DESPITE THE FACT THE ALIENS MAY HAVE LOOKED SILLY, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME THE ALIENS DID NOT LOOK HUMAN OR HUMANOID, THOUGH THEY COULD CHANGE THEIR APPEARANCE. AS POINTED OUT BY THE ALIEN AND JOHN PUTNAM, MANY EARTH PEOPLE KILL WHAT THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND;" LOOK WHAT HAPPENED TO KLAATU AND HE LOOKED HUMAN." LIKE KLAATU, THE ALIENS WERE BASICALLY GOOD, BUT HAD TO TAKE DRASTIC STEPS TO GET WHAT WAS NEEDED TO REPAIR THEIR DISABLED SPACESHIP. ANOTHER FIRST, THE ALIENS CAME FROM ANOTHER STAR SYSTEM IN AN INTERSTELLAR SPACESHIP, NOT WITHIN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM. NOR DID THEY COME FROM A PASSING PLANET THAT ENTERED OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, LIKE 'THE MAN FROM PLANET X.' THEY HUMANS EVEN HELPED THE ALIENS TO ESCAPE WHEN THE POSSE WAS CLOSING IN. IT MAY HAVE SHORT COMINGS, BUT I STILL LIKE 'IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE.'