On: Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

[rendall]

I'm also not a fan of the "alien-who-is-really-the-writer has an objectively superior and judgmental perspective" genre, even when it's trying to be funny. Some movies: K-PAX was one, Powder, another.

[neuronic → rendall]

It's just a rhetorical mechanism to deliver critique in a format that is entertaining and not too dry.

[rendall → neuronic]

It's invariably too "on the nose" for my tastes