More Day One Details — SPOILERS

Well this is a kicker: as soon as I posted that Day One article about how NBC isn’t giving out lots of good vibes about standing by Jesse Alexander’s Day One, the boys at AICN went and posted these SPOILERIFIC details about the show and its pilot. Read on only if you want to know SPOILERS. You’ve been warned.

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According to AICN, the villains of the show are, indeed, alien invaders, and this is how they arrive on Earth:

Massive meteorite-like projectiles come crashing into the Earth from all around the planet. The projectiles then melt, reform and shoot out of the ground, beanstalk-like, to form bizarre towers twice the length of the tallest man-made skyscraper. A circuit-frying electro-magnetic pulse knocks out all electronics and communications, “War of the Worlds”-style.

Other details, which can be found in the Day One extended trailer, reveals that Lynne has seen this happen all before. Producer Jesse Alexander says Lynne won’t turn out to be a time traveler, though it seems obvious to me that she’s some kind of traveler, possibly even an alien, who has come to Earth to assemble a resistance force against the aliens.

AICN also mentions these two crucial bits of dialogue from the pilot script:

TENANT: So you knew this was coming?

LYNNE: It’s all happened before.

Later we see Lynne talking to a non-tenant named Hugh, another fellow who seems to know too much. He tells Lynne she needs to cut and run.

HUGH: Your people haven’t been trained, Lynne. You won’t get them working together in time. (beat) We’ll try again. Somewhere else. But not here. It’s too late.

Here are my own guesses: Lynne and this Hugh are aliens, and they’ve been going world-to-world to find a race that can defeat the alien invaders, who have been also going world-to-world doing their alien invading thing. I also predict that Lynne and Hugh’s world was a past victim.

I’m probably wrong, but eh, in case I turn out to be correct, you heard it here first! (And if I’m wrong, just pretend I didn’t say anything. Deal?)