Another early example of a trope: You aren’t ready for evened higher technology when you can’t handle your current level.

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Venus dude clearly not aware of the prime directive

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"Now, I confess we Venusians are not strong at what you call 'Physics' but we are quite confident.

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...So detonating nuclear weapons will change Earth's gravity?

...??????? what? #Monsterdon

"I understand you theoretically"

I understand the plot of this movie theoretically

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#monsterdon Whyyyyy??? What's the point in meeting with representatives from other nations?

aliensplaining
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"We only use atomic energy for defense! There's no way anyone could use them offensively!"

🤔 #Monsterdon

We haven’t changed where technology is out-pacing our maturity to handle them, even 70 years later. Sad to have that reminder.

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Shit suddenly got real. #Monsterdon

That’s right, just casually discuss interstellar diplomacy over tea. In a pub. Very British of them. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

#monsterdon The government, suuuucks

@Taweret But the eggs #monsterdon

This scene wasn't blocked, it was obscured. #Monsterdon

There are only 20 minutes left in this movie. The odds of an engaging plot materializing are pretty darned low.

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The Venutian feels put off that only the locals showed up

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Love the call out that he wanted all leaders, not just one nation.

Setting expectations is a touch too soft.

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so I'm joining #monsterdon 50 minutes in

however i can still say:

What the fuck?

I stepped away for 5 minutes and I see that still nothing has happened. Something about eggs,

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

why didn't we position the camera so everyone was in the shot?

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Dude is so boring and annoying, his girl is thirsty for a space German. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon Okay not gonna lie, This is kinda plain. I wanna see cool alien stuff.

the giant cars are the most interesting thing so far

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there's a lot of overlap between stories of encounters w/ aliens and w/ fairies, I like the idea that nobody is terribly shocked about a Venusian coming to visit because this is rural England and they're all passingly familiar with local stories about the People under the Hill #monsterdon

@Taweret Seinfeld From Venus #Monsterdon

C O F F E EEEEEEEEEE

#monsterdon #coffee #StrangerFromVenus

"The thing about politics is everyone thinks they know better than the people doing the job."

"The horrible thing is, they often do."

OHHHHHHHHHHH #topical

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#Monsterdon 👽 🪐 🚀 !

"The arrival of this man from other worlds might be the most important opportunity we've had in a thousand years"

What was the one back then?

what if we made a movie where nothing happened?

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This is like a Doctor Who lite episode. But it's also light on plot. We should have had a chase scene and a good jump scare by now. And the episode would be wrapping up.
#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

This movie came out five years after THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD

Coffee doctor is in the wrong movie.

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...Y'know, nobody's had any tea yet, have they? Are we sure these people are British? #Monsterdon

BUTTERED TOAST AND MARMALADE! This just got a lot more interesting....

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@Lazarou
It's like a goofy, boring one-room play.
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She's afraid she is falling in love with him
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these people BARELY seem to care that there's an alien walking around who said his people were coming back in a couple days

I WOULD HAVE QUESTIONS

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"Aren't you being a little dramatic?"

Yeah! It's only First Contact, who cares, lighten up! #Monsterdon

oh god from the front she has Cat and Girl hair

https://catandgirl.com/archive/

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this movie is FORTY FIVE MINUTES into it, and there's still no indication of what "it" will actually be!!! #monsterdon

Wait, WAIT

Magnets work based on *Earth's* magnetic poles, don't they?? How does a magnet powered spaceship work?!?

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Even Venusians don’t know how magnets really work. #Monsterdon

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a mechanical space ship

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Fucking magnets, how do they work #monsterdon #thestrangerfromvenus

Anybody want some coffee? :blobfoxcofecute:

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@Taweret Well the War Ministry isn't very troubled #monsterdon

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I take it that there's a law against making interspecies flirting interesting in any way.

#Monsterdon Y'all better watch out, that Venusian might meet your representatives just to plant a flag in the ground and claim themselves the "discoverers" of Earth!

#StrangerFromVenus

"Gretchen are you my friend"
"I dunno, you're kinda creeping me out doc"

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#Monsterdon #CoffeeWatch - Wait ... is that coffee or tea? WE HAVE COFFEE!

I bet he fishes in a suit. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Are they homeless cops? #Monsterdon

@allanb Can't help but feel there aren't enough mushrooms in this scene #monsterdon

#monsterdon "He makes you feel like a moron, but I like it" LOL
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Hard working British bobby on the beat there, sitting all day in a pub playing cards and drinking tea

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no one will be admitted during the

uh

scene

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old man sorting or snorting out his lines? that's card party is gonna get turnt

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@Louisa nobody ever stops smoking, no wonder the walls look like that

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Now a picnic? Idyllic music?
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Always a romantic lakeside scene. THAT should be on the bingo card. #Monsterdon

I'm here on a very important, time-critical mission to make all the leaders of the world cooperate.

Anyway, time to flirt with Earth girls.

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@ottaross is it progressing? The word I'd use is "plodding" and that's rather generous #monsterdon

Venusians, watching the Brady Bunch. #Monsterdon

@ottaross Check its fingerprints #monsterdon

"I come here when I want to be alone." That's why you brought the Stranger along, right?

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

🦖"He makes you feel like a moron, but I like him."

#JerkFromVenus

#StrangerFromVenus
#TheVenusian
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#monsterdon Hoping they take over the world.

Edelweiss, edelweiss~♫ #Monsterdon

Actually, Venus isn't millions of light years away...

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I do love in 50s scifi when aliens say stuff like "we don't have schools/cars/homes like you're used to"

The US/UK changed a lot in the 20th century, these people's PARENTS didn't have schools/cars/homes like they're used to

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venusian: take me to your leader.
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I love the trope of aliens who know us from our TV and radio shows.

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#monsterdon Such eurocentric language selection! It’s not even different language families really! Those are nearly mutually intelligible!

Now's he's just showing off. #Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus

Please pick a non Indo-European language to show off your skills?

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he speaks english, spanish, german, french, russian, and italian! he must be from ---- europe!

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#Monsterdon Okay, so they have Duolingo on Venus. That's why he's here - he's running from Duo!

"In German? I thought you'd never ask"

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"Now, read the funnies in Esperanto!" #monsterdon

[looking at a fingerprint covered in hexagonal imprints]

This guy's chock full of flavor crystals!!

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Has anyone offered anyone coffee yet? COFFEE? COFFEE! #monsterdon

"In what way?"

"For one, we actually want people to learn."

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30 minutes in before someone remarks that Venus dude speaks English. #monsterdon

Stranger should wink to the police officer and go "If you think my fingers are strange" and then whip it out

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ok we are too far into the movie for people to keep being surprised that the guy from venus is not a human we got that out of the way in like the first 30 seconds #monsterdon

haha wow how does he know that
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loving the hexagonal fingerprints there

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His fingerprints spell out "FUCK COPS"

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It would be really funny if the guy demonstrating how fingerprints are taken to help assuage the Venusian's fears just started screaming in agony right now. #Monsterdon

#monsterdon These british dramas are also so incredibly polite.

Perfectly normal for the authorities to have a friendly conversation with the alien in a pub.

Hey! That guy stole the big floral centrepiece! That's a key plot point, right?

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@kcarr2015 very British, we hung a monkey once as a foreign spy #monsterdon

i want a giant 50s car. three lanes wide and as tall as bigfoot. just an absolute parade float of a car

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So how come the bar's inside the front room of the castle from The Pit and the Pendulum? #monsterdon

I bet those Police officers don't pay for those meals.....

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@amyfou They spent the whole budget on pronunciation, nothing left for special effects. #monsterdon

#Monsterdon #StrangerFromVenus Some newspapers get released explaining that a guy from Venus crashed into a car and then wandered into a pub. The government denied this, I guess because it follows Conspiracy Theory logic and figures it needs to cover up things for no reason. Anyway, the Obvious Alien does some gardening and I guess throws up a perimeter around where the Obvious Alien and Other Characters are staying.

"Don't try to leave through the woods. We have our orders."

That's wartime british for "We will shoot you. Pip pip! Cheerio!" And the doctor understood that.

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you simply can't be threatening with an english accent like that, it's like when a pokemon tries an attack and the game goes "but it failed" without further explanation because it needs none #monsterdon

Okay that ominous comment about not going through the woods cause they have “Orders” is very intimidating. They rolled a nat 20 on that.

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