# has anyone seen what the creatures in NBC's "Surface" look like?

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**Created:** [September 14, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-what-the-creatures-in-nbcs-surface-look-like/321557 "2005-09-14T05:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-what-the-creatures-in-nbcs-surface-look-like/321557/1 "2005-09-14T05:02:51Z")

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I’m just curious, more than anything. I’ve heard that it’s not going to be something that’s kept secret all season, but rather something that will be front and center from the beginning.

Anyone seen leaked pics?

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**Author:** ![Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19adc/32.png) [@Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barbarian)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-what-the-creatures-in-nbcs-surface-look-like/321557/2 "2005-09-14T12:28:27Z")

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In all the ads I’ve seen they resemble crabs with really short legs and a mouth-like opening on their underside.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-anyone-seen-what-the-creatures-in-nbcs-surface-look-like/321557/3 "2005-09-14T12:42:52Z")

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Those are just the eggies.

I watched the pilot last week, and wish I could remember the faux-biology, but the adults are leviathans, anyway. Kind of whale-like, in the most general way. Vertebrate. Huge and slim. Very fast moving. Massively bioelectric.

The story seems somewhat inspired by John Wyndham’s _The Kraken Wakes_, in that the critters arrive from _somewhere else_, coming down as huge fireballs in the ocean. Although the critters in _Surface_ haven’t yet shown any technology, they wreak havoc with subs and are the subject of a government cover-up “to prevent panic.”