The spirit of science fiction is the exploration of the unknown and the reflection on the self. This drama is just the opposite, a contempt for the unknown and arrogance for oneself.
The attitude towards alien civilization in the plot is not a surprise, but a curiosity. I feel very unwell. The design of alien civilization is not to express differences, but to criticize differences. There is a stench under the humor.
I have read a science fiction novel before, describing a three-handed alien civilization living in a dense jungle. Because their living space is "three-dimensional", a culture and values that are completely different from the earth's civilization have evolved. This is the so-called surprise. If conversely, we stand on the moral high ground, condemning the "three hands" is redundant, we should cut off one hand, condemning the "three-dimensional view" is wrong, we should promote the "flat view" of the earth, this is arrogance.
The play describes an all-male alien civilization, but it also imposes a setting of "a woman will be born every 75 years" and "a certain woman is a great writer", and then desperately rely on equality between men and women. The stench is pungent. Bisexual reproduction is a choice of living things, but it is not the only choice. There are many reproduction modes such as asexual reproduction, hermaphroditism, hermaphroditism, and polysex on the earth alone.
I have watched the sixth episode so far, and I can't stand it anymore. Each of the alien civilizations shown in these 6 episodes has serious "civilization defects" that need to be corrected by orthodox and noble earth civilizations. There is a lack of true science fiction spirit in this show.
Imagine that if the scale of space is reduced, this drama can be understood as the sun never sets the empire to explore Africa, Asia, and the Americas, looking at the dark skin of Africans with curious eyes, and Asians eating with two wooden sticks, the Americas People use the cumbersome number 20 to count, and then use the noble upper-class culture to correct the inferior culture everywhere, so that the light of freedom and equality shines on the world.
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