Deirdre is supposed to be African?
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
No but Morgan and Jaavik both are
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Which is creepy as fuck when one of them represents the last member of a slave owning empire who have now been dehumanized into insects
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
It seems like a mix of just looking for an "exotic" voice and maybe a nod to out-of-Africa theories abt the origin of civilization
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta
I was impressed by how much they managed to be so generic with both new aliens in Andromeda that they were somehow both not obviously racist
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and also completely generic and unexpected
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
"Remember how there was a lot of shit that was kind of the Borg but nothing was exactly the Borg? Here, it's just the fucking Borg"
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As with the actual Borg the kett raise the question of if they've been absorbing races this long why aren't they better at it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta
Maybe they just keep getting kicked out of clusters/galaxies by plucky heroes
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Yeah maybe they only successfully absorb species that suck
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Replying to @arthur_affect @segfaultvicta
I'm wondering which species they picked up Roman Catholicism from
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
They absorbed the Prophets from Halo, gaining their powers of religious iconography and petty incompetence
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