V: Humans Do Not Make Good Food
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009If you’re into resistance groups, hot women from Lost, and inter-species sexual relations/breeding, then you will enjoy V.
But I also appreciate the show’s topics of terrorism, strategies for invading foreign countries, illegal aliens (the pun is unavoidable), organizing activist/resistance groups, and manipulation of public opinion, however heavy-handed their approach to them may be. And having aliens essentially invade the world (but specifically America, since this is where the story takes place) allows us to view America as a country of backward people that doesn’t know any better and should just shut up and accept the wonderful gifts that we are being given; the flip-side of our invasion of Iraq & Afghanistan.
And, of course, the ten-year-old-me has been subconsciously awaiting the return of this series for twenty-six years, after the TV-network (I think it was NBC at the time) pulled the plug on the series just as you learned that the aliens were lizards and they wanted to use us for food — and wanted to have sex with us! What?@!
And that got me thinking about humans as food. Humans aren’t really good food, right? That’s why we raise things like cows and pigs to eat. That’s why cheetahs and wolves go after plump meaty things like antelope and deer.
My thought on finding out that the aliens want to eat us: just hand over all the factory farms to them. We’ll go vegan/vegetarian. Eventually all the disease that’s there (I mean, don’t tell them about it, and definitely keep Food, Inc., and Fast Food Nation out of their viewing diet) will kill them off, and they’ll go to some other planet.
And then I kept thinking that that’s probably a reason we’ve survived on this planet. We’re not attractive meals for any predator. We’re thin and sinewy. OK, some of us are plump as hogs, but relative to other potential meals, I don’t think we offer much. We’re a meal of last resort.
Next thing you know, we’re building suburbs and destroying the habitats of all the animals. WE WIN!
