No movie tonight, but I did watch another 90 minute episode of Steven Spielberg's "Taken" (2002), which is turning out to be even more epic than I was hoping for. Now, as I mentioned last week, this is a seventeen year old miniseries that you may have seen when it came out, or in the years since, and if so then you already know the full story. But just in case you don't, I'll give you a general outline.
As reported last week, the story begins in the skies over Germany during WW2. An American squadron encounters Foo Fighters and eight of the nine pilots are lost. No one knows what became of them, least of all the lone surviving pilot, who wakes up in a military hospital and then is put into a psych ward when he starts talking about the "blue lights" he and his crewmen saw.
In another story thread, a crashed UFO is recovered from one of the 1947 New Mexico sites, and is taken back to Wright-Patterson in Ohio. In Episode Two it has been shipped over to Area 51, where scientists are trying and failing to figure out it's propulsion system.
The Colonel in charge of the program, which includes extreme secrecy and a coverup, was there at the beginning, at the crash site in 1947, and has risen through the ranks to have complete control over access to the recovered flying saucer, which looks to be in reasonably good shape. The Colonel is based in Nevada now (and stationed at Area 51), but he is frustrated that his prized team of Nazi Paperclip scientists are unable to reverse engineer the ufo's drive train.
One of the Germans tells him that there is no mechanical propulsion system. The saucer is driven by Mind Control, of which the Aliens have to a degree that human beings can't comprehend.
The Colonel, who is a psychopath by the way, then orders his team to find the best "sensitives" (i.e. psychics) in the country to be brought to Area 51, to see how they perform in the driver's seat.
If you are a fan of Roswell lore, and all the stuff that came after, you can see that all of the elements of the mythology are being included in the storyline, right up to the citizen Remote Viewers who are used as guinea pigs to try and unlock the secrets of the spaceship.
As I also mentioned, Spielberg seems to have the whole thing down pat. Everything we know about Alien Abductions has been popularised by him, and he apparently knows a lot about the subject (ahem!), because in my opinion he has been given access to national security secrets in order to slowly disseminate the idea of UFO disclosure to the public.
Episode Two deals with hybrid children, a storyline that was left at bay when "The X-Files" ended in 2002 (the same year "Taken" premiered). One of the hybrids is the son of the surviving WW2 pilot, who is now a train hopping hobo in 1958. His son is not physically half Alien; he has a human mother also (the pilot's ex-wife), but he is a hybrid in the psychic sense. Whatever "they" did to his father during the Foo Fighter disappearance, the young son has inherited. He is now a teenager and is experiencing his own horrific abductions, which begin as dreams in the guise of his favorite children's story of Artemis P. Fonswick, a four foot tall squirrel.
This is some seriously spooky and weird stuff, and again I propose that Spielberg not only has the goods on the alien scenario, but that as a filmmaker he has a very dark side. Witness his "War Of The Worlds". He is not the Pollyanna he would have you believe, and he shows this side again in "Taken".
The abduction scenes involve the typical kind of "probing" you've heard of, though it is thankfully kept brief.
Another child of interest to both the aliens and the military is young Anton Yelchin (God rest his soul). He is an actual physical hybrid; his father was the "man" who was hiding out in the shed on his mother's property in Lubbock, Texas back in 1947. Now his father is long gone, back to the heavens, and child Anton has mental powers that are head and shoulders above anything humans have ever seen, though he keeps these powers mostly to himself.
The evil Colonel wants to get at the kid, to take him back to Area 51, but the kid sees him coming a mile away. ////
That's all I need to tell you about the two episodes of "Taken" that I have seen so far.
The bottom line is that aliens are real, Roswell happened, and the abduction phenomenon is real, too, though not in mass quantities as the New Agers would have you believe.
I know from my own experience how battened down the hatches really are concerning government and military secrecy in matters of anything having to do with actual ufo or alien encounters.
The phoney ones they let slide. Those are the stories that wind up in all the books where everyone and their grandmother has been abducted on a trip to Venus or Alpha Centauri.
But the real ones you could count on a handful of hands, and the info on those ones is locked down so tightly that only Spielberg is given clearance to provide you with a dramatic representation of them.
And then there is What Happened In Northridge, which is locked down tighter than anything in the National Security files..........I absolutely kid you not.
But yeah, Spielberg's "Taken" is an epic that so far covers all the bases and even the dark shadows in between.
I will be watching an episode once per week, with eight more eps to go.
Tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of man's landing on the Moon, our greatest technological achievement, I think, and certainly our greatest adventure.
That's all I know for tonight and I will see you in the morning, having sent you a Ton Of Love in the meantime. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo :):)
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