Invasion (TV series)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Television series
German title invasion
Original title invasion
Country of production United States
original language English
Year (s) 2005-2006
length 42 minutes
Episodes 22 in 1 season
genre Drama , science fiction
idea Shaun Cassidy
production Timothy Marx
music Jason Derlatka , Jon Ehrlich
First broadcast September 21, 2005 (USA) on ABC
German-language
first broadcast		 May 25, 2006 on premiere
occupation

Invasion is an American science fiction - television series made by Shaun Cassidy Productions and Warner Bros. Television for the television network ABC was produced. However, after the production and broadcast of the first season, ABC canceled the Mystery series due to low audience ratings.

action

When a small Florida town is hit by a hurricane , US Park Ranger Russell Varon fights to protect his family from a storm . During the storm, his little daughter thinks she sees mysterious lights flying through the air, which are not influenced by the wind and plunge into a nearby lake. At first Varon doesn't believe in the story. But when he finds his ex-wife, who has been missing after the storm, half dead and without any memory of the storm on the lakeshore, he begins to wonder. Somehow she seems like a different person like other surviving victims of the storm.

Similar to the movie The Demonic ( Invasion of the Body Snatchers , 1956), it is the aftermath of a hurricane through which extraterrestrial beings come and take over the bodies of people in a small Florida town. In “Invasion”, too, those who have been taken over first appear as normal fellow citizens who only occasionally arouse suspicion in their partners or children. Over time, their number grows and the “normal” are in the minority.

In contrast to the prototype, however, the strange doppelgangers do not hatch out of oversized cucumbers, but instead swim, glowing orange, the shape between rays and squid, in the water and wait there for their victims. In the event of an invasion, those who have been taken over notice the transformation in themselves only slowly and through a strange urge to water. Over time, clashes between the two groups in the city increase and become violent, but at the same time there is also mediation and cooperation - a contradiction that is mainly expressed by Sheriff Underlay (William Fichtner).

Increasingly, the “hybrids” are becoming aware of the separation, organize themselves and make preparations for the arrival of further aliens. The US government is also involved in the matter through agents, later also directly with soldiers, be it for scientific or military purposes.

In the last episodes of the - first and only - season there is another storm in which numerous luminous beings rain from the sky, while the heroes seem at the mercy of the "hybrid" conspirators. Soldiers force the townspeople into the water, where the luminous beings are already waiting. Sheriff Underlay stops the soldiers with his gun, and he also kills the conspirator Szura. Now the regular army is putting the city back in order. However, the fate of the converted remains unclear - and the invasion is by no means stopped.

The last episode is a classic cliffhanger - when it was produced, it was assumed that the series would continue.

Campaign to continue

After the cancellation due to falling US audience numbers - from 17 to 9 million at the beginning - a campaign was formed in the USA in the summer of 2006 to advertise the continuation of the series on the broadcasters. A “Save Invasion” petition was initiated in order to collect signatures with which the decision-makers should be addressed directly; but without success.

Web links