xmag wrote:The books are different but if you pay close attention, you realize that the writers used some stuff from them. For example :
- the bad guy in the books was a guy named Dupris. Michael's human donor was a Dupree, close enough,
- there was a good alien who died whose name was Ray. Alex's name in Las Cruces was Ray,
- in the books, Max fell into some sort of alien coma, in the show it was Michael (The balance)
- Michael stayed on Earth for Maria at the last minute in the books, the same thing happened in the show,
- There was a girl who was a rival for M&M, Cameron in the books, which transformed into Courtney in the show,
- In the books, Isabel dated a bad alien whose name was Nicolas, there was a Nicolas in the show who had an affair with Vilandra on Antar,
- The books had magic rocks, the midnight stones and the show had the healing stones,
- The aliens could travel through a vortex in the books, Khivar did the same in the third season,
- and of course, the couples and the love stories : both in the show and in the books, it was about Max and Liz, and Michael and Maria. Alex and Isabel were the unlucky ones in the books and the show.
I am sure that there are other winks from the writers to the original books. So no, not really similar storylines, but a fun way to incorporate some stuff from the original books. There are probably other examples, I just gave a few ones.
i add:
"- in the books, Max fell into some sort of alien coma, in the show it was Michael (The balance)"
also this kind of remind me what happened in chant down babylon
in the last book Max is crazy because something controlled him (the collective consciousness) he was himself but he wasn't at the same time, his soul tried to 'escape' to take control, to protect Liz. It's Liz's love that saved him. The same happened in the show when Clayton got Max's body and controlled him while Max was trying to survive, in the end Liz saved him and it was Max's love for her that kept his soul alive the whole time.
- in the book the fourth alien is Adam who feel in love with Liz and tries to take Max's place into her heart. In the show the fourth alien is Tess who tries to take Liz's place into Max's heart. Both of them died in the end and both of them didn't have a real moral about good and wrong.