13th December 2011, 8:57 PM
So someone identified a pattern and made a note of it. And?
My point being, just because it's used in many things doesn't make it bad.
Now, granted, I actually wish more aliens would be TRULY alien. The best species Star Trek ever had was the Borg. "Had" because the moment they created the "borg queen" they destroyed every last shred of uniqueness the borg had. If they had focused on the terrifying incomprehensible alien conciousness of the borg in First Contact instead of making a "relatable" human face for the bad guys, First Contact could very well have reached Wrath of Khan levels of greatness. Instead it's a movie with some good moments and memorable lines, but with a huge distraction in the form of some gross alien woman macking on a robot.
My point being, just because it's used in many things doesn't make it bad.
Now, granted, I actually wish more aliens would be TRULY alien. The best species Star Trek ever had was the Borg. "Had" because the moment they created the "borg queen" they destroyed every last shred of uniqueness the borg had. If they had focused on the terrifying incomprehensible alien conciousness of the borg in First Contact instead of making a "relatable" human face for the bad guys, First Contact could very well have reached Wrath of Khan levels of greatness. Instead it's a movie with some good moments and memorable lines, but with a huge distraction in the form of some gross alien woman macking on a robot.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)