 3 parts instead of 2, how would they then write in means to get the world to band together?
No need to, the establishment of the Visitors shows what happens in one country and uses the same tactics in other countries. Means to get Earth's countries' leaders to work together in an uneasy alliance would be harder to sell for anything more than the tokenism accorded the UN scenes. -
residentevil6901 — 10 years ago(February 01, 2016 09:57 AM)
When this aired I was only 10 and the thought of "where is the Army" never occurred to me of course. It wasn't until watching it again in maybe the late 90's when I had that thought. But as a kid seeing it when it was brand new it was really cool to see the average people make the fight / stand against the visitors. This show has always stuck with me. The 80's was a great time for TV and movies.