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May 8th, 2013

Reading: Daybreak 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton, Part Eight

May. 8th, 2013 at 12:08 PM

othercat: shader from chrono crusade standing with her back to the viewer. In the background is the Earth. (sollux: psiioniic)

In my opinion, it really blurs the message when you have a theme of “prejudice is bad” and you also have what are essentially orcs. Lura reacts to Beast Thing spoor and presence the way animals do in monster movies, Fors senses something deeply wrong and unnatural about them. They cannot really be reasoned with and we do not really get a sense of them as people. Even when the narrative mentions that the Beast Things are probably descended from foreign soldiers that did not have the sense to get the heck out of Dodge when the cities were bombed, or city dwellers who had been trapped in the cities, we have no sympathy for them. The Beast Things are basically Gollum. (Compare and contrast with Fors encounter with the little lizard people. There is never a moment of doubt that the little guys are sentient people, even when they seem determined to kill Fors.)

What ends up happening is that the Beast Things become the lead in for my Least Favorite Concept.

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May 8th, 2013

Reading: Daybreak 2250 A.D. by Andre Norton, Part Eight

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