why are aliens in so many movies/shows naked. do they not have original sin. what’s going on here theologically. also why are they bald.
-C. S. Lewis, Out of the Silent Planet (1938)
Tired: Humans are space orcs
Wired: Humans are the only species whose protective hide is so atrophied that they have to make artificial prosthetics to replace their non-existent fur/feathers/scales/whatever, and then forgot that this originally had anything to do with cold and wind and sand and fucking skin cancer, and decided it was instead about Public Decency
(honestly? Imagining an alien species independently going through that same bizarre series of events? seems to me like imagining an alien species independently developing the American flag and the Vietnam war.)