[Thoeting]

How is this any different from the made for TV movies in the late 80's? We had movies about the take over of America by the Russians, destruction of America and Great Britain by a nuclear bomb.

Lame, but played.

[af_vet_rr]

How is this any different from the made for TV movies in the late 80's? We had movies about the take over of America by the Russians, destruction of America and Great Britain by a nuclear bomb.

It's not - there were a slew of movies/novels/shows in the 1960s about this stuff, that were retread in the '80s, and now in the 2000s.

Remember the Twilight Zone with Burgess Meredith where he was the last man, and the whole glasses bit (I won't spoil it for you in case your not old enough to have watched the original TZ)..

I'll make a bold prediction - 15 years from now we'll have a whole bunch of Asteroid/Earthquake/Tsunami movies/shows.

Upon further reflection, I'm wondering if maybe this is the networks attempts at injecting more sci-fi into their lineups, without calling it sci-fi, since sci-fi is proving to be incredibly popular (Lost, Battlestar Galactica, etc.).