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I didn't say you couldn't see them, you did:

I probably wasn't expressing myself well. I don't think we should "terrestrialize" the Aliens any more than we should anthropomorphize them. The point being that the writers should not spend time trying to develop the Aliens as characters or even the Alien character. The Aliens aren't characters. They present an environmental factor. Anything to delves far beyond the idea that the Aliens are going to kill everyone and create more Aliens detracts from the story. Thinking of the Aliens as oversized ants with acid blood not only overcomplicates their role in the human drama, but it is an insult to Aliens everywhere. ...And ants. The Aliens must not be a faction and must not have factions. The air might have different characteristics, but it doesn't have factions and we're fools to think it does.

 

Frankly, I think there's an argument to be made that the Aliens are no more alive than a fire or a virus.

 

I guess, if we boil it down to the bare facts, I don't disagree with your notion that there might be something more to the Aliens than killing and mayhem, although I think that pollutes their purity, but I completely disagree as regards to counting them as a faction and vehemently disagree with the notion of creating separate factions within the Aliens.

Also, I never said I didn't like grues. I just don't see them as a major character in the Zorks (notice the franchise wasn't called Grue I, II & III).

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