 The writer and critic Kim Newman went further , explaining in a 2003 television documentary on Nigel Kneale 's career that he believed Quatermass to be not only a representation of science but of humanity itself . Referring to the conclusion of The Quatermass Experiment , he commented that : " It almost boils down to an editorial speech by Quatermass representing humanity , or the humane aspects of humanity . He talks to the monster , and so the monster is defeated by an intellectual argument or an emotional appeal . " Like Kneale , he contrasted this to American science @-@ fiction productions , where the alien adversary would be defeated by " it being blown up or electrocuted , or having the entire firepower of the army turned against it . " Hammer had altered their film version of the story so that the creature is in fact killed by being electrocuted . 
