Uncle Wemus posted:

Hedenius posted:

https://x.com/omry/status/1739115741918773484?s=46&t=mzWS2vgSInnU9jlt8C3n_Q

i say swears online posted:

HashtagGirlboss posted:

How has there never been an ET 2? ET Too: putting the extra in extra terrestrial and there’s two ETs

It would print money

i say swears online posted:

change my name posted:

https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1633882580746653696?s=20

change my name posted:

https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1633882580746653696?s=20

Mr Hootington posted:

Ok?

Animal-Mother posted:

ET 2: Brute?

Animal-Mother posted:

ET 2: Brute?

Mr. Lobe posted:

Do downers do this to a person or is something else going on

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/nicotineliker/status/1736194635490382140?t=5woeah4FIyGJ8SWBtgXFVg&s=19

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/nicotineliker/status/1736194635490382140?t=5woeah4FIyGJ8SWBtgXFVg&s=19

Dikkfor posted:

Everyone comes in for a HUGE intervention

lobster shirt posted:

self injury master anthony

change my name posted:

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1739684729782243633

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

Dikkfor posted:

Everyone comes in for a HUGE intervention

Dikkfor posted:

Everyone comes in for a HUGE intervention

Cpt_Obvious posted:

That's just a famous mustache bus.

HashtagGirlboss posted:

How has there never been an ET 2? ET Too: putting the extra in extra terrestrial and there’s two ETs

It would print money

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This leads me to the gist of today’s subject, which is the continuing story of the beloved plant-friendly alien, E.T. the Extra Terrestrial in his only sequel story, The Book of the Green Planet. Published in 1985 and written by William Kotzwinkle, the same gentleman responsible for the film-to-book novelization of the original story, Book of the Green Planet follows E.T.’s adventures after reuniting with his species as they travel back to the home planet to study the flora specimens they’ve been collecting from Earth over the millennia. In the original novelization we got a peek into a different view of the movie as Kotzwinkle tended to write from E.T.’s perspective, giving the reader an insight absent from the movie. In that book E.T. comes across as a wholly different character, at times a centered peaceful monk-like being wise beyond his ten million years of age (yup in the book he’s 10,000,000 years old for crying out loud), a others a tired curmudgeon afraid of offending Elliott and his siblings as he sees them as the rulers of the planet. It’s an odd balancing act that takes a weird shift in the follow-up sequel novel.

Unburdened by adhering to a script, Kotzwinkle decides to let loose in the sequel revealing that E.T. is not merely an alien from another world, but a traveler from outside of our universe/dimension. Kotzwinkle also decided to mold the character more into the image we get in the film, drawing him as playfully ignorant, continuously spouting incorrect English to his friends as if he had learned to master the language during his layover on Earth. He’s also shown depressed, having left his newfound friends behind, never to see them again, yet I find this awkward and weird considering that he’s literally lived throughout the millennia. Was this experience with Elliott so profound, and if so, how boring was the rest of his existence? Besides, for a being of that age who travels through out dimensions and across galaxies with ease, isn’t it a bit naive to assume you’d never see your friends again?

Anyway, the basic plot involves E.T. returning home only to be demoted for his shenanigans on Earth. Sad and lonely, it becomes his quest to find a way to travel back to the Milky Way and to his beloved friend Elliott. The book flits back and forth between E.T.’s adventures trying to secure a vessel to make the trip and a slightly older Elliott on Earth who is struggling with puberty and his newfound obsession with girls (which troubles E.T., through their psychic connection, to no end.) Trying to help (but coming across as a dumped ex stalker) E.T. sends astral projections of himself towards Earth in the hopes that they will meld with Elliott’s troubled soul and help him to find peace (as well as the nerve to finally step up and mingle with the girl of his dreams.) In a sort of anticlimactic ending E.T. grows a ship (making it easier to hide from his people) and embarks on the long journey back to Elliott, though the story ends before the trip is finished leaving the book open to an obvious sequel (though unlike this one, a sequel that never materialized.)

All in all, this book (and the original novelization) gives the audience what it craves, a continuation of the story with so much more to explore. It’s weird and not much like the original film, but it is something which in and of itself is sort of a treasure. Also, believe it or not, with the re-release of this book in 2002 there was a teacher’s guide printed that has artistic rendering of a couple of the odder creatures mentioned in the book including the ellusive flopgopple!

Speleothing posted:

E.T. 2: Brute obviously revolves around mid-50s Elliot (played by the same actor, pay any amount to get him back)

change my name posted:

https://x.com/jordanbpeterson/status/1633882580746653696?s=20

Dr. Jerrold Coe posted:

there was a book sequel https://brandedinthe80s.com/6446/e-t-went-home-alright-and-maybe-he-should-have-stayed-there