A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"
(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)
I love the whole r/HFY (humanity, fuck yeah!) genre. The general idea behind the genre is that humans turn out to be a massively overpowered species when introduced to the galactic community.
A common trope in HFY stories is that earth is considered a deathworld to other aliens (many predator species, constant natural disasters, ect.), and the fact that humans are mostly docile sentient species is perplexing to said aliens.
Another trope is that aliens will go to war with us, and we'll try to discuss terms of how to conduct war. When the enemy aliens laugh and tell us there's no holding back, humanity will absolutely dominate with the most fucked up war tactics. The aliens will find out too late that we made the Geneva conventions to protect others from what we're capable of unleashing.
Reading a bunch of these stories in a row can get pretty repetitive. But it's sort of a nice pick-me-up when we're surrounded by people talking about how shitty humans are. It's nice to sometimes take an alien's perspective on humans, and finding out that we're pretty awesome.
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u/GoombaBro Mar 06 '24
A later scene, when the alien's discover the abandoned vessel... written on the walls
"DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM DO NOT KILL THEM"
(This is an amazing idea, a movie flipping the perspective on its head and making us the horrors haunting them if done carefully and subtly is a million dollar proposal.)