EW compares onscreen aliens friendly or otherwise.
Humans spend so much time wondering about other life forms that might exist in outer space.
What are they like?

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How should we treat them?
And, perhaps the most pertinent question: How will they treatus?
What are those lights in the sky?

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Why did so many people go missing?
What gives theAlienfranchise its power is that the titular creatures are truly foreign from humanity.
They don’t just have big foreheads.

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