Alienators: Evolution Continues (Known as Evolution: the Animated Series in some regions including the United Kingdom) is a French/American animated comic science fiction television series based on the 2001 film Evolution.[1] The show is a continuation of the 2001 Ivan Reitman science fiction film, Evolution.[2]
Created by Louis Gassin, the series is composed by 26 episodes of half an hour each; it is produced by DIC Entertainment, L.P. in association with The Montecito Picture Company, DreamWorks Pictures, Columbia TriStar Television and Dentsu Inc., the latter of which handled distribution of the series in Asian territories. Although the Evolution intellectual property was owned by DreamWorks (and is now the property of Paramount Pictures via its purchase of the studio's pre-2006 live action back catalog), the series itself is now owned by WildBrain, while Sony Pictures Television co-owns the series as well.
The series was the basis for a Game Boy Advance game, that was developed by Digital Eclipse and published by Activision.
Premise
As with the film, the premise of the series is that a meteor carrying organisms that evolve at a very quick rate crashes into the Arizona Desert; single-celled alien organisms on this meteor quickly evolve into monstrous creatures, dubbed the "Genus". A team of scientists, the Alienators, must eliminate all these creatures before they destroy all life on Earth. The characters, Ira Kane, Harry Block, Lucy Mai, and Wayne Green must study all these extraterrestrial lifeforms and find a way to defeat them all. The "Genus" is led by a "humanoid manifestation" named Scopes.
Characters
- Scientist Ira Kane – A biologist, physicist, astronomer, geoscientist, and chemist. His scientific knowledge, along with his excitement and passion about the theory of quick evolution, helps him lead the team in eliminating the Genus.
- Scientist Harry Block – A coach who always keeps up on game scores, etc., and loves coaching the women's team. His strategies help the team to victory.
- Lt. Lucy Mai – A tough and aggressive but benevolent lieutenant trained by a Special Forces team called The Blue Berets. She is very talented with martial arts. She is revealed to be a fan of Broadway.
- Teenage "wannabe fireman" Wayne Grey (who's been renamed Wayne Green) – A 17-year-old firefighter-in-training. Being the first human infected with alien DNA, he develops a "sympathetic mutation", causing him to mutate parallel to any Genus strains encountered.
- Scientist Allison Reed has no direct work with the alienators, but is mentioned a few times, no retaining a relationship with Ira like in the movie.
- General Russell Woodman is the pompous windbag in charge of giving the alienators missions.
- G.A.S.S.I.E.: Stands for "Genetically Altered Symbiotic Stasis in Evolution", and is the team's pet. It was an alien cell originally neutralized by Ira. It evolved into Gassie, a slime creature that yips and behaves just as a dog, who can detect and track other Genus creatures. When Gassie detects the Genus, he quivers and emits a foul odor. He is close with Wayne
- Scopes- the Genus's leader. Super intelligent, maniacal, arrogant, and intent on taking over the universe. His most common form is as a humanoid octopus... though he's also taken on the form of a humanoid wasp, a humanoid cockroach, a centaur with zebra stripes and eland horns, a humanoid tree, a humanoid fusion of a bull and a horse, an organic gargoyle, a humanoid spider, an octopus fused with a wendigo, and more. His name is a reference to the Scopes trial.
- General Granger- An arrogant and treacherous general who seeks to use the Genus to conquer Earth, eventually becoming Scopes's pawn.
Episodes
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Home Media releases
In the United States, Lions Gate Home Entertainment and Trimark Home Video released Evolution: The Animated Movie on VHS and DVD on January 29, 2002. This release consisted of the 3-part episode "Survival" in a feature-length format. It was re-released by Sterling Entertainment on November 13, 2003 with the DVD version containing the fourth episode "Don't Drink the Water" as a bonus feature. The entire series is also available on Amazon Video.
In the United Kingdom, Anchor Bay UK released a single DVD/VHS set of the series on June 28, 2004 containing the first four episodes and later on released another DVD containing the next four. Avenue Entertainment would also release 2 DVDs containing 2 Episodes each.
References
- ↑ (2018) The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield, page 21. ISBN 978-1538103739.
- ↑ (2005) Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003, 2nd, McFarland & Co, page 72–73. ISBN 978-1476665993.
External links
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Alienators: Evolution Continues at the Internet Movie Database
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