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Stalker from the Stars episode

posted 14 years ago by XtroTerrestial
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Now, the creature was shown as a vamperistic extraterrestrial that needed to store victims in coccoons so it can drink their blood later on. The creature, to me, seemed like it knew what it was doing, because of the fact that it was able to fly a spacecraft and set traps for it's victims. But I also have a theory that the creature wasn't "evil". While it was doing bad things, it was just following survival instincts, like an animal in the wild. What are anyone's thoughts on this?

Stalker from the Stars: Evil villain or just a creature trying to survive?

Let the debate begin.

[–] dbutler-1 14 years ago

It's the same argument you could apply to any vampire. I remember the first (non-pilot) episode of Star Trek TOS was called The Man Trap and also had a vampire that drawing the salt out of people's bodies, killing them. There was some sympathy for the creature, shown by one or two characters. Still, in Thundarr, I never though of this creature as anything but evil (that's the whole point of Thundarr, I think), but if you stop and think about it, you could defintely consider is just trying to survive, though humans take a very dim view on that if something is trying to survive at their own expense. It's OK to eat any other creature, but if you eat humans, you must be destroyed. One could also make the argument that this creature could try to eat something else to survive.

[–] GreatWhiteApeofBarsoom 13 years ago

Didn't the Stalker capture and presumably eat a wolf early in the episode?

Carthago delenda est.

[–] Forgotten_Hero 13 years ago

If it has the choice between an animal's blood or a human's blood, and it chooses to kill the human being, I'd say that's evil. It's killing an equal life form when it doesn't have to.

[–] YGoodwriter 13 years ago

I don't think it was evil. It was just in survival mode, trying to find food. Pure survival instinct.

[–] markrlaw1 13 years ago

In the end, they didnt kill the alien. They sent him back to space and rescued the cocooned people. So, I dont think Thundarr even saw the alien as evil or good, but had intentions of harming innocent people for food.

[–] omega2064 13 years ago

Good question.

Perhaps it was akin to some of HP Lovecrafts space beings. Neither Good nore evil. Merely utterly indiffrent towards human beings. Or seen as a source of food, power, or merely as urpsurper ants on a whorld thats rightfully theirs.

In the end the Stalker is alien and thus impossible to discern its outlook other than through its actions.

Fun episode.