Ancient Aliens: The Reptoids!

The latest Ancient Aliens show was about the reptoids.  Ah the reptoids.  You have to be careful with this topic because it easily slips off into Looneyland Central.  Indeed, they dared to have David Icke on the program!  I'm sure they had one finger on the panic button to cut off the video with him!  

For those that don't know about David Icke... well, hang on a minute.  Talking about the Reptilians can get dicey as this is one area that has really been hijacked by very occult and para-religious beliefs from the standard UFO community.  

The aforementioned David Icke believes that the world's leaders are shape-shifting lizard people like in the old TV miniseries "V."  If you could run up to the Queen of England and tear at her face, she'd be a lizard underneath, so says David Icke.  I really wouldn't recommend trying that trick though. 

Other even more strange viewpoints have the reptilians as demonic creatures either from space, other planes of existence, or hell itself, here to eat our bodies and souls.  

But Ancient Aliens walked the 'mainstream' of the UFO/Ancient Aliens community and simply postulated that the reptilians may have evolved here from something like the Dinosauroid of Dale Russel (1982), or that they were the Annunaki of Zecharia Sitchin.

What's interesting is that Ancient Aliens traced the cultural beginning of tales of reptoids and reptilians to the early 1980s.  The reptoid 'expert' interviewed mentioned that before the early 1980s, abduction and encounter stories mainly mentioned the Greys and the Nordics of the 1950s.  Cultural references to reptilian humanoids were practically nil, says this expert.

This isn't quite so.  The idea of lizard-like aliens was in the mainstream of culture and television long before this!  There was the Gorn of Star Trek (TOS) sometime in 1968 to 1969.  At about the same time, the Silurians were introduced on Doctor Who, portrayed as intelligent dinosaurs who had gone dormant after the asteroid strike or whatever.  Unfortunately their alarm clocks did not go off and they woke up millions of years too late to find their planet overrun by screaming nubile blonde companions, gun toting brigadiers, and time lords wearing velvet and frilly shirts.  O the Lizardanity!

The current status of the reptoids is too occult and strays far too far into demonology for any casual or noobie UFO/Aliens fan to really feel comfortable with.  At least that's how I see it.  I can't say that I "believe" in the reptoids because it seems that you have to buy into the part they don't mention in Ancient Aliens, the demonic here-to-devour-our-souls type of beliefs, as well as the para-religious occult-like viewpoints of people that goes along with that. 

Oh, and the hints in some of Icke's writings, and others, that not only some world leaders are lizards under the skin, but that a certain group of people that have been targeted before with strange tales of how evil they really are, are really the lizard people.   That's really getting into naughty and keep-out territory for me.  Seinfield an evil lizard alien?  Well, I bet he'd get some good ideas for jokes from that accusation!