RedDwarfIV wrote:Arioch wrote:Werra wrote:You can see it whenever Alex asks something. Beryl keeps giving him these very obvious answers, as if his species doesn't have combs or knives. I don't think she sees him as an equal (yet).
Well, to a certain extent that's just being scientific... you can't assume that an alien understands the same baseline references that you do.
It seems obvious to us that a comb is for combing hair.
Aliens might use a Plumbus or something.
We need to sit down and go watch Disney's Little Mermaid. More specifically the scenes involving the pipe and the fork?
On a more serious note, even though humans throughout the world are the same species the cultures are vastly different. While many things are more homogeneous then they were a hundred years ago, or two or three, there are some drastic measures.
Nudity Taboos. Fashion. Forms of Currency. How many wives are expected a man of position to have, and if he only has a limit of 1, then how many mistresses?
Heck, I spent three years in Idaho, and there is a world a difference in the part next to the Brigham Young University than there is in my Native East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area.
The only thing both Alex and Beryle can be sure of is that they know two things: They are dealing with a potentially hyper violent murder happy race of aliens, and the Shells are creepy.