TV Series Idea: Terraform
Many Sci-Fi authors have looked into the idea of humans “terraforming” other planets, changing the landscape and even climate to suit human habitation.
But what if aliens decided to terraform our planet, tomorrow?
What if some teen friends (ET, Goonies, Stranger Things) are at ground zero, witness the UFO, notice the gradual change in their environment?
Plants mutate, grow and spread everywhere, animals become more sentient, humans start acting weird, and it rains a lot.
Why aren’t our heroes affected? Well one of them has a conspiracy theory nut father, and they hide in his Faraday cage when they see the UFO. We never know the method of the terraforming (because the humans don’t either), but you could infer it was generated using electro-magnetic energy.
Every episode their world transforms more, and by the season’s end everywhere is a jungle, most humans are dead or mad, animals are starting to take control, and at the end of the last episode, a UFO returns.
Season 2 could be Predator meets Walking Dead meets Red Dawn.
I’m aware of Defiance, but this is a completely different take…