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Was there too much bigotry to be renewed?


Full Definition of BIGOT
A person who is obstinately or intolerantly devoted to his or her own opinions and prejudices; especially : one who regards or treats the members of a group (as a racial or ethnic group) with hatred and intolerance.


I liked the story premise where the young of two different races, for the first time meet and learning to inter-mingle. But despite it's Scifi back story, the amount of bigotry in this show just turned me right off. In 2014 most people are fighting to remove injustice and intolerance form the world yet here we have alien students being forced to go to a school filled with bigoted students. A school surrounded by their placard wielding bigoted parents, with a bigoted government making them live in shipping containers.

I understand that their being alien is part of the story but am i supposed to imagine that the free world has gone back 50 years in order to make the story work? This was the part that just didn't make sense to me and I felt it let the whole story down.

Overall, the level of hatred was so palpable and overdone it took my attention away from most everything else and this is why I think it didn't make the grade for a second season which is a shame.

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I kind of had the same reaction. I just finished watching the pilot and, although I enjoyed it, I felt like the reaction of the public was unrealistic. It would have been far more believable if the show was set 30+ years ago but the idea of present day government just shooting down crash survivors in cold blood, who were just standing there with their hands raised in surrender (not to mention shooting a kid who was just standing there staring at them, obviously scared) seemed too over the top. Maybe if they looked like the "prawns" from District 9, where it would be harder to tell their intentions, I could believe that kind of excessive reaction, but not when the alien species looks, sounds and acts entirely human. Also, the protests and the reactions of the students...all far more appropriate for the 50s, 60s even 70s, but I can't picture that kind of behavior in 2014.

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"Suspension of belief" is often necessary to properly enjoy a story but I it also requires the shows writers to set the scene for us and let us know where they want us to be in order to appreciate that story. That's what I feel failed here.

"Defiance" is a great example of a show where that has worked well so it was a shame it failed here and because of that, we only got one season.

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Suspension of disbelief

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Lol..it is not a story of black, White, Asian or native Americans, it is about aliens. And which government are you talking about? Because the U.S government would definitely do this!

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Such a small mine.

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It's been awhile since you posted. However, I think you may be looking at it from the wrong side. Most people are NOT interested in tolerance and inclusion. The way that is exhibited is just done differently.

It may be true that current generations are less intolerant but there are still countless of people of ALL "minority groups" that face bigotry, hatred and sometimes harm solely for whatever reason someone else hates them. It happens every single day. Anybody that has been inside a public school or worked in a position that requires contact with the public can surely attest to just how myopic many people are about who is "acceptable" to inclusion.

As recently as last year, I've met four families that pulled their children from school to home-school them because the intolerance toward their children was outrageous. One family did it because of racial prejudice and one did it because there were no resources or support for the oldest child with behavioral problems despite him being diagnosed and treated by one of the top Pediatric Psychiatrists in the area. The other two families had significant issues finding and obtaining support for their physically handicapped children. Why any school would espouse the values we want to teach our children as they mature but not exhibit those behaviors is not only hypocritical, it's damaging to impressionable young minds and that cycle continues constantly.

Nevertheless, an honest, fair and entertaining representation of real life is not why we tune into television and movies, is it? It's more that we usually want "a break" for the harsh realities of life and a show that reminds us of that is off-putting by its very nature.


- Get busy living, or get busy dying. Andy (The Shawshank Redemption)

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I absolutely believe that this is a realistic way for the Americans to react to an alien invasion. Especially with the existence of the Trags giving all the aliens a bad name. Just look at what is happening all of the world now with Muslims because of an extremist group that has nothing to do with the majority of muslims in the world

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