Turns out it was humans all along, with a bit of alien technology from Roswell in 1947: a shadowy elite cabal who want to take over the world (and, again, why? They're already the, or an, elite?) So: solved, ish, and Fox Mulder can surely now fold up his questing-stick?
YouTube is also home to quite a bit of alien porn.
I bet the dinosaurs would have wished for a bit of alien help in giving an asteroid a nudge 66 million years ago, but it seems the extraterrestrials couldn't be bothered.
Director Rupert Goold credits "the extraordinary nature of Matt's face, which combined with 'Doctor Who' gave a bit of alien to him — which is literally how Bret describes the character in the novel — an alien trying to fit in a human world".
"We both come from a band background, where a lot of the songs are based on riffs, and you can hear that in the production," said Skrillex (real name: Sonny Moore), whose own style is a bombardment of thumps, crashes and sonic squiggles, like a futuristic instrument picking up bits of alien dance music.
There was a great bit of cold alien ruthlessness from them when the skitter got the mech to gun down a bunch of kids in front of Hal to give him a clear message to back the hell off.
In an uncharacteristic bit of theater alien to the Augusta National culture, Payne, without prodding, singled out Tiger Woods in a harsh rebuke, saying the world's top-ranked golfer did not live up to role model expectations and had "disappointed all of us, and more importantly, our kids and our grandkids".
In the world of typefaces, that's a bit of an alien concept.
Shoshanna has always been a bit of an alien on "Girls," first the fast-talking stainless sapling, then the irresponsible disrupter, then the angry truth-teller, then the transient lost sheep, then the resourceful sorta-comeback kid and finally the nearly absent try-hard.
Midnight in Paris was basically a time travel yarn, but was sold as a Woody Allen film, which is permissible since he's a genre unto himself and has already flirted with SF in Sleeper, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex … and – in the most memorable bit of Stardust Memories – aliens.
There's a hint of Alien, a bit of King Kong, a smidgen of The Birds, a dollop of Titanic; there's something of the cattle-truck scenes from Schindler's List and he partly recycles the denouement from Jaws.
