the abortion argument in V the final battle sort of ends up in the right place but it's kind of horrific that they seriously argue she needs to keep the alien rape baby.
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then they chicken out of course and make it impossible to abort.
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there are awfully few abortions on television even now, but you'd think alien reptile baby would be the thing where they'd maybe make an exception, but apparently not.
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I kind of hate the "aliens can somehow magically mate with us" trope. too. I mean, I don't know that it's any sillier than time travel or faster than light travel. maybe it's the way everyone just takes it for granted, when it's less likely than us mating with dolphins.
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Well the thing is if you really think about it it's not that much sillier than aliens at all
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it isn't much sillier than humanoid aliens, probably.
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tired: humanoid aliens wired: canceroid aliens
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i would sort of love to do a setting where there actually is a universal body plan all life trends towards and it's crab humanity is regarded as this weird and horrifying outlier with nightmarish biology "you mean it all just GROWS BACK!?"
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we're regarded like walking organ sacks with unholy regenerative properties; the very idea of organ transplants is just evidence that we're all really one porously fleshy entity they all just think we're shoggoths
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I always hate that aliens have extra powers we don't have. I want a show where the aliens are mystified by our extrasensory powers of smell! "How can you possibly tell that milk went bad?!?"
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I loved this RPG setting Out of the Violent Planet About how it turns out that humans are the only sapient species in the galaxy that doesn't have psychic powers of any kind And are therefore also immune to psychic powers Which makes us incomprehensible and terrifying
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The aliens genuinely did not think this was possible, to be truly sapient and intelligent without any psychic presence is a contradiction of everything they previously knew about psychology It's a huge challenge for them to even communicate with us
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And because they're all psychic all forms of conflict and warfare focus on psychic combat - on feeding false information to your enemies, puppeting their actions, editing their memories and personalities
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