Re: Alien Races being uniform 1) Aren't the members of the human race often depicted as being the same way? For instance, encounters are usually made by way of a vessel, which is somewhat compartmentalized, role-based, and everyone is in a uniform. The exceptions are the wayfarers, the people who are in transit or who the members of the vessel come across.
2) The other side of this is that aliens are not depicted in any meaningful way. Star Wars movies, for instance, show us lots of aliens without ever telling us much about them. Greedo was a cool dude, but we are never told much about him or his people. None of this really bother me, but it is does seem a little xenophobic when you think about it. M -----Original Message----- From: Raymond Camden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 2:16 PM To: CF-Community Subject: RE: The Grand List of Overused Scie nce Fiction Clich�s One thing I don't agree with is the mark against alien cultures that have little variety. Maybe I'm being picky, but I see nothing wrong with an alien society that is _very_ uniform. As far as we know, our race (and it's wide variety of people) is rare in the universe. That being said though, it is kind of silly when _every_ alien race is depicted like that. -rc ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
