[ SECRET POST #2126 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2126 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Well, yeah, okay, but if the show is specifically made from Earth/human POV, this is a given. I mean, compare it to the English culture. Think about an English speaking character that watched an Indian flick and calls it a foreign film. To an Indian, it's not foreign. From your logic, it shouldn't be called foreign because there are far more indians in the world than American/Canadians/Australians/whatever. But it's their POV, ergo, it's foreign to them.

[(Anonymous)]

While this is a good point, the OP made it.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much this. If the movie is from the POV of the non-humans I would expect the humans to be called aliens...but as most shows are human-pov - the not-humans are referred to as aliens.

[adlanth]

Apparently this even works for time travel. In the words of two great theoreticians:

"The future is quite different to the present. Though one thing we have
in common with the present is we still call it the present even though
it's the future. What you call the present we call the past, so you
guys are way behind."

[tenebrais]

It really depends on the context. An English character taking a holiday in India and talking about how there's so many foreigners everywhere would just be incorrect unless he were in fact talking about the number of non-Indians.

[(Anonymous)]

And not only incorrect, but annoying and offensive to many of the people around him, and likely to not make him a lot of local friends ... which is why it bothers me, too, when shows like Star Trek fall back to it. A Human character in outer space who calls all non-humans aliens should be doing it as a characterization point, not as a writer being lazy.