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Aliens, generally, are just a way to confront the things that scare us most about ourselves. Because we really don’t have any idea of just what a culture that evolved on another planet where we have no idea of the physical properties of the world would be like, we end up creating cultures that are roughly like cultures we’ve known on our own planet. There are a million alien Nazi rip-offs out there, and there are just as many cultures where there are two kinds of aliens, and the one kind of aliens picks on the others, and it’s ALL ABOUT RACISM, SEE? The aliens in the original “V” were pretty handy Nazi metaphors, and that thorough grounding in the world of the French resistance in World War II made the whole thing work (to say nothing of the gerbil devouring).